Let me clarify a bit more.  H-Money does blacks out, plainly blacks out at the table.  On the surface he is conscious of course, but he is blacked out in my opinion.  He is oblivious to reality.  Reality is where you need to constantly check into every min or two at the very most.  The game is not reality, the game is fantasy.  It is fantasy because it requires nothing but money to survive in it. 

The average person there is really not in reality.  He is in his little corner of safe haven, as long as he has money in front of him.  Completely tunes out the world in 99% of all areas.  Complete faith and belief, that the next hand or two or three will begin to make up for his past losses and set the way for his new found riches.  Everything forthcoming.  Everything will fix itself with nothing really to do. 

H-Moneys problem like most players, especially the newer players is the win hold factor or the figuring what to do factor of playing.  Whether boredom sets in or your greed and lust gets the better part of you, you do need to come to terms with it all as I have outlined in great detail.  So many people here as well as within the casino will laugh at what I write, but I know in my heart it is true and applies to most all of us in so many numerous ways. 

The mathematicians and statisticians have a field day with what I say and they are so far off when it comes to the reality that inflicts itself on us all in a casino, at the baccarat tables, it is not even funny.  Just reality.   

So, the bottom line is, H-Money never got up more than around $1,000.00 with the few good hits he managed to make during his session.  He eventually lost another $5,000.00, probably more like $5,600.00 I think--by the time he was ground down by the casino.

His largest problem is, burn out coupled with hope to get back previous losses.  Which plays and plays and plays upon himself, especially when he wins.  Then when he begins to lose, his mind set really goes sideways and he plays super impatient and extremely narrow sighted. 

H-Money fails to remain totally consciousness and focusing on Factors and Causes.  That is IMO and extensive experience of gambling with him.

The causes are in the middle and are surrounded by the factors.  H-Money fails to recognize any of the factors and which way he is heading while he is gambling.  Sad, but 100% true.   

I offered to help H-Money the other day and he is reverting back to the same old H-Money he was prior to a couple of months ago when I helped him get back around $25k or so.  He enters the casino and everything he talks about before just goes by the wayside.  Sad, but absolutely true. I talk to him until I am blue in the face outside of the casino.  He looks at me and swears up and down how he will apply what we discuss the very next time.  At the casino, it is most of the time embarrassing as heck to physically enforce or apply what he accepts and what I do for my own M.M., etc.  Sometimes I am able to and when those times are accomplished, he begins to understand.  But his wall of confidence, unknown risk, risk what what already won to wipe out all the previous losses, etc., etc., and so on, overwhelms him. 

He does not fall into the trap of following others, bad when they are on a super good win streak.  But he will eventually forgo what he was believing in or attempting to accomplish with whatever series of wagering or progressions he was on.  That is the downside.  And to make it worse, he will reduce his wager, hit a couple and then pump his wager right back up and the losses come once again. 

I attempted to show him how important money management methods are and how to divide up winnings into 1/3rd or 2/3rds hold and 1/3rd additional fuel for the current buy-in stack.  He does it with me there but now just haphazard, stack it all up in front of you, shoot for the moon, focus on making up losses and buy-in with additional buy-ins if you get wiped out.   

This morning he calls me about an hour ago.  He took $800.00 to the casino last night and got wiped out again.  Told me he got up right around $2,000.00 with his buy-in and then went down to a couple of hundred.  Then once again got back his buy-in, doubled it and he said he was wagering extremely small and winning everything he placed.  Then he increased his wagers and lost 2 or 3 for every 1 he was winning.  Got wiped out and told me, "I totally did not even realize what I was doing". 

H-Money went to the casino last night.  Tells me he arrived there at about 2:00 AM and was a full table all 12 seats having players in them with at least 15-20 people standing wagering over their shoulders in each of the other spots.  The one table holds up to 36 players able to play at one time.  Anyway, his friend is playing and everyone was smacking the casino winning most hands for about 10-15 hands or so he told me. 

Then everything changed.  After talking with H-Money for some time, he finally tells me they we all constantly wagering for the classic 'CUT' on just about every hand.  Which of course it was doing.  Then like I said, after about 15 hands or so, it got super strong and was repeating everything, Bankers, Players as well as the chop and doubles.

He said just about everyone continued with the 'CUT' every hand and then switched up to FLD's (following the last win presentment).  Just about the time they did that, the shoe switched back to the 'CUT' once again.

About 6AM nearly all got wiped, a few walked away with something he said.  H-Money brought $500.00 to play with and lost that.  He had another $600.00 on him and he lost that.  He hit his cards and pulled another $900.00 and change after paying the $40 or so monstrous ATM cash advance charges because of the machine's limit, etc.  He wound up losing it all. 

Admitted to me he could not control himself and was literally chasing his lost $500.00 from the very beginning after giving back about $1,000.00 or so of win money he quickly received in just a few hands.   

I just got a phone call. H-Money went to the casino and he got up well over $7,000.00 and he stayed and stayed and stayed.  He gave back all his innings and his  $2,200.00 buy in money.

And he told me he knew better and he told me he was totally conscious of it but he just was had some vision that he was going to win a heck of a lot more. And he says as he went down hill he totally was convincing himself, how every other hand he was going to get it all back and get back on the winning streak and it never ever came.

I have no words, I'm out of words for the situation. And I see it almost every time I go to the casinos with known and unknown players.  Never ever  changes and it's so visible and so blatant!

H-Money up almost $8,000.00, well over $7,000.00!  Such a shame.  How H-Money and countless players BLACK-OUT while playing. 

To myself, this is the single largest problem.  They tune out the world in the wrong way!

I have written about this so many times and so often just blasted by the so called experienced and well known messaging board members. 

Please, if you are serious about gambling and playing, read this stuff and learn, tuition free-tutor free-system publication charge free, etc., etc., etc., and so on.

Stop being overwhelmed and consumed by the wins and/or by the losses.  You cannot play at a casino that way.  You will only harm yourself just about all of the time. 

Be conscious, be completely clear minded, be oblivious to the outside world of cell phones, people, thoughts, systems, statistics, fallacies and what has happened in the past and most of all, be conscious as to what is happening at the very moment without attempt to change or convert the presentments coming. 

Win and revert.  Period.  Be aware of and 100% conscious of your Level & Plateau, <<<<<Vitally Important!!!  Use progressions and employ a stop loss with something around 1/3rd of your win money.  And by the way, the first round of win money replenishes your buy-in with 2/3rds locked up.  That way, you only lose 1/3rd or so of a win.

You must have a Money Management Method that governs your play with the replenishment of your buy-in and some type of hold on wins.  You must know and be conscious of your Level & Plateau in relationship to your gambling endeavors. 

H-Money and myself went to the casino late last night. And I laid down the groundwork and I told him the rules are seven positive progressions of 1-3-2-6 and that's it no matter what. That's all you're going to play and I'll play along and do something else but that's what you're restricted to and he agreed.

The first one he lost $150 and the second one he lost $75.   On the third one he completed got $900 win money. The fourth one he completed got $900 win money. The fifth one he lost $75 on.   And the sixth one he won and got $900 win money once again.

The results were $2,400 net win and he lost $300 and he won $2,700 the way we marked up the scorecard.  He walked away with $2,400.  By the way the reason that I set the $75 as the base unit, was he had $900 to risk and I showed him and convinced him and I made him do it.  Yes he could have lost the entire $900 but chances are out of doing it six times if I could help govern him, I felt he would have profited something and that was his sole way in figuring out what to bet as far as the progressions or flat betting or anything along those lines.

I still love with other things happening if they're positive, the 1-3-2-6 progression.

H-Money wagered $8,000.00 on the 49ers just now.  He did get +2 . 

H-Money increased his wager to $11,000.00.

I must say that was pretty darn fast, what everyone screaming over here is saying boom boom boom. Done deal,  that was a lightning quick seven points running that ball down in the second quarter for San Fran!

San Fran exploding!  I must say that's some exemplary touchdowns!

Needless to say my buddy"s a little worried at this point! Of course they only need a field goal and they would cover with the points but they ain't going to try for no field goal they're going to want a touchdown or nothing, my opinion.

Sorry H-Money I'll say it now with a minute and 20 seconds left unless a miracle happens some guy comes out in the purple robe with yellow moons on it with a pointy hat and the magical wand,  does not look good buddy.

H-Money's sister put $7,000 on the Chiefs and she just finally showed everyone the ticket, she didn't say anything cuz she knew what her brother put, oh well it is what it is.....

Her ticket for $7,000.00 on the Chiefs yesterday:

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