The saying that bigger is better is certainly not the case in blackjack. The more team members you have in a blackjack team then the more potential there is for things to go wrong. As a single counter then you do not have to answer to anyone. There is no problem with trust or players not turning up for playing sessions. Even though the earning potential for blackjack teams is far greater, this has to be offset by the fact that the money if any has to be split among more team members.
There can be instances where some people want more money, backers will not release money and team members not declaring winnings. I was personally inspired by the book “Million Dollar Blackjack” by Ken Uston but after reading that book, I should have realised just how difficult running a blackjack team really was before I formed my own. I was looking for some fulfilment in my life before that stage so there was simply no way that I was not going to go through with it.
But in later years I also operated as a single card counter and this was by far the best time of my blackjack career and the most stress free. It was only when my earnings from online poker surpassed my earnings from blackjack did my blackjack career finally come to an end. When you added the arrival of automatic shuffling machines then it was becoming clear to me in around 2001 that blackjack was finally coming to an end as an earner for me. But the best times of my blackjack career came when I was making the least money but experiencing the least stress. There is an awful lot to be said for keeping things simple.
