Quote from: esoito on November 05, 2013, 10:46:21 PM
Welcome here!

And thanks for the link to your new forum.
Keep it clean and purposeful as this one is, and it should do well. 

Thanks!

QuoteWith a few exceptions, there is a gaping hole in the internet when it comes to decent baccarat forums. Here's hoping this new one will do well.  Good luck!!  AD

exactly what I was thinking. I noticed that baccaratforums dot com shut its doors. That site was real good back in the day, before it started going down hill. So I'm trying to plug that hole.


I also see some ways to create a better bac community so it doesn't fall apart.


For example, I created a reputation bankroll system. People can collect rep points for adding value to the forum. Your goal as a user is to grow your rep point bankroll.

If you post negative  stuff   [Moderator's Edit: instead, 'negative stuff' keeps within the forum rules about 4-letter words]   then you're going to get bad reps and bust out.

If you post good stuff then hopefully you can become a baccarat master. It should be fun, but it's also a good way to weed out the people who are full of it.


baccarat forums dot come also had a quality issue. I noticed that the forum became more about getting page views than anything else. The moderators should have stepped in at various times, but they did not. I guess that's what happened when you become focused on producing content so you rank for SEO reasons.


So I'm more concerned with balancing quality over quantity. And I'll be creating some measures to ensure that this happens.

We just launched a new baccarat community (11/5). It's called BaccaratLabs, and it's located at www.baccaratlabs.com. We are looking for fellow baccarat players to join.


It's free to join and it will be another great outlet to talk about the game.


http://baccaratlabs.com

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Flat betting can work if you do it the right way. There are 3 primary things that you need to be aware of when flat betting:


1. Bet Timing - This is how often you will be betting. Face it, in the long-run you are probably a loser. Everyone is. The more that you subject yourself to the casino, the more likely it is that you will lose. Therefore, when flat betting, it's important that you time your bets properly, and shoot for the hire strike rate on the trends that are actually appearing in the shoe.


2. Risk Management - This sort of piggy backs off of bet timing. Gambling is a risk. I don't care if you are card counting or playing that NOR system on the BTC forum. You are subjected to risk, no matter what you do. There is no way in hell that you can remove the risk..unless you cheat. And I don't suggest cheating.


So the best option that you have is risk management. You can't remove the risk, but what can you do to manage it? Play smarter, be patient, time your bets, bet less than 10% of the shoe..


3. Money Management - With flat betting it's even more important that you manage your money. It can be pretty hard to walk away from a shoe when you are +2 units, playing at $15 per hand.  But if you play at $100 a hand, a 2 unit win = $200 isn't so bad. If  you're playing $500 per hand, then a $1k net profit isn't so bad.


When flat betting, it's very important that you manage your money. Set your trailing stop wins, stop losses, and so on.




4. The x-factor - You.


I usually say that there are 3 keys to the game (see above), but there is also a 4th, and that's you.


The funny thing about flat betting is that people think it's easy compared to playing a progression. Anybody can sit there and throw piles of chips onto the table using a positive or negative progression. Sometimes it takes balls, but it isn't hard.


Flat betting is actually really hard because it's a test of your patience. The other day I was flat betting and I had a 90% strike rate, I finished around +18 in one shoe. But then the very next shoe I only bet 7 hands and I finished +1. If you can't master your emotions then there is no way that you will ever be successful flat betting, at least in the long run.


Just figured I would throw my 2 cents in..