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#1
AsymBacGuy / 365FB #1
April 22, 2023, 02:08:30 AM
It's 3.08 GMT

#1. Last results are BPTPPBBBBP

From now Ties won't displayed and the before tie bet still stand otherwise indicated

#2. last decisions are PPPP

#3. PPPPP

#4. NB of course

#5. bet B1.5

#6. Won 1.5 was B

#7. ???
After a tie a B should have won

#8. Ok, np, you have to manually write down the results
Scores are inaccurate

#9. Keep track of the streaming results and not of displayed outcomes!!!!

#10. B 2.0

#11. W B 2

#12. NB for long, I have to track manually the results
Anyway up of 3.5 units before tax

#13. B 2.5

#14. Won

#15. so far 5.5 units won before vig

#16. tie NB

#17. banker wins by a 5 point

18. player wins by 3-5 N

#19. banker wins by a 5-4 draw NB

#20. player wins NB

#21. b wins by A-7
Now bet 2 at B

#22. Tite 7-7 NB

#23. NB

#24. Bet B 1.8

#25. YESS!
Won 4-5

#26. NB

#27. banker won by a 8
Bet B 1.0

#28. easy fkng game won

#29. NB

#30. player won by a 6
NB

#31. P5 B4 player won
NB

#32. P won by a 5-4 point
NB

#33. Bet Player 2.5

#34. LOst

#35. P wins by a 6

#36. NB

#37. easy P bet 2.8
#2
AsymBacGuy / New genius in town
March 07, 2022, 02:12:04 AM
Let's see how a 'new genius in town' teaches us how to play baccarat.

I'd suggest to patiently watch the video step by step, mainly by his/her shoe selection.

https://kzread.info/dash/baccarat-840-does-the-baccarat-king-lose-his-crown/gKmrr8FsmZjJns4.html

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#3
AsymBacGuy / Why bac could be beatable itlr
June 28, 2019, 09:10:24 PM
Gambling experts as well as casino's supervisors are really laughing when they read all the bighornshit we're writing about baccarat on the net.
Not mentioning the miriad of magical system sellers that for just $49.99 promise us millionaire profits.

As long as we can't (or we do not want to) demonstrate a verifiable math edge we are just fooling ourselves and the world.

That means that all efforts made to find exploitable ways to beat the house are totally worthless, confirmed by the huge profits casinos make by offering bac tables.

Probably the best player ever known in the history of baccarat was Akio Kashiwagi, a japanese real estate guru who put in some trouble mr D. Trump who gladly accepted very huge bets from him at one of his AC property.
It's ascertained Kashiwagi adopted a kind of trend following strategy by wagering a kind of flat betting approach. That is he knew very well that in order to beat a game, tax apart, one must get more winning hands than losing ones.
Furthermore, by flat betting he knew he was going to lose around 1% at worst.
Naturally Trump took advice from the best math gambling expert of the time who suggested to let him play as long as possible in order to get the negative edge fully working against him.

And actually this thing happened even though Kashiwagi (that was shot dead shortly afterwards) was still ahead in the process.

Of course even if Kashiwagi played a quite huge amount of hands but not enough to constitute a "long term" scenario by any means, we must give him some credit that his strategy was good.

To get a clearer example of what Kashiwagi did, try to flat bet 60/70 shoes and let us know how many bets you are winning or losing. Knowing that he wagered a large amount of hands dealt, the answer will be very likely placed on the negative side.

Therefore a question #1 arises: does a sophisticated trend following strategy lower in some way the math negative edge?
Was K. playing a kind of trend following strategy mixed with something else?

I have chosen to mention A.K. as it's my firm belief that in order to win one must spot more W than L situations as no progression could get the best of it when L<W, especially when wagering a lot of hands per shoe.

Truth to be told, I do not think that a strict trend following strategy could get the best of it, but I tend not to disregard such possibility at least in order to lower the negative edge.

More to come.

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#4
AsymBacGuy / Baccarat experts: a test for you
June 20, 2019, 01:10:37 AM
An easy test to assess how a bac player really knows about baccarat.

1) What's the probability to get a natural 8 vs a natural 9 in every position per every shoe dealt?

2) What's the Banker's advantage when Banker shows a 4 giving a third card 9 to the Player?

3) What's the average number of 3+ streaks on Player side in a 8-deck shoe when an average 12 cards are cut from the play?

4) How many asymmetrical hands are going to show up per 70 resolved hands dealt?

5) Disregarding other key cards, what's the average EV on F-7 bets (dragon bonus) when after 30 hands dealt no 7 had shown?

6)  What's the average probability to get a back to back "standing" Player (6,7,8 or 9 point) hand?

7) How the Player disadvantage is calculated?

8) What's the probability Banker wins when showing a 5 and giving a third card 3 to the Player?

9) What's the probability a Player two-card 7 point showing will win?

10)  What's the probability to get a back to back winning natural hand on either side?

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#5
AsymBacGuy / Baccarat TIES catching
June 16, 2018, 12:09:58 AM
A bac player betting TIES is considered the worst player in the universe, right?
After all such player is wagering with a more than -14% negative edge.

Nonetheless, ties must come out at an average rate of 1 tie over 10.52 hands (9.5%) and they are payed just 8 to 1.

Therefore itlr wagering every hand will produce a more than -14% return on the money wagered.
And, for that matter, no one progression in the world could overcome such negative ratio.

Good.

Now let's consider a large amount of shoes accounting the average amount of ties per every shoe. No surprises, It's still 9.5%.

But let's take the average distribution of ties per every distinct portion of any shoe and things will change.

Say that we would only bet the tie after 50 or more hands are dealt and just up to a couple of  ties had shown up.
Now we are reducing our negative edge as shoes not displaying more than 2 ties after 50 hands are more likely to produce ties on subsequent hands on the same shoe.

But wait.

Ties are more likely to come out if many cards are employed to form B and P hands.
I mean that ties are more likely to come out if 6 or, at a very lesser degree, 5 cards are employed to form hands.
Of course 4 cards may form ties, but at a very lower degree.

Thus the more likely occurence to get multiple ties is proportionally formed by 6, 5 or 4 cards in descending order.

The result is that we'll get more back to back ties or ties interspersed by a better 9.5% ratio whenever hands are formed by a huge amount of cards.

Since a tie is a mathematical effect event, we know that card distribution is a decisive matter to get those ties, meaning that we'll get more ties anytime few naturals are coming out as they are totally denying the use of a third or fourth card.

By this perspective now we have a new plan to consider whether ties are more likely to come out or not.
Actually some shoes are providing a lot of 5 or 6 cards situations to form any resolved hand, so enlarging the probability to get ties.
Other shoes do not provide such feature, meaning that the vast majority of hands are formed by 4 or 5 cards at most.

The practical effect may be taken by several angles:

- for example, a deck full of 8s and 9s and plenty of 10 value cards are not good to bet ties for obvious reasons.

- to get a 5 or 6 cards hand, we need the Player side to draw first, then the banker to stay or draw, possibly to draw anyway.

- the most likely occurence to get a back to back tie or to get a tie by a higher probability than expected is whenever the first tie hand was formed by 6 cards. Conversely, any 6 card hand not producing a tie must be considered as a kind of "missed" probability.
The same when an asymmetrical hand favored the player and not the banker.

- itlr, baccarat hands are formed by a constant number of cards, thus we shouldn't care less about which side will win, just the probability to get such ties.

In a word, whenever we think the future hand will be formed by 5 or, well better, 6 cards, we'll get a meaningful edge to bet ties.

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#6
AsymBacGuy / Baccarat unbeatable plan #2
May 04, 2018, 01:11:51 AM
It's about Banker doubles distribution.

B doubles are fighting between B 3+ streaks and B singles.

Test your shoes and let me know how many times a B doubles will be followed by another B double streak or anything else.

No wonder, most of the time any B double will be followed by a pattern different to another B double streak up to a 4 level.

I mean that after a B double had come out,  the more likely scenario on subsequent B hand will be to get a B 3+ streak or a B single at different degrees.

We could classify such B doubles in such a way:

1- B double followed by another B double;

2- a couple of consecutive B doubles followed by another B double;

3- a triple of consecutive B doubles followed by another B double.

In a word, each class of B double situation will get a more likely different B double situation than expected and the more we are going deeply in the process the better will be our results.

Say we set up three fictional players betting toward NOT having another B double after a B double appearance by a 1-2 wager progression.

Number #1 player will lose whenever after a B double another B double will come out.

Number #2 player will lose whenever after a couple of B doubles a third B double will come out;

Number #3 player will lose whenever after a triple B double a fourth B double will come out.

Test your shoes and you'll notice that 4+ B doubles in a row will come out very very rarely.
It's up to us to determine how deep will be our loss.

The probability to get multiple B doubles in a row is inversely proportional to the number of B consecutive doubles.

Thus, a profitable and less risky plan is to bet after having waited that two or three B doubles had come out in a row.

Nonetheless, many shoes are presenting a single B double appearance.

Again, after a given deviation was reached, the probability to get something different than a B double is endorsed.

We want to set up a limit, that is a very unlikely 4+ consecutive B doubles appearance. After such limit was reached, we do not want to bet a dime.
As a 7 or more B doubles appearance could easily destroy our previous more likely profits.

Notice that per every class of distributions, a clustering effect will be in order, no matter what.
I mean that it will more likely to get single B double situations if a single B double situation had come out and the same happens for superior levels.

Moreover, B doubles are more likely to come out in clusters whenever few B singles had come out in the previous fragments of the shoe and vice versa.

Alrelax is right. What didn't happen so far is less likely to show up as a finite shoe is always a card dependent proposition and vice versa.

Actually and after millions of shoe tested,  the number of situations when consecutive B doubles are followed by single or 2-in a row B doubles are out numbered by the same opposite events.

What didn't happen could happen but what did happen could more easily happen again. Providing a careful classification of what we are registering.

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#7
AsymBacGuy / Baccarat unbeatable plan #1
April 27, 2018, 01:14:45 AM
Dedicated to soxfan. :-)

We want to bet toward P singles and P doubles vs P 3+s by a multilayered progression.

Betting requisites.

We'll bet a 1-2 unit progression whenever a P single or a P double had come out, in order to get at least a two P 1-2 clustered succession in any order. After winning the first (single) or second (double) event, we stop the betting waiting for another 1 or 2 P situation and going over and over. Meaning we have to wait a 3+ appearance cutting the pattern.

In a word, we'll lose anytime the shoe will present situations as 2-3 or 1-3. Anything different from that (as 1-1, 1-2, 2-1 or 2-2), will go in our favor.

The average number of 3+ streaks on P side is 4.5, so we are quite favored to get many 1-2 or 2-1 profitable patterns, moreover we won't bet a dime after a 3+ streak. That is consecutive P 3+s streaks won't harm us.

The probability to look at consecutive 1 or 2 single situations is so low that you'll need a lot of work to find them.

Multilayered progression.

Since we are not stu.pid, meaning that the very unlikely can come out anytime, we 'll set up our initial bet as 5-10 (at $10 limit is $50-$100).
Anytime we'll win we stay at the same level for two times, then we'll go down at the 4-8 level and so on, up to the 1-2 level.
Anytime we lose we'll raise our bet by 20%, so a 5-10 losing bet will followed by a 6-12 bet (at $10 limit, it's a $60-$120 bet)
Again, after a win at a given limit we stay at that level for two times globally (once more), then we go to the immediate lower limit.
And so on.

Statistical issues

Shi.t happens either isolated (more likely) or in bleeding clusters (very less likely), thus after a 3-1-3 or 3-2-3 consecutive pattern appearance I suggest you to not bet a dime until a new fictional 1-2 winning pattern had come out. Many times this means to wait the next shoe.

Notice that more likely than not, an early P 3+ streak apperance will followed by many 3+ streaks than what the opposite situation will do.
Especially whether such 3+ streak is immediately followed by another identical 3+ streak. 

Notice that if you wait some fictional losses, your win rate will be enlarged even more.
#8
AsymBacGuy / Asymbacguy march
February 26, 2018, 01:56:55 AM
This is my original bac approach I want to present here (it was related to my defunct "dispositions and distributions" post.
As I sayed in the baccarat section, I have robbed the word "march" from Sputnik.
With the proper adjustments and experience it can fail.   

Denominations and key attacks

Singles are 1, doubles are 2, triples or longer streaks are 3.

Since singles are forming the most part of all baccarat outcomes, our main bet will be toward singles (1).
Doubles (2) and triples (3) are acting just a "recovering" second step situation. Anyone could assign a specific betting role to those 2 and 3 situations.

We'll only bet (or consider a bet) whenever the last two out of three possible outcomes are 1-2, 2-1, 1-3 or 3-1 in any order and distribution, meaning that 2-3 and 3-2 situatiuons will either not start the betting or stop the betting.

Splitting the 1,2 and 3 outcomes into two separate columns.

Of course the two separate columns I'm referring to are the Banker and Player columns.
Thus we'll get two separate 1-2 and 1-3 different marches, each of one starting the actual or fictional betting whenever the last two outcomes present 1-2, 2-1 or 1-3 or 3-1 outcomes.

Mathematical expectancy

From a mere mathematical and statistical point of view, we know that the 1-2 and 2-1 betting plan itlr will get better results on Player side; conversely a 1-3 and 3-1 betting plan will get the best of it on Banker side.
Actually there's no a better betting plan made on Player side other than 1-2 or 2-1 and, truth to be told, the better Banker plan is toward getting anytime streaks (2-3 or 3-2).

Yet our main issue isn't just focused to always get the most likely events, but to get the events having the lower variance impact.
And since baccarat card distributions are always slight privileging the "chopping mood", I think it's wiser to include singles on our long term betting plan even on B side.

Example

Our shoe portion will be as BBPBPPPPBPBBBPBPBBPPPPPPBBPBPPBPBBB

That is, 2,1,1,3,1,2,2,1,1,3 on B side and 1,3,1,1,1,3,1,2,1 on P side.

Since we are actually or fictionally betting 1-2 or 1-3 situations on both side by a two step progression, we'll get:

Banker: + - + - + + +  -
and
Player: + + + + + - - +

Of course our winning probability is determined by the chance to get at least one of the two outcomes out of possible threes by an average 75% ratio and we know that we'll get higher 75% ratios on P side betting 1-2 events and 1-3 events on B side.

But we can't care less about those long term ratios as we want to restrict their variance by adding some "unlikely events" (singles on B side and triples on P side) that could help us to get the best of it even when those unlikely shoes coming up along the way.

Detecting the possible actual shoe flow

After testing millions of shoes, we can state that there are many shoes presenting all 1-3 B side situations and at a higher degree many 1-2 P side situations. And of course, an all 1-3 or 1-2 patterns shoe must show up at the very start of it.
I mean that what was not presenting at the start of the shoe it will be less probable on the subsequent fragments of it as randomness will most likely act by clusters, especially on finite samples.

Long term probability

For example, betting after 1-2 or 1-3 events got two or more consecutive losses on any side, will reduce the average probability to get subsequent losses as now the W/L ratio can't be lower than 75%, actually it will be a lot lower than that on average.

If our strategic plan dictates to bet whenever we'll get two losses in a row on any side tripling up our original bet after a two-step loss, we can't experience any failure.


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#9
Baccarat Forum / Easy way to feel the random flow
October 03, 2017, 10:59:52 PM
Not surprisingly, the only way one player could temporarily win at any EV- game is getting positive streaks of certain lenght or getting a given outcome within very short intervals (in this case by using a limited progression).

In the long run we are all casinos' contributors.

Since there's no way to predict the future BP outcomes after having seen the past, we want to act objectively first then applying a kind of subjective action.
That is the exact opposite action most players try to do: to act subjectively after the objective results came out in the effort to guess more right than not.

Say we set up a strict mechanical plan dictating to bet B-B-P for every triplets of hands we will encounter. We'll take into account what a B-B-P-B-B-P-B-B-P....strategic plan will work in term of W/L hands.

Why I have chosen to wager the B-B-P sequence no matter what?

Easy answer: itlr the 8 possible patterns for sequences of three hands are more likely if they contains at least two B hands. Of course we could get "more likely" sequences not belonging to the B-B-P category as P-B-B or B-P-B.
Moreover B streaks are more likely than B singles so adopting this betting pace sooner or later we'll catch the patterns where this simple situation will exist.

Notice that applying the BBP general strategic plan, in the P-B-B or B-P-B scenarios we'll get at least one winning hand (respectively the second hand and the first hand).

To cut a long story short, we see that streaks equal or longer than 3 cannot give us any loss per every 3-bet sequence.

The only pattern capable to get three consecutive losses is the P-P-B pattern catched right on the start. I mean that a P-P-P-B pattern would give us a winning hand on the last betting B-B-P set.

Of course for every winning pattern there is a losing pattern and we know it is P-P-B or better sayed B/P-P-B.

But we don't want to get more winning patterns than losing ones (even if they are entitled to, vig apart), indeed we want to try to assess the situations when an expected situation will come out more often than not.

Every bac player knows that's quite difficult to be ahead after 4-5 shoes played, so we should infer that after 4-5 shoes a sort of balancement is going to come out.
Especialliy if this is due by mathematical reasons where B>P.

Back to the B-B-P pattern mechanically played.

The worst scenario this pattern would cross will be the P-P-B pattern precisely taken on the very first spot.
Nothing could prevent to get many consecutive P-P-B losing patterns and they surely will show up.
We are betting B-B-P and many P-P-B consecutive patterns are coming out. Actually itlr P doubles are predominant than P 3+s. So nothing wrong with it.
On the other end, B singles are slightly less prevalent than B streaks but long succession of B singles could easily happen.

Anyway the P doubles/B singles consecutive presentation must stop in some way, either by the production of a B streak or by a P 3+ streak/P single appearance.

Now the distribution issue comes out.

Consecutive shoes capable to produce many P-P-B patterns crossing our B-B-P mechaincal  betting plan are not so frequent and actually itlr cannot be prevalent than the whole counterpart.

So we must deduce that the "unlikely" pattern must come out never or isolated on most occasions, and very rarely in clusters.

We can safely assume that itlr its production is slightly lower than 1/8, but when high positive deviations had happened in the immediate past, the probability to encounter negative clustered patterns is somewhat raised.

Notice that the best scenario to get using the B-B-P betting plan will be a B-B-P-B-B-P.... sequence that is a somewhat unlikely pattern.
And actually we do not want to win several consecutive bets, we do want to limit the losing occurences.

Next time we'll consider this strategy on real shoes. 

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#10
B hand is payed 0.95:1 and P hand is payed 1:1; ties ignored, BP frequency is  50.68/49.32.

Everytime we'll win a bet placed on B side not performing an asymmetrical hand we are i.diots.

Everytime we'll win a bet placed on P side not performing an asymmetrical hand we are geniuses.

Everytime we'll lose a bet placed on B side performing an asymmetrical hand we are unlucky geniuses.

Everytime we'll lose a bet placed on P side performing an asymmetrical hand we are i.diots who deserved it.

Two scenarios complete the picture: winning a B hand where an asymmetrical hand will take place (we're geniuses) and winning a bet placed on P side where an asymmetrical hand had taken place (super lucky i.diots).

Itlr the number of the above six scenarios will dictate that our global negative edge is included from 1.06% to 1.24%.

Now, instead of guessing which fkn next hand will come out, try to register how many times we got super geniuses, super idiots, lucky or unlucky at different degrees.
Everything related to the general probability of happening.

For example, winning three consecutive bets on P side where no asymmetrical hand had taken place means we have shifted the asymmetrical probability where we are hugely underdog.
We can bet our behind that the next three P consecutive bets will perform an increased probability to cross an asymmetrical hand.

The same about after having won three consecutive B hands: if they were three symmetrical hands, we can bet our behind that the next three B bet situations will be more likely to encounter at least one asymmetrical hand. Of course we can lose that asymmetrical hand or not crossing it at all, but itlr we cannot be wrong.

Whenever we think the asymmetrical factor is exhausted no matter which the actual results had been, more often than not the game will show up as a mere coin flip proposition. Here one hand is payed 0.95:1 and the other one 1:1.

On the contrary, if we think the aymmetrical factor is "due",  we know that getting payed 0.95:1 will be just a minor damage, as the overall mathematical advantage will erase this "short" payement.

Discounting ties, we know that perfect symmetrical hands will happen 91.6% of the time, the rest is about asymmetrical hands where B side is hugely favored (15.6% edge).

If we'd regularly bet P side and no one asymmetrical hand will take place, we know we're going to play a perfect zero edge game.
Conversely, if we are going to bet the situations where we think the asymmetrical factor is somewhat "due" (more than its general probability of happening), thus betting the B chance, we know to approach an EV+ game.

We must put ourselves into the position not to be super geniuses or super stupid.s for long.
Knowing that a pefect 50/50 proposition is unbeatable, especially whether one side is payed 0.95:1. 

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#11
Baccarat Forum / How to beat baccarat itlr
June 22, 2017, 01:02:51 AM
How to beat baccarat itlr?

First, card counting the side bets. It gets you a mathematical advantage. 

Then there is the complicate world of B/P bets.

There is no way to consistently beat the game by following patterns or following lucky players or betting the opposite of unlucky players.
It's what the total amount of players will do and they are losers.

Remember that it's very hard to be ahead after two consecutive shoes and a lot harder to be ahead after 4 or more consecutive shoes. No matter how is sophisticated your strategy.

What we can do is betting the probabilities.

We do not want to hope for, we must rely upon probabilities.

For example after a P-P apparition, probabilties dictate that the most likely occurence will be a P single or a P double. Period.

Or that after an asymmetrical hand favoring (or actually not) Banker, next most likely hand will be a symmetrical hand that is a hand which is payed 1:1 on one side and 0.95:1 on the other one.

Or that after many high cards have been discarded, P side will be slightly favored especially if a lot of 8s and 9s were already drawn from the shoe.

Or that P standing or natural points are less likely than P drawing points, a necessary situation to get the B advantage.

Or that B streaks are more due if there's a lack of asymmetrical hands on the previous hands occurred.

Or that the most likely outcome at baccarat is getting chops and short streaks.

Or that P 3+ streaks are less followed by another P 3+ streak.

And many other situations will be more likely than others itlr.

Do those features regularly get the player an advantage?

Nope.

There's the variance and variance will enlarge itself the more we are playing. So huge that very often after 3-4 shoes we cannot devise how to get a winning hand.
Worse yet if we got consecutive long winning series giving us the illusion to be genius.

Wait some unlikely situations to come up, odds are that your future bets will be more right than wrong. Especially if such unlikely situations got a sd > 3.

It takes a lot patience, it takes to absorb the assumption that the game is a very long game eventually balancing the outcomes. 
Up to the point that we won't be in the position to bet a dime after 5-6 or 10 or more shoes.

In a word a thing no any bac player in the world wants to accept.

So such players keep losing and losing and losing.


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#12
AsymBacGuy / Roulette
May 31, 2017, 11:31:23 PM
Since when I've joined this awesome site I've been stressing that roulette is a perfectly unbeatable game.
Nevertheless I've found very interesting topics made by some members here, actually imo some of the best ideas about baccarat came from roulette aficionados.

Anyway how could a player erase and invert a -5.26% (or 2.70%) negative edge?

The advent of authomatic wheels (aw from now) made me change my long term opinion.

To blatantly put it, the possible edge a player may have on such wheels is a lot more manageable than what a well lower negative edge game as baccarat could provide.

I mean aw can be beaten and I'm not joking at all.

Preface.

Any gambling game favoring the casino relies upon the winning premises about its randomness (along with the math edge). The more the game is random the better are the chances the casino will get its long term mathematical edge. At least in theory.

Thus any player cannot get any advantage from a perfect random game as this one will amplify at most the negative math edge.

On the contrary, a quite unrandom model might endorse the player's winning probabilities, providing an accurate and proper player's detection of such unrandomness features.

Good news are we don't have to bother about the supposedly randomness or unrandomness of the game. Meaning that even a so called perfect random game could be beaten beacuse it will raise the equiprobability of the outcomes.

My statement is that perfect random games may be easily beaten as long successions of pc generated bac shoes or long successions of perfect random roulette spins.

That should be true as here a new outcome will be perfectly made independent than the previous one. A thing that could only happen with pc generated outcomes.
And, more importantly, at "controlled" degrees as pc's are stupid by definition.

Real world vs pc generated world

A real world is composed by many subjective and objective variables as a human factor will interfere with the whole process.
The more the objective features will act over the whole process, the better will be the probabilities to get random outcomes and the only sure way to get a more objective impact is knowing that a pc is releasing the outcomes.
A software isn't affected at all by emotional issues, actual issues, sweat, spinning effects or whatsoever that characterizes a human.
It will act according to a more or less pre-ordered plan set up by humans but such parameters will be constant along the way as a pc is stupid. Especially whether the production will act in the same environment.

More importantly we should infer that a pc generation will be instructed to get more random results than what a non software generation could make, that is a better equiprobability of the outcomes.

And more specifically, a software is less likely to produce the exact outcome of the previous situation as it will never choose the same previous landing spot/next ball velocity parameter, taking for grant a constant rotor speed and a constant ball launching time.

Of course there are more issues related to a software generation that I do not want to discuss here for obvious reasons.

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#13
Baccarat Forum / Asymbacguy basic approach
April 24, 2017, 11:13:01 PM
Let's say we are machines wagering against another machine.

The game seems to be a coin flip succession but we know that itlr B>P by every simple or complex BP distribution.

We know that a coin flip succession cannot be beaten by any means.

I repeat it: any coin flip succession cannot be beaten by any means.

If baccarat might be beaten it's because it isn't a coin flip succession.

I repeat it: if baccarat might be beaten it's because it isn't a coin flip succession.

B is more prevalent than P as B includes hands where it has a mathematical advantage due to the rules. It happens just 8.6% of the times.

So B won't be advantaged 100% of the times, neither 50% of the times, neither 20% of the times.
Moreover B won't be 100% advantaged on such 8.6% total hands. Just by a 15.6% percentage.

Simple deduction: regularly wagering B side won't get us any control of the game as there's a lot of variance.

In order to win we need to control the variance.

Hence we need a further hint: distribution and frequency of B related patterns and P related patterns.

Simplest next step is considering B and P patterns in term of B streaks (more prevalent than B singles) and P singles (more prevalent than P streaks).

So a B streak of 2 banker hands in a row will be considered as a B streak of 25 or 30.

The same about P singles: a P single will be considered as a succession of 10-15 or 20 P singles in a row.

In a word, any B streak and/or any P single will be our new simplest targets to look for.

We do not want to guess MANY hands. We do want to guess the least possible amount of hands favoring the construction of the simplest patterns: B streaks and P singles.

Since the random world won't accomplish our simple task everytime, besides the first stop win (the production of just one B streak and/or just one P single) we need to put a stop loss during our endeavour.
We don't want to lose many bets looking for B streaks and P singles when a shoe continues to produce the counterparts. But we need to accept the fact that many positive outcomes will be disregarded by not betting as we cannot know when and how much they will materialize.

The most deviated situations we could expect to are single shoes not presenting one B streak (impossible feature) and no one P single (very very very very unlikely situation, still a possible situation).

The probability to get two consecutive shoes not featuring such situations (no B streaks and no P singles) is not existent.

So we know that no one shoe will form only B singles and that no two consecutive shoes will rule out at least one P single apparition.

Of course we could easily get a shoe forming 10 B singles, one B streak and another 10 or more B singles and many other distributions strongly deviating the "natural" outcomes.
And naturally a couple of long P streaks happening on a single shoe will reduce the probability to get P singles as those streaks are reducing the situations to get them.

In a word, we don't know when and how many B streaks and/or P singles will take place, even if we put at minimum our goal.

To reduce the variance we need a further step.

B streaks clusters (consecutive B streaks of two or more) are more likely than single B streaks (B streaks preceded and followed by one or more B singles) and the same is true about P singles (P singles clusters are more likely than P singles interpoled by two or more P streaks).

If we hadn't to pay the 5% vig, a general plan wagering those patterns will get more B streaks clusters than the counterparts and the same it's true about P singles clusters vs the opposite situation.

Actually if we hadn't to pay the 5% vig, we'll get a sure advantage simply betting B side everytime but here the variance will be very high, so high that we could be behind after 10k or even 20k resolved bets.

So I'm enhancing the issue that in some selected situations the most likely event will be slight more "likely" in relationship of what happened in the past per every shoe.

If anyone is interested about this topic I will continue.

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AsymBacGuy / Asymbac method: key triggers at baccarat
November 11, 2016, 03:13:58 AM
Taken from a BP point of view, baccarat is a beatable game by any means because it's an asymmetrical game. Meaning that itlr something is going to happen more often than not.
Not everytime, never by a steady state. But we know it will.

Two main mathematical conditions will affect the long term outcomes:

1) the asymmetrical factor favoring the B side, mostly when it collects a 4 or 5 two card point;

2) the very slight propensity to get the opposite of the last result, this due to a finite card composition interacting with the bac rules.

Both are two undeniable aspects of the game and I'll challenge any expert of the world to prove otherwise.

Then there is the finite card composition that in some way will limit the random world (mostly because there's no enough room to get a balancement of previous events).

We also know that per every bet wagered we have to overcome a 1.06%/1.24% negative edge but we shouldn't care less as some people have found methods to get en edge at roulette having a 2.70% or 5.26% negative edge.

Of course any random game, no matter how much is asymmetrical, will produce fluctuations statistically known as standard deviation.
In a word, we cannot control or getting the best of it from a random game betting every hand, it's literally impossible even for untaxed situations.

The real holy grail is trying to devise a method capable to win by flat betting. This means to be able to erase the house tax first, then to be able to get more winning situations than losing ones.
Meaning we can control the outcomes.
It could be done but only after very long trackings and after some unexpected situations had occurred.
An astounding method capable to get an almost perfect balancement between two opposite events is good either, because the use of a simple progression will get a good control of the outcomes.   

Disregarding the FB possibility, we should rely upon more likely situations capable to get very low sd values.

After long years of studying and testing baccarat, I devised three principal triggers and a so called systematic plan of action that has nothing to share with the aforementioned triggers.

Here I'll mention the three triggers.

A) The distribution of Banker streaks (that is when a B is followed by another B without regard about the streak's lenght)

B) The distribution of Banker doubles.

C) The distribution of Player 3+ streaks vs counterparts.

Someone will be surprised that in my list I haven't included P singles and P doubles and there's a reason for that I don't want to elaborate.

A) Itlr Banker streaks are more prevalent than B singles counterpart but we all know that many shoes will produce many B singles. So we have to limit the B singles impact in some way. And it's statistics which will give us some help.
Any shoe is a finite and dependent production, so more often than not a strong deviated situation in either way will be NOT compensated by the remaining of the shoe.
The question is: how I'll know that a more likely event will be really more likely or somewhat silent? To answer the question we'll have to devise a method capable to get rid of the unfavorite outcomes (B singles) and trying to get the best of the expected situations (B streaks).
More importantly, we should know the B streaks/B singles ratio knowing the finite nature of the deck and acting accordingly.   

B) Banker doubles are a wonder. They are forced into a struggle between forming a more likely longer streak and the propensity to get the opposite of the last result, that is a B double.
The answer should be quite easy. From one part we have a mathematical diluted edge to get a longer streak and from the other one we have a statistical long term finding. We'd better wait to get a B double and see what happens next.     

C) Player 3+ streaks (a P streak of any 3 lenght or longer) are both the easiest and safest way to approach a method and also the most dangerous ones.
We shouldn't forget that most of the time (91.4%) the BP outcomes are perfectly symmetrical, so without the asymmetrical factor acting in some way (and we should know the previous actual result of such asymmetrical hands) BBB+ is perfectly probable than PPP+, so transforming the game into a perfect unbeatable situation.
Nonetheless, any P 3+ streak and any distribution related to that itlr will have to overcome TWO CONVERGENT opposite factors favoring the production of different outcomes: the asymmetricity and the slight propensity to get the opposite of the last result.

No news, right? Banker is still the best bet or, better sayed, the less negative bet.
This is true most of the times but not always true, as wagering toward the B singles apparition in some circumstances will provide many favourable spots to bet into. Especially knowing the finite card composition of any deck.

You can bet whatever you get that at baccarat there are no other more controllable situations than the three depicted above.

B streaks, B doubles and P 3+ streaks distributions are by far the best triggers to set up a strategy on because without any doubt they are particularly balanced in their appareance and distribution.

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#15
AsymBacGuy / Roulette: a sure long term finding
May 18, 2016, 10:31:33 PM
Even though roulette is a perfect independent results' game, there are some interesting long term features that could be easily tested by everyone.
The strategy  was conducted over 1.500.000 real spins (single zero).

I mean some events are more likely than others. Unfortunately zero tax and some other practical features will lower a lot the value of such aknowledge.

The trigger we are looking for is really simple: we take note of the last number produced then we bet all the 3 EC belonging to this number. And this procedure is made per every last number sorted out.

For example number 33 sorted out, next spin we want to bet black, odd and high.

Obviously such betting will get 4 different outcomes (zero ignored):

- winning all 3 EC (sorting of 29,31,33,35): +3

- winning just one unit (sorting of 11,13,15,17,19,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28): +1

- losing just one unit (sorting of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,20,30,32,34,36): -1

- losing all 3 EC (sorting of 12,14,16,18): -3

Well, in the long run the number of spots winning all 3 bets are greater than the number of spots losing all 3 bets and it will increase the more the hands are played.

Of course to try getting the best of it from this finding needs also to take into account the spots where we'll either win or lose 1 unit.

Despite of what many may think, there are no better numbers or worse numbers to spot as triggers.

True, red-odd-low numbers or black-even-high numbers should have the theorical best probability to match the same EC on the next spin but this wasn't the case, at least on our quite long sample.

In a word and transferring the plan on the statistical field, we'll expect to have more single total different EC outcomes than streaks of different EC outcomes, more double different EC outcomes than 2+ streaks of different EC outcomes and so on. And the reverse is also true regarding the same EC situations (more streaks than single, more 2+ than doubles, etc).

The variance and the weight of zero could be quite high, yet the final result will be sure.

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AsymBacGuy / A progression that can't lose
May 11, 2016, 11:19:31 PM
We know that any progression will get the best of it whenever a zero equilibrium point will be reached within a fair amount of trials. Of course some progressions could do even better, that is getting the player a profit even when the W/L ratio is shifted toward the right.
Notice that the well known D'Alambert progression will win 1 unit after the equilibrium is reached but not everytime as everything depends about the DISTRIBUTION of W and L.

Here I'm talking about the almost absolute impossibility to lose our entire bankroll and this is a total different thing than stating that we will win easily. Nonetheless knowing that we won't lose in the longest possible runs isn't a vulgar accomplishment.

I have to forcely consider a $100 standard unit bet and the total bankroll is $6600 (66 units).
For simplicity we won't take into account the commission when applied.
Remember that our goal is to reach at a given point a zero equilibrium point, meaning we want to get the W/L ratio = zero.
Later more on that.

Columns are: L deviations, betting amount in $, financial exposure, gain after the equilibrium will be reached

0  $100           100   -
1  $100 + $10 210 10
2  $100 + $20 330 30
3  $100 + $30 460 60
4  $100 + $40 600 100
5  $100 + $50 750 150
6  $100 + $60 910 210
7  $100 + $70 1080 280
8  $100 + $80 1260 360
9  $100 + $90 1450 450
10 $100 + $100 1650 550
11 $200 + $10 1860 660
12 $200 + $20 2080 780
13 $200 + $30 2300 780
14 $200 + $30 2430 910
15 $200 + $30 2760 910
16 $200 + $30 2990 910
17 $200 + $40 3130 1050
18 $200 + $40 3370 1050
19 $200 + $40 3610 1050
20 $200 + $40 3850 1050
21 $200 + $50 4100 1200
22 $200 + $50 4350 1200
23 $200 + $50 4600 1200
24 $200 + $50 4850 1200
25 $200 + $50 5100 1200
26 $200 + $60 5360 1360
27 $200 + $60 5620 1360
28 $200 + $60 5880 1360
29 $200 + $60 6140 1360
30 $200 + $60 6400 1360
31 $200 + $60 6600 1360

We see that to lose our entire bankroll we need either a 5.56 sr negative deviation (like looking at 31 negative hands in a row, a 31 streak) or, most likely, a W/L gap of 31.

Every roulette player knows that a gap between even chances could easily reach and surpass the W/L amount (btw a 31 streak is a very very very rare finding also at this game) but at baccarat we have a lot of ploys to find two opposite events that cannot reach the 31 negative (or less likely positive)value by any fkn means.
Especially if we want to prolong the progression by another 10 or so steps. 

So we know that adopting this slow progression we can't lose or, better sayed, that the probability to lose is really very very low, let's say almost impossible.

And, wonder of wonders, with proper adjustments we may use it betting only the Player side, hence knowing that we won't pay a bit of commission.

In a word, we can even regularly bet the unfavourable side knowing that we can't lose itlr.

A further example why we have to play slowly and with a lot of patience.

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#17
Baccarat Forum / Getting an edge and game control
April 26, 2016, 10:02:26 PM
Getting an edge and controlling the game are two distinct features to consider in order to constantly win at baccarat.

Let's say casinos go crazy reducing the Banker commission from 5% to 1%, so offering a long term profitable game for players wagering Banker.
Now we get a tiny mathematical edge so we'll expect to make some money itlr. And many players will.

Yet even in this fantastic and utopistic game we know we'll have to endure hard times, that is the strong Player dominated shoes appearance.

In a word, if now the commission on B winning bets is 1% (meaning our B bets will be EV+) does our actual strategy be affected in some way?

We know to get a mathematical edge, so we're just concerned about the "game control".

In reality the game control topic isn't so important as we realize that a stup.id flat betting strategy will get the best of it no matter what. But only in the long run. And knowing that positive and negative situations will be mixed along the way: variance.

Therefore in a such hypothetical EV+ game, even knowing to be eventual FB winners, we want to set up a plan capable to "control" the variance and there are only two obvious ways to do that: bet selection and MM.

Now the questions:

- can we improve our results (that is trying to reduce variance) utlizing a possible valid bet selection?

- can we improve our results (that is trying to reduce variance) utilizing a MM plan?

- what about both?

I mean, are there some additional tools to guess what will be the more likely course of action of the outcomes besides the fact that any B bet is slightly EV+?

Do take a role the various trending strategies, the B/P gap issues or many others features the game will provide?
Is a careful planned MM capable to be ok even on the very strong negative circumstances?

It's easy to ascertain the validity of the above strategies. We test a large sample of shoes registering if a planned strategy will overcome such obstacles.

Remember we are there to make a living at baccarat, not just to have fun.

I'm wondering if in this new game some of us will bet the mathematically unfavored Player side for some reasons.

I'm wondering which kind of MM progression experts will use here.


Ok, we know such game will never show up in a casino so we want to transfer the problem into the real game.
Actually the game isn't changed so much, the only difference is we have to pay an additional 4% on Banker winning bets.
I don't think bac players from being long term winners on the hypothetical situation depicted above will become heavy losers because of this added 4%.

Imo, to pretend to think the game as having a positive expectation on Banker bets (with many issues related to that) will improve a lot our results.

We know to encounter hard times even having a positive expectation, still some statistical features might help us to better "control" the game.

The same statistical features might help us to lower, erase or even invert a mathematical negative edge actually happening at real games.

As long as B>P, imo baccarat is a beatable game. Not mathematically of course.

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#18
Baccarat Forum / Book on ties
April 11, 2016, 10:47:51 PM
I've found on my remote shelfs a book specifically devoted on baccarat ties.

The book is "Q's baccarat winning strategies, vol II" by John Qiu (1997).

The author claims to be able to predict the tie occurence by a degree capable to overcome the horrible 14.1% house edge.

When certain conditions are contemporarily met,  he says the tie appearance is 99% predictable.

Fundamentally (I don't want to violate the copyright) he considers the tie appearance probability mainly as a simmetrical issue.

Well, having a "asymbac" nickname this sounds like a curse to me.  ^-^

Basically and without offering a valid reason, he splits the outcomes in columns of 4 searching some kind of tie simmetries.

Has anyone of you ever heard of this book?

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#19
Baccarat Forum / The mathematical method to win
February 17, 2016, 12:37:06 AM
Don't waste time to test marches, betting selections, MM or whatever.
They all will fail itlr.

We want a system that mathematically will get the best of it itlr, no matter what.

Seat at a EZ table aiming to get a dragon bonus. Then assign a -1 value to any 4,5,6 or 7 card and a +2 value to any 8 or 9 card removed from the deck.
Whenever the true count (actual count compared to the estimated amount of decks left) will reach the +4 or higher point you'll get a sure f undeniable edge over the house.

Itlr you cannot lose but only win. Mathematically.

I know this isn't the solution you were looking for, still is by far the best and sure option to beat baccarat on very long terms. 

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#20
Baccarat Forum / Baccarat as Chemin de Fer
January 12, 2016, 02:03:43 AM
Chemin de fer ("railroad" in french) is a form of baccarat where the house isn't directly involved as the 9 people seated at the table play among themselves.
House only controls the game, taking the 5% vig on every Banker wins.

Almost exclusively spread in Europe, the game is played with 6 decks.

I'll try to explain the rules for the few who don't know this bac variant. 

The player seated on #1 begins the action "owning" the shoe, meaning that he's the Banker and every other player at the table could only oppose his initial bet so wagering the Player side (the minimum bet generally is quite high, there is no maximum). It's not mandatory that one or more players have to cover all his initial or subsequent bets, whenever the Player side won't cover the Banker bet the uncovered amount will be given back to the Banker man.
Anyway, the man impersoning the Banker must leave the entire amount (generally a doubled sum per each hand won) as long as he keep winning his Banker hands. He cannot pass his first turn to be the Banker but after any win he has the option to pass the shoe to another player (so enticing a sort of auction among the players with a left to right priority).
Generally almost nobody will pass the shoe (so abandoning the right to be the banker) after just one winning hand, very rarely after two winning hands, mostly after 3 or 4 hands. Some players love to keep the shoe until the winning streak comes to an end.

Everytime the banker hand loses the shoe passes to the player seated in the immediate left who will be the new Banker and so on, the shoe going around the table in a clockwise fashion. If the shoe was "bought" by another player after a Banker winning streak,  the game continues until the B streak will be over and then the game resumes to the next player.
Therefore in turn every player will have the right to be the Banker as long as he will be able to win his Banker hands.

Differently to the baccarat version played in the casinos, here players betting the Player side don't show their two hole cards unless they form a natural point. However Banker player must show his cards.   
If a Player bettor is taking the action alone, he can do whatever he wants, so standing with 4 or 5, hitting with 6, denying a natural by simple standing and not showing the natural (this last option is denied to the banker for obvious reasons). Otherwise, he must stay to the rule of showing naturals, standing with 6 or 7, drawing with 0,1,2,3,4,  but he still has the option to stand on 5. 
The Banker player could decide what to do after the third card draw (even drawing with a 6 or even standing with a 5 vs a stand, a no brainer move), the third card more significant scenarios being when he has 5 giving a 4 and having a 3 giving a 9 (both stand or draw decisions have the same mathematical expectancy).
Moreover the Banker man showing a natural when the Player asks for a third card has the option to give this card, a move solely based on superstition (of course risking to tie the hand as it's almost always used with a B9 hand).

Example.

Player #1 holds the shoe so he's the Banker, if Player side wins the hand the shoe passes to the next player seated to his left, player #2. If player #1 wins the hand he must leave the doubled amount for the next hand and so on until he lose or he decides to take rid of the shoe.

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We can easily see that being forced any player to be the Banker, the main aim is hoping to get streaks of Banker wins right on the seat assigned to a given player. A secondary option is to bet the Player side but for the clockwise nature of the game there are no guarantees that any player can effectively bet whenever he decides to, unless the banker win is so huge that he's the only one who might afford the sum to cover it. Definitely chemin de fer is a high stakes game and surely a pure luck game.

Curious statistical features

Not surprisingly and from a Banker point of view, most part of shoes will award just a couple or three players among the nine seated, so at least 2/3 of the total players will be sure losers.
And this thing tends to perpetrate even for some series of shoes.

In a word, for every player the hope to get one or more substantial winning streaks on Banker side right on his turn will be somewhat misplaced.

Many times one or more given seats won't be able to win a single hand, everytime coming up a Player hand on their Banker turn.

Of course the opposite scenario, meaning that the same few seats are regularly kissed by luck, are quite frequent.

It seems that the RTM effect doesn't act at all at Chemin de Fer, at least considering a single session. Of course it's just a mathematical distribution issue.

Some players adopting a kind of "other people luck" strategy would find a heaven on those games.


Possible applications of such features on real baccarat

Of course I'm writing this stuff just for curiosity purposes, but if you test some shoes you'll get a better idea of what I'm talking about.

Let's say we want to transform a Chemin de Fer game into a baccarat table.

The initial shoe is: BP P BBP BP BBBBBP BBP  P BBBP P.
players                  1  2   3    4       5       6    7    8    9

So player #1 will win the first hand (B) the he proceeds to lose the next (P) so the shoe passes to player #2 that  lose the first hand being another P.
Player #3 wins two hands in a row (BB) then he loses so the shoe passes to player #4.
This wins just one hand the he loses.
Player #5 wins 5 hands in a row, then Player #6 wins two hands in a row then loses.
Player #7 lose his very first hand, then player #8 wins 3 hands in a row. Players #9 lose his first hand.

In this 14:9 B/P ratio we registered 3 players not getting just one winning hand, two players winning one hand, two players winning two hands, one player winning three hands and only one lucky player winning five hands.
From a strict chemin de fer point of view and generally speaking, it's very probable that after this first cycle only player #8 and #5 could have gotten some profit, admitting that player 8 wanted to abandon the shoe after 3 winning hands and that player #5 didn't want to press his luck if all or almost all of his temporary winning amount were covered by the other players at the table.

After the second cycle we could get a better idea about the "luck" of any player, also considering the nature of the first sequence of hands, voluntarily shifted toward the B side.

It's true that some shoes will provide strong dominances on B side so enhancing the probability that many players will be winning in some way, nonetheless itlr it should be interesting to assess the "lucky-unlucky" lines of each player, especially knowing that after any CdF session there are at least 4 or 5 players heavily losing.

Just for curiosity. Of course.

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#21
Baccarat Forum / The FS MB/TF system
January 11, 2016, 12:27:37 AM
This system (FS) originally invented for roulette several years ago is a mix between a mechanical betting (MB) method and a trend following (TF) method.
It produced a 4800 winning units over 200.000 real observed/played hands by flat betting.

It involves 5 different attacks.

1- After any 3+ series interrupted by the other chance, the system dictates to bet the dominant chance just one time.
So after a BBBP or PPPB sequence (and longer first streaks) we have to bet the dominant chance just one time (respectively B and P) . Winning or losing we stop the bet.

2- Everytime we'll look at a 3 streak, we'll bet just one time on the same side, hoping to get a 4+ streak.
If we win we'll stop the betting, if we lose we bet again the same side as the #1 attack will dictate.

3-  Whenever any symmetrical pattern will take place, we'll bet to get more symmetrical patterns but the lower symmetrical patterns will get the priority over the larger ones.

Examples:

after BBPP we'll bet B;

after PPBPBPP we'll bet B

after PPBBBPP we'll bet B

after PPPBPBPBPPP we'll bet B;

after BBBPPP we had to bet B but if we lost (BBBPPPP) and whenever we have a BBBPPPPBBB sequence we'll bet P chance.

So any previous exact 3 streak apperance we'll bet toward another exact same side 3 streak apperance and so on.

4- Two's consecutive sequences.

Everytime we'll look at two consecutive doubles we'll bet toward the 2s apperance.
Examples:

BPBPPBB now we bet P and then P. Whether a PP comes out we'll continue to bet toward BB then PP and so on.

Everytime we'll lose a bet we stop the betting unless we'll get a 3 sequence where we utilize the attack #1. If we get a single we'll wait another possible 2-2 sequence or a 3 streak dictating to bet the #1 attack.

5- If we'll encounter a single-double occurence we'll bet toward having more single-double occurences. The betting stop will be established after a double apperance on the "wrong side".
Then we'll restart the betting if the doubles and singles are coming up on the opposite side betting accordingly. Of course after a 3+ streak, we go back to the #2 attack.

Examples.

PPBPP we bet B then PP and then B PP B PP and so on.

In a word, we hope to get:

- More dominant patterns after any 3+ streak followed by a single counterpart had come out;

- More 3+s than 3s streaks on either side;

- More symmetrical patterns than other asymmetrical ones;

- More doubles consecutive apperance than any other pattern (if the doubles are followed by a 3+ streak we'll get almost even)

- More one side shifted singles-doubles apperance than any other patterns.


In a word, the original author assumed that some 50/50 patterns will get a clustered slight higher deviation amount than the opposite counterparts.

We all know that he was wrong and that he got positive results just by a short term working factor.

Yet and regarding baccarat his study might be of some help, as we all know that #1 and #2 attacks will show a slight better expectancy on one side, #3 and #4 attacks are more difficult to happen but sooner or later they will; and that the #5 scenario is by far the most likely occurence on one side.

Imo this could be a decent way to register and assess the possible results, as the whole system couldn't be disappointed for long on the five different multiple attacks. Especially if simultaneuosly considered.  :)

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#22
Baccarat Forum / Trend following world
December 25, 2015, 12:23:07 AM
We know that the vast majority of bac players like to following trends and surely such aficionados are well represented here.

We also know that the scientific counterpart world fully denies the possibility to get the best of it by a trend following (TF) strategy. In reality such scientific world denies every other opportunity to win on the long term (besides the old issue of card counting the side bets and stuff related to that), so we can argue that adopting a TF strategy won't do any worse than utilizing every other method.

Let's see first and generally speaking what could be the pros and cons of TF strategy.

Pros:

- Undoubtedly if we are able to find a valuable trend, we'll lose just one bet being every other possibility a winning one but the first wrong attempt and the losing end of the trend.

So a player must spot a trigger he/she thinks as a valuable one, he/she keep playing it until the opposite scenario will come out and then he/she must restart to find another valuable trigger spot.

- Choosing to bet toward some deviations tends to support the idea that equilibrium is a kind of exception in the chance outcomes, expecially considering a finite card dependent game like baccarat.

Therefore a player using a TF strategy wants to take advantage of the many deviations the game will provide.

- Deeply thinking and elaborating the above issue, there's no a single possibility to get an equilibrium over the bac outcomes, providing a careful assessment of those results (more on this later).

Cons.

- It's quite difficult to know from the start which direction will take place a given pattern, trend or outcomes' line along the way.

- No matter how good we are able to spot some possible valuable trends, we must accept the idea that everything will be almost always perfectly and proportionally placed with the opposite situations.

General considerations

"Ok", will say the TF lovers: "itlr we surely know to be long term losers, but we will be pleased to try to be winners on short human terms of intervention, as we don't care a bit about what will happen thereafter".

So it seems that the most important factor any TF lover would focus on will be the actual results over a forcefully restricted amount of played shoes.

Furthermore, some acute players will try to get the best of it adopting a TF strategy filtered by certain very long statistical shifted evidences.

Practical considerations

From a strict mathematical point of view and assuming one unit wagering, each TF strategy attempt will produce:

- 1 unit win if after every selected trigger we'll be right then we quit the betting.

- 1 unit loss after every selected trigger starting point of betting is a losing one (wrong trigger).

- an almost break even result (vig impact) if after any successful bet we'll lose the second one (WL pattern). 

- a temporary 1 unit profit (before vig) if we'll get a WLW sequence.

- a break even situation if we'll get a WLWL situation.

- many situations where W exceed L in a short amount of hands whereas many losing patterns are erased just from the first attempt, as we won't go any further after having missed the first favourable opportunity. 

Easy to notice that every TF strategy to be successful must have a higher amount of winning than losing bets right on the first wager.
The remaining winning combinations are definitely going uphill, either for variance and negative edge issues.

So for practical purposes any TF strategy should be directed to get a winning hand right after the trigger recognition.

Trying to force the WL ratio by a MM procedure whenever we didn't do any good after the trigger showing imo doesn't represent the best viable tool of options. Unless our TF precognition will be more restricted than what the game suggests.

Imo the main collateral effect every TF strategy will produce is about the frequency of such so called profitable bets.

Most players want to spot too many triggers, many of them trying to guess profitable triggers per every hand showing by a direct or reverse way of thinking.

What about letting go some fictional profitable triggers which went wrong or, even better, some statistically unexpected patterns that have shown up "too much"?

And what about a multiple trend and multi layered TF registration possibly capable to lower the variance and to enhance the probability to win?

It's the same thing I've found about a couple of precise patterns coming out more often than not and acting on quite long terms, still a very carefully multiple trend registration might lead to the same results.

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#23
AsymBacGuy / The PONR effect
December 19, 2015, 11:48:35 PM
The PONR (point of no return) effect was one of the decisive tools that helped me to discover some favourable betting opportunities.

What's a PONR?

Every experienced baccarat player knows that after every session where the losses were too high, the subsequent efforts to recover partially or totally the deficit were almost always ineffective. Moreover, any effort to try to break even not only was worthless but even added more losses. More often than not.

Trying to erase a one unit deficit is quite simple, trying to erase a two unit deficit is an unproportional (not linear) more difficult task. And so on.

So I name as PONR a given point where the odds to recover the deficit are so bad that we better quit the betting.
Notice that the exact opposite situation, that is getting many consecutive winnings with very low possibilities to lose the entire gain are less likely placed for obvious reasons.

So itlr, the probability to get many winnings in a row is lower than to get the opposite situation.
With important consequences on a possible RTM effect.

The concept of "session" could be confusing as any player intend to consider a session as:

- a single shoe

- a given amonut of shoes

- a day

- a week

- a month

Most people consider a session as a given amount of played shoes or a day.

We see that the parameter is the time factor, even considered in form of shoes played or in form of hours or days or weeks.

All due to both mathematical and humanly related considerations, the PONR will most likely show up on short terms as the humanly related factor will have the predominant part over the mathematical factor.

Computing the sum of the average bac player outcomes, there's almost no one player in the world losing 1.06% or 1.24% of the total bets wagered itlr. They lose far more than that, not only for some of them wanted to wager the very negative odds of side bets.

Since most part of players like to bet many spots, we can safely assume that the PONR will more likely act on such players than on more selected bettors.

Of course, diluting the betting for itself isn't a valid reason to expect less losing patterns, yet we have to assume that the PONR will be more likely encountered by frequent bettors as the PONR factor will be proportionally placed with the bets wagered. Because almost every single bet we place is EV-.

The PONR factor represents just the bottom of the canyon we want to avoid falling into, there are many intermediate steps along the way.
Actually each time we're trying to climb up toward the ridge we'll meet an opposite stronger force bringing us more and more toward the invariable descent.

The fact that along this invariable descent we are hoping to find some handholds shouldn't give us much confidence. Such handholds are rare and most part of the times they are too weak.

Good news is that per every PONR it exists a slight lesser amount of opposite PONR, meaning that in some circumstances our whole expectation is more oriented toward a climbing mood than a descending one. But we better restrict our terms of intervention as the rule is to get a descending mood and not a climbing one.

Our task should be focused about those rare occurences where the opposite favourable PONR presence will be so high that the counter force cannot overwhelm it.
The same way a negative PONR will act, now on the opposite side.

PONR and opposite PONR.

It's all about making the wrong move at the right time, just to quote the C.K. movie.

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#24
I don't know if you are aware of this system, anyway it's widely known as one of the best systems ever invented on 50/50 chances.

We bet whatever we want a given chance and everytime we'll get 1 unit profit, we collect the winning and we erase our betting plan.

If after betting 7 hands we won't get any profit, we'll have those occurences:

-  Being behind of 1 unit;

- Being behind of 3 units;

- Being behind of 5 units;

- Being behind of 7 units.

Anytime we'll get a deficit for the subsequent series of 7 hands we'll bet the deficit plus 1 unit.
Anytime we'll erase the previous deficit we start over betting 1 unit. Anytime we won't be able to recover the deficit we'll add one unit to the total deficit.

Notice that it's a mathematically proven fact that per every 7 hands series bet, we'll get a 72.66% propability to win.

Actually among the 128 occurences bet on each of the 7 hands series, 93 dispositions are winning and just 35 are losing ones. So the WL ratio is 93/35 = 72.66% and this is true per every 7 hand series wagered.

So after each 7 hands bet series the probability to win will be as follows:

- after  7 hands = 72.66%

- after 14 hands = 93.52%

- after 21 hands = 98.23%

- after 28 hands = 99.52%

- after 35 hands = 99.87%

So we'll notice that after a five cluster of 7 hands losing series the probability to lose is just confined at a 0.13% value.

If we can follow this strategy over and over, we'll cross the line where the losing event will be almost insignificant compared to the winning part, always considering the SD effect.

This is a mathematically sure plan to beat the house since sooner or later we'll get the favorite probability working on our favor (let's think about the theorically unfavourable WLLLLLL  or LLWWWLL or many other end losing pattern working for us).

Obviously and devised like that, such system needs a very large bankroll to bear the fluctuations of the game.

So we might reduce the betting raise amount by properly registering the possible favourable and negative patterns, knowing their actual SD features.

After all, we couldn't expect many more losing series after some consecutive 27.34% probability events had come out in short terms. Expecially if considered after any 7 hands consecutive series.

Naturally and at the same time we should care about those "easy" winnings coming up on long consecutive series, a sure signal that things won't be so profitable for us.

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#25
It would be an awesome accomplishment to make a living playing baccarat at casinos' expenses. After all winning at baccarat seems to be an easy task, we ought to be right just slightly above the ratio of 50/50 WL propositions (vig considered on B wagers). In the short run, that's true.

So if in this right moment every bac player in the world will bet to get just a single B hand wagering three hands by a simple martingale (1-2-4), we know for sure that the vast majority of players will be ahead as any combination of 3 hands will contain at least a B hand more often than not.
Indeed BBB, BBP, BPB, BPP, PBB, PBP, PPB sequences are overcoming as a whole the "enemy" PPP pattern by a higher 7/8 degree.   
Even if this situation won't be true by variance issues, we know that very soon "3 hands" patterns containing at least one single B hand will show up more often than not.

To get an idea of what I'm talking about, let's run 10k of such propositions assessing the results.

We are 100% sure that wholly considered (10k is a decent sample) players trying to get a single B on three attempts will be ahead over the house.

Building a paradoxically worldwide team, we know that utilizing such simple strategy we'll have the best of it, meaning that every player wagering B on 3 attempts will get at least a single B more often than not, getting a profit.

Trying to state otherwise is a sort of bighornshit, it's sufficient to run 10k contemporary 3-hands patterns and evaluate the results, no matter how is the chosen point of attack.
A further obvious proof is that B streaks are longer than P streaks, P singles are prevalent than B singles, P doubles are more likely than B doubles and so on.

In a word, a possible infinite team wagering B side on 3 consecutive hands by a martingale betting will get the best of it, meaning we'll get a profit.

Of course such more likely worldwide profit won't be 50/50 proportionally placed, as any winning hand must pay the 5% tax.

Therefore if any bac player of the world will adopt this style of betting itlr, he/she will be caught by the vig burden more and more erasing his/her short term advantage.

Attention, we are not talking about the ROI,  we're're talking about the probability to win.

That's why casinos like to let us betting a lot of hands.

Obviously, the more we bet the more we fall into the "random" world and we know that a random system cannot be beaten by any means. Not accounting that our expectation will be lower and lower in direct proposition of the amount of our bets.

Notice that if baccarat will be spread like a "casino war" game, we'll be 100% sure to be long term winners providing to be able to bet every side of the action (at casino war we can't, since we cannot bet the house side). And this is just a card distribution topic without any asymmetrical factor besides the house vig on ties.

The fact that itlr some dispositions are more likely than others (and they're not 50/50 placed) in most cases won't help us without a careful study of the outcomes.

Actually most part of bac results are randomly placed, we know that 91.4% of the total hands are coin flip situations (besides some card distribution issues).
So there is no point to try to guess an almost full random world for a single player.

In reality, we can assess the "shift" factor either registering it or more simply studying the most likely distributions every one single shoe in the world will take place.

Of course providing to get rid of those shoes not fitting the above situations.

Every winning B bet getting a no asymmetrical hand is a loss. Every P winning bet not getting a symmetrical hand is a loss.

From this we should set up our strategy.

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