Like my man Ron White says, "you cannot fix stupid!". This guy has to be the ultra stupidity of all idiotic F***ing people.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-bQ2qwjsM


And like my man says:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UQv7Tr8HbGE&pp=ygUecm9uIHdoaXRlIHlvdSBjYW4ndCBmaXggc3R1cGlk

Here is a very detailed outline of what is happening.  It affects all California card rooms with card games.

https://capitolweekly.net/cardrooms-file-legal-challenge-to-new-gaming-regulations/

Here are the changes effective April 1st, 2026.

On February 6, 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that the Office of Administrative Law approved two long pending California Department of Justice regulations governing cardroom operations. The regulations were finalized without substantive revision and will take effect on April 1, 2026. This marks a significant shift in how cardrooms may lawfully operate their most popular games.

https://www.womblebonddickinson.com/us/insights/alerts/california-cardrooms-face-major-operational-shift-following-doj-rule-approval

The other night, a show following our fantastic and off the wall, abundance of winning side bets.

Equalization.
Heavy 3rd Card Increases and Reductions.
Naturals Cut.
Sections Following.

35 Bankers
36 Players
4 Ties
75 Total Hands

Sides:
2 P8s
2 F7s
1–3 Card 9-9 Heavenly 9s
1 Blazen 7s 2 Card 7-7 Tie
11–3 Card 9s Heavenly 9s
45–Dragon Bonues 4:1 to 30:1 Payouts


Will post later how we played it and some reasoning as to why.

7 iar P
1 B
7 iar P
1 Tie
2 B
1 P
1 B
2 P
1 B
2 P
3 B
1 P
1 Tie
2 B
2 P
2 B
2 P
1 B
1 P
1 B
1 P
1 B
1 P
3 B
5 P
4 B
2 Ties iar (1 3 card 9-9 & 1 Nat 8-8)
1 P
1 B
1 P
1 B
1 P
6 B
1 P
5 B

My friend keeps notes on most all shoes as to the card values. I will call him and see if he has these.  Especially to figure out what the Dragon Bonuses paid out.

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.

https://betselection.cc/index.php?topic=10695.msg73464;topicseen#msg73464

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!

Kungfubac wrote in the above post:  "I play with a man that plays similar to Alrelax (I perceive). Though I've never played with or met alrelax. So just from what he posts/my perception(I may be incorrect).

This fellow bac mate doesn't cover ALL the bonus bets at once. However, he wagers on one or two bonus bets once thewy have been triggered,  at the same time, along with a base bet(P or B). He is very disciplined and presses back and forth with winnings from either (bonus bets--base bets) and always bets a little more on whatever just hit(P,B, Panda8,Fortune7,...etc). In other words he tries to use the just-won monies to feed larger wagers."

Here is a shoe from a couple of nights ago, worth almost $20k in conservative side bets wagered, but both sides (P and B side bets) and pretty much consistently.

The following sides the shoe produced:

4th hand was a beautiful 3 card 9-9 Tie for Heavenly 9s, 75:1

4 Panda 8s
3 Fortune 7s
8 3 card 9s for Heavenly 9s
1 3 card 9-9 tie Heavenly 9 75:1
4 3 card 9-0 dragon bonuses 30:1
2 fortune 7 back-to-back
2 panda 8s back-to-back

At least 10 wins by 7 points for dragon bonuses
At least 8 wins by 8 points for dragon bonuses

After hitting the 3 card 9-9 tie on the 4th hand for a Quarter, I allocated that win to side bets.  And boy, did it pay off!

Reference the back to back F7 and the back to back P8s:

Hand 26.  The second back to back F7 was great.  Whole table on bankers.  Couple others were on the first one.  I covered the 2nd one and forced someone else I play regularly with to covered it.  She didn't want to.  I put $50.00 on the rail in front of her and told her, no F7 you are whole.  F7 you give the dealer $1,900 and you keep $100.00 profit.  She laughs, dealer laughs and smiles, floor person says, "Glen with his drama again"!  Okay, players have a 5 and bankers have a total of 6.  She says, "see I told your A**", I look at the dealer and say we need a 6/7 for the players.  4 or 5 people stand and do the 6-7 thing with their hands jumping up and down.  Floor person says, "no drama like Glen".  Dealer flips a 6 for the players.  I stand and yell out, Ace Baby, Ace Baby, Ace Baby!  Dealer's hand is shaking a bit.  Floor person crosses his arms and says, "no friggen way, it ain't going to happen"!  I say, "it ain't over until it's over".  Dealer flips a darn Ace!!!  FORTUNE 7!  I don't think the dealer recognized that the floor person was standing right there.  Dealer yells out, "FLOOR!".  I yell out, dealer going to drop $1,900 for the boys!  Nearby dealers are clapping.  Floor person says, "this kind of drama really only happens when Glen is here".  We all make fun of the lady who made $100.00 on her $50.00 F7 wager telling her she wouldn't even have made that if she didn't listen to me!  Another person shouts out, "your the first to profit only a hundred dollars on a $50.00 F7 wager that won".  It was great!

Hand 25.  Oh yeah I forgot, I snapped a quick pic of the first F7 in the above described back to back fun drama event.  It was a three card 6/7 F7 which was celebrated with several standing doing that 6/7 thing!  In case you are saying I'm bull sh**ing everyone, I got a pic.  It was classic!  I'm posting the pic below the scoreboard picture of this one.  Flopping a 6 of hearts for the players third card and then a 7 of hearts for the bankers.  Love it.  I also won by 6 for a dragon bonus payout of 4:1 for a few hundred.  I took that payout down before sneaking the picture. 

Here's what happened on the back to back P8:

Ok onward with the Panda 8 back to back event to finalize here.

Although P8 came while bank already made 7 repeats in a row, I won all those with two full parlays and pulling down each win.  Easy and non stressful wagering!  Had a few hundred on banker as my basic base wager and maximum on the player Dragon Bonus and P8. Player had a 2 and bankers had a 7 on those first two cards. Player flops a 6. P 8 and the first P8 of the back to back came about. I switched to players with near table Max and of course a P8, F7 and the dragon Bonus with $50 on each side, B and P.

Several people hit the P8 on hand  53. I set up for a heavy players hand and several commented. Couple asked me reference my thoughts about a back to back P8. Told them, I'm done teaching you guys how to play the Sidebets. Lots of laughs.

The lady with the $1,900 forced dealers tip to my right side on the previous back to back F7, copies my wagering. We fist bumped each other for that show of camaraderie.

Through 2 quarters up on empty P8 spaces for the dealer. My favorite cocktail waitress was just passing by as the cards were pulled out and flipped over. Two face cards for players and a 8 and a 2 for the bankers. I tell The dealer pull the players card and do not flip it over. I put $100 off to the side and tell the waitress, if we get a P8 it's yours. If we get a three card 9-0 it's yours also. Told the waitress reach in there and sprinkle some magical dust on top of that card so we get a snowman. Everyone is laughing of course. Good fun. She does and the flop produces a beautiful snowman, 8 card.

Dealer slides the bankers third card out and once again I told her wait a second please. Told the waitress once again, sprinkle more of your magical dust for a monkey so we also can get an 8-0 for a 10:1 dragon bonus win. Waitress does her thing again with several reciting, don't kill that panda with a nine card. Others just calling for a monkey of course.

Dealer flops the card and it was a monkey card! Players win the base bet, a P8 win and a 10:1 dragon bonus win. Fantastic! Comical but serious fun and serious high profiting payouts!

Yell out once again, dealer dropping $1,250 for the boys! I gave the waitress a $200 tip, all smiles from her! This is one for the memory book and it will be cherished. 

I stress again I do not play the game for Sidebets only and expect side bets to always win. And I allocate money from previous wins as well as part of my risk capital for Wagering Sidebets. I do not wager only one side for the side bets, meaning placing side bets only on the B or P side. I usually wager both sides. As well, the dragon bonuses have been very good to me because they will generally pay off enough to cover the other side bets if they lose or nearly what I lost on the other side bets.

Yes, these shoes do not come along every session, but like everything else in bac at the live tables, when it's there, it's there. I love those high paying, quick profitable side bets that pay handsomely!

Quote from: KungFuBac on March 25, 2026, 04:56:37 AMI travel and play with two Bac dealers. I frequently ask them et al dealers: How do the most consistent winner(& losers) play?

    The consensus response is always something to the nature of : don't bet side wagers, money management, and press into an identifiable event. Always reset back to your base bet and do NOT ever chase with a martingale type betting regime.
Two of these dealers dealt in the high-limit rooms in vegas for nine years. They said some of the least-skilled players are also the largest-buyin players. Usually the largest buyins are from players that don't make their full time employment from the tables. Often business owners that can replenish the bankroll from other non-gaming sources.,...etc. So they can bet bonus bets, chase with a martingale,...etc.
   

Continued Success,

   

I agree on a general point.  Especially if one (pro or very experienced) plays consistently and a great amount of shoes. 

However I have developed an allocation of MMM from winnings, a portion of my risk capital and certain winnings go into my wagering ammunition for the side betting.  I have certain parameters I follow, especially in the beginning of shoes. 

My overall 'hit' ratio has been 3 successful out of 4/5 sessions with a considerable amount of side bets hit as shown in my pictures with 3-5 sizable side bets won for the one or two shoes I play in a session.  And, those 3 successful side bet session hits produce way more profits than the 1-2 sessions I failed to cover my side betting investment allocations. 

I do not play anywhere near the amount of shoes you guys are playing these days.  So maybe that is a factor? 

In my MMM I do have rock solid resetting and pos progressive winning protocols, etc., etc.  My 'Sections' and '1/3-1/3-1/3' are my other two advantages serving me extremely well over the long run. 

Thanks, Alrelax

As they said, "It was an audacious scheme and brilliantly executed. But the group made one fatal mistake: they came back for more. Two days later, they returned to Swiss Casinos Zurich to play punto banco again — and this time the police were waiting."

Greed will ALWAYS GET THEM.  I am remembering the Tran Gang (complex well executed baccarat USA scheme performed numerous times), greed, greed and more greed.

One doesn't realize, casinos send emails and video footage to their peers of scams, schemes and strange appearing 'things'.

Quote from: AsymBacGuy on March 23, 2026, 02:40:17 AMYep.
 
It's 1 billion % certain that itlr any progression in the world can't overcome a negative edge, otherwise the claimer would be hired by MIT or by NASA and getting payed millions of bucks without betting (so risking) any dime at bac tables.

The only way to verify a possible advantage at a negative edge proposition is to show a strategy capable to provide an ascending profits line by flat betting and the only way to do that is by theorizing a possible unrandomness of the production and/or to demonstrate that card distributions are affected by "limits" shifting at some points the results by values overcoming the HE.

If a given flat betting strategy sucks, the same strategy applied by any kind of progression sucks even more.

as.

Everything sucks if it loses.  However, it the wager won it was great, flat wagering and even more so, positive progression wagering.  The same amount of negative HE exists for the player no matter what type of wager he chooses to employ.

I am a strong, aggressive positive progression wagerer.  However, my progression is almost always from select (and I stress select) winnings, not attempted recouping or negative Martingales, etc., etc.  My MMM controls my winnings and assures me I cannot lose all my session winnings if I follow my MMM.

My only downfall is obeying my MMM and cutting my sessions at magical times while winning or worst scenario, after getting back even. 

You wrote: "Probably those who constantly win have learned to think that the HE is the least problem to face, yet we don't know a single successful player confiding that his/her main profit comes out from wagering the side bets."

And you are absolutely correct.  But side bets do appear frequently, not rarely in the 5 Treasures game.  I have done and do well with wagering 3-4 sides at a time.  But the main source of winnings will always be the base B/P wager.

Good article about the Trump casinos back a few years.  Explains in brief reference their money activities. 

The Trump Taj Mahal casino broke anti-money laundering rules 106 times in its first year and a half of operation in the early 1990s, according to the IRS in a 1998 settlement agreement.

It's a bit of forgotten history that's buried in federal records held by an investigative unit of the Treasury Department, records that congressional committees investigating Trump's ties to Russia have obtained access to, CNN has learned.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/politics/trump-taj-mahal

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And here is just one example I'm not gonna go too much into detail because of the responses are next to nothing from all the readers.

So, I'm gonna save most of my pictures but I just want to bring out a point and here is a perfect example of almost all naturals cut. What a friggin trigger to make a quick 10K!  Simple, period.

Lots more tricks of the trade but with the readership not engaging, I'm going to hold back many more pictures I got from the last few weeks of play.  And I do have lots more pictures of actual score boards and table tops with the wagers, but the effort and the time to edit and post I feel is just a waste at this point.

DON'T FOLLOW THE NORM.....BE DIFFERENT!

Tools for the mind are truly unlimited. Research-learn-absorb-discuss-practice.

No matter what you think, you have to think outside of the 'NORM'.

It is not what a computer can do.
It is not what a product or system can do.
It is not what stats or their results prove or show can or cannot be done.

Because, you are going to be wagering on a limited number of hands per session. 

It is solely dependent upon you to go around the walls that project themselves because of the history that allow them to stand without challenge and strange belief by assuming those are correct and can be easily applied. They cannot, never in any way, shape or form, no matter the twists you believe will make them work with uniformity and consistency.

You cannot with the minimal amount of effort succeed by applying a simple trigger when you see the 'point' coming. It will not work. It never has and never will. Why? Because your effort is without true knowledge and experience. And you need both to make it past the countless hurdles that will present themselves. Once you realize that, you've learned more than the average player playing for years and years.

50% means nothing, zero, zip!  Instant time, no advantage. Carryover to wait, also means nothing. Math stats and obvious happening patterns/trends means nothing past the current hand or two or several that just happened. Don't fall in the same rut most all players do, losing 5-7-9 or more hands to win just a few.

With the game you can certainly get a complete shoe of the obvious. Meaning, 1s, 2s and 3s, combinations of chops and every repeating three or four, cuts to the opposite side. But when you see it and don't wager for it, wait a bit, it's too late. Does not continue. Hence sections/turning points.

"The Perfect Expected Results". What so many fail to realize or do not want to realize is, what is actually happening.  Again, WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING. Which is, A Section Vs. Redundancy that results in fallacy.  A downfall that will eat your bank roll with fierce hunger.

The truth is success does not come by accident. It comes from consistent hard work in pursuit of a dream. It comes from passion that drives you and it will also come from consistently and diligently employing some key habits that position you for greatness.  This success comes from an innate desire to win. Gambling is by far the hardest and most toughest profession out there!  Do you know why? Because it involves you controlling your emotions. And it involves controlling your thoughts when you're in the zone and you're down financially. Do you have the patience and skill to keep it together mentally when you're losing so much on the table? Can you walk away and come back the next day, just as strong and win twice the amount? See, when you lose your mind, you lose your money! Big-time. Surely there must be a winning attitude and habitat that winners religiously apply right?  Is there?  I've considered this for a long long time. I've studied the great minds of the best gamblers out there, through books and other writings, because I was sick of losing my hard earned money! I was sick of cursing my luck and blaming others for my losses. The difference between you and Patrick Veitch or anyone else that has made millions from gambling is their state of mind. They think and do things differently, they have that winning attitude! Richness comes from the mind, not from the pockets!

Your success will be an extension of real knowledge and experience into the game of baccarat or whatever else you are playing to win.

My closing is this. Forge ahead and paint in vivid colors, not in black-and-white or in numbers.

Asym, as I highlighted in my summation, "how psychologically our brain functions play a much larger part of wagering and interpreting the baccarat shoe and its presentments than most can ever imagine."

This IMO is the underlying reason the highest majority of bac players lose or give back their winnings in pursuit of greater immediate winnings. 

One must (MUST) understand with a deep, clear, conscious thought of their ingrained psychological habits I outlined above and then be able to combat those with perfect clearity at the the table. NOT an easy thing to do,  but hey-winning money is the same as hard work.  NOT EASY.  If it all was, the games would not be there, the casinos would not be there, and so on. 

People are lazy.  People want to read a few forums, watch a few imbecile crazy fallacy YouTuber's, grab a few hundred dollars, believe there are guaranteed triggers and hit the casino. They have some off-the-wall fallacy about turning that into thousands and repeatedly doing the same, session after session after session. 

As I have admitted, I believe you have also () and others have on this forum, "Not a surprise knowing that 100% of keen bac players have lost their a$$es at the tables."  100% HONEST AND SPOT-ON, high five my friend. 

As well, by my writings I have gained numerous advantages, learned countless things I was doing wrong and improved my psychological aspects of play.  One of those that I accomplished was a conscious ability to employ positive progression while interfacing each hand along with acknowledging those 3 habits and my Money Management Method.