Let's talk about the issues at the cage first. You don't need to cash out after playing. In fact, you probably shouldn't be cashing out after most sessions. If you're starting to get heated up, going to the cage gives them opportunities to escalate. They can demand your ID. Take your picture with the better cameras available at the cage. And so on.


If you want to play a casino regularly and remain unrated, it's a lot easier to do this by maintaining a chip inventory. Just sit down with chips, and start playing. Don't check change, either. Check changes and buying in cash are both opportunities for them to ask for ID or player's card at the table. Just plop down with some chips.


Next, you've got some things to learn about heat management. You said the pit called over to the cage to have them ID you. That means you were heated up. So, you're getting heat and not recognizing that you're getting heat. You need to read Cellini's book, and other materials on casino game protection, and work on learning to recognize and manage heat.


One aspect of heat management is handling names. If you got a backoff from the high limit room at a place you'd been playing for 20 years, you should assume you got flyered across the area. That means you need to stop using your name there for awhile. A week or two at a bare minimum, until your name and face isn't sitting on the top of the pile at every blackjack pit. But a month or two is better.


APs also need to understand how to manage player's cards. They're not for aggressive count games in the high limit room unless the crew is really stupid, and/or the casino is the only one in an ownership group so you don't care too much about the backoff. And even then, they're not for just collecting a free buffet. You shouldn't be risking your name for $20 in comps. Player's cards are for machine play, or stronger methods of beating them with the card. Think Don Johnson stuff.