When you are at the table, you must set aside all feelings, control desire and statistical results/beliefs that all mean nothing at the instant time and shoe event that you are sitting at.  The results and how they came about in everything up to the instant time, mean nothing when compared with what is about to happen.

You need a clear and neutral mind-set to think with and gain advantage from; and be in the moments with conscious thought, as the presentments are occurring.  Do not let them influence or sway your thoughts.

Down to Business.  There is a general misunderstanding of the game of baccarat.  I like to relate this to the Firehouse/Fireman's Effect.  Which is basically, 2 people with much down-time or those people together all the time, talking about something will most of the time, be accepted as true and outside observers would easily see as completely irrational.  And hence, that is exactly the problem with gambling forums and their clicks and groups of members that, 'Hang out together with support of each other--no matter what is typed out and said' about how to win and how to make a living gambling with all of the hundreds of professionals claiming to win most every time at the Bac table.
 
L.I.S.T.

LIST all your Money Management Methods.  Rules, Notes, Governing Protocols, Etc.

INCLUDE reminders you know can aid in guiding you to better play, keeping more of the wins and giving you influence to call it a session when you are ahead instead of going for large and almost always unattainable wins.

STAY focused.  Engage with others for the possibilities of learning some insights, occasional tips, discovering the destructiveness of the game, but most of all--remember influence and desiring going with or against is extremely volatile and instills almost all the wrong reasons for wagering. Write down the things that have haunted you in the past, synopsis's of condensed 'bad situations'.

TAKE your list with you and pull it out, read it, remind yourself of what you need to do, should do, must do and DO IT!

"When it is there, realize it; when it is not do not attempt to make it happen.  That is where we all have gone and go wrong".  By: Alrelax.

Bankroll & Bankroll Management.

Bankroll is your total sum of money that is available for your gambling buy-in sessions.

Buy-in is your total sum, which is a small percentage of your Bankroll, that you will allow to be pure risk for wagering for one session or trip.

Management is your Money Management Method, that governs you whether you are winning or losing at the casino.

Simply the majority written on the internet is so ridiculously wrong and detrimental to a player, it is ludicrous!

So many times I read about others claiming to start with small amounts of money and quickly grow their bank rolls so quick and fast, like turning $1,000.00 into $3,500.00, then $7,000.00, then $14,000.00, then $20,000.00, then $40,000.00 with 6 trips or so to the casino, all the while keeping a thousand or two out each time for their spending, etc.  So ludicrous and such outright lies, I actually do feel bad for those reading that stuff with such open minds and possible belief in it.

You need to play your bankroll based on it, based on what your bankroll is.  Play your bankroll based on what you have coming into your weekly or monthly finances from outside of the casino, plus what you do win.  Build up your bankroll based on those two things, there is no other way to do it, in your favor.  Play your bankroll and decide what your sessions/trips buy-ins will be based on those two things also, there is no other way to do it.

Money Management Method.

Money Management Method is procedure--not scheduling of what to wager, seriously most everyone's downfall at baccarat subscribing to a scheduling of wagers to follow with the wrong total concept of proper Money Management Method. 

Your Buy-in should be pure risk money.  Your Buy-in should never be split up into a firm hold, or stop, or wagering amounts, etc.  Because you will govern yourself to disaster when the shoe presentments do not go your way.  If you can view and wholeheartedly believe that your Buy-in is pure risk money, the psych and less stress advantages you give yourself by adhering to those things will be of huge advantage to your decision making benefits.   

Wagering should not control or guide you as an automatic to continue or stop according to a pre-planned scheduled track, etc.  Understand that your wins and your losses must govern your session. 

Tips Reference Money Management Method (MMM):

Wager Size or When to Wager, has nothing at all to do with my M.M.M.

M.M.M. is a procedure, not a scheduling of what is to be wagered.

Do not allow your betting to control or guide you as an automatic to continue on a pre-planned or desired scheduled track, because the highest majority of the times you allow that, you will lose your entire buy-in no matter the size it was. 

Some people change up what others say and attempt to classify those proven things that help some of us, will say things like, Money Management will 'Soften the Curve', or 'De-Escalades Bet Sizes' for the players security to prevent him from losing large amounts.  Horse Garbage!

M.M.M. allows (at least mine does) for me to keep winning with 1/3rd, 1/3rd sideways and while another 1/3rd is locked up, then alerts me and governs me to stop if I actually lost the preset amount of a win being 1/3rd or possibly 2/3rds. 

My M.M.M. also allows me to wager larger and harder without risking my buy-in.

Smaller wins rather than larger losses, contribute well to Risk Capital that must be viewed as such.  Stop the confusion of putting yourself into the "I Must Win" phase.  Let yourself capitalize on the best opportunities.  But in order to see them at the table, you have to have the mind-set and the patience that will allow you to do just that!

If you pre-set a certain definitive number of units to be a stop, such as 30, 50 or 60, you are putting a total negative factor into the picture that will certainly distract your attention and a heck of a lot more.

You should use a predetermined amount of capital for your buy-in that is a small proportion of your total bankroll.  There is no other way to determine buy-ins that would be to your advantage.  Your buy-in must be viewed as pure risk capital without stressing its purposes, limits or what it is producing or not producing.  Otherwise your distraction and dependency will overwhelm your ability to produce.

Flat-bet into a--up positive progression, that eventually leads you to a 1 or a 2 Xs total your buy-in amount.

Your win money should be grouped up and then divided up to continue.  Allow your win money to win additional wagers or cool you off, etc.  Say you quickly won $1,000.00 in 2 wagers.  You can easily squeeze 6 wagers out of that; $125.00/$125.00/$125.00/$125.00/$250.00/$250.00. Or something similar to those.  With those wagers, see how much you can win.  6 good chances to possibly get 6 decent positive progressions on the casino gives me clear-mind and a huge advantage.

7 Steps Money Management Method

1)    Bankroll
         Buy-in

2)    Positive Progression

3)    1/3rd, 1/3rd, 1/3rd Set-Asides

4)    1 + 4 Side Parlay

5)    Sections & Turning Points

6)    Level & Plateau

7)    Value, Respect, Recognition

You must apply your 7 Steps M.M.M. to the following. 

Once you do, the advantage you award yourself is huge!
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Correct Thinking:  Focusing Correctly
                             Anticipating & Neutralizing Pressure

Understanding Decision:  Causes & Multiple Causes
                                         Decision Criteria
                                         Making the Decision
                                         Understand & Recognizing Influence

Structuring: Defining Your Structured Wagers
                    Bank Roll & Buy In
                    Realizing the Risk
                    Being Governed by the Risk & Reward

Learning from Experience:  Planning
                                           Execute
                                           Awareness
                                           Reflection
                                           Learning

The Opportunity:  Identifying
                             Recognizing
                             Implementation
                             Closing the Loop

Winning Method:  Frame of Mind
                             Do It Now
                             Reapply
                             Template-Routine-Process

Wagering:  Levels & Plateaus
                  1/3rd, 1/3rd, 1/3rd
                  1 + 4 Side Parlay (on again-off again wager)
                   Positive Progressions
                   Parlaying
                   Flat Wagering
                   Side Wagers and the Proper Allocation for Them
                   
Comp's--Front Money--Rebates  & Other Perks:  Explained & Rationalized

Things that are vital to the overview of larger and powerful profit, what we all really want, seriously.

I am not talking about a dedicated positive progression with streak, repeating Bankers, etc., etc., and so on and so forth.  I am talking about good common sense Money Management Methods and belief in your method along with adherence to it.

Advance Tips:

Take your win money, put it away and get ahead.  Do not fall in the trap and believe the nonsense written so frequently on the forums about easily doubling and tripling the base bankroll/buy-in, etc. 

Adhere to your buy-in you brought to the casino and literally forget about your bankroll and other available cash on cards, etc.

Leave your win money out of the bankroll, it does not belong in your bankroll.  If you won what you did with a certain bankroll, all building yourself a larger bankroll will do, is make you less appreciative of what you had/have, etc.  Been there, done that.  You are are no different!

Always employ 1/3rd, 1/3rd, 1/3rd with win money after getting a certain amount of it.

Replenish your Bankroll when you do lose, but do not apply all your win money to it.

When you get to the point, your win money is a whole second bankroll as well as having the excess win money being used for other purposes, then you are on your way to comfort.

Reference 1 + 4 Side Parlay

You know I was talking to a couple very experienced players at the baccarat table the other night and I got out of paper and pen and showed them my 1 + 4 side parlay wager, that I constantly do.

You know take just $50 because a lot of tables are $50 minimum and parlay it four times after you win once is a net profit of $1,550. Take that same $50 and flatbet it you, need 31 wins to make the same amount of money. It looks like this:

$50.00.   Win wager: $100  $200 $400 $800.  Net Profit: $1,550.00

Flat Bet would look like this:

$50.00.  Win wager each time:  $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50

And if you ever followed me and read anything I've written about my 1 + 4 side parlay wager,  it is not a consecutive dedicated wager.  I always have a main wager as my base bet, that is what I called my side wager and I'm wagering that out of my win money that's allocated four, five, six or seven times to complete one 1 + 4 side parlay wager.

Think about it, if you play to win you play to win!

1/3rd, 1/3rd, 1/3rd With the Win Money

Here is the summation.

When I win, I take 1/3 of the win money and pocket it, cash it and will not in any way whatsoever use it.  I take another 1/3 of the win money and increase my Bankroll with it.  I take the remaining 1/3rd of the win money and keep it as a reserve if I lose my bankroll I am playing with and still desire to play longer.

You can do it with any amount of win.  Say you buy in with $600.00 and get up to $1,800.00.  Take $400 and pocket it.  Increase your Bankroll to $1,000.00 and put the other $400 in your pocket as a backup bankroll.

Say you won another $1,000.00.  Take $350.00 and make your bankroll $1,350.00.  Take another $350.00 and put it with the $400.00 and that makes $750.00 you can't touch.  Take the other $300.00 and put it with the reserve bankroll you have of $400 making it now $700.00.

For me, I get the piece of mind, that I always have another chance if I lose and still want to keep playing.  I have something from my win money already 'locked up' and cannot be touched.  I have a slightly bigger bankroll.  When I do these things, it stops me from playing the way I used to with win money, and seldom holding on to it when things turned ugly.

All I know for me and some others, compiling the win money into your bankroll sitting on the table, only makes it subjected to larger bets and being lost easier than it does without some kind of plan.

Do it with any amount of win money, adjust it for your own psychological well being.  To me and most I speak with, it is easier to walk away after winning, when you know you have really tried to win more and maybe one more shot or another round at a table after a meal or a break, etc.  Maybe you can win money and stack it up in front of you and value it properly, but for most players it makes them play a bit more recklessly and dangerously then when they initially sat down with XYZ bankroll.

For me, I am satisfied with the way it works out when I do some kind of plan as I mentioned here.  When I just throw the winnings into the stack in front of me, I have to attempt calculations at how much for this and how much I should cash out 'later', etc.  If I put all my winning  into my pocket and employ 'attempted' willpower, there is no reward and satisfaction for the instant time, while sitting there playing.  If I divide it up as I go along, I have clearer mind and gives me a psychological advantage.

I wrote the following:  "All I know for me and countless others, compiling the win money into your bankroll sitting on the table, only makes it subjected to larger bets and being lost easier than it does without some kind of plan."

A huge factor that prevails is; "The money in my pocket", or "The available buy-in money on a card I have", will play within the background and cause your game to slant in the way of the casino!  If you bring an X amount of cash and available funds access to the casino, planning on buying in with $XYZ and then "If I lose, I have additional funds for another try", doing that and saying that is WRONG, BAD, HORRIBLE and much more.  That way of thinking and acting will hurt you, simply and seriously.  DISCLOSURE:  The times I used to do exactly what I just wrote about, I did get sucked into the casino way of 'falling prey' to them.  If I added up all of the funds that I eventually won with the re-buyins, the amount would not total to be the entire amount of re-buyins.  So, I write from experience, my experience and the experience of others I have witnessed as well. 

Setting the unit goal is also wrong.  Sounds kind of contradictory, but it is not!  By setting the unit goal to stop, etc., you are removing the power of great opportunity to capitalize on winning presentments that might be presented while you are there playing.   True professionalism should have a sum of capital to risk, whether that risk is losing or winning. 

You need to figure something into your own M.M.M. that will allow you to keep playing if you are winning, all the while holding a certain portion of the continued win money. 

QuoteYou need to figure something into your own M.M.M. that will allow you to keep playing if you are winning, all the while holding a certain portion of the continued win money.

              A true pro player should have everything well determined, meant for the long run. Be it the best or the worst or an average session, he should do the best possible.

One of the biggest things that haunt so many players is the following:

Bac players harboring such prejudices; "I try not to think about that possibility when I'm at the table playing, wagering or not, thinking or not. But it's always there, at the very back of my mind and it comes and goes no matter if I literally am thinking about it or not."

And if you do not know what I am talking about, you just have not played long enough yet.