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For the new player and for the expereinced players--two differnt animals by far.

New player, 5 years or less expereince.  Expreeinced player, well over 5 years, possibly even 10 plus?

I do believe and IMO and expeirences, winning changes all aspects of a players game, plan and thoughts.

As well, so does losing.  Seldom do many stick to an actaul plan.  On the boards here, the majority will say they do but
in the casino almost all do not.  Even those I know outside of the board here and in person, real life--all except one actaully will stick to a plan and abide by it.  Most times I do and I am highly successful at carrying out what I say.  At times, but rarely will I not go by what I know or say I will do.

I past that stage of second guessing myself with fallacy, desires and dreams at the bac table.  However, the larger wins do bring about an overjoyment that will play on my expereince and knowledge, but as long as I still go by my 1/3rd MM System, I will always leave a winner and with 2/3rd's or better of the win money.

But like the title says.  When is enough, enough??

You have to actaully have your pshcy, your vision and your mind into 100% plus---of realizing what could and what will happen.  Not just what you want to happen or need to happen.  And with that said, that is the bottom line.  I see it each and every time at the casino with the people I know.  They really never change.  None of them have actaully grasp the insight to, 'resetting and refreshing'.

Like last week and the week before.  The Tuesday I cashed out about $5,400.00, then Wednesday I won about $8,000.00 and then Thursday I won about $25,000.00 plus.  During those plays, right in the middle of a shoe, I get up and tell them I am going to the bathroom.  But I go to the cashier and cash out my buy-in and some of the win money.  I reset and refresh numerous times during the shoe.  It gives me the comfort and the security I crave.  I play better.  I am not at risk of losing my money.  I play a bit smaller after those larger wins.  I weather the down swings coming in the same shoe much better.  I get on my 1/3rd MM System and it fuels me to great and governed play. 

Everyone is stacking their wins or continually buy-in with more of their own funds.  They are becoming frustrated and aggravated to the max.  It is so obvious and so sad.  I see them stack their wins into their buy-in chips, their faces are smiling, they are happy.  Then they began to lose and they look and look at their chips and they divide them up into 7 or 8 or 10 wagers and I know exactly what they are doing.  They are convincing themselves if they win they can parlay each a few times and get everything back and be ahead once again.  It just dwindles and dwindles down.

They keep advancing their levels of play.  They have no desire to stick to any type of progression or parlay and cut back or reset.  None.  They continually convince themselves each and every time they play, this is the shoe or shoes I will get everything back and really strike it rich.  I can only assume from their own comments, small talk and their actions.

I have really paid attention the past few months to not only my play, but others as well to answer my own questions and get material to write about here.  I have learned plenty, even after 35 years or so of playing in casinos. 

I have done my best by following my thoughts and beliefs about, "Indentifiable Events in Baccarat, the Player's Advantage", that I wrote about within my Blog, as well as what I really feel with the results of my 1/3rd MM System and everything else combined.  The aura, the people, the way the shoe presentments are coming about, etc., etc.  Rather than sitting down and attempting to bang it out and continually play for larger and bigger wins, restting and refreshing and being 100% comfortable and secure with your risk money that is totally set aside for your play, having no bad effect if it is lost, is the only way to play bac and prevail, IMO and reality as far as I have learned and expereinced. 

At times I have won thousands or tens of thousands in a very small section of a shoe, yet--other times I have done the same during the course of numerous shoes.  What is comical, I have lost equally the same value of money in the shortest times or likewise--over the course of a large amount of plays with precise allocation of money to risk.  But what I have learned, is the times I walked away and stayed away and reset and refreshed, I prevailed.  The times I held my win money, went back and played bigger and harder and with the mindset, I would smack the casino and win even more--everyone of those sessions turned out horrible with self-punishment.  The exact way I lost that $14k-$15K the Friday night before last.  The exact same way! 

Theory sounds good, looks good and plays out good on a mesage board--but in reality it is about the furthest thing from what really happens within a casino.  No matter if you won or lost.   

So, is enough 10 mins winning $3,000.00 or 2 hours winning $25,000.00 or is it losing $2,000.00 over the course of 1 shoe or $15,000.00 over the course of trying all night to win just a little bit or to get even?

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Last night I watched Kansas blow the game because they wanted to depend on the "hot hand" with three point shots. If you just do the simple math. If a basketball team has a 66% success rate, shooting three pointers, it could have the same score taking it to the hoop where a foul or an almost 95% chance would do better. But when the same team has a cold hand from way outside their success is rapidly diminished, like last night's game.

Same thing is true for gamblers. They want the hot hand but all they get sometimes is a cold hand. I have found that even with a cold hand there are a few mini win streaks to eek out small wins. But that means quitting within a very small range of near breaking even. The point is to see if the "Tortuous and the Hare" mythology is good for gambling. The math says it is. It tends to put an end to the roller coaster rides that plague many players, even the very best players.