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Yeah, I understand the difficulties of the 8deck shoe and I know that AC is not a great place to make money counting. I basically just want to minimize my losses while getting a high level of comps without getting flagged as a counter.

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I still think flat betting without counting might be a better long term strategy if you truly want to "minimize" your losses. you're not going to make enough money relative to any nominal gain in player advantage to offset short-term variance. plus you may get backed off, or low bet-capped, or preferentially shuffled, or who knows what by the floor personnel if they decide they don't like you. if you want to try and make some money counting cards, that's fine, but it's not necessarily the best strategy for maximizing comps. you might want to decide which of the these two separate aspects of casino gambling is more important to you.

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Once you have the black card at the Borg, I assume that you still need to do a good deal of playing before you can start getting comps. What are the benifits of the black borg card?

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line cutting, free parking, exclusive access to amphora lounge buffet (cost $10 comp dollars), improved comp offers by mail, overall preferential treatment. under normal circumstances, you need to earn $1000 comp dollars in a year to get upgraded to Black, so presumably you'd already have accumulated a bunch of freebies by then.