Hi everyone. Long time no post so here goes something from me :-

1. Decisions made in Baccarat tournaments are made on a different basis as alluded to by Glen. Yes you have to keep an eye on your fellow gamers and see their bets and count their chips. I don?t normally participate in tournaments but once awhile I do. I remember in one tournament with a first prize money of > US$1 million, I was in the semi finals. Only the top guy in each table would qualify for the finals. Coming into the last hand (I think only 8 hands are played in the semi finals), the top guy was betting on Banker which was what I was going to bet on. But if Banker won, I would still not qualify, so I put my chips (there are limits) on Player. Player won! And I qualified for the finals. And got soundly trashed there 🤣🤣
2. I also understand Glen?s position on explaining his bet selections because in each shoe there are various other intangibles. The momentum of the game, the presence of a drunk moron losing his pants off, a player on a hot winning streak making a choice different from what you were thinking, the sub charts etc etc. So its quite difficult to explain versus supposedly more mechanical approaches. For me, while the bet selection process is more subjective, my approach is to try to make the bet amount decisions more mechanical. For sure, no negative Martingale.
Cheers guys! God bless.

By and large I like a quiet game in the past. These days I find it better to move around and look for tables with shoes playing out to my particular liking and idiosyncrasies. Which means moving arund in the main casino area of lower bets.

I do see the point that there is camaraderie especially in a ?hot? shoe of strong trends. It happens. And the fun of the group in cheering each other on and caling for 3 sides (6,7 or or a picture card. The negative point is the long wait in between hands when the casino is losing and making payments. So unless I am part of the camaraderie at the start and winning from the early stages, I don?t normally join in halfway. But yes it can multiply the casino losses and the group must be quick to move on when the trend changes. That said, from what I see it only happens when there is a strong trend. Have not seen camaraderie in a non trending random shoe for those who do not believe in trends.

Over drinks with a fellow baccarat player, we were discussing the small house edge the casino has in baccarat. Why should this small house edge be viewed to cause the game to be of negative expectationamd therefore unbeatable?

We agreed (maybe its the intoxication of the 15 year old Glenlivet or was it Glenmorangie Single Malt Whisky 🤷🏻‍♂️😂) that the house edge is a small price to pay for the privilege of:-
1) the casino providing all the services and facilities
2) allowing you the discretion to either make a bet or don't make a bet. Nobody forces you to place a bet. Its at your total discretion
3) allowing you the discretion to decide how much you want to bet subject to the upper and lower limit bets of the particular table. It could be from $10 to $500,000 at certain tables at Marina Bay Sands Singapore. But its totally up to you jow much you want to bet

The above should negate the house edge no? How many percentage points would that be worth? Yet stories abound of the many casualties of the game. Immaculate affliction.

Yes bro, bet amount will be frozen for 60 minutes if one loses 3 out of the last 4 times of the big bets which I term as Hot Phase Bet (HPB). I differentiate between HPB and UB (Unit Bet) which is allowed to determine the phases in the shoe.

Whether FTL or OTL, there will be times when each of the methods work like a dream and times when you will be taken to the slaughterhouse.

To my mind therefore, in this random game with periods of non random trends, the key to winning is in the Loss Management of your visit. Everybody wins at some point. When they start losing, they have to enforce strict discipline of Loss Management because the losses creep up on you. Win one lose two. Win two lose two. Win two lose three. Win one lose two. And soon the winnings and the capital are together decimated. Gizmo despite his professions of his ability to keep track of win/loss had his failings at this precise situation. Perhaps he has improved on it.  But in any case, my moot point is that Loss Management is the key. Not bet selection. But feel free to disagree.

I have found someone to work with me on my apps. Thank you for the interest shown. Kindest regards

I really only ever wanted to engage the services of a technical person who may be active in our forum.

Giz has taken over my intended specifications for MY intended app and I can tell you for sure what I had in mind is totally different from that conceived by the brilliant mind of Gizmotron. I really think Giz is a high intellect guy and only needs to apply that intelligence intelligently to be an overwhelming success. I wait with bated breath.

I have consistently acknowledged the publications of alrelax which to my mind reflects to a large extent the realities of the game. But there can be only one alrelax and no individual can have the same level of control or decision making as alrelax himself.

And again, the primary reason I posted was bcos I see the forum getting inactive with less and less postings. I may be wrong. And I really wanted this app which would reflect the rules of my intended book which some of you have had the privilege of reviewing.

The app will not record results to predict the next bet. My idea was to have a recording app to keep track of  numbers of w/l/t and based on certain w/l results will restrict your betting amount. History has not changed the Baccarat outcomes. People win all the time only to hand back the winnings when on a losing streak. The app aims to record and prompt the user about amounts that are allowed to be placed and in certain circumstances, will reject any bets. Of course the user can just ignore but subsequent results will not tally.

The casino is a team. If we act alone the HE will stack against us. For most of us who lack Glen?s self control, we need to gather assistance. I read somewhere of a professional gambler who pays 10% of his winnings to his accomplice manager whose job is to keep the money under control on losing runs. I was hopeful the app could go some way to help.

I had thought really, that this app I was looking to build, would be part of an experiment and a personal endeavour and I could easily find someone in my country to do so. I thought to put it on the betselection forum to see if it could generate any interest and discussion.

A separate thread went on incessantly about technology being the wrong approach et cetera etc. The tone was condescending and it left no room for disagreeing points of view. While generally correct about the game, the one moot point is that not everybody is moulded in the form of Glen. Nor do they want to be. And technology is to be utilised for our benefit and assistance. Some don't need it. Some need it. Desperately.

I wish to engage the services of a technical forum member who is an expert in developing a simple app for both Apple and Android if use is extended. But primarily for my own use to keep track of wins losses and provide guidelines on bet amounts based on bankroll capital n self input risk profile.

I wrote somewhere that the randomness of the game accentuated by certain periods of patterns would ensure that anybody at some point in their casino visit be making money based on their own bet selection preferences. But the key to walking out a winner is the ability to ride out the bad or Shar Chi period. It is my contention that loss management is the key to the holy grail. And I would like this small project to earn somebody here something even if it is small. Please PM me. Thank you and God bless

Merry Christmas everyone, happy holidays and may the new year bring you all that your heart desires! God bless.

Great presentation of the winning requirments. I think every one who has played Baccarat before would have won or up at some time or the other but to finally lose back and more. So really the most important criteria to emerging a winner is in the Loss Management strategy. How to curb losses or when to walk when on a losing run (Shar Chi in the Asian Feng Shui parlance)...

Glen, on the matter of your 1-3-2-6 bet strategy the 1x is how many percent of your session bankroll?

Just thinking that sometimes you write about a strategy as a matter of course but from the outside looking in certain key considerations are not discussed.

My 2 cebts worth. Thanks

Glen, I really admire your passion for the game and the time taken to share your experience with all of us. To all intents and purposes I would say what you have written applies aptly to the majority. I think given the diversity of the human populace, it is my humble suggestion that perhaps there is a tiny percentage of people who sees the game differently, are able to control their emotions differently and find it easy to deal with the many issues and problems you have correctly written about. But by and large, I agree with your eloquently presented articles.

Just like there are the minority of people who can be a Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckenberg, Bill Gates or Jack Ma

Good command of abusive offensive English. 🤪😂🤦🏻‍♀️  Entertaining if they know how to stop. Since they don't, I suppose the moderators did what needs to be done .. Takes all kinds to make this world