Advice on pending trip to Vegas

Diver

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With a bankroll of $15K, should I be able to play DD games with good conditions on the Strip and a $25 minimum if I've been doing consistently well with a $10-$75 spread on local DD games, one with excellent, one with 50% pen.? I'm assuming I'd need to spread $25-$125 at a minumum.
I'll be in Vegas for three days in a few weeks, and while the 6D games have lower minimums, I'm having much more of a challenge getting my 6
D game down, due to inconsistent counting at tables with more than three or four spots being played. I've haven't tried but I doubt that I can back count reliably at this point without being obvious, meaning I'd have to rely more on wonging out than in on the 6D games. So far I have 11 sessions on DD and 10 6D and have to work a lot harder at the 6D games. But I'm up $5,500 so far. I suppose it's probably proper to deduct $2K of that for my inaugural trip of 4 sessions at Paris last summer when I was playing 6D using BS but not counting. So that would leave $3,500 for the other 17 sessions since I've been learning to count and spread. Also, I have a tendency to get to my large bets slowly because I'm using fake negative progressions and letting it ride as a bit of an act on the DD games. I use CV for practice but have only recently realized I need to work with full tables and high speeds to improve my 6D game.
 

EasyRhino

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If you're playing one of the nice double deck games (S17, surrender), then $25-$125 is definitely profitable. However, that game only exists at the Mirage, and only some of the time.

Don't knock the 6D games. At the nicer strip properties (basically, excluding the dives like slotsafun) a max bet of $100-$150 should attract no attention at all, especially if it's moderately crowded. And backcounting is a great way to count if you're having trouble keeping the count.
 
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