Recently, I got the opportunity to talk to several of the most successful Blackjack card counters and blackjack team managers of all time. We spent several hours swapping stories and talking shop. And one of the most valuable things I took away from the discussion is that we’ve all had times when we weren’t winning like we should, and it came down to one simple problem: we lowered our standards.
Not long after that, a good friend of mine was challenging me to look at my life and my businesses, and evaluate ways that I’m selling myself short. He didn’t want to watch me as I myself settle for 2nd place because I’m complacent, content, or just plain lazy. I don’t want to look back 5 years from now and say that I didn’t live to my potential!
In being a professional Blackjack player (and in life), there are a lot of things that are outside of your control (which days you win and lose, what the casino conditions will be, etc). But there is 1 thing you can control, and that is the quality of your game. It is never acceptable to play a flawed game! You have all the resources at your disposal to be a perfect blackjack player. And the higher your standard, the more money you will make at blackjack, the more successful you will be in life, and the greater chance you will have of living to your full potential. I hate to think of the loads of money that card counters have let casinos keep by not taking their game seriously enough. Don’t be one of those people!
One of my favorite parts of our Boot Camps is the opportunity to raise the bar several notches, so players can take their game to a whole new level! So use this pep talk as an opportunity to put your Blackjack game, and your life, under a microscope and see if your standards are where they should be.
