This may surprise you, but I actually do read the messages you guys send me by clicking that pink “Contact” button at the top of the page! It’s true! Of course, this isn’t exactly hard to do considering the fact that I don’t exactly get a billion messages per day, but it always warms my heart to log into WordPress and spot the tiny messages icon bleeping in the corner, so… I guess what I’m trying to say is keep those messages coming, you guys! They really help me figure out what works and what doesn’t for the blog! But anyway, I digress. The reason why I’m even bringing this up in the first place is because a lot of you have messaged me asking about high rolling, and high rolling blackjack in particular. So let’s do it! Let’s talk about high rolling!
Now, what is high rolling, exactly? According to the official Merriam-Webster dictionary, a high roller is “a person who gambles large amounts of money”, and honestly, that about sums it up! While most people like to bet £5-10 at a time, high rollers often bet 10 or even 100 times that amount, ever time! The big question is, of course, “Why would they do something like that? Wouldn’t their fun last a lot longer if they saved up their money and played it small?” And generally yes, it would, but high rollers don’t play the way we tend to play. Most of us like to play for fun and not for profit. If we deposit £20 into an online casino, play for an hour or two every day, and a month later all of that money is just completely gone with nothing left, most of us don’t say “Oh, shoot, guess I wasted my money”, we just go “Well, that was fun! Let’s do it again sometime!” A lot of us tend to view online casino as entertainment rather than a business.
That’s not at all true for high rollers, though. They see this as an investment. When they bet £200 on blackjack, they intend to make their money back. It’s easy to imagine high rollers as spoiled rich brats that just waste their fortunes on mindless games, but that perception couldn’t be further from the truth. Like I said, high rolling is a business and there’s plenty of venues online that aim to support that business, many of which with limits sometimes higher than in Las Vegas specifically to accommodate high rollers. That’s by far the biggest pro of high rolling – just like any business, if you’ve got a large initial investment and know how to use it, you can actually increase it by high rolling. The biggest con is that, as you may have figured out, it’s very much a “high risk high reward” kind of system. If you bet £500 on your next blackjack hand, you might end up leaving with £1000 just a few seconds later… Or you could end up with nothing. It’s easy to swallow a £2-3 loss – hell, that’s how much a visit to Starbucks costs! It’s much more difficult to deal with the loss of what the average Brit pays for rent.
If you’re wondering whether or not you’re a high roller, chances are you’re not one. High rolling is a very, very exclusive club, and with good reason – only the 1% of the 1% can indulge in it. I mean, really, ask yourself this question – if right now you lost £1000, just like that, boom, they’re gone, how would that affect you? Would it create any significant problems at all? Would it hurt your savings? Would it make it difficult to pay rent and bills? Would it create trouble with your family? If so, don’t do it. But if you genuinely can’t think of any consequences to losing a sum like that… Well, then maybe you should give high rolling a shot after all?