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[iplayforaliving]

Hi guys!

I'm new to this forum and I hope this site is different from another site.

A little background about myself. I play baccarat for the last 7 years. I would say the casinos are paying me well after all these years.

Today is my off-day at the casinos and there's nothing much to do so, why not share my baccarat insights to this game we love to beat.

To all the baccarat enthusiasts here, let me share to you my guiding principles in beating the game everyday.

1. DO have a solid plan and stick with it.

"How much I want to earn today? How many games will I play to achieve this? How many hours do I need to reach my profit goal? How much capital should I bring? What method should I use? Am I still competitive to play today or am I already physically tired, sleepy and mentally exhausted for the day?" These are the questions you should ask yourself before you decide to have your baccarat session for the day.

2. DO NOT hit the casinos with limited capital.

This is the basic mistake of ordinary gamblers. 99% of the time you will not recover from your downswing if you have a tight spread. When playing baccarat, you should always be battle ready and it all starts with your bankroll.

3. DO NOT play when you're sleepy, tired, angry, or under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

A competitive mind & body is a requirement to professionally play the game of baccarat and beat it on a consistent basis. The game is already mentally challenging so we need all the focus we can get.

4. AVOID the pitfall of trending or pattern analysis.

If you're still trending or looking for patterns, then, whatever strategy or system you're using has long been outdated. Trending is as old as the game itself. Casinos already knew the betting tendencies of ordinary gamblers using trending. So, you're just repeating history.

5. NEVER bet on side bets.

C'mon man, no further explanation needed. These are sucker bets.

6. ACCEPT a losing game and LEARN from it.

Call me a hypocrite if I say to you I don't lose baccarat games. I do lose baccarat games. It's inevitable but manageable. For as long as you know how to win more when you win and lose less when you lose then, your winnings will outweigh your losses.

7. CONTROL your anger especially on losing plays.

According to medical research, an individual can not make sound decisions when in a state of anger. We can't argue this. Learn to laugh at your losing plays. If you hate laughing (who the hell doesn't laugh?), adopt a poker face when playing the game.

8. GIVE tips every baccarat game you play.

I give tips (usually 5% of my base bet) after every baccarat game not to please the dealers but to "mock" the eye in the sky for protecting my bankroll again and again. It's a mockery to them that I have a solid method that keeps milking them every single day.

9. PRACTICE, practice, and more practice.

Practice makes your baccarat skills sharp. There are lots of online baccarat games that you can play for free. Maximize these sites.

10. NEVER forget these guiding principles.

I think this is self-explanatory. Ayt?


Until next time.

More 9s to your baccarat games!

[sqzbox]

Can't argue with any of that.

[AsymBacGuy]

Me too, I agree with every single point you listed.

But I have to ask: since 99% of players tend to follow trends, what other strategy do you use?

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[iplayforaliving]

Guys, thanks for reading my post.

I hope I contributed something.

Just woke up coming from 3 days of casino work.

I only grind 5x a week at casinos with a 2-day break in between.

For example, if I play Mon-Tue-Wed, my 1-day break is on Thu. No casino work today just rest because by tomorrow (Fri) and Sat, I'm back to casino work again then rest again on Sunday.

This is how I condition my body & mind for the grind.   

So, my apology to you AsymBacGuy for this late reply.

I can not post my method of play here because this is a free forum.

There is a proper avenue to discuss my method of play.

If you're sharp enough, you will find where my blog is.

My primary intention of joining this forum is to post simple but insightful articles during my off-day at casino work.

This is the least I can do to struggling bacc players. From time to time, a little motivation could be of great help.

I read some of the articles posted here and for me, they're too technical to comprehend. Is baccarat really that complicated?

Simple yet insightful is fine with me.

[spike]

GR8, is that you? He's famous for making long posts
that cover everything from how to bet to where to
park in the parking garage. Not a word on bet selection,
never tells you where to place the winning bet. Which
is all everybody wants to know.

[iplayforaliving]

GR8, is that you? He's famous for making long posts
that cover everything from how to bet to where to
park in the parking garage. Not a word on bet selection,
never tells you where to place the winning bet. Which
is all everybody wants to know.

Hi Spike.

No. I'm not GR8.

I am Alvin Tuarez and I am known on my blogsite as Baccarat King. This moniker was given to me by a Korean gambler whom I helped

recover from his huge losses by winning 24 consecutive hands in a single game. So, I believe this is not really my personal choice.

You should take my baccarat challenge on my blog to see for yourself if your existing strategy or system of play is really helping you.

Otherwise, if you have success with what you have, stick with it.

[iplayforaliving]

Somebody from Beatthecasino.  S/he was talking about Nor, etc, the other day.


They put out feelers over there across the web, in search of "like-minded gamblers from around the world," lol.

C'mon Archie! 

Are we allowed to promote baccarat sites here?

Maybe you're an affiliate marketer of that site? Just focus on playing baccarat. It's more profitable.

This is what I miss by playing baccarat for a living --- gossips / hearsays.

Archie, if you want to contribute for the betterment of this site, why not try to write an insightful post so the silent members here can

benefit? Gossips should have no place here. Otherwise, let's change the name of this forum to GossipSelection.cc, Ayt?

Like I said, if you're smart enough you know where to find my blog.

[AsymBacGuy]

Hi and thanks for your answer iplay.

Unlike to what you think, we are sure baccarat is a very complicated game. And to get a possible edge we are compelled to study many hidden "technical" aspects.

In our opinion a possible long term valid procedure must pass long series of pc tests, otherwise we are talking about fried air.
Moreover, we think a system must win itlr by a simple flat betting procedure. That's one of the easiest way to confirm a positive edge for the player. Secondarly, someone has to convince us why we should get this kind of edge by flat betting.

I tried to illustrate some points in my posts anyone might argue about, are you willing to give us more details about your winning approach?  Thanks!

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[iplayforaliving]

Hi AsymBacGuy.

Yes I read your post. Very informative.

I commend people like you. I hope more members will also post insightful ideas.

Unlike to what you think, we are sure baccarat is a very complicated game. And to get a possible edge we are compelled to study many hidden "technical" aspects.

I agree with you here. Casinos will not take you lightly especially when you are "milking" them everyday. Their job is to detect system-players like us and to counter whatever method, system or strategy we are using. Casinos are very good in breaking you down mentally and financially.

Before I decided to play baccarat for a living, I intensively studied the underlying mathematics and psychology of the game. For the last seven years up to present, I'm still studying them to see whether they (casinos) already have countermeasure/s against my method of play. And in the event, they found out the weakness of my method, I already have, not only 1 but 2, countermeasures against them should these happen. That's how advanced and ahead my methodology is.

Moves and countermoves, my friend.

Unfortunately for the casinos, they haven't countered my method yet. As of the moment, they're just relying on the event that I will loose control someday and give it all back. This is wishful thinking on their part.

I am a very technical player and recklessness is not on my method of play.

And besides, how will the casinos "get it all back" if whenever I play I have 1,000 action bets at my disposal. Meaning, for me to lose my baccarat session, I have to make 1,000 wrong (losing) bets in a row which for me is impossible.

When I started winning using my method, my goal is to build a massive bankroll that casinos could not easily break. I succeeded on that aspect.

In our opinion a possible long term valid procedure must pass long series of pc tests, otherwise we are talking about fried air.

I always respect other people's opinion. If you think your system should be tested on thousands or millions of shoes/decisions then, go ahead test it. If you think your system is not yet ready for real casino play because it has yet to reach a certain number of tests, then don't hit the casinos yet. Besides, it's your time and money we're talking about not mine, not theirs.

But, in a real casino environment, this is what will happen.

1. You play baccarat using your system. The casino personnel will definitely detect it.
2. You have some sort of recording sheet or chart when you play. The casino personnel will definitely notice it.
3. You won a substantial amount that day. The casino personnel have a record of your buy-ins and winnings/losings.
4. You play baccarat again the following day on that same casino thinking your system is solid. Since, you only visited them (casino) once they think you just got lucky. So, "no countermoves" on their part.
5. You won again the following day. Now, you're very excited. You've won two days in a row. That must be something you said to yourself. So you went back again for the third time.
6. Let's say, you won for 7 straight days using your system. You're now feeling invincible with your system. So, you play again using your system but this time you increased your bets because you think you have enough money edge against them. Unfortunately, you lost. The worst part, you lost everything including your capital.

What happened on this given scenarios?

Moves and countermoves.

You made a  move against the casino (you won 7 straight days) and then, they (casino) countermoved you on the 8th day.

So, what's my point? Three points only.

First, you don't need a long series of pc tests. Like you said, it's a pc test. The real test of your system is on a real casino environment. And it's not only your system that is being tested, it's you also. How you as a baccarat player react on the booms and busts of the game.

Second, although your system withstood let's say quadrillions of baccarat shoes, if you breakdown those shoes it's still a combination of opposites, repeats, neutral, and P/B dominance.

Third, nobody can live that long to play millions of baccarat shoes or billions of it. That's an impossibility.

Me, I've been playing moves and countermoves with them (casinos) for the last 7 years. Unfortunately for them (casinos), they're still 3 steps behind me.

Moreover, we think a system must win itlr by a simple flat betting procedure. That's one of the easiest way to confirm a positive edge for the player.

I have nothing against flat-bettors. Me too started as a flat-bettor. But this is what I learned through the years, "If you're too careful on your baccarat plays, then you're life on the baccarat tables could be a f***ing grind."

Exploitable situations in a shoe will only appear once or maybe twice. I don't think flat-betting can maximize those situations especially when you were hit by a downswing (consecutive losses) early in the game.

Secondarly, someone has to convince us why we should get this kind of edge by flat betting.

As a baccarat mentor, it's never my style to convince people. I enlighten them.

I tried to illustrate some points in my posts anyone might argue about, are you willing to give us more details about your winning approach?

Yes. I read your very good post. I respect you for that.

No. I cannot give details of my methodology here. There is a proper avenue for that. If you're smart and resourceful (which I think you are), you can find my blog site. Need hint? iplayforaliving

[AsymBacGuy]

I genuinely appreciate your thoughts and we are sure you are a serious bac player and we'll keep in high regard what you wrote.

Anyway, if a player isn't able to explain why he/she should get a long term edge, we have to strongly dismiss every assumption.

To beat an EV- game, we players must demonstrate to get a long term edge, since we cannot lie to ourselves.
Hence, in our opinion, the more we'll play (in selected circumstances), the more we'll win.

In order to constantly win at baccarat, we'll have to set up a betting model where the long run help us. Hence, we must have observed that itlr our selected bets are EV+. Slightly, still EV+.

To get this "crazy" assumption, we had to run millions and millions shoes tests. Obviously we don't have to actually play millions of shoe in our mortal life, but we cannot skip the long term concept.

Let's put the issue in those terms: any "unintelligent" player might win per every 3-4 or even 10 sessions. Nobody or almost nobody can win in a 1000 sessions sample because the EV- edge will overcome any acutely pondered bet selection.

Therefore, any long term winning player  must show to the world why some bets are more profitable than others, itlr. A difficult thing to do.

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[Wally Gator]

This was one of the testimonials from his website:


As a math professor, I knew the game of baccarat favors the house in the long run. The possibility of beating the game long term is next to none. But this guy somewhat found a "chink" on the solid armor of the casinos that is worth looking into. I've never seen a method like this before. [/size]- Professor Jesse C., Asia
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Must have been one of those math professors from one of those little known schools like Harvard.  Certainly no one would put a testimonial from a mail order school......

[iplayforaliving]

The author of this thread is a system seller.  Guys like that  are a dime  a dozen.


He has lost his shirt and is  now resorting to this tactic. They all do.

[size=78%]Should have posted   at Systems for sale.[/size]

Are you my wife? I don't think so. Only my wife knows how much money we have on our banks, on our investments, on our business rentals, and on the money I bring everytime I hit the casinos.

I know half a millon dollar bankroll will not raise an eyebrow because professional players like us are used to see these amount of money on the bacc tables. Are you accustomed to these kind of wagers --- USD500, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000 6,000, 9,000, 12,000 and 36,000? Have you thrown any of these? These are both winning and losing bets? I hope you don't throw-up when you win or lose that USD36,000 bet.

Lost my shirt? C'mon man! Only on your delusions!

I think your post was the one misplaced.

You should have created a new section entitled, Gossip/Hearsay Forum.

Maybe you can request this to our moderators. Ayt?

[iplayforaliving]

This was one of the testimonials from his website:


As a math professor, I knew the game of baccarat favors the house in the long run. The possibility of beating the game long term is next to none. But this guy somewhat found a "chink" on the solid armor of the casinos that is worth looking into. I've never seen a method like this before. - Professor Jesse C., Asia

Must have been one of those math professors from one of those little known schools like Harvard.  Certainly no one would put a testimonial from a mail order school......

This sounds RACIST to me.

I hope other Asian members will not be offended by your quote.

My advice to you, Wally Gator, is the same as that of NathanDetroit, "If you got nothing good to say to a person, just shut up."

Bad thing about Prof. Jesse, he's not here to defend himself. But I know him better. He will not give his precious time with grown-up infants.

Did you not understand what Prof. Jesse say about my methodology?

Mathematically, all systems or methods will fail when tested under millions or billions or quadrillons of baccarat decisions. But it doesn't mean the game is unbeatable.

The key to winning consistently on this game is to find that "chinks" that you can exploit to your advantage. This is what I discovered. This is what I teach my clients. This is also the same exploitation that the professor applies whenever he uses my methodology.

If you don't like my posts, just ignore it man. It's no big deal.

[ADulay]

This sounds RACIST to me.

I hope other Asian members will not be offended by your quote.

Oh, Please.  That's so lame.

AD

[Wally Gator]

If you don't like my posts, just ignore it man. It's no big deal.

You're right, it's no big deal.  So, why are you making it into one?  If you're going to post nonsense and provide "clues" to lead people to your website, then expect to be called on the stuff you are espousing.