Hey Sonny, You are technically correct in the fact we don't get extra advantage playing the way we do. What we do get is the assurance that we will never be off with our bets or become sloppy. By sizing decks to the quarter there is never a chance we will get complacement with throwing what we estimate the correct bet is. Its really just about playing a strong game with very little error. Its like overkill on anything else, just because you don't need it doesn't mean you should'nt have it. Since I do play with a team, and it is a shared bankroll, playing as we do requires a skill level that we can be confident translates well to superior table play. As you know playing on a team requires trust, and its easy trust someones play when you know they have more than enough knowledge to play the game.
Now I have nothing to do with training others aside from those that play on my team. But from what I've learned from people who do train others is if you do only the minimum of what it takes to get the advantage, than thats what you'll get. Even worse is that with lax training methods comes increasingly poor play, usually unknown to the player. Mike Aponte is a friend of mine and is an avid weight lifter aside from being a world class blackjack player. He explains it like this, if you train in the gym and you can lift 400 lbs thats great, and you probably won't ever be called on to lift that much in the real world, but everything else you need to lift becomes much easier, so that extra effort in the gym pays off with out having to max out your capablities in real situations. Thats about all I can say about why we play the way we do, its really the only way we know how.
