Something like 17 SBD from @spl. Don't recommend it for the money lol. It's a fun community and a fun game of poker. I just happened to get lucky. I put it in the post for perspective. As a comparison, because one would think that I'd make more from my posts but that has not been the case.

In terms of bid bots, as noted in the post I've actually made a net loss. Even my most recent post https://steemit.com/meditation/@petervroom/violence-versus-hate-and-violence is looking like breaking even. I bought the votes then the value of steem dropped so my return went from positive to negative. Then the price went up but somehow I'm only just breaking even. Not sure why that is happening.

As far as making nice profits with the bid bots I don't think it's that easy. Market fluctuations impact it including the steem price as well as the sbd/steem fluctuations.