SPOT ON!

This post of yours is truly classic, years of experience
conveyed in a hundred letters, I felt every word of it.

Anyone reading this who is still unaware, this is your wake-up call!
Thank you for sharing gr8player.

Quote from: gr8player on July 23, 2016, 02:15:34 PM
If you're unaware of my philosophies regarding this game, I am compelled to inform you that I have been espousing the very necessity of Patience and Discipline and Consistency and Conservative win goals/loss limits combined with our Player's Edges (of which "no-betting" is a major part) for years and years on these very forums.  So, with me at least, you're "preaching to the choir".  And I should inform you....it's a darn good choir.  It's a group of players that know exactly what it takes to get the better of this game over the long run; and then, just as importantly, have the tools (yes, the discipline included therein) to put it into action each and every session they play.

gr8player thank you for the kind comments.

I wish I had not started the journey, though I am relieved I will never ever get worse going forward, owing to the acquired discipline.
The experience gained is my guiding principle for the long and winding road ahead. Our journey never ends.

Just by reading your comment above I do feel we are on the same axis if I may say,
Please, I would like to know how did you come to that conclusion/philosophies that seems very close to mine. When was the point of that realization? How would a certain session of yours be on a very bad day?

Thanks and regards,

Mark, I am sharing my experience in this forum, I don't need to sell anything
or anything for gain for that matter. I received a PM just now, being asked
how and what my bet selection is, and this was my reply: (Name withheld)

Hi *****,

First off,  I regret to tell you that there is no system that consistently works against all the combinations that a shoe produce, simply put, there is no "one size fits all" kind of a system that can truly consistently beat or even make a dent on the casino.

As to my bet selection or bet placement as others call it, it is more of a dynamic approach to a given scenario in the actual play the shoe is showing, be it chops, streaks, repeats, trend or anti-trend. I have somehow learned thru experience to adapt to those situations and try to time my bets. Timing is everything, if I don't understand or can't get hold of what the shoe is doing in front of me, I simply sit-out or employ the no-bet mode, this will do you more good as oppose to trying to guess your bets hand after hand.

However the real reason If I may say, success in this endeavor, is my long term view and my level of contentment which is a 3-unit win minimum, however on good days and well-timed plays, a 6-unit win to a max of 12-unit win do come sometimes. I play 1 session a day with 12 units as session capital, win or lose.

Right now, where my comfort level (money I can afford to lose and not being stressed about it) is $200 base bet ($600 win daily take-home min.) with a session capital of $2,400 for the day. 1 session a day. win or lose.

On a month I play 24 days total with rest days in between, depending on my physical and mental/emotional state. I treat this like a regular job, short of making this my full-time profession, balancing with real life living Daddy/Husband duties.

As to the results, based on June 2016, It is 19Wins 5Losses with a net gain of $7,700. Not much to some but will do for me. This June the shortest time I got to reach my goal was in minutes with just 3 hands. The longest was 4 hours, my losing days were usually the longest.

I'm spending what I'm earning, just like a regular job's income covering my living expenses and some necessity purchases. I can if I want to level up my base bet to $500 for $1,500 take home, this would be nice, but I'm not on the comfort level yet, no matter how encouraging my past results were. I always remind myself, there is always a chance that I may run to a string of bad days, and would not like that on that level. I will come to that in time. As I look at this long term, and in long term view/play.. Timing is all but everything.

In Summary, the advice I can give to you is, the lower your win goals are and the shorter your time in the casino will be in a given day or session, the higher the chance of you getting some success and with consistent results. Real discipline is key.

Regards,
Bacchus

Thank you Gizmotron for the kind comments.

I must agree this happens all the time. Leaving the logic center of the mind or in "trance state" as I put it, is what we experience but unfortunately unaware of while on the heat of things. Sadly awareness and the realization only sets in or if at all most likely when damage has been done, or otherwise. 

Experience tells us, at least what it has done for me, is to remind me not to go astray from my  real world. When inside the casino, it detaches us from reality, the true value of money becomes less or becomes of no value at all, and this is just one example among the many.

Thank you for the warm welcome VLS.


Mark, I am glad to know that I'm not the only person
who uses such a conservative win goal. Wherein it really gets tougher
maintaining the mindset, control, patience and consistency for longer periods of days
And even months.
I have read here just recently someone who only brings 8 units
as a session capital, wherein he takes his unit wins, and ends his session
after those 8units comes to a loss, something close to that, perhaps that is the same
thread we read?

This is my 1st post, but I have been around reading most of the topics and comments and
decided to share a piece and that I hope someone will find something valuable in this.

I can genuinely say that I have been there done that from 15 years of playing in casinos for I have seen what I needed to see for me to learn and not do the same mistakes all over again.

I have used countless of systems from money management, bet selections, pre-game mental and physical conditioning and all the possible ways you can think of just to get a slight advantage. I've been into feeling like a King on a 15-day winning streak only to be smothered by the loss on the 16th day, bringing me back to the reality as the common man, giving back all my winnings, my bankroll and self-confidence to go with it.

To make this short on a very long subject, I am outlining below my experience on the PRACTICAL aspects of gambling, and how we can put this to our advantage. This is not a MM or bet selection story, but a reality one.

I play for a living! or as a stock market investor lingo I'm a LONG, not a SHORT (daily trader).

Yes you read that correctly. How? My answer to that friends is rather simple, Discipline.

Discipline is far the easiest to say but the hardest thing to do, most especially if you are
on a losing session, down a few units, half the session money or worse the entire bankroll.

Bankroll, money management, bet selection is never successful most of the time for the 99% of players because of the lack of discipline. Sure, I can easily control and stop my session whenever I have reached my profit goal, but how do I control myself while on the losing side or from going overboard and the risk of ruin? Discipline is the Holy Grail.

My discipline is my system sort to say as simple as choosing between betting on banker or player side, I don't need any mathematical equation. It is what it is, no system can beat the casino, but one thing I am sure of, a disciplined player can pinch a little share of that very huge pie (casino profits) gradually and steadily all year long or as long as your life or casinos exist.   

Before I elaborate on my discipline or how I morph to an ultra-disciplined being a while on play, I repeat a while on play as this is where we are grinded to, not before nor after, I am outlining below reminders for myself every time I visit the casino, or as I say the fantasy world. Where dreams come true, but nightmares are constant.
 

Mental, Emotional and Physical preparation. This is the 1st question I ask myself before I start any session, I have to be honest and know myself if I am worried, tired or stressed for the day.

Mental/emotional condition means more, this means you have to leave your problems or worries behind, if you can't help it well at least pretend for that moment that you don't have them. But if you can't still help it and you carry that all the time, never start that session.
The last thing you need is that distraction, as it is our biggest disadvantage. You already lost before you even start.

Physical condition, well that simply speaks for itself. Never play tired, sleepy or under the influence of liquor. Simple things like these when not taken to account, spells doom.

When you are not physically primed, just a game of baccarat especially that one shoe not going your way, easily drains you as fast as the kryptonite weakens superman. When that happens, discipline is more difficult to achieve. When you are tired and battered in a particular table/shoe, you go to an auto-pilot of self-destruction, more experienced players knows exactly what I am trying to say.

I would like to add more on how my preparations are and what I do before I start every session, how I look for my tables and so on and so on, However I need not to, I realized it is a matter of personal preference, each individual has his own approach to the baccarat game, as in the good old saying in boxing, styles makes fights.

Just to cut this short for now, and would probably add more in the days to come, here is how my session would start and look like. This is just me, and this is how I found success after the gazillions of failures so to speak. This is a matter of finding what works for you, what combo of MM and bet selection, bet size etc. that you are comfortable with and wherein you can be disciplined with.

Just for a quick history of mine, I was the aggressive type, I parlay up to the 3rd winning bet and regress back to base bet and re-start with a 1 level up base bet and so on, I flat bet every time a loss occurs then a parlays after a win. I was like this type of player for so long, I had good runs on this but failed as much. Then I went to a martingale 6 levels for only a short period, I have good runs of long winning days but only to be sacked by a couple of back to back losing days, this a double-edged sword in my view.

What I do now with much of success, I bring 12 units with me as a session capital, no ATM card, no more extra capital as feel brave stand-by mode fund  if you know what I mean, just the 12 units and my gas money or whatever. My win goal is 3 units using flat bet BUT when I see my bet selection is working perfectly abnormal for me which do occurs from time to time, I parlay 2 or 3 units max with a bonus win goal as I like to call it, of up to 6 units to a max of 12-unit win for the day, I don't push my luck too far beyond the 12-unit win, heck I am more than happy to reach my win goal of 3 units by betting flat. I only do 1 session a day and balance my activities with everything else that is normal in life.

All the above that I do or my playing preference probably does not go along with yours, what matters to me is that I find contentment on a 3 unit win and a possible loss of 12 units in a day. Suppose that per unit is $100, I'm fine taking a $300 payday as when compared to the a real world job this is okay. I increase my unit value relative to my session capital and most importantly my comfort level. A comfort level is the unit value that you are prepared to lose on a particular day.   

This is my system and that is my discipline.