There are many things I have collected over the years. Reading, testing, watching. I want to locate in this thread many of these things. Every time I make a trip to the casino in my town or out I always see people at the tables making the same mistakes. Leaving aside common sense.

My first observation with common sense is that if you do not have at least one strategy that is promising you should not play.

Personally I see no rhyme or reason to go to the casino without any plan. To play anything without an obvious reason. I would rather stay at home playing Monopoly And not lose.

If I am going to face an economic activity as it is playing a gambling game first I have to study my abilities according to how my strategies perform within many trials, with a good margin of earned sessions, with a proven record. Then based on a calculated risk develop a way of playing based on the strategy or multiple strategies that can allow me to at least say I gave a battle.

No plan, no game. That is my first point of common sense.

Enough banking. Full progression.

When a person decides to confront as David to Goliath that is the casino you should go with all needs met. If your game plan calls for 1000 in banking do not go to the casino with 500. To go with less bank than you need is to call more random play you already face.  You are calling to go see if this session is not about the budget not completed.

I have experienced it myself. To take less money than the strategy says because it almost never happens to go past a certain amount of deficit. But when it goes above then to utter curses for not bringing enough money. And the fault is mine and no one else to blame because I was the one that did not took enough bank to play as it should be. To be properly prepared for the battle.

If you do not need to risk in full to win it is better. But to have enough bank is like insurance. It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Now if I lose a progression because I shorted the bank then I am following a middle act of masochism. It almost does not happen now. But if I leave my plan and start spending on other bets and ruin my full gambling budget I stay taking notes. To see if only I had brought to withstand anything more would have won. It happened to me. And I have learned to restrain myself no matter if there are other opportunities apparent in other gaming systems. So 15 reds go, so go 7 times the same dozen. I stand to not break the budget of my current system.

I learned my lesson and now it is part of my common sense.

..............therefore  PLAN your PLAY  and  PLAY your PLAN . ( with a PROPER bankroll. )

ND

Quote from: NathanDetroit on May 12, 2013, 10:04:30 PM
..............therefore  PLAN your PLAY  and  PLAY your PLAN . ( with a PROPER bankroll. )

ND

Exactly. Who is likely to deviate from his game must face the consequences when later he needs the units squandered.

Do not bet the sleeping that he may be dead.

Something that has made ​​a difference for me is to avoid sleepers.

When I started playing I was a big fan of sleeping numbers. That has not appeared in more than 100 draws.

An anecdote which marked the end of my sleeping numbers game is having had a marathon session playing numbers which had certainly had much time without showing. And a few sets after having lost everything I brought I saw roulette took them out. One after another. The numbers I were no longer betting were coming out disgustingly. There was even a double spun I recall clearly.

At first it seemed like they were mocking me. I blamed dishonest magnets and a tricked roulette. But after reading and experiencing it myself I realized that the locations asleep fall asleep and no one knows for sure when they are awaken. They may well be dead throughout the game session. Then by the natural dynamics of the game such locations will become those that are stuck and become the pure hot fire at another part of the game.

Well then we must learn to use what is coming. This may be what leads us to win. And if we lose we know we are betting sensibly.

If there is anything I have learned is that in roulette what did not come out in a year it may show several times in one day. No sleeping bet is part of common sense my friends.

Speaking of comments to avoid sleeping. I published a game system for splits a few months ago:

http://betselection.cc/split/1-splits-method/

It is based entirely on those who are currently in play. A pity that this system has not been paid much attention. It has treated me really well.

Go and take notes.

Regardless of the casino where you go one thing is certain. There will be few taking notes.

Turn yourself into one of them. Become one of the few who take notes.

Unless you are privileged to easily scoring a lot of data in your mind then book entry is your ally.

More than once I have said to myself "how expensive these numbers." But then I see the value of the numbers that I take myself. They are reliable. They are real game. They are really a piece for fair testing. Annotations value goes beyond the walls of the casino.

One observation I made is that among those who take note it usually are the older players who are seen with their log book. There must be something to it. Or maybe it is because older people are having more common sense.

Write those game results down. Study them at home.

Let's suppose you went to the casino with a short pocket.  You needed a long pocket!!

Consider this:  Make a note of exactly where you were when you went dry.  The next time you go to the casino, take 1 and 1/2 bankrolls.  When you come to that point in your game where you ran dry, resume the game you had to abandon, plus the one your are currently playing.

The worst that can happen is you hit the end of the bankroll and loose both games.  You might have won the first game where you went dry and you might not have.

Remember---I said "Consider this".

Samster

Thank you for the willingness to share your betting idea with me.

Quote from: TwoCatSam on May 13, 2013, 02:44:17 AM
Consider this:  Make a note of exactly where you were when you went dry.  The next time you go to the casino, take 1 and 1/2 bankrolls.  When you come to that point in your game where you ran dry, resume the game you had to abandon, plus the one your are currently playing.

Unfortunately I missed the intentions of the bet here. What do I write when I was dry? The annotation of the numbers or how much was the bet to continue the progression? Please clarify if you please.

Much obliged.