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Since 1997, X and his team have won about 1.5 million dollars. X has paid about half of this to his players. ...
Countermeasures and cover have eaten more and more time as X and his players seek beatable games they are allowed to play. I figure it has cost between ten and fifteen man-years of full-time effort for the team to realize its win. That isn't so impressive when you break it down. Most of X's players have earned less than $100,000 a year.
It took X almost a decade to hit on the formula that worked. During that time he abandoned job after job to pursue his dream of beating the system. ... [Otherwise] he would likely have been making $100,000 or more per year since the early 1990's.
As it stands, he is in his early 40's and all but unemployable. (Would you hire someone whose last job was "professional gambler?") His team is still playing and earning money but he is being squeezed by increasingly paranoid countermeasures. An additional problem is that many people in the industry are now too young to remember the lawsuits and judgements which resulted when card counters were beaten up by casino staff in the early 1980's. This year there have been several incidents of assault on counters (including X himself) by casino staff. We are worried that one day soon somebody is going to end up in the hospital.
[My partner's] identity has been burned out nearly everywhere. [My partner] is currently taking a break. We don't know how long this break will be; "indefinite" is a possibility.