Calculating my advantage properly?

Hi everybody

I read in Kevin Blackwood's book that to calculate the value to you of a given hand you multiply the percent advantage or disadvantage by the wager. In making a decision as to whether to play a .58 disadvantage casino right by my house, or a .33 casino a 20 dollars in gas round trip from my house, does it therefore follow that I would have to have wagered 8000 dollars on a given trip before the advantage would be worth the cost of gas or is this not a correct way to look at it
.0025 * 8000 = 20

Thanks for any thoughts
David

If there is a game that has lousy odds, but much better conditions for a counter (or some other form of advantage play) it is worth the gas to get there. People travel to all parts of the world to play games that have a 5% house edge so that they can hole-card the games.

If you are playing basic strategy and are a loser, lose locally, it costs less.

I guess I should have said that I am a counter. I use the halves system quite accurately. I was only really asking a question about the math

You need to figure in the pen. Get some software and calculate your $$/hr win rate. Or you can find some of Snyder's old "Beat the XX Deck Game" books.

One reason I'm a big fan of web play is the virtually zero expenses associated with playing from home. This is an incredible plus. More teams and individuals go bust from failing to factor in expenses than anything except overbetting. You can easily end up talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars for a team manager unless your team manager keeps iron-fisted control over the budget, which very few ever do. The more talented the ap it seems, the worse the expenses control, it seems, you'd have thought they'd be wise to it but the correlation between sensible budgetting an AP skill is probably actually negative.

Online opportunities aren't anything like as obvious and straightforward as they used to be, but an AP's time is still, after five years, much better invested on the web, all other things being equal.