Anyone making money ?

I've been playing blackjack for a nember of years now and card counting seriously for the past few months with mixed results. The mixed results were my own mistakes and I've learned from them. I'm using the KO system lately because of the simplicity and enjoy it.
My question is this; I've heard a lot about people making money playing blackjack and I'm just wondering if there are still people out there beating the system and making real money from this hobby. I can devote two days a week in AC and play abour six hours a day with a bank of $1000. Assuming efficient play etc., and that's assuming a lot, what can I really expect to win ? And how are you doing ?

expect to go bust.

With that bank, you should be betting with a max bet of about $40. Your min is probably $5. A spread of 1-8 will not beat a 6 or 8 deck game. You may last 30 hours.

With a $1000 budget you have to play really tight or you will lose it all. I don't know the numbers for KO, but if I were to be playing HiLo, I would backcount, wong in TC >= +2, and wong-out at TC < +1. This requires a lot of discipline, but you really don't have a choice.

As far as spread is concerned, you can't afford anything greater than $5-$20. For HiLo I would bet $5 at TC=1,2,3, $10 at TC=4, $15 at TC=5 and $20 at TC=6+.

Doing this will reduce your risk or ruin to less than 5%. Your expected income will be small as well, less than $3/hour. This is a hobby, right?

I would suggest the player use this as a trip stake, and a global bank, and then play with a higher RoR. If he taps out and still wants to play, then he should take a part-time job at McDonald�s.

He can build his bankroll faster by working for minimum wage than he can by playing BJ with any kind of reasonable RoR.

Either:

1. Spend your next $90 buying CVBJ from Qfit.com. (you do own a computer, yes?) You'll need this for all the downtime you'll have not playing BJ in AC. Practice with it. In the meantime, as has been suggested, get a part time job for awhile and save a decent BR to start with. Or,

2. Look at your "lifetime bank roll." How often can you afford to lose and replace $1,000? Figure that number out, then figure max bets, ROR, etc, off that number and get after it.

In retrospect, either way, buy CVBJ. Your going to need it.

Good luck.

is not worthwhile. I make good money at BJ. I made $180K this year. I made these money with reasons:
1. I am well capitalized with bankroll of $200K.
2. I played at better games. I just finished playing a place that had ev positive 0.5% which is much much much better than AC game. I won 33 out of 43 days, winning $34,200. I will not tell you where is the place, don't ask.
3. I played with trackings.
4. I played about 12,000 hours so far...
BJ card counting is an investment, the higher your capital, the more you win if you do it right (play at better places help, a lot). Cheers and Merry Christmas.

Wow! Congrats! Looks like you have done pretty well for yourself this past year. i am impressed. but then again, i am just a low-stakes counter trying to make a few extra bucks on the side as a struggling law student!
do you mean shuffle-tracking, or tracking aces, both, or something entirely different? id like to learn all these methods- perhaps ill buy snyder's shuffle-tracking manuscript. as it is, let me say (humbly)that i can count near perfectly with uston apc and tracking aces with my feet, and have won well above my expectation (fortunately some positive deviation) the past couple years (nowhere near your winnings, though!- i lack the br). perhaps you could drop me an email and let me know a little about your tracking methods! thanks.