I write and mention 'weak', 'strong', increasing and reducing hands. I also mention winning hands with high payouts of Dragon Bonuses and other side bets.
I took the time to layout a small sample here of what I am referring to for ready reference to anyone interested for a visual explanation.
Why? Because I/We have found that triggers do certainly exist within Sections of shoes. Certainly wakes us up at the table and catches us with our eyes set to follow what is happening.
Pic 1). Weak hands. Player reduces, but wins, happens quite often. Banker fizzles out, can't survive, pulling the only card to lose, again happens more often than you would anticipate. Be alert for a strong player, showing in this scenario forthcoming, has to be confirmed by another hand of course, but a trigger nonetheless.
Pic 2). Same as Pic 1.
Pic 3). Same as PIC 1, stay the same and the other side occurs reductions.
Pic 4). Strong hand for banker. Three card 9 for banker win. Dragon bonus would be a 30:1 as well as a Heavily 9 for 10:1 payout.
Examples Continued.
Pic 1). Weak player side and strong banker side. 10:1 dragon bonus payment also.
Pic 2). weak player side and strong banker side. 40:1 fortune 7 bonus coupled with a 6:1 dragon bonus. Depending if a non commission table push on bankers, but with a commission table, banker also gets paid.
Pic 3). I am not a tie player at all. But, a 6 card tie to me has indications of non-clumping and chop forthcoming. Again must be confirmed, just something we watch for and is one of our advantages that has paid off.
Pic 4). Weak player and strong banker. Numerous cards banker would have won or lost, however, player received the card that made banker a great wager especially with the side bets. A 3 card 9-0. Banker bet wins, dragon bonus 30:1 and Heavenly 9s 10:1.
Example.
Player side Panda 8, a.k.a. Golden Frog. Banker side weak. Player bet wins, Panda 8 pays 25:1 and dragon bonus pays 10:1. If betting side bets and you were on the banker, you would most likely recoup lost money and still come out ahead. If betting player side and side bets, it would really get you into the profit zone.
We were hitting a banker strong shoe last week. But a few of us were wagering $75 on both sides Dragon Bonuses, as well as $80 on the Panda 8. It hit a couple times as you see in the example below within about 8-10 hands. That $2,000 on the P8 and the $750 on the Dragon really made up for the few losing banker wagers we incurred. Even without the P8 hitting, we were still hitting quite a few player side dragons when were losing on the banker. Sometimes covering the loss and other times almost covering but not totally. Kinda 'insurance' to a few of us.
Just some visual examples.