I had $160 on the Fortune a couple months ago and it hit.  My buddy who owns a few restaurants nearby had $800 ( he was throwing up a black chip a few times earlier and one purple, then when it hit he had the $800 up) on it.  At this particular casino you can wager $5 to 1,000 on Fortunes and Tie bets.  I might risk four hundred throughout the shoe at $25 or $50 wager each.  He will normally throw up a black chip or so a few times a shoe.  What happened was about 6 or 7 hands straight, without any Fortunes so far the shoe, with every hand being 2 monkeys for the Players and 2 monkeys for the Bankers or a total of zero with the first 2 Banker cards and then every third card being a 6 or an 8, etc., and the Banker winning anyways.  So we started to wager real heavy on the Fortune. Nice memory.   

Quote from: 21 Aces on May 27, 2016, 01:32:01 AM
Importantly Part XXX

Was this mentioned? DON'T THROW CARDS AT THE DEALER.




Depending on the bets, there will often be a certain order of revealing the cards within what's allowed by the dealing rules.  The idea is that you can partially check and confirm a set of outcomes for your side including a shot at a high payout win and then confirm a win by checking the opposite side.  Nothing worse than bad surprises that steal away a win.

Don't throw the shoe in the middle of the pit either like I did.

http://betselection.cc/alrelax's-blog/when-you-get-really-pissed-off-at-bac-you-throw-the-shoe!-here-is-what-happens/

Quote from: 21 Aces on May 25, 2016, 02:49:02 AM
You wish you could come close to my track record.  I know it's exhausting trying.

UPDATE:  I understand what you are saying, Jimske.


Importantly Part XXIV
If you are going to unleash your lucky baccarat moves on a hand, AT LEAST ASK FOR THE RIGHT THING.  This typically requires basic math skills such as addition and subtraction and knowing what total(s) you want.  Last night, several times a few players directly involved or somewhat involved called out for the wrong things.  Fro example, please don't call for a win on a high payout bet that nobody bet on and would make everyone lose.  WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!

Last weekend see the exact thing.  Everyone but on the Players, 2 monkeys for the players and 2 monkeys for the Bankers.  Players pulls a card and tells the dealer to pull the Banker and expose before he looks.  Bankers returns a 7 and the one guy had a red $5 chip up on the Fortune ($200) but he had numerous blacks on the Players (far greater win on the Players side of course).  He is so happy and yelling, LOL.  The guy is looking at the Players card and it is a 'pip' 10 so it's a 9 or a 10.  Turns out to be a 9.  We are trying to tell the guy with the $5 up on Fortune, it's better for a Players win.  Never changes.

When the board is not predominately 2's or doubles, I like to wager the opposite after a single that prevailed, then if there was a double, I stick on the side that was the double. 

Single, wager other side
Double, wager the same side and stick until it falls off. 

So whatever happened?? 

Really guys, I don't change, I still gamble I still go to Vegas and play baccarat around the Midwest.

What happened to this 'solid' guy??    Hello...........................

Quote from: Babu on May 25, 2016, 05:53:25 PM
How do we know when opportunity is there?  Whenever I notice opportunity, it usually disappears more than not. 

That is correct.  The are there and then they are not, and everything in between. 

My point was, the limited chances are there.  Hit them when the opportunity is there and try not to get caught up in all the superstition and false reasoning(s). Try not to think back on any other previous shoes or hands and play what the current shoe is producing. 

I still say, the mentality of the game has changed to the 'cut', thereby always missing the trends/bias, chops, clusters, virtually everything except the true 'cut' to whatever is opposite.

Quote from: Babu on May 25, 2016, 04:30:30 AM
Shoulda woulda coulda

Absolutely 110%! 

There are very limited shoes we can capitalize on, at least with a decent ROI in the HL's.  I am NOT talking about the main floor, buy in with $200 to $400 or so and make $100 or $150 and walk.  I am talking about buying in with $10k to $50k and making say, $10 to $20k.  It is tough!  I am not referring to kamikaze attempts either of $5k or $10k one or two wagers.  I am talking about $300 to $1,000 average wagers. 

Now that I have all the glitz and glam out of my system about the casinos, yes, I am more dangerous.  That is why that shoe that haunts me I wrote about, I should have had $500k to $1M on that shoe easily.  If I pumped it up to $20-25k a hand, I would have won 40 or so hands and lost maybe 10. 

It can be done, extremely hard because the majority of us get burned out, broke, lose interest, or give up when we finally get the wherewithal, the experience and the knowledge coupled with the guts to do it. 

It's complicated.

Quote from: AsymBacGuy on May 24, 2016, 10:27:40 PM
Al, your comments are appropriate.

. There's no one single pattern producing an equilibrium. No one, even though most players consider as a deviation any "simple" pattern coming out.

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as.   

That's exactly correct.  The same one in a shoe, might not repeat it self for hundreds or thousands of shoes.  Then again, it might repeat itself for many spots the very next shoe.  Play it one way and the next time the same trend or bias comes around, you have to play it completely the opposite for part of it and then the same and then entirely different to continue successfully with it.  Extremely hard to do, almost impossible.  That is why, the fewer and the least wagers, pump up the value, is so important crucial. 

Rub spots, that's me your pointing the finger at.  I hope you know I was messing with him, but he believes it and preaches it I have to believe.

3,000 unit BR for $25.00 is like $75,000.00.  I personally play locally between $100 and $500 a hand, so I guess I would need around 750,000 BR to wager $250.00 a hand. 

Oh well, have to go, I am practicing rubbing and photocopying the cards the way 21Aces instructed. 

I will ask my little 3 year old, he pretty much knows all the answers  , he doesn't get much wrong.

Quote from: 21 Aces on May 24, 2016, 06:19:54 PM
Just want to be a player among players. If this game doesn't bring a tear to your eye and all that you see, don't know what will (within the context of games and sport). To see that unassuming older female player just kill it play after play after play...

I love this version. Not sure why - lol.  I need to base out of Asia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcLNteez3c4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0SkJmu7efE

Old lady is probably one of the local Loan Sharks.  Watch when she speaks to the other Asians and then she walks away from the table and they both come back.  The other will have the funds to buy in once again.  The upper majority of those old ladies are the Asian loan sharks.  Anywhere from 10 to 20% a month, sometimes more depending on their market there.

Quote from: 21 Aces on May 24, 2016, 05:11:32 PM
Whatever you think works.  Got lucky AGAIN last night because I guess I'm just lucky.  I played at two tables where triple high payout bets struck so I guess we were all just lucky and from the minute you walk into a casino and every other minute of your life you are not building luck and karma.

Sorry to inform you, the high ranking religious officials that have a direct connection to the supreme being (himself), told me yesterday, one cannot receive good karma if he gambles.  I posted the explanation here.  Thanks, your busted!

We went to the Asian temple yesterday and I specifically asked the high monk and a high ranking religious official there the following:

"Is it possible to receive good karma if one gambles in a casino"?

The official answer was, No.  The explanations were both the same.  Gambling is a sin and good karma cannot be awarded to those that commit sins. 

Plain and simple.  Sorry, forget the good karma guys, you can't possess it for the purposes of gambling!

My son had demanded some snacks and a trip to the arcade to go to the Temple, (he is smart like his Dad)!!

Here is a picture from yesterday.