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#106
Roulette Forum / Re: Florida Roulette
July 13, 2021, 04:13:25 PM
They also have a digital craps table at Harrahs in vegas.........also three card poker but could not find a picture of it.

It's the wave of the future just like Stadium roulette, baccarat and blackjack........eliminates a lot of  dealers so casinos save on salary and employee benefits,  games are dealt much, much faster since the computer does not make mistakes as far as payout calculations and the calculations are done in 1 or 2 seconds ...... and computers don't call in sick or go on vacation.  One dealer can deal baccarat, roulette blackjack  craps or three card poker to up to 700 customers playing on the stadium or digital craps or three card poker terminals.

Lots of jobs will be eliminated by automation in the next 5 years.  Lots of people will be automated out of the work force.

https://www.casino.org/news/harrahs-unveils-digital-craps-table-as-casinos-look-to-lure-visitors-to-las-vegas/
#107
The gambling world is just like the world of the CIA/KGB/GRU/MI6/NSA  spy services  ...it's all smoke and mirrors.........you do not know who is lying, who is telling the truth, you do not know who is your friend  or who is your enemy........you do not know what to believe or not to believe.........you do not know what is the truth and what us a lie.
#108
Interesting follow up to Archie Karas...........good example of the ups and downs in the gambling world.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpiVPJkGZ5k
#109
You probably read it already.....but you might read it again...... a 4 star review of the book  on Amazon where a reader's father who had access to a large computer, programmed the method over 100,000 spins.   

Might save you a lot of time and money.
#110
Me, You & Them / Re: A Me, You & Them Posting
March 14, 2021, 03:57:04 PM
This is an interview with a magician and the use of his skills in the world of gambling................after reading this, I would never play in a home poker game because you really do not know who is shuffling and dealing the cards, and if he is stacking the deck.


https://www.npr.org/2021/03/01/972501227/magician-derek-delgaudio-traces-his-journey-from-card-cheat-to-illusionist

Here is a brief story of what a good magician can do..............some time ago I was doing accounting for a famous doctor ( who will remain nameless ) and he decided to give an after work party for his 20 employees..........so he hired a magician to do some card tricks........so the magician put up a small portable table and did his card tricks in front  of about 5 or 6  people .......and then he folded up his table  and was about to leave and set up his table again for the other employees, and then he asked one of the women who was watching his tricks what time it was, and as she looked at her wrist...... her wrist watch was gone and the magician said are you looking for this?  and then he gave the watch back to her.

Of course everyone laughed and then the magician moved his small portable table to do some more card tricks for the other employees and I followed him to the other table, and as the other employees gathered around to see him do the card tricks,  I said to everyone gathered around the table " Be careful of this guy, he can steal the watch right off of your hand!" 

And then he did his card tricks on the table and as he was folding up his table to leave, he asked me what time it was....and you guessed it.............. my watch was gone and he was waving it in front of my face and laughing and I can't even remember him touching my arm or even coming close to me.

And if you ever see Apollo Robbins walking towards you, run across the street to get out of his way because he can steal your underwear off of you .......and the video below shows just a little bit of Apollo's skills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-dWSIUNF10

#111
Me, You & Them / Re: A Me, You & Them Posting
March 01, 2021, 06:11:54 PM
Here is an article some of you my find interesting.......it was written by Dr. Harlow who was my Professor in Finance when I was in college.................it is sort of long and deals mostly with stock trading but the
concepts also apply to other forms of gambling and speculation.

https://graziadio387.rssing.com/chan-67223017/article1-live.html
#112
Me, You & Them / Re: A Me, You & Them Posting
February 18, 2021, 06:43:24 PM
If any of you lost money playing baccarat and feel depressed, it could be a  lot worse........as this article shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY5c-XBs8oo&ab_channel=Pablito%27sWay

This poor individual definitely needed so advice on money management.

#113
Alrelax's Blog / Re: Superbowl 55
February 08, 2021, 10:08:21 PM
The prop bets in Vegas of KC not scoring a touchdown were 50 to 1    or   60 to 1 in other places.............

Typical vegas ripoff........should be at least 300 to  1 or 500 to 1........just like vegas charging $ 25 for a beer  or the $ 40 "Resort Fees"
#114
Alrelax's Blog / Re: Superbowl 55
February 08, 2021, 05:14:40 PM
KC  didn't even score a touchdown........if you were a las vegas casino bookmaker-manager, what odds would have put up that KC would not score a touchdown?    10,000 to 1       20,000 to  1 ?

KC lost because they had 3 substitutes on the offensive line so Mahones was constantly rushed which took away the pass game and the running game...also it looked like mahones was hurting on his knee or foot....he got beat up bad.

The offensive line are the most important players in football......if they suck, the QB can't pass and there are no holes for the running backs to run through the line........lucky if a team can score 13 points with a bad offensive line.
#115
Baccarat Forum / Important lesson
February 01, 2021, 03:31:40 PM
Most of you have probably heard about the current wall street situation regarding  GameStop (GME) and other stocks which were bid up to unbelievable and unrealistic price levels by many retail                       
    ( unintelligent money ) mostly young stock traders who banded together using social media like Reddit and the RobinHood trading platform, and created a trading mob which bid up the stocks in an attempt to create a short squeeze in order to destroy the professional hedge fund traders ( smart money ) who had shorted the stocks.

This resulted in numerous hedge funds  losing billions of dollars ( see the article below ) who had to cover their short positions at higher stock prices.....and also lost over 50 % of their trading capital and needed a cash infusion of $ 2 billion to stay solvent.

What has all of this to do with gambling speculation such as baccarat, roulette, sports betting, Blackjack poker   etc etc etc?

Well, the lesson is to set a conservative % of bankroll which you are prepared to lose for any baccarat shoe, set of roulette spins, poker session, individual bet on any sports event,  etc etc  or you can end up like the hedge fund in the article below which lost 53% of its trading capital on one trade and would have gone out of business if it could not have received the $ 2 billion cash infusion.

I think this is the most important lesson any speculator in gambling or investing should learn. 

You can't continue to play the game if you lose most of  your trading capital or gambling bankroll if you lose most of it in a very unwise single bet or gambling session


https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/melvin-capital-lost-53-in-january-hurt-by-gamestop-other-bets-11612114259391.html
#116
Quote from: alrelax on January 15, 2021, 09:25:51 AMd
And yet people never ever learn. The same for casinos but they just use different tactics. The wherewithal and the knowledge of gamblers is totally overwhelmed by their own greed. 

https://www.legalsportsreport.com/47170/nj-sportsbooks-caught-canceling-withdrawals/amp/

And also overwhelmed by their own stupidity.

#117
If anyone is interested, Mason Malmuth, author of the second book,  also runs the biggest poker forum at:

https://www.twoplustwo.com/

And NO...I am not Mason Malmuth and....... No..... I done get a commission for posting his web site.
#118
Baccarat Forum / Re: The Star System
December 15, 2020, 03:50:09 PM
Since we are talking about stars and astronomy, you might enjoy this:

https://www.gaia.com/article/did-this-african-tribe-originate-in-another-star-system
#119
Baccarat Forum / Re: 2 Great Shoes Last Night!
November 27, 2020, 03:11:13 PM
Quote from: alrelax on November 26, 2020, 04:27:04 PM
Great post!  Too much common sense mixed with reality, most people cannot relate to it.  As most are internet recreational only these days, IMO.

The 2s and 3s are the best and most outstanding for the player to capitalize on.  However most all players fall to their belief at the table, once they start winning they will continue.  They virtually all get sucked in. No matter the size of their bankroll they lose it to the casino,

I call this surrendering to the all powerful C.E...............which means the Casino Environment...which is the entire atmosphere designed by the casino to create an alternate reality ..........thousands of dollars in the dealer tray which  are there for your easy winnings (NOT).................no windows to look at the real world............no clocks..................lots of "action", noise , people yelling at craps tables, attractive cocktail waitresses, attractive dealers, and the greatest invention of all time........using chips instead of actual money so it appears that you are not losing real money for you mortgage payment, your children's college trust fund,   food,   car payment etc etc

Casinos are the best example of Yin and Yang......the Yin is the thousands of jobs the casinos create which provide their employees with a decent middle class income (pre-COVID of course) and the Yang is the 5% to 10% of their customers with addictive personalities who lose their life savings. house, boats, cars, business etc etc. 

If you look at everything in life, there is a Yin and Yang......alive and dead, rich and poor, healthy and sick, north pole and south pole, positive and negative charges on a battery, lies and truth, cheap and generous, fast and slow, tall and short, beautiful and ugly,  hot and cold etc etc etc

#120
Baccarat Forum / Re: 2 Great Shoes Last Night!
November 26, 2020, 04:18:24 PM
Babu- look at the three shoes posted by Alrelax at the top of this thread and look at how many times that there were hands above a run of 3 or less.........these shoes are fairly common and best illustrate what I was trying to explain. ............but it is still very difficult to create a winning method using this information except by using a money management technique where you have a relatively small loss target for each shoe you play and have a very conservative progression to recover losses.....such as a goal of losing only 6 units a shoe and a profit objective of 3 units a shoe.......and when you are down 18 units  flat betting, then bet 2 units until you recover and go back to betting 1 unit flat betting.......and never bet more than 2 units for one bet.

For example,  the following 9 shoes which has a bad run losing 5 shoes and winning 4 shoes

win  3 units
lose 6
lose  6
win 3
lose 6
win 3
win 3
lose 6
lose 6

You are down 18 units now start betting 2 units instead of 1 unit and maybe something like this happens

win 6
win 6 
lose 12
win 6
lose 12
win 6
win 6
win 6
win 6

So you win 18 units and you are even and now go back to start betting 1 unit.

Most people who seriously bet on baccarat , roulette, sports , soccer(football),  basketball, american football  baseball etc etc eventually come to the conclusion that just like starting any other business, you will need a big bankroll to succeed in the long run, and of course "big" is a relative term depending on how much you will bet and what type of conservative or aggressive money management plan you will use to handle the inevitable adversity which will occur.   

Best example is if you are an owner of a restaurant during the current pandemic, the restaurant with a large amount of capital ( bankroll) has a much better chance of staying in business until the pandemic is over than the restaurant owner who has very little capital(bankroll) to support his business.

Whether you are selling pizza or tacos or betting on the yankees in baseball or manchester unitited in soccer ( football ) or the lakers in basketball or player or banker in baccarat or red or black or streets in roulette...................if you are not sufficiently capitalized (bankroll), it will be extremely difficult for you to be successful....this is especially true of people who try to make a living playing poker......playing poker games where the bet size is too large for your bankroll will eventually wipe you out due to the extreme variance in profits and losses playing poker...................and eventually you will come to realize that your ultimate success or failure in poker is not your skill level and experience but the other people you are playing against......if everyone at the table has the general same skill level and experience as you, in the long run, the money just travels  around the table and the rake and dealer tips and bad beat jackpot contributions and your personal expenses, ( rent, food, car expenses, insurance etc etc ) will eventually bankrupt you. If you can not play against other opponents where you are a better more experienced poker player, you will eventually lose.

However, most people are only recreational gamblers so it really does not matter how much bankroll you have, or how much you bet.