The Questing Scholar Methodology
As posted in the Slack Virtual Vip Lounge
This is my thesis.
First, everyone’s situation and goals for Casino Kombat are different. TRGteaches frequent visits to try to win aday’s pay and get out. That does not work for me because | don’t have any casinos close to me. For me these days, avisit to a casino is a weekend trip toAtlantic City that | do maybe once a month. So while I am there I want to play as much blackjack as possible to increase my tier points, increase my ADT and because I love playing blackjack and I can play for hours a day if I don’t get
pummeled. So if your situation is similar to mine (or if you just end up liking this
method) here it is.
First, I play my version of TRG4. The changes and particulars are:
Negative exit when you only have 2 units left in your play stack (Unless
you have 3 units and the next bet is a two unit bet, then just end it because you probably aren’t coming back.)
Positive exit when your win stack reaches 6 units (or exceeds 6 units because you had 5 units and you won a double down or something).
When making bets with a less than full play stack (regressive) only increase to two unit bets (I believe originally TRG2 and 4 would have you increase to a 3 unit bet in certain situations, I don’t do that).
Make progressive bets (add 1/2 unit to your bet from your win stack) when you add to your win stack twice in a row (I believe originally TRG2 and 4 would have you do this anytime you won two in a row and added a unit to your win stack).
Cap progressive bets at two units.
Now to the betting.
For a day at the casino you need a 50 unit bankroll. This is my reasoning: Your worst losses will be 8 unit losses. Let’s say the worst thing that can happen is your first six session, you have the full 8 unit loss with no wins. You are now down 48 units. You are not coming back from that most likely. You may make some of it back but you can also lose more so this would be the end of blackjack for the day for me. So that is down 48 units. This exact scenario will rarely if ever happen but you can have a combination of wins and losses and be down 48 units for the day at some point.You’re done playing blackjack for the day when that happens.
What will happen more often, and I did some testing on this in the “lab”, you will play about 20 sessions and that can last you about 4 hours, some times more. You will have winning days and you will have losing days but it will even out. You will play a lot of blackjack for the day, earn Tier point, comp dollars and increase your ADT and therefore other comps like free rooms, free bets and invitations to blackjack tournaments. So I rounded 48 up to 50 in that first sentence. That is your bankroll for the day.
Taking this one step further. If you can gather three of these daily bankrolls and put it aside to draw from, you can play almost indefinitely because to burn through this, you would have to lose what is equal to 18 eight unit loses without enough wins to offset this. I think this is very hard to do. Again, I have tested this in the lab and have started to test it in real life and | believe it works. So gather 150 units of your choses unit amount. Take 50 of those to the casino and play for hours. Try to play 20
sessions or so in a day. To give a real example, for me I chose a $25 unit size. So 150 times $25 equals
$3,750. I have been able to put that much aside solely for blackjack. If you can afford more, go for it. If you can afford to put $7,500 aside you can do this with $50 units. It’s totally scalable. now there is another tweak to this that I do to increase my ADT and the Tier
points I earn but I will discuss that in the future.
So here is a screenshot of the lab testing. Each column represents a day at the casino with the positive (green) and negative (red) exits. The numbers in Row 22 represent the total for that day and the number to the right of the last day’s total is the total of all the days combined.
All of this, including the spreadsheet data, can be downloaded as a pdf by clicking here
https://casinokombat.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Questing-Scholar-Methodology.pdf