I think it is an important part of gambling to feel good. 

Make yourself feel good, positive and motivated.
Don't fall into the rut of emotional 'misdoing'.
Reasoning and emotions play a vital part of being able to think clear and lead yourself to the win.
Why the risk?  Give yourself a tangible purpose you can convert to your advantage.

Stuffing money into your pocket only to re-spend it later on additional buy-ins is going to lead you to that proverbial 'rut' you don't want to find yourself in.  If you don't know what I am referring to, you have not gambled enough. Wait a while and in a few years come back and re-read this again.

Like I did last weekend, I won and I ran out and took care of some bills that were going to have to be paid anyway in the upcoming weeks.  I bought my kid some toys and 'happy' stuff.  Bought some extra work clothes for the office, etc., etc.  Gave the wife and extra $450 'lucky money', etc.

Went back to the casino, win-lose or draw, I had that feeling of accomplishment already.  Before with the cash in my pocket, it would always be subjected to going for another buy-in.  I played different and with clear mind a bit more. 

Apply all the cycles and all the math you desire to the game of baccarat.  You cannot and will not win it in any given portion (and able to be repeated with an exact mathematical formula) based on that and certainly not in the proverbial 'long run'.

Unlike blackjack and poker where certain cards are unilaterally better and more advantageous to a player, it is not that way in baccarat.  Something the majority of you fail to realize or don't count in as a mathematical factor. Not when a 9 and a 3 gets beat by a 4 and a 5 on the other side.  Or when two 9's get beat by a 7 and a 2 or a 6 and 3, etc.  If you only played a short time, like a couple of years--you probably still don't understand this, but it is 100% spot on.

Because in the game of baccarat, one can win with high cards, low cards, zero value cards, and any one kind of card or card(s) can equally help or hurt a player on each and every hand.

Even knowing where the 8's and 9's does not matter because you would have to have other cards in proper order also, such as other 9's or face cards, etc.  Think what you want but there is no mathematical way to gain an advantage of baccarat. 

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.

I am talking about the normal flow of the cards and hands.  I am not referring to when there is huge/table wagering and table max wagers with players that have been playing the same table for hours.

I am talking about when a few players have been at the table for a shoe or a few shoes.  A couple of young kids sit down and throw in a quarter or two or even a hundred.  The players already there are wagering on the Players side and return say a 4.  The kids return a 5 on the Banker.  Then the kids yell for the players to flip a monkey or something to lose. 

No class.  None.  I can remember just a few years ago this would never happen in AC, CT or Vegas.  Seems like it might be a Midwest thing as I know it does not happen in the high limit pits in Vegas.

Likewise, I remember very clear if anyone was on the other side we would never say anything derogatory or verbally wishing for them to pull a losing card on their side.  Of course, if numerous players were wagering serious money and one person was at table min on the opposite side, we would hold up a couple of chips to pay them if they lost, etc. 

But I have definitely noticed the 'no class' thing here in the Midwest. 

In case you ever wondered why the face cards are slang named 'Monkeys', it is because back in Europe the royalty playing the game of baccarat would rightfully call for a 'Monarch Card' which of course the same as today possessed Kings and Queens on them, etc.

When the Asians started playing this game (long after the Europeans invented it) their attempted pronunciation of the word 'Monarch' came out as 'Monkey'.  The only sketchy part of the history is, if it  actually happened in Europe or Asia.

Regardless, that is how the face cards and eventually the 10 Pip cards became named in slang as "MONKEY".

And, as Paul Harvey used to say, "And now you know the rest of the story"!

Here you go, this is you, 100%, dedicated to you!  Especially the section at 3:55........................

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cDLZqe735k

Not that anyone would veer want to do it, but 30 losses in a row---is fairly easy, really,

First you get real frustrated playing baccarat, then you buy in a few times with the money you swore you would never ever buy back in with and you did.  When you are on you final bankroll for the trip/session, the first 5 wagers you will lose.  Then you see the other players winning (primarily Asians) so you choose to wager with them.  Of course the next 5 hands you lose also.  Then you go back to wagering your own choices which is primarily against them Asians and you once again lose the next 5 hands also.  You think once again, to wager with the Asians and you know better but you wager with them anyway.  And once again, you lose the next 5 hands in a row. Real frustrated and real pissed off, you choose to wager only tie or fortune to get some high payback wagers.  You just lost the last 5 hands as well.  Then you get really frustrated because you knew there was going to be a run and it was 5 straight Bankers all the Asian parlayed 4 times and won the 5th.  Now you think, I lost the last 25 in a row, I have to win.  All the Asians won the last 5, I will just go on the same side as them, but nope--I am too smart for that trap and I know they will lose if I do that.  So I will wager against them because they are all stacked up on the Banker and no way it can be 6 in a row, it has to cut. 

So you wager the next 5 against them and of Couse it made another 5 repeating Bankers and you lost the 30 hands in a row. 

Read it, it is baccarat players to the max!  If you have trouble reading or don't have the time, at least read the first section.  North of Spot-On!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Yes sir!  I read on the internet today about baccarat.  Play longer hours and win more units!  Okay, simple---in fact just what the casinos and all my casino hosts have been asking all along, play longer...................

In all of my years of playing I have came to the conclusion a few years back that, no amount will recover and make you whole and start your winning if you are on a losing streak.  I am not talking about a roller coaster of wins and loses, I am not talking about you are pushing and waiting for your chance, I am talking about pretty much straight and ugly losing.  It happens and happens all the time. 

Face it, many of you will not admit it or even think it, there are other factors unknown and that you cannot control that will ultimately determine if you win at baccarat.  This is not poker.  There are times you cannot win and will not, no matter what.  The smartest players recognize it and walk away and come back another day.  Others, many---will just keep changing money and keep trying.  Credit cards, reserve money, borrow, whatever, they get milked 100%. 

The sad part, is for people that do this all the time, the few times they do recover, they lost so much so many times by their continued buy-in's that it doesn't even make sense. 

I am not talking about the wins and losses from a buy-in, I am talking about the continued buy-in's once the initial BR is lost.  Losing time is losing time, no matter what. 

And BTW--I am not talking at all about, you go to the casino with $900 and you split your buy in into 3 times, twice more if you lose the first.  I am talking about losing your true buy-in and then believing you can re-coup it all and even win for the session.  The monies you continually buy-in with after you have lost that 'bankroll'. 

Someone pointed out to me the other day when we were discussing this, as to how the player once losing, and when he keeps buying in, his wagers are more risker and usually larger amounts.  He normally becomes more aggressive and reckless as well.  I would have to believe those sentiments from everything I have observed.  Might not be 100% but I would put the majority and the highest majority of the players at risk for doing just those things. 

FYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_NSRIEgR_c

Yes, it is reality.  For those of you never spending decades in casinos, for those of you not having casino industry management within your immediate family, for those of you so oblivious to winning a few bucks and saying---hey, I can do this professionally, here it is---a sample of what you can look forward to:

So go ahead and play all your spare cash as your BR and replenish as needed.  Go ahead and think the way you do.  The only (ONLY) way around it is with heavy discipline and ultra sincere conservatism.  If you think otherwise, you are a fool. 

Of course, you know all this---so DON'T read the attachment, really no need!
Of course, it won't and can't happen to you!
Of course, it won't ever happen to you!
Of course, you are the exception to the rule!
Of course, you are 100% excluded from anything similar to the attachment!
Of course, you have more assets than the casino, you can't go bankrupt!  No way!
Of course, you are knowledgeable and know every pitfall and downfall!
Of course............................................Like I said----'Of Course'.................

The house will always win ITLR, the house will always offer to pay you tons of cash for basically 'not--working', the house will always welcome you and treat you with the respect and admiration you so deserve, the house will always ...................................................

Oh darn, really don't even know why I am posting this, every single one of you are so intelligent and the gambling skills you possess are all second to none!  Guess I am a tad bit bored at work and thought I need some exercise for my fingers! 

I also forgot, how no one here ever really loses or spends more money in a casino than they planned to when they decided to go win some more money on their bankroll. 

http://www.encognitive.com/node/1130

What purpose does keeping your detailed score cards serve?  Are you going to seriously match up a certain card against one coming out?  Say if you have 20 times chop (true alternating singles) for 25 shoes, are you thinking that the chop came after a certain run or any of another dozen or two or three dozen possibilities that sent the shoe into a chop??  The list is endless of possibilities that might prelude or follow any one of the popular groupings/trends such as singles, doubles, 3's or 4's or runs/streaks, etc., etc., and so on..................

Are you really thinking you will capture and figure out what the prelude or encore to any groupings/trends/patterns is going to produce???   I hereby state----it cannot be done.

It is not going to happen, if it did or you could, score cards, score boards and unlimited note taking would be highly prohibitive in all casinos.

The one shoe you might figure out will be followed by hundreds if not thousands of other shoes that don't hold any reasoning's or comparisons worth a darn using your past charts and cards.

Sure there are the general patterns and trends out there in baccarat land, but the prelude and the encore to each one of them will prove inconsistent no matter how many cards you save and study. 

Keep all the stats you desire.  Go to the table and that short time you are there, if certain previous decisions repeated, they were random as well and although they might repeat like I said one time, the next hundred or so times the exact same pattern will be preluded by an entirely different set of decisions as its prelude and/or encore.  And the kicker is, those very few times the prelude or the encore was correct, 'as previously recorded'--according to your previous cards/stats, the times they will be wrong will outweigh those that were correct hundreds if not thousands fold. 

Exactly why the casino will supply all the scoring and note taking equipment one could ask for. 

I have no experience playing on-line and will not.  I have all my experience in B&M's around the USA.

I did talk to a couple of guys back in the early 2000's that were running on-line operations out of the Caribbean.  They had deceit all over them and everything they were about. 

I have seen all the bonuses and read very little, but some about the on-line operations, etc.  Without getting into the deep details, just wondering if anyone with experience would share their quick thoughts about the legitimacy and or otherwise?  Also, about all the bonuses, etc.  Just curious.

We were playing back in July and the dealer with his unintelligent shenanigans got us really pissed.  Hey, when your Italian and from the Bronx, getting chastised by a 20 something year old dealer that doesn't even know the rules of the game----oh well, some will understand it and most won't.  Hell, I reached over and picked up the shoe and throw it in the middle of the pit.  Everyone clapped and high fived, it was worth it.  Yes, of course the floor person jumped up and down and screamed, literally for security and came over and stood over me in my face.  Called him a punk fag and grabbed my crotch (god it felt like I was back in the Bronx)!  30 days time out. LOL, another one for the books. 

I don't do the whole social media game.  But gotta love this story about it.  A Bail Bonds Fugitive Recovery Company posts a wanted poster of a black male who is wanted for drug charges and skips bond.  Okay the bounty hunter (probably watching too much Dog The Bounty Hunter) bangs on the door of an address in Phoenix, Arizona that was supposed to be where the fugitive was hiding out.  The tip came into the bail bonds company through its advertisement on its Facebook Page.  Now, the only problem is the address the bounty hunter and his 10 person posse went to......was the Chief of Police of Phoenix's Police Dept.!!!  And to boot he is white.  Comes outside his house after the bounty hunter bangs on the door, etc.  They all wind up going to jail plus the bounty hunter is a felon as well.  I wish there was a video of that one.  Got to love it, call up the bond company and give them the chief of police home address. 

Quote from: Bayes on October 24, 2014, 11:24:08 AM


>>>>>>1) However, this objectivity is more apparent than actual. The definition of probability on this view is "The relative frequency of occurrence of an event after an infinite number of similar trials has occurred".


>>>>>>2)The second problem with relative frequencies is that they cannot apply to unique events.

Okay, I do read your 'stuff'.  But here.  Any system would have to have a 'trigger' NO?  And, any systems would have to have that trigger based on something, NO?  Which would have to be past events?? NO?  Although I am no Dr. Spock or Eisenstein, you are basing your decisions on past performance and what has happened.  Although, I will give you, that the other sides or possible numbers have to eventually come up, you are still predicating and that is without certainty.  And that is my point.  No better than 21 year old pimple face Joey from California blowing his $250.00 birthday present his daddy gave him. 

Next, someone will tell me there is absolute truth to Gypsy Fortune Tellers.   [smiley]aes/thinking.png[/smiley]

Within a post of the board--someone touched upon the game of Baccarat coming to Vegas from Cuba to the Sands Casino and Resort.  Well true and as the say-"Here's the rest of the story"........

I remember reading about that in the book, 'Fly on the Wall' by Dick Odessky.  Great book on history of Vegas and pretty easy reading for most.  Highly recommend it.  (however, there is no game strategy and systems to beat all the games so you might not be interested!)

Credit for the following to the author as cited above.

....."Baccarat and its direct ancestor chemin de fer were unknown in Las Vegas until 1953, when a Broadway actress made her nightclub debut at the Sands Hotel shortly after it opened.  A world traveler and gambler who'd fallen in love with baccarat in European casinos, Tallulah Bankhead was upset when she couldn't find the game offered anywhere in Las Vegas.

Between and after her shows at the Sands, she'd usually walk next door to Luigi's Restaurant to relax,  There was only problem: Luigi's had no casino.  Tallulah continuously badgered Luigi to open a few tables at which she could play--especially a baccarat table. 

When Talullah was angry, the world knew about it.  Her voice could be best described as a loud rusty foghorn.  Luigi and his family determined that it would be easier to bring the game and go into the gambling business than to offend the first lady of Broadway and her many friends, who had also become excellent customers.  Back then, about all it took to get a gambling license was filling out some forms and presenting a couple of people in town who would vouch for your honesty.

Thus, when Talullah returned for her repeat appearance at the Sands later in the year, a baccarat table had been installed in Luigi's lounge area.  True to her word, Talulluh played there, at very high stakes, every night.  Her fans and admires took to the game as well.

One of Bankhead's closest friends was actress Marlene Dietrich, who lived in Beverly Hill's and came to Las Vegas during Bankhead's appearances. (She eventually signed her own contract to headline in the resort showrooms.)  Dietrich, too, was a baccarat player.  Both women were at the height of their fame and Luigi's suddenly became the favorite watering hole for many high rollers, who enjoyed being in the company of the two famous actresses.

The Sands, whose bodies were always alert for an emerging high-roller trend, opened its own baccarat table.  As operators of the first casino to deal the game, the bosses forever patted themselves on the back for "discovering" it.".......................