BAC is a game where we all receive a unique set of unexpected limitations with variables in a shoe of approximately 80 hands, eight decks of cards, making up 4-6 card presentments.  The question is, how will you decide which hands to respond to that are about to be dealt? You can either totally focus on your three bad habits which we all have, or you can empower yourself to play the game of BAC resourcefully and profitably making the very best of each group of limitations you wager correctly upon.

The bottom line is, while you cannot totally control what is happening, or about to happen in front of you, you must control yourself by the way you respond to what is happening or just happened. And you do exactly that by managing your habits of mind. Yes, much easier said than done.  However, because it is hard to change the thinking habits we all have developed as they are mostly at a subconscious level. We, you, everyone can get better by bringing the awareness as to what each of us are doing when we are in that seat at the BAC table with our hands placing those wagers. Bad habits of drain us. Plain and simple. Bad energy removes good things from each of us, you cannot change that. And if you let it happen you are doomed.

1). The Habit of Expecting Things to be a Certain Way

All of us have it to some degree. Some all the time, others at certain times. Without realizing it and being conscious of it, expecting things in BAC to be presented a certain way will definitely kill you.

Leave the expectations at the door before you buy-in at the table. Realize you do not know and at the same time, you do not expect to know what is going to happen and how it will be presented. (Oh, that will be ultra hard for the egotistical player, buy hey-it's your money my friends). Be totally impartial with total openness and that will in most cases, keep you away from expecting things to be a certain way. Because if you fall into the latter as I said in the first paragraph above, you will kill your buy-in, each and every time.

Have no habit of expectations. Period. Recognize the habit with your consciousness and awareness as you play by saying repeatedly to yourself, "I have no expectation of any certain way".

Try what I laid out, probably a new experience for yourself but all you are doing is setting your mind free of expectations that probably would not have occurred anyways. 

Here is the bottom line of your habit of expecting things to be a certain way. If you approach the BAC table with expectations of how it should be, or how it has to be in order to meet your expectations, they will almost every single time fail to come together and match you. And you will be stuck in a habitual cycle and probably will not even notice the damage you are doing to your gaming results most every time you play.

2). The Habit of Your Inner Resistance

In so many words, your fear and procrastination rolled up into one. Causes hesitation and avoidance of most things you desire. What is better at the BAC table, fear and procrastination or desires? One thing for sure and I welcome challenge, is when the group of clumping of any type is present, only unadulterated desire will allow you the guts and balls to wager on it for some handsome wins! And after all isn't that what gambling is all about getting some decent return on the money that we risk?

The aspect of your inner resistance is, that it is an invisible and negative force that will govern you because we all have common tendency to submit to our vulnerability and fear of failure. You generally feed into it with anxiety and distraction over the loss of your buy-in funds.

You must find what it is you fear that causes your inner resistance. Start by complete acknowledgment of your wagering fears, once you discover, you can then begin moving towards some type of insight to overcome the fears that hold you down in gaming. Most all of us will say, I don't have any fears or inner resistance. And those classifying all losses as uncaptured variables and unplayable shoes have some type of negative inner resistance.

No matter what happens, post each wager, you must face every wager with no tension and with more conscious presence.  That is an ABSOLUTE MUST.  The PRESENCE put you in neutrality and focus that are huge advantages. You will then be able to change your mode from struggling with harmful inner resistance to a beautiful one of flow and acceptance no matter what happens with the hand.

3). The Habit of Focusing Only on What Is/Was Wrong

The greatest thing about BAC is that almost every situation one can imagine has hidden beauty in it, if we are only willing to focus on what is actually happening. Of course that is much easier said than accomplished. Try putting aside the term, "difficult" at the table. Try the best you can to forget all the "wrong" that was or is at the table in past hands or in the current hand.

BAC is playable. And it's very playable and it's winnable. The biggest problem is we are all attempting a rocksolid approach to a "most likely win guaranteed" to be in our favor situation. Like I said in the first sentence of this section, every situation usually happens.  Those are or can be, chop, doubles, triples, ones and twos, ones and threes, streaks long and short, naturals cut, ties cut, ties stick, naturals stick, etc., etc., etc.  Problem being, you cannot follow only one because if you do, then you lose when the 'cut' happens and you become frustrated and emotional.  Because the biggest problem being, when you bet, it changes up. Simple. So simple it is so overlooked by people, because they just don't understand how simple it really is.

So, that is why I say we are in the habit of focusing on what is/was wrong with our decisions. I am not going to sit here and write, our wagers are all controllable and in perfect sync with the presentments that we are betting on. However, if you can always remind yourself that your wager is more powerful than the perfect present circumstance finding some type of inner peace, controlling the situation as it unfolds without any frustration whatsoever.  You will have to be in total consciousness of not allowing yourself to fall back into old habits of 'mind supply', that focus on what you have done wrong. Because you cannot move forward if you keep going back.  (Mind Supply: A person's attention. A person's memory. A person identified with their intellectual faculties. A desire or inclination that occupies one's thoughts.)

Summation

It's totally up to you and you alone. I know at the BAC table, I have won a great deal of wagers 'easier' when I was in a total oblivious state to my past bad habits as well as being in my current win state with total consciousness of neutrality. Likewise, I know I have lost a lot of wagers in sessions because I was stuck consciously within my bad habits. I admit it here, unlike many forums with countless members that write about how they all have their "unpublished——secret and never to be disclosed" protocols for winning all their hands for fear of casinos learning.  In so many words, their precious and golden Holy Grails.  ROMAFL! 

Myself, I found that writing, expressing and discovering my thoughts, play and related have led me to a much better understanding of the game, the people playing it and how psychologically our brain functions play a much larger part of wagering and interpreting the baccarat shoe and its presentments than most can ever imagine.

I am well aware how most all of us will go to a casino, walk up to a BAC table and our mind goes basically blank. We will remember our last couple of losses and possibly our wins easily, but as far as the things I brought out here, confusion surrounds us how to remember them as we play. All you have to do is write some small reminders on the BAC card, as you were allowed to have scorecards in front of you at all the properties I have ever been to in the USA. They are as follows.

"Do not expect things a certain way"

"No inner resistance at all"

"Ignore everything wrong, what Was/Is'

As the old saying goes, the balls in your court.

Full baccarat table with the following 9 players:

Tim Walz.  Says out loud, "This casino is depriving us of our rights!"

Jacob Frey.  Says out loud, "We have rights! This is targeted operations!"

Letita James.  Says out loud, "This shoe inconsistency is totally unacceptable."

Gavin Newsom.  Says out loud, "Can someone pass me some hair gel and a comb."  Then he says, "This game is total redderict to the absolute maximum."

Bernie Sanders.  Says out loud, "You guys should all donate part of your bank roll to me before you lose it all.  We will just call it a political donation (While he is winking his eye) and I will document it for you."

Kamala Harris. As the shoe first opens, she stands and screams out while raising both of her arms, "I am the first African American woman to play baccarat."  She is wearing a 1970s style blue Jean jacket with a large embroidered back graphic of a fist and the words, "Muslim Power Rules!"

Elon Musk.  Says out loud, "With all of your wagering decisions I clearly understand the need for Artificial Intelligence and satellites to support the delivery of smart info, there are just so many considerably low IQ people."

Andrew Dice Clay.  Says out loud as he placed a table max wager, "Go ahead, marry her. Don't marry her, man. How do you know where she's been? Huh! How do you know she's not the biggest tocking whore to ever walk this tocking town, man? I went with this one girl, she was such a tocking tramp, I had to double park my dick on her behind and wait an hour to get in. It's unfuckingbelievable, I'm telling ya."

AsymBacGuy.  He has been winning about 9 out of 10 hands he wagered.  Most all others have exhausted their buy-ins and additional buy-ins multiple times.  AsymBacGuy finally gets up and says out loud, "What a bunch of friggen Jerks, now I understand the need for insane asylums and human lethal injections."

Pro Basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups, former NBA guard Damon Jones and nearly three dozen co-defendants will stand trial beginning Nov. 2, a federal judge said Wednesday.

https://www.espn.com/NBA/story/_/id/48103259/trial-date-set-chauncey-billups-others-rigged-poker-case

There are a few saying and phrases that are commonly used at the table, that I read on other internet locations that are usually mistaken.

"Checks Play". Normally used to alert pit that a larger unusual variance in bet amount was just placed.

"Bilking".  Used in joking around about cheating. Usually casino taking players money or sometimes the opposite.

"Player Takes".  Dealers knowingly can tell player has more than table maximum and generally asked for or dealer doesn't want to break down the wagered amount. But the person will only get paid the table max if wager was won and will be returned excess chips if that wager was lost.

"In Play Betting". Meaning placing an additional bet while an event is actually happening, during a hand. At bac never allowed.

"Cold Table". Very subjective term. The highest majority of people are repetitively losing. Of course it won't always stay like that and you will hear that depending on how many people were playing and how many people lost over a certain amount of time. Never anything set as to any amount of time that determines when a table is or was cold.

"Hot Table". Very subjective term. The highest majority of people are repetitively winning.  Of course it won't always stay like that and you will hear that depending on how many people were playing and how many people won over a certain amount of time. Never anything set as to any amount of time that determines when a table is or was hot.

You can Google just about anything now. It's been that way for a number of years, but not really during the good old days of infamous big table bac.

You know, sit down and think about it. You cannot download
bac experience. You cannot download bac failure. You cannot download bac struggling. You will get opinions and twisted definitions or explanations from either inexperienced and possibly a few experienced players.  Most people will not be able the decipher between wrong and right, disadvantage and advantages.  But you cannot download them and be able to absorb them into your body.

The real learning my friends is called, Blood, Sweat and Tears!

Yes, you can't learn from the Internet, Googling, Wiki, etc. But the real experience, gut feelings, knowing what how and why certain events almost always occur, and so much more, you can only build up from once again, actual experience.

What a total scum bucket!  Should have a uniform when he goes to jail with the embroidered words, "Police Chief who lied and stole".

Attorneys should have a field day with countless cases being prosecuted by his department.


https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/02/20/arrest-warrant-chief-bet-4-4m-online/


Click below to read the actual affidavit with tons of detailed info in it, including money bet, wins and losses from online gaming concerns:

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2600005814_Redacted.pdf

Take them to heart, ignore them, call me silly, recognize them and explore, whatever floats your boat as the saying goes.

But, I will tell you one thing.  My years of playing bac have ultra reinforced me to believe in and abide by the following:

* A shoe in time.  Is relatively short.

* Nothing is guaranteed.

* Everything will change again. The good or bad situation is here now, it changes. There are basically 14 presentment trends, most of all appear in most all shoes. Picking one, two or even three of those will be suicide.

* Change your responses. The presentments will not change your wagers. Your wagering must change and conform to the presentments. Huge difference.

* You will NEVER have all the answers.

* There is NO HOLY GRAIL.  Period!

* Be super careful of bringing today's societal aura of 'Instant Everything' to the bac table.  It will bite you the highest majority of the times. 

California cardrooms anticipate thousands of layoffs as gambling rules change.  Operators may be forced to drop blackjack and other table games due to new state rules that they say favor tribal casinos

"A banked card game is a type of gambling game in which players place bets against a central dealer, known as the banker or house, rather than directly against each other.

Cardrooms — like the Gardens Casino — are state-licensed venues that, under state law, may only offer player-banked or peer-to-peer games — or tables where players play against each other, not the house.

Bonta is now saying California laws on banked games must adhere to the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 and California Proposition 1A passed in 2000, according to the California National Indian Gaming Association. However, the cardroom industry disputes the tribal gaming industry's legal interpretation of these laws, saying that Bonta's rules could disrupt its business model.

Pai gow was the first card game using a player-dealer position in the cardroom industry in 1983.

Outsourced player-dealer services— or third party proposition players as they are known in casino parlance — came in 1990. An outsourced player-dealer service is a licensed independent company, not the casino itself, whose employees play in cardroom table games to ensure they remain active and filled, acting as a neutral party like any other player in the game."


https://www.presstelegram.com/2026/02/15/california-cardrooms-anticipate-thousands-of-layoffs-as-gambling-rules-change/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/two-indian-american-men-indicted-for-allegedly-using-3000-stolen-identities-to-defraud-online-gambling-sites-of-3-million/articleshow/128077490.cms#

As Kungfubac wrote in another post, I will quote:

"Tried-and-True Money Casino Gambling Management Techniques

I agree with most of the authors' suggestions.
re: Stop Loss and Stop Win.

Stop Loss:
Personally, I do not rebuy into the same shoe after busting a buyin. I do go get another buyin but will select a different shoe, go to different casino, maybe take a restroom break/walk around 15-20mins,...etc.

What is interesting is when I bust a buyin it seems I will bust another within a few shoes or days and often that second bust in close proximity will have a Net-(i.e., meaning it had not earned itself once).

Recently I had gone about 9 weeks without busting my buyin(very long for me). It busted and a short time later( a couple days later) it busted again with only a 19% win of itself. Most busts that are Net- I seem to at least have profits of 60%--80% prior to bust.

Stop Win: Personally I do not think we should have a Stop Win. Simply implement a trailing loss (similar to investing in a stock or precious metals,..etc). One never knows how long the current winning trend will last(shoes, days, weeks, months,..etc)."

https://www.888casino.com/blog/gambling-management-tchniques

VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT TO ME AND I BELIEVE OTHERS.  I SPENT THE TIME TO OUTLINE AND CONDENSE MY LONG DRAWN OUT THOUGHTS INTO THE FOLLOWING:

*Stop Loss. It is an easy definitive stopping event for myself. If I lose my buy-in, I am done for the session. Not to restart after a break, not to go get additional funds or restart once again. I know my limits and I know my risk limits. If I lost, I lost. My reasoning is, if I lost the buy-in, I would be stuck in a recovery mode to recoup the lost funds and for myself, that only favors the casino 95 times or so out of 100. I've learned this from the past four (4) decades of play I have participated in.

*Stop Win. Lots of opinions written on lots of forums and broadcast on countless videos on the Internet. Believe what you want, but I know one thing for certain, most wins are shown or written about and losses are not.

I have a few different items I use to determine how much of a win I should walk with. I am pretty strict with my ultimate decision when a session turns winning and when to enter my 'Stop Win' event mode.

If I wound up into a winning session which I determine by at least doubling my buy-in risk capital, at that point I generally enter my 1/3rd-1/3rd-1/3rd status of play. I have talked about this extensively on the forum here. It is a critical part of my M.M.M.  (I and numerous others within my circle of player friends have become better players because of this alone).

My buy-in capital will be removed and locked up as well as either 1/3rd or 2/3rds of my 1/3rd-1/3rd-1/3rd division of winning funds. I will continue my play with at least 1/3 rd of those, or perhaps 2/3rds. This will depend on several factors of how easy or difficult it was to get to that point, which I'm not going to discuss here because those are specific to each session.

If I continue to win wagers while staying within 1/3rd to 1/2 of the win as my wagering capital, I will then enter 'set-asides', which I value and respect  differently than the 1/3rd-1/3rd-1/3rds.  (Set-Asides are another topic and I have also written about them elsewhere on the forum).  Bottom line is, my protocols on a stop win will be dependent upon how much and how quick I continue winning, and/or the opposite.

*So, am I just going to hit my trigger, which is doubling my buy-in and then employing a stop win?  No, of course not! However, I found a very comfortable, satisfying and proven implementation of strategies that allow me to continue playing/winning or walk away and end the session with complete satisfaction that I did the best I could have done and not have that feeling or desire to walk back after I cashed out.

Those are my Stop Win and Stop Loss thoughts and rules. 


NOTE:  I only play Brick & Mortar casinos.  My buy-in is a smaller % of my bankroll in the neighborhood of 1/20th-1/25th.  I am not a fan of consistently building a bankroll larger as it tends to add fallacy and chasing to the gambler.  Any previous losses are immediately replaced when a win happens.  FYI, I can bust numerous buy-ins but it would be very very difficult (almost impossible) for me to bust my bankroll. 

(I have received inquiries reference the California (non-Indian Tribe casinos) gaming rules, where the gamblers themselves are the 'player-dealers' and if no one desires to act as a 'player-dealer' than there are corporation bankers at each table.  That is why in all the new YouTube videos popping up, you will see the casino dealer collecting or paying the wins out of stacks of Chips either always on first base or last base.  Those are where the corporation bankers sit.  All the casino does is collect a collection fee from each hand.  And unless it has been changed since I last been out there a few years ago, each wager pays a $1.00 per hundred ($100.00) wager to the house, the casino.  That is no matter the out come, win or lose.)

Rules & How to Play
Type of Game

The game of EZ Baccarat Panda 8 utilizes a player-dealer position and is a California game. The position shall be offered systematically and continuously in a clockwise manner around the table after every two hands. The player-dealer shall collect all losing wagers, pay all winning wagers, and may not win or lose more than the original amount wagered. Once the player-dealer's wager has been exhausted, the wagers not covered by the player-dealer shall be returned to the respective players. The gambling enterprise does not participate in the actual play of the game and has no interest in the outcome of the play.

Object of the Game

The object of the game is to assemble two hands of two or three cards with an accumulated point value as close to nine as possible.

Description of Deck & Number of Decks Used

The game is played using a standard 52-card deck and no jokers. Cards will be dealt using a multiple deck shoe. A minimum of three decks and a maximum of eight decks shall be used during the play of the game.

Card Values & Hand Rankings

The value of each card used in EZ Baccarat Panda 8, shall be as follows: picture cards (king, queen, jack) and 10's have a value of zero, an ace has a value of one, and all other cards have their face value. When the total numerical value of the cards equals ten or more, only the right-hand digit (numeric count) is considered. The ranking of hands for EZ Baccarat Panda 8, in order from highest to lowest rank, shall be:

HAND DEALT    HAND REQUIREMENTS
Natural 9    A two card hand that has a value of nine. A Natural 9 shall only be achieved when the first two cards dealt to a hand is valued at nine, according to the rules above.
Natural 8    A two card hand that has a value of eight. A Natural 8 shall only be achieved when the first two cards dealt to a hand is valued at eight.
Nine or Eight    A three card hand that has a value of nine or eight.
Seven through Zero    A two or three card hand that has a value of seven, six, five, four, three, two, one or zero.
Description of Table Used & Total Number of Seated Positions

The game shall be played on either a standard blackjack table that accommodates up to seven players and a player-dealer position for a total of eight seated positions or a standard baccarat table that accommodates up to thirteen players and a player-dealer position for a total of fourteen seated positions. Within each betting area for each seated player, there shall be five separate betting spaces specifically designated for five separate wagers; the player line, the banker line, the Tie Bet, the Panda 8 wager, and the Dragon 7 Bonus Bet. Each betting space at the table has a fixed amount for wagering limits defining the minimum and maximum amounts that may be wagered. Players must bet at least the table minimum. Back-line betting is permitted.

Method Used to Determine Action & Distribution of Cards

The game utilizes an action button to determine which player receives first action on their wager. The second card dealt to the banker line determines the position of the action button. The player-dealer position is not counted when determining where the action button shall be placed. The other seats, in clockwise rotation, starting with the player to the left of the house dealer and continuing left to right, respectively represent the other number. When determining where the action button will be placed, cards will hold the following values: Ace is one, 2 through 9 have their face value, jack is eleven, queen is twelve, and king is thirteen.

Dealing Procedures & Round of Play

At the start of a game a player is offered the player-dealer position. Once accomplished, the house dealer shall wait for each player to make their wager in accordance with the table limits.

Each player has the following options when placing their wager(s):
The player line which pays 1 to 1;
The banker line which pays 1 to 1;
The Tie Bet, which pays 8 to 1;

If a player placed a wager on either the player line or the banker line, that player may place a wager on the Dragon 7 Bonus Bet, which pays 40 to 1.

If a player placed a wager on either the player line or the banker line, that player may place a wager on the Panda 8, which pays 25 to 1.

Once all wagers are placed, the house dealer deals one card to the right and one card to the left, one by one in rotation, until each hand has a total of two cards each. All cards are dealt face-up. The hand to the left of the house dealer is a community hand that belongs to those that placed a bet on the banker line. The hand to the right of the house dealer is a community hand that belongs to those that placed a bet on the player line. The player's hand is resolved first and then the banker's hand is resolved. The hand that is closest to nine wins. After the house dealer delivers the first two cards to both the Player line and Banker line, the following Baccarat rules are followed.

The player's hand must stand when the hand is valued at 6 through 9, and must hit when the hand is valued at 5 or less.
If the player's hand stands, then the dealer hand hits on a total of 5 or less.

If the player's hand hits for a complete hand then the banker's hand hits using the following rules:
If the banker's hand total is 3, then the banker's hand is dealt a third card unless the third card dealt to the player's hand was an 8.

If the banker's hand total is 4, then the banker's hand is dealt a third card unless the third card dealt to the player's hand was a 0, 1, 8, or 9.

If the banker's hand total is 5, then the banker's hand is dealt a third card if the third card dealt to the player's hand was 4, 5, 6, or 7.

If the banker's hand total is 6, then the banker's hand is dealt a third card if the third card dealt to the player's hand was a 6 or 7.

The following chart shows when the banker hits (H) or stands (S) according to the rules above:

Player's Third Card
0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9
7    S    S    S    S    S    S    S    S    S    S
6    S    S    S    S    S    S    H    H    S    S
5    S    S    S    S    H    H    H    H    S    S
4    S    S    H    H    H    H    H    H    S    S
3    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    S    H
2    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H
1    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H
0    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H


The house dealer must use the "house way" when a player requests the house dealer to play an additional wager. House way hands shall be set as follows: player hand hits on five or below and stands on six or more.

How Each Wager Wins, Loses or Pushes

Once both hands have been completed, according to the guidelines above, the player's wagers are settled. The following shall apply for each possible outcome when determining the winner. The player- dealer shall pay and collect all wagers accordingly:
The player-dealer shall pay all winning player line wagers made by players when the player hand is closer to nine than the banker hand.

The player-dealer shall pay all winning banker line wagers made by players when the banker hand is closer to nine than the player hand.

The player-dealer shall collect all losing player line wagers made by players when the banker hand is closer to nine than the player hand.

The player player-dealer shall collect all losing banker line wagers made by players when the player hand is closer to nine than the banker hand.

Tie Bet

For each seated position, there shall be one separate and specifically designated area for the placement of a Tie Bet wager. A player may place a Tie Bet wager even if he/she has not also placed either a Player line wager or a Banker line wager prior to the initial deal.

The player-dealer shall pay all winning Tie Bet wagers when the total of the player's hand and the total of the banker's hand are equal.

The player-dealer shall collect all losing Tie Bet wagers when the total of the player's hand and the total of the banker's hand are not equal.

Backline betting is not permitted on the Tie Bet wager.
See the collection rate schedule for restrictions on the amount that may be wagered on the Tie Bet and any collection fees that may be taken.

The Tie Bet takes into account the total value of the player's hand and the total value of the banker's hand, regardless of the number of cards each hand has, at the completion of the round. Each hand must be played according to the guidelines above. In the event that the player's hand and the banker's hand are of the same value (tie), the tie bet wager shall win. In the event that the player's hand and the banker's hand are not of the same value, the player-dealer shall win the tie bet wager.

All winning Tie Bet wagers shall be paid 8 to 1.

Wagers are collected or paid, to the extent that the player-dealer's wager covers. Once the player- dealer's wager has been exhausted, the wagers not covered by the player-dealer shall be returned to the players.

Dragon 7 Bonus Bet

For each seated position, there shall be one separate and specifically designated area for the placement of a Dragon 7 Bonus Bet wager. A player may only place a Dragon 7 Bonus Bet wager if they have also placed a wager on either the player line or on the banker line prior to the initial deal.

Back-line betting is permitted on the Dragon 7 Bonus Bet.

See the collection rate schedule for restrictions on the amount that may be wagered on the Dragon 7 Bonus Bet and any collection fees that may be taken.

If the banker hand has a point value of seven using three cards and the player's hand has a value of six or less, regardless of the number of cards, the Dragon 7 Bonus Bet wins. The Dragon 7 Bonus Bet shall lose on all other outcomes.

All winning Dragon 7 Bonus Bet wagers shall be paid 40 to 1.
The player-dealer shall pay all winning Dragon 7 Bonus Bet wagers and shall collect all losing Dragon 7 Bonus Bet wagers. Once the player-dealer's wager has been exhausted, the wagers not covered by the player-dealer shall be returned to the players.

Panda 8 Bet

For each seated position, there shall be one separate and specifically designated area for the placement of a Panda 8 Bet wager. A player may only place a Panda 8 Bet wager if they have also placed a wager on either the player line or on the banker line prior to the initial deal.

Back-line betting is permitted on the Panda 8 Bet.

See the collection rate schedule for restrictions on the amount that may be wagered on the Panda 8 Bet and any collection fees that may be taken.

If the player hand has a point value of eight using three cards and the banker's hand has a value of seven or less, regardless of the number of cards, the Panda 8 Bet wins. The Panda 8 Bet shall lose on all other outcomes.

All winning Panda 8 Bet wagers shall be paid 25 to 1.

The player-dealer shall pay all winning Panda 8 Bet wagers and shall collect all losing Panda 8 Bet wagers. Once the player-dealer's wager has been exhausted, the wagers not covered by the player- dealer shall be returned to the players.

Equipment Used

Rules & How to Play EZ Baccarat Panda 8

EQUIPMENT USED

EZTRAK™: Baccarat Edition is an LCD-based hand tracking system that provides players with valuable statistical data, enabling them to calculate trends and percentages for any type of Baccarat table games including the very popular EZ Baccarat™.

Key Features

Table game min and max amounts

Numbers and percentages for Player, Banker, Tie Bets, Dragon 7 and Panda 8 bets
The occurrence of Naturals
The number of hands per shoe
Previous shoe statistics
A timer (optional) that automatically closes all bets for the hand, speeding up hands per hour.
Collection Rates

For table limits and collection rate schedules for the game of EZ Baccarat Panda 8 please refer to the approval of all California Games Collection rates (BGC ID: GEGR-001174).

Table Layout

(Pic of standard EZ Bac table felt)

Without a doubt, BAC is the greatest casino game that cannot be touched by all the others. The game is elite and easily transcends countless times throughout each shoe into superstations, individual beliefs and unmatched gambling depths  few can even grasp unless they are experienced Bac Players.

The game is interpreted widely different but most all players, admittedly or not. The situational aspect of playing BAC puts the highest majority of wagering decisions on a specific set of circumstances rather than being universal, such as in blackjack and a lot of other table games.

BAC players are most of the times joyfully brought together by winning hands and as well, brought down together by losing hands. Hands that were wagered on by both bankers and players bets, are visually divided with joy and sadness when the winning side is revealed.  Simultaneously, both visually and even physically. 

There are numerous types of BAC players, those that are outgoing as well as totally submissive. Those that are loud as well as perfectly quiet. Those that play long hours as well as those that play a fast hit and run style. Those that believe in flat betting and as well, those that parlay without a second thought. There are those that relentlessly continue session after session attempting previous loss recouping without really ever winning as well as, those that use a small portion of their bank rolls with a strong parlay schedule experiencing a much higher cash out profitability rate overall. There are those that play with complete frustration and emotional distraction as well as, those that play with pure passion and clear frame-of-mind.

BAC is a game of wonder in so many ways. I guarantee you that. Many claim it is pure luck and yet many claim it's strictly skill. Many claim it is random while others claim it is not random. BAC is a game of extreme beliefs without any doubt whatsoever. BAC has quick wins for many and quick losses for others.  And those that do not win or lose quickly, have a habit of getting grinded down more often than not.  And, so many continuously wonder why they cannot repeat their wins they have experienced previously in their upcoming wagering attempts just completed. As well, so many also wonder why they lost after they did not (wagering opposite) wager the way they played during their previous losing sessions. Like I said, a game of wondering in the ultimate definition of the word lived out so many times throughout each shoe played.

One can win with the highest point value hand in BAC as well as a zero point value hand.  One can win when all others lose the hand and as well, one can win the hand while losing a certain portion of it, because of the various side wagers available at most tables.

The highest majority of players these days have no idea about the history of BAC prior to the EZ BAC and mini BAC tables from 2000 and up. What I am referring to was the big tables where there were three dealers, two were sitting acting as the table's Bankers with separate chip racks each, side-by-side, each one for their seven seats of players on each end of the table. One dealer known as a Coupier, standing whom the cards were passed to after pulled from the shoe, exposed or unexposed by each gambler themselves. The shoe traveled from player to player and remained with each player as long as a winning bankers hand was made, no matter which side they were wagering on. The big table also had one floor person on each end of the table as well. It was a totally different game, different attitudes, different personalities, different set of patience, a much different level of play and much stronger sense of camaraderie amongst the players overall.  Shoes normally were in the 3 hour range to complete and a shuffle was easily 20 minutes. 

Talking about camaraderie, there was normally unwritten camaraderie amongst players on each side of the table to wager the same side. Unlike today's atmosphere so commonly brought forth, how others can influence losing hands.  Back at the big tables that wasn't a general thought at all. The thought as to a gambler themselves causing a hand to be lost was kinda far fetched if I recall.  It was blamed on the shoe not producing what we thought, or we were just out of sync, or we just simply chose the wrong side. 

BAC even more so than other table games host a wide variety of its players. From restaurant and nail shop workers to the owners themselves. From competing casino Bac Dealers and Floor Personnel or an occasional host from other properties. To a high school dropout working at a McDonald's who out-plays an accomplished college graduate structural engineer most every time. Young and elderly, white, Asian, Latino and black all can be found at the BAC tables, anytime anywhere.

BAC the game were bystanders are in amazement when a two card 18 beats two face cards on the opposite side.  And those same bystanders comment on how the heck a blackjack loses to two cards on the opposite side comprised of just a seven and a two.
Additionally the same bystanders witness a 10 and a five on the players side and a 10 and a six on the bankers side. They see a six drawn for the players side and then a six drawn for the bankers side. Right about that time they shrug their shoulders and walk away.

Priceless, IMO.

The game of BAC.

Taking a break the other night and talking with a few BAC friends at the casino, we wound up discussing new dealers placed on the BAC tables. And we simply do not prefer them in most any way over the regular dealers that we have built a rapport with.

There are just simply no connections, or understanding(s) and certainly no harmony between dealer/player with the new dealers. Most all regular dealers we know, there is a special kind of dealer/player camaraderie. I don't know about you guys but after years of playing BAC, that camaraderie has grown into a bond with players like myself and many others I know personally. In fact, it has helped us countless times with either leaving the table or continuing to great wins.

New dealers do not know what I prefer in chip denominations when I buy-in.  I have to explain it and at times I get a bit of resistance until the floor person is called over.  The regular dealers know and automatically cut it out.

When it's slow or one on one the small talk starts. The regular Dealers, pick up the conversations where they generally last left off and are heads and tails over the new dealers in every way. 

A lot of the new dealers have that fast losing chip sweep that absolutely sucks and so many people detest. Yes the money is going to go away, however that fast sweep is absolutely insulting and ultra negative in my opinion.

Regular dealers have that gentle losing hand chip sweep. Not much more to say about it, but they know how to handle losing hands a lot better than the new dealers do.

Tips.  At least myself, I have a certain strange rapport with all my regular dealers, whereupon my tips are paid and rather than the dealer quickly snatching them up, I stack them and slide them up to the dealer, kinda skirting then across the table somewhat.  The new dealers will quickly pay them and snatch them up without any class whatsoever, IMO.

When I buy-in the new dealers will repetitively ask for my players card when every regular dealer already knows the routine and will just say it is Glen's and point to me and nothing else is said. I have to explain to the new dealer I don't have a card in my pocket and the floor person already knows who I am and sometimes that new dealer even rolls their eyes. Again another uncomfortable feeling.

The ending, so important when a player loses. The new dealer will have that standardized, "thanks for playing, better luck next time". Yeah the regular dealers just don't say anything, they are quiet, give me a quick nod of their head, which means will see you next time and you'll get everything back, type of secret code talk, LOL. But personally I detest and so does everyone else that standardized, "thanks for playing and better luck next time" pure made up trash!

And one final one is a few of my hand gestures that I use throughout the game.  Either for a very brief waiting period before dealing the hand, or I'm not gonna play this hand, or I'm gonna get up and go use my phone and many other ones. The new dealers have no clue and I'm not gonna explain it to them, when the regular dealers make it so comfortable.

Gambling Science: Why the house will always win in the long run

Undoubtedly you have heard the phrase "the house always wins" when it comes to casino gambling. But what does that actually mean?  And why is that said?

After all, people do hit jackpots, people have great runs at table games, people win repeatedly in the sport books, people win at the other games.  And casino games are supposed to be fair – so what guarantees the casino still comes out ahead?

The answer lies in a simple but powerful mathematical idea called "the house edge": a small, systematic statistical advantage built into every single casino game. It's the invisible force that ensures the numbers will always tilt toward the house in the long run.

So, let's unpack and quickly take apart the science behind that edge: how it's constructed, and how it plays out over repeated bets.

Roulette: the clearest place to see the house edge at work

Roulette looks like one of the fairest games in the casino. A spinning wheel with numbered pockets, half colored red and half colored black, and a single ball sent spinning around the outside to eventually land in one pocket at random. If you bet the ball will land in a red pocket (or a black one), it feels like a 50–50 gamble.

But the real odds are a little bit different. In most Australian casinos you'll find 38 pockets on the roulette wheel: 18 red, 18 black, and two "zero" pockets marked 0 and 00. (In Europe roulette wheels have 37 pockets, with only a single 0.)

The zero pockets are what creates the house edge. The casino pays out as if the odds were 50–50, however if you get the color right, you get back the same amount you bet. Which most believe that is a 50-50 chance, but in reality, on a wheel with two zero pockets your chance of winning is 47.37%.

When you bet on a color, the house has a 5.26% edge – meaning gamblers lose about five cents per dollar on average. A single-zero wheel is slightly kinder to the gambler at 2.7%.

You don't see the house edge in the course of a few spins, one-two or three shoes of cards, a few hours at a slot machine, etc. But casinos don't rely on a few spins, a few shoes or a few hours at a machine. Over thousands of bets, the law of large numbers takes over. This is a fundamental idea in probability that implies the more times you repeat a game with fixed odds, the closer your results get to the true mathematical average. The short-term ups and downs flatten out, and the house edge asserts itself with near certainty.

The law of large numbers is why casinos aren't bothered by who wins this spin or that shoe of cards, or even tonight, or win for several nights or even more. They care about what happens over the next million bets. They don't care about the winners (unless they are obviously cheating), they only care that there are enough losers.  Please read the Wiki for a great detailed run down of 'the law of large numbers', that will help you understand this super important info as to what I just mentioned. 

CLICK ON THE WIKI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

Simply a great detailed explanation.  OPENING:  "In probability theory, the law of large numbers is a mathematical law that states that the average of the results obtained from a large number of independent random samples converges to the true value, if it exists. More formally, the law of large numbers states that given a sample of independent and identically distributed values, the sample mean converges to the true mean."

And once you understand that, you will be able to adjust your play, gain advantages and use a Money Management Method that benefits you whether you are winning or losing. 

The Gamblers' Ruin problem

Another way to see why the house always wins is through the so-called Gambler's Ruin problem.

The problem asks what happens if a player with a limited bankroll keeps betting against an opponent with effectively unlimited money (even in a fair game).  Say baccarat with 50-50 banker-player wagering with no commission or side bets. 

The mathematical answer is blunt: the gambler will eventually go broke if he continually wagers every hand or a large number of hands per shoe, plays everyday or nearly everyday.  Period, with absolute certainty. 

In other words, even if the odds are perfectly even, the side with finite resources loses in the long run simply because random fluctuations will push them to zero at some point. Once you hit zero, the game stops, while the house is still standing.

You have to fully understand the following without any doubts, "In statistics, gambler's ruin is the fact that a gambler playing a game with non-positive expected value will eventually go bankrupt, regardless of their betting system.  The concept was initially stated: A persistent gambler who raises his bet to a fixed fraction of the gambler's bankroll after a win, but does not reduce it after a loss, will eventually and inevitably go broke, even if each bet has a positive expected value."

Casinos, of course, stack the odds even further by giving themselves a small edge on every bet. That tiny disadvantage, combined with the fact the house never runs out of money, makes ruin mathematically inevitable.

The more bets you make, the worse your chances

Say you walk into a casino with a simple goal. You want to win $100, and you plan to quit as soon as you hit that target.

Your approach is to play roulette, betting $1 at a time on either red or black.

How much money do you need to bring to have a decent chance of reaching your $100 goal? A thousand dollars? A million? A billion?

Here's the surprising truth: no amount of money is enough.

If you keep making $1 bets in a game with a house edge, you are practically certain to go broke before getting $100 ahead of where you started, even if you arrive with a fortune.

In fact, the probability of gaining $100 before losing $100 million with this strategy is less than 1 in 37,000.

You could walk in with life-changing wealth and still almost certainly never hit your modest $100 goal. (The full mathematical explanation is spelled out in, 'the law of large numbers', I referred to above.

Betting bigger may give you a fighting chance

So how do you create a real chance of success? You must either lower your target or change your strategy entirely.

If your target were only $10, you'd suddenly have over a 50% chance of going home happy, even if you started with just $25. A smaller goal means fewer bets, which means less opportunity for the house edge to grind you down.

Or you can flip the logic of Gambler's Ruin: instead of making hundreds of small, disadvantageous bets, you can make one big bet.  Or several depending on your knowledge and bankroll in regards to what you are attempting. 

If you put $100 on red all at once, your chance of success jumps to roughly 47%. This is far higher than the near-zero chance of trying to grind your way up with $1 bets.

The long-run strategy is mathematically doomed, while the short-run strategy at least gives you a fighting chance.

A small house edge adds up

Roulette is the clearest place to see the house edge, but the same structure runs through every casino game. Each one builds in a varying degree of statistical tilt or bias.

Some games, like roulette, have fixed, rule-based house edges that don't change from one player to the next. But others, like blackjack, have a variable house edge that depends on how the game is played. But no game is exempt from the underlying structure.

Small edges don't stay small when you expose yourself to hundreds or thousands of bets. In the long run, the variance fades, and the outcome converges to the house's advantage with almost certainty.  Again, maybe not in a session or two or three or even five.  But the house's advantage will always outweigh yours, always.

That's why the house always wins. Because mathematics never takes a night off.  Never ever.

When you win, there is no charge to color up and leave.  By the way, you can opt-out anytime and remain a winner.

Dedicated to ADulay

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8zgD7UovI6U&list=RDk2fN36wq-zc&index=13&pp=8AUB

Ref the below video in the comments:  "I was a waitress at Waffle House while going to college.  This is the best thing I have ever seen.  It's pretty accurate for a Friday night."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYNFqmu2toI&pp=ygUQd2FmZmxlIGhvdXNlIHNubA%3D%3D

THE BEST RIGHT HERE!  OMG!  I clicked on this one and just took a sip of coffee when Steve Harvey started about the waitresses screaming when going inside.  Coffee came out my nose and mouth, seriously.  Went to Ameristar casino year in Kansas City and left about 3:30 am, we got to the Waffle House down the road next the interstate and got a table.  The part about the menus in the table were spot on!!! Waffle House loud, waitresses screaming the orders, "sliced, diced and double covered", etc., etc.  A complete zoo inside, everyone screaming and yelling to be heard.  But what great food!  Winning cash at the casino, then the Waffle House afterwards. 

"Waffle House is one of the best places to eat, but eating it at Midnight to before 5am hits absolutely different."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GQtr35B8M4k&pp=ygUMV2FmZmxlIGhveXNl

And on the serious side of things, for those who have no idea what a Waffle House is all about:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tl2hnyXIdlc&pp=ygUMV2FmZmxlIGhveXNl

One last one.  From the comments:  "as a former WaHo overnight server, yes. this is true except the actual dojo and training it implies. i have seen people shot in the parking lot, coworkers OD and get revived, coworkers throw hands then keep on working, drug dealers keep the peace, dealers make change for us, idiots try throwing things, customers arrested, fist fought a lunatic trying to threaten us, crack head call the cops on his self, prostitutes try turning tricks in the bathroom, and much more. i only did it for about 2 years."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nVrFzg4xWps&pp=ygUMV2FmZmxlIGhvdXNl

And one very last one.  GO BACK TO CALIFORNIA BEACH BOY KIDDIE.  ROMAL LAUGHING!

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/XJ3SGI5p4iY

A casino friend that is into composing rock and also soul songs is putting together a few songs for us. 

Here is the first one.  Music to follow soon:

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Oh, BetSelection, you stand the test of time
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A topic discussed at length within my circle of gaming friends as well as online venues, has been Bankrolls and Buy-ins.

Through my experience and absolute conclusion, the proper Buy-in would be 10% but no greater under any condition than 15% of the persons Bankroll.

BANKROLL.  Your total funds set aside for gambling risk.

BUY-IN.  Your funds at risk you bring to the casino for each session. 

EXAMPLE BANKROLL.  $10,000.00.  Buy-in per session would be $1,000.00 to $1,500.00, depending upon your comfort and confidence levels.  Bankrolls are also non-accessible from the casino.  Only the Buy-in is taken to the casino on the gambler' person.

REASONING. Dividing up your Bankroll funds gives you multiple chances to win. Realizing dedication and being goal driven with very clear, decisive and definitive numbers. Playing the session in relationship to those three things.  Not playing at any point with the frustration and desperation if you lose, you are out of funds for your gaming pursuits (unless of course you are down to your last session because you somehow wiped out a proper Bankroll with reasonable session Buy-in percentages).

PROTOCOL.  PLAYER ADVANTAGE.  Buy-ins must be religiously and repetitively used to accumulate win money for the current session's play/risk funds. Once the Buy-in is exceeded, the gambler must lock back up his Buy-in.  The win money will determine the length of his session. Sessions can continue as long as he risks only 1/3rd to 2/3rds of his win money. If he exhausted his Buy-in without winning any funds, the session must end.  Period!

POST SESSION.  Gambler must return his Buy-in to his Bankroll to replenish previous losses, if any. Win money must also be returned to his Bankroll to replenish previous lost money, if any.  OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE:  If the gambler is 100% whole with his Bankroll, then he must use the win money outside of gambling to keep a clear and concise frame of mind, so he will not fall into the trap of always believing he will be able to win more and more. This will also put him at an advantage for realizing tangible purchases or uses that his win money created for him.  I.E.:  Pay bills, buy household items, pay down loans, purchase reloadable cards for daily/weekly expenses, etc., etc.

BANKROLL SIZE:  A controversial subject, but in my lengthy experience as well as countless gambling friends and partners experiences, it is of the upmost gamblers advantage to keep the same Bankroll size for a lengthy period of time.  And, not to always have the desire only to win for the purpose of building his Bankroll larger and larger. Doing so brings false hopes, harder session goals, and all types of fallacies which will ultimately cause greater and eventual losses in almost every single case. Bankrolls should be set by the gamblers comfort level, confidence level, and financial ability to be able to risk his entire Bankroll.

'Las Vegas' was a NBC Television series lasting 5 Years.

From WIKI:  "Las Vegas is an American comedy-drama television series created by Gary Scott Thompson. It was broadcast by NBC from September 22, 2003, to February 15, 2008, airing for five seasons. It focuses on a team of people working at the Montecito, a fictional hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The employees deal with various issues that arise within the working environment, ranging from casino security to restaurant management and valet parking. Las Vegas starred James Caan, Josh Duhamel, Nikki Cox, James Lesure, Vanessa Marcil, Molly Sims, Marsha Thomason, and eventually Tom Selleck. The series originally centered on Ed Deline (Caan), a strict ex-CIA officer who serves as the president of operations for the Montecito. Former Marine Counterintelligence/HUMINT (CI/HUMINT) officer, Danny McCoy (Duhamel), who is Ed's protégé, later becomes the Montecito's new president.

The pilot episode began filming in March 2003, and was produced for $5 million, making it the most expensive pilot in NBC history. Production for a full season began later that year. Much of the series filming occurred at Culver Studios in California, where a set was constructed to represent the Montecito. Some filming also occasionally took place in Las Vegas. The Mandalay Bay and Green Valley Ranch, two hotel-casinos in the Las Vegas Valley, were sometimes used to portray the Montecito."

Years ago I was at Mandalay Bay with one of my non Mandalay Bay Casino hosts and one thing led to another after meeting a few of the TV show stars, I was graciously given the ID cards shown below the stars wear in the show. 

Thought I would share with you guys.

As we head into the end of the 2025, I wish to take a moment to acknowledge everyone that joins us as a forum community.  Several things I have planned to add to BetSelection Forum that will, with certainty, make it a superior forum with additional platforms and entertainment, all related to gaming.  And it will all come to fruition in 2026.

I hope everyone takes care of themselves and their families with the utmost dedication.  When you are healthy, strong frame-mind matters. Each day BetSelection Forum, myself and Vic supports learning, connection, and belonging to a community. We appreciate our members, friends and other community partners who make our forum drama free, welcoming and safe. We wish everyone a restful break and look forward to great and extremely profitable 2026! 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!

The Stardust: Vegas' Greatest Crime Scene

Check this out, some absolutely great details laid out.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xQaePnx2pRc

Fantastic!!

Everything explained in 8:00.

Fits well these days with the greed of the corporate 'jag-offs' that took over from the mob.

Vegas sucks now.  The mob needs to take it back.  Vegas ain't Vegas no more, IMO.  Thanks greedy corporate morons, seriously 100%!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HZRI0lNkCe4&pp=0gcJCSkKAYcqIYzv

As Asym wrote in his Post #1433, the following: "Most of the times patterns move around low or very low levels of deviation, more appropriately by ranges of univocal situations happening for short frames.

"Trend following" players (probably 99% of all bac players) will win by hoping (or confiding) that homogeneous (or at least controllable) lines will be superior than heterogeneous lines, so wagering that winning ranges could take a longer than expected distribution.

The remaining 1% part will adopt a kind of system/approach/method/strategy based on B>P propensity, B/P gaps, B/P pattern deviations, RTM effects or other features. Obviously their enemy is strong negative deviations (ranges) not properly balanced by the searched (expected) results.

Definitely both different approaches are completely worthless itlr as bac tables continue to collect huge profits either from trend followers and from "system" players."

Yes, IN THE LONG RUN!  However, although we all play 'forever' in a sense, do not play for the long run.  Play for the instant date and time, play for the instant shoe alone, selective and individualistic.  Do not play for merging the results into your scorecard from the previous hundreds and hundreds of shoes/sessions.  What you are sitting in front of, has no rules, regulations, presentment scheduling protocol, etc., etc.

1). ONE HAS TO ADDRESS THE "Quit when your ahead". True, but a real double edged sword to the maximum! You will stop your potential win if you automatically do, simple. In baccarat you must win and win well when you are winning. Give back a little bit of the win, but have the experience to realize the risk and how reality plays being played out and keep it going without frustration, emotion and greed.  Refer to my rock solid M.M.M. to build and increase winning and realize when to call it quits for the session.

2). TREND FOLLOWING Vs. PRESENTMENT RECOGNITION.  Trends are always present, however a trend is not always there when we wager!  We all believe somewhat in following a trend to profit, but greater than 50% of the time, you will lose far greater than you will prevail. That is a guarantee. However, Presentments Recognition is a greater player advantage without a doubt. Hard to do, I agree. Trend following is a definitive exercise that is very emotional where upon you are basically setting the course that the shoe must conform to and you must follow as well. Presentment Recognition is wagering without judgment course setting. When I learned it I did much better with my results.

3). DO NOT CHASE.  Never ever!!!!  As I just said never ever. A negative martingale or two, but not a chase scene. Don't do it. Yes, I have done it in the past and I regret all the times I've done it. As I said before, the few times I have made up money, the amount of money I lost does not come close to all of the money that I've spent in the attempted chases.

Come on people let's win. Don't give the casino your risk capital. Win!

Well, have not been for several weeks. We got a bit of hellacious winter weather since Thanksgiving. See pictures posted below of the cleared roadways. Left early morning and took a nice long drive with a friend to the casino. Stop for a long great breakfast. Then made a few other stops for shopping at the outlet stores for Christmas, etc. Finally near the casino late afternoon, stopped nearby and got something to eat at one of our regular places. Got to the casino.

First shoe, note the extremely low ties as I always talk about. And as I always say, low ties define certain presentments the majority of the times. Also defines very consistent Sections,  which to myself, are easy money makers. I love them. Note the first section, note to second middle section and note the third, the last section. Easy gimmie money to the 100th power in my opinion!

First shoe, I  didn't do too good on the side bets, although I didn't play the whole shoe I missed the first 25% or so. I seriously love the 6 player start followed immediately by the 5 bankers. Caught the Panda 8.  Check out the 6 players and then the 9 bankers with the 2 ties, a real money maker there!  Parlayed a few times and just kept pulling down gorgeous win money and sacrificed the last one back to the casino on hand 10.  Everyone else was either not wagering or flat betting and even win and then wager less subsequently.  To each his own!

Now we get to the second shoe, the MONEY SHOE my friends! Made a decision after the last shoe to play banker side only and cover the 4 side bets, most every hand. $50 on the Fortune 7, $40-$80 on Panda 8 and varying amounts on the Heavenly 9s and the 7s.

My reasoning was, nothing really except 1 Panda 8 and the few 3 card 9s in the previous shoe. It's coming. My experience, my belief and my GUT at the table I was sitting at.

First hand Natural Eight Bankers over seven for players. Then player and lose, then I win the 3 card player 9, even though I was on the banker and I lost that bet, so about even, maybe win a little total on the hand. Then lose the next hand. Hand 5 was a beautiful 3 Card 7-7 tie as you can see the picture of it in the Bead Plate shown and I had a quarter on the side bet at 200:1. Players had 10/A, bankers had 10/5 and players flop a 6 on the A. The bankers high wagering hand gets the card and peaks. Announcing it was a 1 line card. Turns it vertical and peels it. Announces it is a two or a three. Yeah I feel it. It's a long long peel. And finally a 2 is flopped with several standing and clapping for the 200:1 pay out.

Note the low ties 0-1-2-3 as I always talk about.  What a great proven clue!  2 ties in the first 23 hands.

Lost two out of three players that followed. Won a couple of the bankers. Lost a player. Won a banker and then the first Fortune 7 came out. Again beautiful! Players had a 10/5 and banker had a F/A. Player flops a 5 and I get the card for the banker. Three sided and I peeled back a 6. Got the Fortune 7 with $50 wagered and the dragon bonus for the 7 to 0 banker win as well for and additional 6:1 payout on that side bet.

Next hand was a P6 and B7 win. Then another F7 with first two player cards being a 7/3 and then a 10/4 for the bankers. Player flops a 6 and I get the card for the bankers side. It's a one line card! Turn vertical and peel it back and we have another fortune seven as I slam down a 3.

Cuts to the player and I got the 3 card P9, but lose the bankers bet I had and the other side wagers. Lose next three wagers out there. Win a bankers hand and lose the following player.

Then a mini run of 6B happens with 2 full parlays and 3 full win pull downs before falling off and I win a nice 3 card 9 also!!

Now the win profits are piling up!  Then cuts to P and I lost one. Next P was a Panda-8. See the picture I'm posting. I cut from $80 down to $40 on the Panda 8 bet.  Still won after losing the other wagers, which is making me feel pretty darn good. And that's what counts as I'm covering all my losses easily and keeping most all of my wins.  And for me, that spells large profits with no stress!

BTW, everyone was on bankers with no one wagering on players or the Panda 8.  I was the only one.  I snapped the picture just as he was getting the 10 black chips for my win payout. It's very hard at that property to take pictures of the table. Most of the time they allow me to take them of the scoreboard, but the table is definitely off-limits.  I try to sneak one or two once in a while like this one I took.

I won 3 bankers and lost the following players but won the next Panda 8 with $80 on it. What is not shown is the next 7-8 hands or so. Another Panda 8 came out and another Fortune 7. One more time with a two card 7-7 both sides tie paying 50:1.

Reference 2nd Shoe.

First hand beautiful B natural.

5th hand was that 200:1 3 Card 7-7 tie, within the 6P mini streak.

4Bs with the beautiful 2 Fortune 7s, see explanation above. Followed by a matching 4Ps.

6Bs with a 3 Card 9.

2Ps shown side by side on the Bead Plate (the top road).

Not shown.  Another P8, the 3rd one and it too was adjacent side by side to the other 2 shown.  Few hands later was the 3rd Fortune 7. 2 hands later was beautiful 3 Card 9-9 tie for a 75:1 pay out.  The very next hand was a 2 card 7-7 tie fir a 50:1 payout.

Finished session/trip around hand 50.

Yes anything and everything happens at the baccarat table! From the cards presenting unbelievable patterns, to the dealers off-the-wall attitudes and responses, to the floor personnel's supervisor lackadaisical actions or super strict compliance, to the people playing of all races and bank-rolls, to those watching the game with their out loud inquisitive comments, juggled with all kinds of emotions and responses.

Music. Some music fits in excellent for the bac table. Such as Stealers Wheel, 'Stuck in the middle with you', you know the song, that famous line so friggen perfect for the bac table  "Clowns to the left of me jokers to the right". And Pink Floyd's 'Money', you know that song too, "money it's a gas, grab that cash with both hands and make a stash". And the Dave Matthews Band, 'Burning down the house', you know that song also, "watch out you might get what your after, I'm an ordinary guy burning down the house ".  Oh yeah, let's not forget about KC and the Sunshine Band, 'That's the way I like it', so well-known, "That's the way uh-huh, uh-huh I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh I like it", the perfect repetitive lyrics for those wins after wins after wins, stacking up the chips! 

Dealers.  Although the shoe is either the real friend or the enemy of each person's session, there has to be a dealer to pull the cards and either swipe your chips away or pay you what you won. Dealers are usually the heartbeat of the game, some run a tight ship counting down the seconds until they smack the felt several times with the palm of their hand, signifying no more bets and yet others allow the players to run the schedule and how the game is actually played out. As well, certain dealers are all smiles and googly eyes, while others are as tight as a military drill sergeant on a Monday morning during basic training. When you become friends with a dealer as a regular player, you see a lot of the coldness suddenly goes away and then it becomes a much different game for many of us.

Floor Personnel.  From Floor Person to Pit Supervisor, to Floor Supervisor, to Table Games Managers, they all exist to keep law and order in the land of the unknown, the casino. While all the Floor Personnel of varying titles have basically the same goal, which is to run the games and take care of player's records and requests. The difference in personnel is there attire and their attitudes. From the, "do I really have to wear a tie and real shoes", to "I take extreme pride in my Sharp Dressed Man look". They stand there with their arms crossed, eyes locked on games, watching larger wagers and settling disputes while keeping the peace, they also stand there propped up against the podiums or a table waiting impatiently for their break time while either snickering at a dispute or laughing at the players fighting amongst themselves.

Players.  Some occupy seats with eye piercing thought, waiting for their prime trigger to wager a minimum table wager. Others wager thousands of dollars per hand with the precision of engaging in their grandma's secret cooking recipes. And of course, there is usually one or two standing behind all the seated players. They are usually passing their chips between their two hands making as much noise as possible by the clacking of their chips, up and down or back and forth. Those standing will usually wager quite infrequently, after several comments about why something should/has to happen and of course they place their wager right after pointing to that 'certain' something on the scoreboard. If their wager won, they usually once again point to whatever it was on the scoreboard that was an absolute certainty for an easy win. And if they lost the wager, they usually just go back to studying the scoreboard and not saying anything. Usually this happens more often than not.  Let's not forget about the newer player attempting to get a comp, that really doesn't have enough time or rating in to get some kind of small comp for a $20 or a $30 meal.  He is continually told that he needs additional play time.  Meanwhile he is risking well past the meal cost many times over. Never understood that but just to speed up the game I have witnessed a few times especially when a table was extremely hot, seeing a green chip or two tossed by other players to the person requesting the comp in order to get him to exit the game.

Watching The Game.  And finally those just watching the game.  Their out loud inquisitive comments such as how did two face cards lose to only a 5 and a 4?  Or how come the players do not draw additional cards? And at Midi/Macau games, why are the players totally vandalizing the cards?

Caesars executives apologize for doing business with illegal bookmaker.  By, Buck Wargo, CDC Gaming.

Saying they didn't do enough to stop doing business with an illegal bookmaker, Caesars Entertainment executives apologized profusely and accepted responsibility for their failure before the Nevada Gaming Commission Thursday.

https://cdcgaming.com/caesars-executives-apologize-for-doing-business-with-illegal-bookmaker/