Quote from: AsymBacGuy on Yesterday at 05:29:12 PMNice job!

I almost never play slots but three reels machines are my favorites...

One thing I haven't understood: jackpot was at 30k why you would expect to get 90k?

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Because the reeks said "Triple Jackpot".

3 Times the $29,000 and change was the jackpot showing up top.

Yes I know, I never play slots.  But for some strange reason after cashing out after 2 great bac shoes, each with about 7 and 8, Panda 8s and Fortune 7s, I was leaving the casino and passing the high limit slot area.  I put a single $100.00 dollar bill into the machine and set it to $1.00.  Max spin was a total of $45.00. 

First spin was nothing.  I said to myself after watching the reels spin around, no wonder I don't play these unintelligent things.  Second spin of another $45.00, hit an even $200.00 pay. I was seriously going to stop and just use the $155.00 profit for gas, snacks and miscellaneous for a few days.  But, something inside of me said, just one more spin, so I did. 

I took the pic after the spin.  $900.00 win.  Yeah, nothing major but hey, $1,055.00 for watching unintelligent reels spin around and around.  My understanding is if the middle reel was another triple jackpot symbol, it would have been around $90,000 as the jack pot was right at $30,000.00.

Bottom line is the forum is dead and 99.99% of the people are as well.  The highest majority will never post. 

The rest that sign on either read or attempt to scam, phish, spam and install links for online gaming or other advertising that will drain members banks accounts and credit cards for nonexistent products or services. 

Thanks, but no thanks.  Like I said, I rather buy my kid a high yield CD or Bond for 10 years. 

I will refer all members and spammers over to The 'WizardofVegas' forum website.  Good site with 30 or so moderators that love new members!  Especially when you post links and create drama! 

Quote from: Albalaha on April 29, 2026, 03:54:46 PMDear Admin,
        It is always difficult to carry anything without much incentive and that made Victor sell forums after forum. There is no harm in keeping ads even from casinos with affiliate links if it can generate enough to spend on hosting etc. This place has memories of long time and associations. Some very worthy debates too. I wish it could last longer or forever, if possible.

Thanks for your feelings and because you are a long time member, I will answer.  My response is stated in post #2 above.  I cannot see it changing.  Thanks, Alrelax.

Quote from: Garnabby on April 29, 2026, 07:17:29 PMBest to build what lasts forever than what outlasts us.

These forums just never had a winner, in its true sense.

Totally makes sense.  If that was my feelings and beliefs, I sure wouldn't be a member reading and posting! 😉

Well in short IMO, the time, trouble and cost (although not huge I would gladly float but there just isn't the demand as I see it).  There is just a proven amount of too little interest, not your fault I understand. 

Virtually no participation, which when I weigh the pros and cons of everything, why continue?  Yes, we been down this road, but most everyone desires to watch YouTube these days to drown themselves with the fallacy and entertainment of a few hands here and there.  No one really is into any kind of detailed or experienced play, explanation of players decisions and outcomes, history of the casino/gambling industry, past stories, etc., etc.

There very well might be hundreds of members reading with great interest, but without input, responses and interaction, once again, why continue?  I even thought taking brick and mortar casino table pictures and posting them would be of interest.  But it did not.  I made quite a bit of profit and continually do so with varying BetSelection choices at the tables, and when I scan other forums they are rapidly discussing the search for guaranteed holy-grails by a continual specific type of wager, and discussing the application of long term statistics to a session of a few shoes.  ROMAL!  But that's what draws the discussion, not experienced play of any type whatsoever. 

Onward, with a bit of looking back.  I very well know the heavy participation of the forum here went away when I became the owner because I wouldn't put up with the high amount of one-liners, drama, name calling, degradation and attempts to rule a forum with drama, etc., etc.  We lost some great members to the name calling, the drama and related childish back and forth that went on.  Sad part is, those couple of dozen members went by the wayside and off the forum scene.

I really sat down and was ready to commit to the following, but.......... The end of last year I had plans with it all sketched out to install practice games of Mini, MIDI and 5 Treasures Bac, Blackjack and Roulette.  Along with a couple of other things.  But once again, (hate to be repetitive) I had to ask myself, why?  And the answer was clear.  Answer>>> Not enough demand or desire to warrant spending the cost for the custom development and maintenance of what it would take.

Personally, I admire you and a few others here, but the overall aspect of the entire aura of the whole forum, just doesn't justify the furtherance of it.  IMO and in reality.

I really do not desire to continue at this point.

I have locked most all topics and will continue to do so. 

The amount of participation amongst the readers are extremely minimal to trivial to non-existent.  So IMO it is not worth the expense, the time and the trouble involved to continue much longer at all.

The cost and trouble of maintaining this site is not worthy of much more time IMO. 

I profit absolutely nothing (Zero, Not One Penny) from the forum, no membership charges, no subscriptions, no advertising, no ad/banners/casino clickables.  I keep it safe and clean, etc., etc., etc.  Besides it really does take time and trouble to police it and squash the spammers and drama driven scum, et al.

Rather than spend about $1,000 a year, I rather buy my teen son a $10,000 high yield CD or Bond (9-13.5% easily) for the next 10 years.

Before the rumors fly.  Just FYI. 

It's been a good run, good luck to my few friends here.

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. 

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.

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.

Fantastic Detailed Vegas and Casino History.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6DxEP4diOk8&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

Some nights are just special.  There is a long continual argument on most of the forums that go back-and-forth for as long as I could remember. What I am referring to, is about the game being entitled pure guess work and luck and/or people executing their triggers with skill and applying a rock solid money management method to guide them. It is an endless argument that will never stop.

However, I still stick with executing triggers with skill (advantages) and applying a rock solid money management method to guide myself to advantages of wagering or not, and how to deal with the outcomes. But there is also that addendum which is, wagering for what is happening while it is happening. No matter what that might be and that is what throws the highest majority of all off.

So the last night of my play was super special. Highlighted without any trouble to remember whatsoever. For years, referring to those that were there will have no problem saying; "Remember when so-and-so was banging it out.", etc., etc., etc.

You know some nights are casino nights, where upon almost no one at the BAC tables win, at least much greater than their buy-in or perhaps, just a very small portion of their buy-in. Then there are those nights where the players just push their money back-and-forth, finally breaking even and emotionally drained, they finally leave. And finally there are those nights where the players dominate over the casino. All said and done, those nights that the players dominate everything has to fall in order.

Well, the other night was one of those nights that the players won and one big at that! Win, lose, or draw, I will remember this night forever in my most remarkable and memorable BAC sessions. Sure, I have had larger wins.  However the hands, the wagering, the camaraderie, the showmanship, it was all flawlessly there my friends for almost 2 whole shoes.

The session started off like most others.  Win a few, lose a few.  Half the players knew each other well and the others were either occasional or new players. It was about hand 10 or 11 halfway through the first section. There were a few chops with a couple of doubles, one more single, then there was a double banker followed by another double player. One of the occasional players I referred to, pushes in table max at 5K out of his approximate 10K buy-in. He is known to buy-in once and only once. A few times I saw him play in the past, he would wager about 20 hands in the shoe and usually $500-$1200 a hand if I remember correctly. He would occasionally bet larger for one or two bets. We were at a Midi/Macau style 5 Treasures BAC table.

He was on the banker side like almost everyone else was. The player returns a six. He gets the cards and flips a face card over. His second card was a four line and flips a nine over after the horizontal peak and the vertical peel. Leaves his 5K max wager up on the banker side. Most others increase their banker wager. One person on player with a very small wager.  The guy places $200 on the two card/three card Blazen 7s, $100 on the Heavenly nines and $200 on the F7 fortune.  Player returns a four and bank returns a five. Players third card was a seven and bankers card is slid over to the guy. He verbally says anything but a five and we're all agreeing with him of course. He turns the card vertically and starts the peel. Looks up and says we have a two or three. Peels it back and looks around and obviously desires some camaraderie for the fortune seven he is going to produce. Flips the two and high fives all the players with a fortune seven which we almost all had $100 or more on the F7 and he gets $8000 for his F7 wager rather than the 5k he had on the banker base bet.

A few more hands went by with two players that followed, and then back to back ties. We all counted those back to back ties as two banker, two player, two banker, two ties, but we agreed those two ties should have been two players. A few of us also had $200 on the Blazen 7s praying for the 200:1, three card 7-7 tie.  One of those ties was a two card 7-7 tie for 50:1 which was beautiful as well.  Yes maybe it's guessing, yes maybe it's superstition, yes maybe it's just feeding into the score board. I still have to entitle it as wagering with what's coming out and happening at the instant time.  Most pulled their banker base wager down and placed a new wager on player with smaller amounts, a couple pressed up on the player side. The guy talks to me, and I commented, both ties followed both bankers dominating the hand with extremely weak player valued cards. We both really loved a few bankers to come out at that point. (Out of the schedule and as we all know, nothing lasts in BAC) We had the ammunition from what the casino has already given us without any risk to our buy-ins and we were already passed our goal levels in my opinion. So it was just playing to keep winning is what I can describe it as. 

Well 7 IAR bankers came out on top of the previous 2 that continued after the back to back ties that was preceded by a double banker.  He did not just play it, he performed wagering successfully, pressed up and staying at table max naturally by the bucket load!  At numerous times, he was not a gambler, but a showman to the highest power. Flawlessly handling most hands out of the section that we were on. Looks around and obviously wants the camaraderie, that old school type, I got your back brother, just do it please.  Most of us were there with him and he obviously had the floor.  Most all of us were at table max wagering and a few that do not play higher amounts, were clearly well above their norm.

He absolutely translated his wager into a commanding presence that was obviously non-rehearsed! That is what great players do, they don't back down, they don't stop with a small win, they ignore statistics and experiences if they are winning not conceding privilege or yielding after initial resistance or the regular grind.  They are wagering for and virtually blacking out everything except each current hand consciously employing their wins and pulling down continual profits.

As we said when we were coloring up.  "You have to play to win".

It is what it is.  Accepted it, Grow from it, Learn from it.

It doesn't matter what you have previously done in the game of Baccarat.

It only matters what you do; from here on out.

Alrelax

Like I have repeatedly written about and brought forward.

0-1-2-3 ZERO OR LOW TIES.  Great advantage the majority of times to myself. 

Here is a shoe from the other night.  Real, factual and although I profited nicely and I empathize nicely!  However, I should have had considerably more.  I wagered bankers and wagered every hand with $50-$75 on F7 as well. 

I took the picture and bankers won 4 IAR after snapping the picture.  Then a single players won followed by another 3 IAR bankers.  A double players then appeared followed by 4 IAR bankers.  Then the shoe turned to chops and other events.

Detailed article reference Mexico's casinos.

"WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned six targets involved in a money laundering and cash smuggling enterprise operated by Cartel del Noreste (CDN), one of Mexico's most violent drug trafficking organizations. CDN is a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) that exerts significant influence along the U.S.-Mexico border near Laredo, Texas, the busiest land port of entry on the southern border.  The three individuals designated today play central roles in advancing CDN's criminal dominance over the Nuevo Laredo plaza in Tamaulipas, Mexico, supporting the cartel's broader illicit operations, which include fentanyl trafficking, human smuggling, money laundering, and extortion.  Today's action also targets two CDN-affiliated casinos, one of which is located just two miles from the U.S. border."

Click on the link to read:


https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0440