The other night we had an absolutely great session with two shoes as explained in post number 1510 in AsymBacGuy's thread. Click on link to read it.
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The three of us desiring to wind down the extreme hype we all had, discuss the events and eat some great food went to an off-property fantastic steakhouse.
What we had: 20 ounce T-bone. Prime rib with a great horseradish cream sauce. Huge porterhouse steak. Our plan was for each of us to split those. Sautéed mushrooms and garlic grilled Parm lemon asparagus. For dessert we ordered banana cream pie and chocolate mousse pie and a cheesecake with fresh raspberries with extra raspberries on the side. They are known for huge desserts which we knew we could split them amongst ourselves.
Summation of what we talked about: Great BAC players do not convince themselves they have a rock solid winning guarantee. Anything and everything can quickly fail and likewise anything and everything can quickly turn into great profitability.
A great BAC player knows when to quit, so they do not go broke and you have enough money for the next session.
A great BAC player will not take away his next chance, by refusing to walk away from the session that is not working. An extremely difficult decision to make and always unknown if it can change, because we tend to hold the past in our inner resistance as I have described in other writings on the board here.
But it involves admitting failure if we walk away while losing money. That is almost too hard to do for most all of us. Most of us can't even imagine walking away while we're losing unless we bust our entire buy-in amount without re-buying in and attempting to recoup. And that my friends is what, at least our group now recognizes and pledged not to fall prey to as a protocol.
Countless fantastic BAC players talk a good game, a good plan as well as having excellent triggers, but if you cannot execute them for whatever reasons, you are going to lose each and every time.
We talked about it and discussed in detail the absolute necessity of being totally in conscious and that is fully 100% conscious while playing; being resilient as well as recognizing and being conscious of our inner habits that we all have. I've written about those on the forum here as I have mentioned in other writings on the forum.
The last thing that we discussed was not taking a view of 'in totality' when playing a shoe. We all agreed on recognizing 'Sections' and having some sort of blinders on to the left and right sides of each 'Section' of the shoe.
What we did after dinner and desserts: We shared a fantastic bottle of Hennessy XO Cognac, along with side dishes of fresh grapes, sliced pears and beautifully smoked and sea salted herring. We then recalled the comical events and situations of our side bets that most all of us continued to hit including in detail the back-to-back Fortune 7s and the back-to-back Panda 8s. My two BAC buddies mimicked me with the details of the back-to-back F7 $1,900 dealer tip I had the lady fall prey to, as well as the waitress sprinkling her magical dust on the cards for the back-to-back P8 and the players side dragon bonus 8-0.
Our bill came to just under $1,100 but it was well worth the $450.00 each we tossed in!
The laughter, the camaraderie and the experience of live table 'anything goes' baccarat, priceless to the hundredth degree!