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Whether you really noticed or not, failure is a huge part of baccarat conversations.  However, those same conversations are always fueled by the same person's wins.  Personally, I seldom hear any baccarat player talking solely about losses.  Of course, almost all of them harp on how much they have won, then their losses.  The wins generally do take the majority of the conversations with little thought, dialog or reasoning awarded to the loss part.  Maybe we should spend a few more minutes talking about losses?

Likewise, even at the tables in the casino I play at regularly, the conversations when about baccarat tend to be detailed about the wins and short and summations about the player's losses.  I know, wins are fantastic, fun, great, erotic, juicy, upbeat and the reason for really playing.  Losses are ugly, disgusting, horrible, nasty and depressing.  Of course.  However, it is reality and I think if we all take more time and really think about the reason we lost, some players (SOME PLAYERS) might actually realize what their downfall and mistakes were?  I guess it is like a funeral, "My 'so and so' past away and the funeral was emotional and everyone came", that's about it.  On the other hand, "My 'so and so' got married last weekend and we were at the ceremony and such and such happened and so and so said all this and then the reception, oh such fun and you know my 'so and so', he made such a fool out of himself when he got so drunk and danced with 'so and so', etc., etc., etc.  Same principal.  Why talk about the depressing or the things that are lost and never coming back.  In baccarat, the money was lost and that bunch of money is gone forever.  So many believe, out of sight, out of mind.  Move on.

You need to know what happened and why.  And chances are if you won like so many baccarat players do, you proverbially, 'made your own bed and laid in it' while you gave it all back chasing and chasing the larger win while your vision, thought process and 'frame-of-mind' all took a break and you fell prey to the casino and its aura.  Pretty much something along those lines anyway.

Failure is not always a product of external circumstances, especially in the game of baccarat.  It will be, or let me say—usually be a product of our own 'unmoderated' and/or 'unconsciousness' judgement.  The situations are not easily identifiable all the time because of your emotions and state-of-mind overcoming your conscious thought process.  When you are in those compromised state-of-minds, you are clumsy and you make it difficult for yourself to play with clear and undistributed visions.  That includes realizing what happened at the current time and why you actually lost.  Stop saying, "It was the cards", "It was the dealer", "I followed so and so", "But it was so obvious that 'such and such' was coming".  All of that is just excuses to make yourself feel better.  You lost because of your own stupidity and failure to recognize what you were doing.  Oh, such degrading talk I know—but reality and 99.9% what happened to almost all of us, except of course the mathematical and statistical doctors and wizards.

The failures that are absolutely the hardest to walk away from are those that probably should have never happened in the first place.  We went into the situation with a clouded and blurred vision along with being emotionally out of tune to the event we were engaging in.  What does that mean?  You told yourself you could not afford to lose or you knew you would lose and you were upset before you ever walked through the doors of the casino itself.  You lost and lost pretty much straight up.  You told yourself and you knew it, you were correct and you proved to yourself how smart you were about baccarat.  You were so smart, you continued to sit there and repeatedly buy-in with additional funds, giving even more of your money to the casino in the attempt to redeem yourself and prove yourself wrong.  But all you did was prove yourself for nothing.  And, that's the cold hard honest truth.  You continually look back on those times rather than the times you won considerable money at the baccarat table and then gave it all back along with additional funds.  Why, because you think you have all the answers, which is why.  The first example sticks in your mind because all you are doing is awarding yourself a dangerous thing called, 'false positive reinforcement' and the second example you believe you already know subconsciously, which you tell yourself some excuses as to why you lost the win money and of course you defend your actions of continual losing buy-ins as the time was right to win but you just didn't have the correct aura and assistance, etc.  So, what happens to these kinds of baccarat players is, that they really never fix their situations because all they do is give themselves false positive reinforcements for the times they never could win anyway the casino, and the times that they really should be studying and changing their play techniques—they are convinced it was another reason they have no control over. 

So, baccarat players because they know all the answers with their research, study, computer statistical models, what their friends tell them, etc., etc., leads them to fail with elegance because they are so head strong and proud of whom they are and their baccarat skills.  They repeatedly stand behind the choices they made with reasoning's and explanations. 

What is the answer for you?  Personally, I don't know your individual answer.  But those that I do know personally, the answer for them is to be knocked from their high and mighty pedestal and look in the mirror and admit their failure and actually approach their game with pure and 10% consciousness and leave all the theory and Voodoo type of stuff at the door when they enter the casino. 

The other problem is when they realize what I just said, bouncing back is tough.  I saw it in H-Money to the 'tee' and many other players I have known for years.  Turning failure into success, is not about bouncing back right away the following week or even month, it is a process and will generally take some time.  And that leads most people to failure again relatively quickly.  Therefore, those type of baccarat players envelope themselves in a 360 degrees circle of bad-play instead of a 180 degrees exiting plan to success.  Self-reflection, game reflection, realizing what wins and what losses, etc., it takes time—especially when you only know the way you have been playing, the way that led you to disastrous losses.  You have to dismantle and physically look at the parts that made you do what you did.  You have to destroy them and discover the proper way to play that will allow you to win.  And it is very possible, very much so.  But with the way most of us think and reason and justify what we just did, namely losing—all you actually do is complicated your road to winning and holding your wins. 

Most of you will never change, you will continue to lose because you already convinced yourself of the way to win and how to win—you will continue the pursuit that will never end or led you to winning.  However, for those of you that really and honestly do desire to change your losing path at the casino, here is what will most likely work.

You have to realize what your failures are, actually define them and recognize them in the game of baccarat.  Write them down and study them.  Make a defensive plan/action to each one.  You just cannot attempt to define them and expect a magical cure to be cast upon yourself.  You have to actually dissect each one and identify them with total exposure.  In other words, remove them from your system and replace each one with what will and does work for the player.  Then you choose your ending.  You implement change in a direct path and you put yourself into that same new path.  You allow your change to apology to yourself and anyone who suffered because of the damage you caused along the way.  It is your choice to defeat the things and reasons you failed in the first place, no matter how long you were on the path or how much you lost at baccarat.  You have the power, the knowledge and the wherewithal to change and be a great gambler, you just have not applied it or found it, maybe tomorrow you can start?