Take them to heart, ignore them, call me silly, recognize them and explore, whatever floats your boat as the saying goes.

But, I will tell you one thing.  My years of playing bac have ultra reinforced me to believe in and abide by the following:

* A shoe in time.  Is relatively short.

* Nothing is guaranteed.

* Everything will change again. The good or bad situation is here now, it changes. There are basically 14 presentment trends, most of all appear in most all shoes. Picking one, two or even three of those will be suicide.

* Change your responses. The presentments will not change your wagers. Your wagering must change and conform to the presentments. Huge difference.

* You will NEVER have all the answers.

* There is NO HOLY GRAIL.  Period!

* Be super careful of bringing today's societal aura of 'Instant Everything' to the bac table.  It will bite you the highest majority of the times. 

If I sit down and really think about the government of NYC, having spent decades there and across the river in New Jersey (with businesses in NYC) I would encounter anxiety, heartburn and depression in relation to the taxes, license and permitting process and general everyday rules and regulations. 

The lady is off the wall with extreme 'off the wall-weirdness' and she should have an affair with Mamdani.  In fact they should both be at the receiving end of those infamous NYC midtown adult bookstore glory holes. 

Sorry if I offended anyone here, but after all I am the Administrator and Owner of this forum. 

Respectfully,
Alrelax, Glen

California cardrooms anticipate thousands of layoffs as gambling rules change.  Operators may be forced to drop blackjack and other table games due to new state rules that they say favor tribal casinos

"A banked card game is a type of gambling game in which players place bets against a central dealer, known as the banker or house, rather than directly against each other.

Cardrooms — like the Gardens Casino — are state-licensed venues that, under state law, may only offer player-banked or peer-to-peer games — or tables where players play against each other, not the house.

Bonta is now saying California laws on banked games must adhere to the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 and California Proposition 1A passed in 2000, according to the California National Indian Gaming Association. However, the cardroom industry disputes the tribal gaming industry's legal interpretation of these laws, saying that Bonta's rules could disrupt its business model.

Pai gow was the first card game using a player-dealer position in the cardroom industry in 1983.

Outsourced player-dealer services— or third party proposition players as they are known in casino parlance — came in 1990. An outsourced player-dealer service is a licensed independent company, not the casino itself, whose employees play in cardroom table games to ensure they remain active and filled, acting as a neutral party like any other player in the game."


https://www.presstelegram.com/2026/02/15/california-cardrooms-anticipate-thousands-of-layoffs-as-gambling-rules-change/

Hi ASYM, I write a pm to you!

Quote from: AsymBacGuy on February 16, 2026, 03:42:15 AMThanks for your understanding and no need to apologize my friend.

Thanks for your understanding and no need to apologize my friend.

I agree with your "100% winning strategy" making many players to lose anyway.
The simplest example is facing a completely no commission game where B is math favorite to win by a 1.36% margin on any resolved bet. By the 80s the Sahara casino in Vegas made such an attempt but after a month it had to revert to a normal commission game as a large crowd of acute players merged in that casino to play a sure EV+ proposition.
Nonetheless in the meanwhile many players got busted by not being capable to bear the invariable negative deviations such a small edge will provide at the underdog P side.

So why should we be so confident that baccarat is beatable knowing that every bet will be an EV- proposition?

There are many possible answers getting rid of the "fallacy" concept so loved by mathematicians and gambling experts.

- Bac successions are coming out from a "biased" coin working by the supposedly random infinite card distributions but sooner or later producing a fair exploitable number of "opposite" results considered at the same spots of distribution, shoe per shoe.
A privilege a common coin flip cannot get by any means.
In poorer words, the RTM factor will work way better than at a perfect 50/50 independent proposition.

-Any shoe is a world apart.
Quite often a shoe seems to like to surpass common values in a way or another (by not fitting expected values or by fitting them by astounding levels) so forcing us to act accordingly and the word "accordingly" most of the times calls for placing very few bets or none at all. At other slight less likely situations, the attitude to ride a univocal wave until a single loss happens is a viable tool to put the casino into a passive mood but always knowing that securing some bets is way better than gambling for further wins.
That's especially important whenever we doubt about the real randomness of the outcomes, a factor particularly debatable nowadayws where cards are not shuffled under our direct vision.

- Bac BP successions produce an infinite number of sub sequences almost always getting different patterns and different back-to-back patterns happening simultaneously at the same spot (row or column) per every shoe dealt, that's an important tool to take care of.
Let the house "hoping" that at the same spot considered, different random walks set up by a different pace will get the same exact value for "long" per some shoes dealt and you'll get the idea.

- The asymmetry/symmetry tool will take the lead over any other statistical factor as rank cards are 100% asymmetrically distributed along any shoe dealt, so steady symmetrical patterns are just the by product of coincidental situations (just one hand result will form a symmetrical pattern instead of a more likely asymmetrical one).
Moreover there are no better indicators to exploit than asymmetrical and symmetrical patterns to stop or prolong at some point of the sequence by given levels, all the variance in the world considered.
That's our "fallacy" edge. LOL.

as.

Quote from: AsymBacGuy on February 15, 2026, 09:49:43 PMSorry whatwswhats, for some reasons I was forced to erase your reply and the original post of mine.
Mates I play with do not tolerate anymore too detailed informations about our possible strategies.

Basically we think that considering the game under the asym/sym profile is one of the few opportunities to get a possible edge, a thing that it seems you have already investigated in the past.

More later

as. 

I understand you. I also don't like sharing too much information publicly, especially because 99.99% of people even if they had a   "100% sure win" strategy (which doesn't exist) would still end up losing money.
If you have time or would like to talk privately, we can exchange useful information surely, then the fact that you deleted the post confirms that I was giving too much good info but also you so it's okay.
I appreciate it, and I apologize if I went too far in the post by sharing more information publicly.

Sorry whatwswhats, for some reasons I was forced to erase your reply and the original post of mine.
Mates I play with do not tolerate anymore too detailed informations about our possible strategies.

Basically we think that considering the game under the asym/sym profile is one of the few opportunities to get a possible edge, a thing that it seems you have already investigated in the past.

More later

as. 

Out of curiosity I report a weird strategy employed by a player following this random walk:
Anytime the first card dealt of each new hand is a red card and the next hand is a Banker she signs a W on her score card, otherwise she writes a L.
The same procedure is utilized whenever the first card is a black card so prompting the next hand to be Player (W) or a L when the opposite side wins.

According to her "theory" such simple registration will make easier to spot the W/L patterns lenght and shapes.
Since she always bet purple chips ($500) and betting very rarely, we were particularly interested to see her strategy that after many polite askings was revealed to us.

An AS/S study applied to this weird rw is under investigation.

More later

as.

@Alrelax:

As far as "sessions", again I found that each 'time' I play, once or twice a week on the average, each time is a session.  That allows me to seclude and focus more on what is happening. 

That's a good, a very good concept of "session". 

@whatswhats:

I understand and appreciate some points you have written, yet the volatility could be only reduced by a valid bet selection and not by manipulating the betting amounts.
If you win consistently and I believe you do is because you would win anyway by flat betting.


as.
 

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