Quote from: Albalaha on September 10, 2013, 02:56:20 AM
          What looks productive to you? Can you name one single system that has made you a better player, posted on this forum or anywhere else?

Al good buddy,

  You bet I can.  However, when anyone even thinks about mentioning that they might just be winning, they are immediately labeled as a system seller, scammer, liar, cheat and all kinds of other things.

   And horror of horrors, should they happen to mention that they may have actually paid for the information, they then become the all time favorite, a SHILL for the man!

   So, to answer your original question, yes, I can name several "systems" that have made me a better player.  The hard part becomes "convincing" people that you are telling the truth.

  As I really don't care anymore if anyone ever believes that I win real money at the casinos, it is pointless to enter any of these "challenges", especially ones where the only outcome is a series of W's and L's with no data to play against.

  I really don't know what to add.

  AD

Quote from: Albalaha on August 07, 2013, 01:57:51 PM
          The most bitter truth about forums is non-cooperation among its members. Everybody is waiting to get a ready to use holy grail and only lurking at others. There is not even a single joint effort to solve any real issue PERTAINING TO GAMBLING together.
                         Nobody talks of "Hows" and "Whys".

Al,

  Well, at least not on the roulette forums that we frequent.  The question then becomes "what are we all trying to solve anyway?"   Do you really expect to "solve" roulette on an internet social forum? 

  The way probems are solved is to identify the problem in the first place and no one has done that yet.  About all one gets in any of the forums is idea after idea thrown up on the boards in some sort of effort to get something to stick, the problem being none of it is truely original.   One can only solve the riddle of column play so many FINITE ways, correct?

  There are forums where people do interact, play, solve problems and answer questions.   They are generally labeled, incorrectly, as paid forums.   It's just that you're evidently not a part of any of them.

   As you've seen at your own forum, people are lazy and if nothing shows up after a few days they will leave the forum in search of the next Grail.   We are lucky here that there are dedicated people who appear to take a genuine interest in roulette and all manners of the game.   Nobody is boasting about how much they are taking from the casinos, but I'm sure there are several who do so in a quiet and reasonably dignified manner.

   So, what roulette problems should we all jump in on and "solve" for your edification?

   By the way, congratulations on pulling another bonus win from the casinos.  You're probably the only person I can recall who does this on any type of regular basis.

  AD

Quote from: esoito on August 20, 2013, 11:07:32 PM
No. Penultimate does NOT mean 'the last' -- it means THE ONE BEFORE LAST.

Thank you for bringing that up.  It bothered me too.

AD

Malcop,

  An interesting version of dozens and it appears to be worth taking a closer look at, if not for any other reason than to put it through its paces and detect any odd sequences that can be avoided.

  Hopefully I can carve out some free time to get some detail work on it done.

  Thanks for the idea.

  AD

Chrisbis,

  Been there.  Done that.  Although it was 35 years ago, but it still counts!
  AD

Quote from: TwoCatSam on July 03, 2013, 09:31:55 AM
If Paula Deen owned a restaurant near me, I'd eat there ten times.

What sanctamonious bastards!!

TwoCat

I agree 100%.   

AD

Well, may as well get the main desktop and laptop in here too.

Here's the desktop.... (yes, that's me doing the takeoff on a Christmas day headed to Alaska).



And of course the trusty laptop that's been all over the world with me, back when I did that stuff.  Now it just sits on the left side of the desk and runs basic data chores.  (No, that's not me skydiving but I've been known to jump out of perfectly good airplanes from time to time.)

Well, let me start this one off with one of my favorite things.

Shooting with my buddies for beers and burgers!

The guy taking the video is the one I needed to beat and he was not about to help me out at all.  Heckling is usually NOT part of this sport, but among friends, anything goes!!

I figure this can be in a gambling forum because of my tee-shirt.

AD

http://youtu.be/H-08VQsLGnk

Quote from: Sputnik on June 19, 2013, 08:30:25 AM

I post the hint above and you develop your own killer method.

This is a system that developed while I was tweaking the "Very near infallible Roulette system".  That system is way too complicated and almost impossible to play except at home with pen and paper and time.

Cheers

Well, with a horde of "in-laws and outlaws" currently in my house, I sequestered myself in the computer room and ran your sample set based on a simple set of SIX different, basic, wagering plans.    Although these are the main ones I use in baccarat, they work just as well for any EC game as these are all MECHANICAL plays with no thinking involved.

Here are the results:

B1 Chase = +8
S42 Basic = +5
F2 = +16
F1 (Chase) = +2
Straight 'Z' = +14
Basic AOD = +11

These are nothing fancy and there's literally no thinking involved.  You pick the play, you play it.  If you should determine during a round of play that one play would be better than another, you change over to it, but this assumes you subscribe to the theory of trending of some sort.

Only one of the "system" plays required a single wager of 6 units, but then it's one of the worst plays (F1) and probably the one that most people play initially until they actually learn something.   F1 being "Follow the 1".   Only good in any streaky game, of course.

I'm afraid we're attempting to manipulate our play in such a convoluted method that it seems the more work we do, the better our results "should" be.   This is apparently not correct as evidenced by these 6 simple plays.

If you read these forums year after year, there is a fact that rises to the top that cannot be discounted.  That is that everybody has a great theory or idea but nothing ever comes out of them.  All kinds of ideas are tossed up only to be brought back a few years later by another crop of budding casino winners.  Of course that's what keeps the forums running, the ad money coming in and the community alive.

However, the fact remains that almost nobody is actually making any money out of the casinos.

So, as roulette is a mathematical game, slighly biased against the player, perhaps one should get back to tweaking the basics of wagering and wealth management instead of trying for the "home run" of casino betting.

Slow but sure brings in the money on a steady basis.  My brother hasn't figured that out yet and loses his bankroll on pretty much each scheduled casino trip although he is usually "up" sometime during the session!   Learn to win small AND often and I believe things will work out much better.   It may not be as "exciting" as cashing out a $20,000 marker at the table, but then it sure beats taking out a loan to pay the food bill.

AD (slightly off topic but I had just tested that sample run and needed to comment on it)

Quote from: Bayes on June 16, 2013, 05:31:40 PM
It's a fair point, but the fact that "true" baccarat uses a finite amount of cards would only have practical significance if it were possible to get an edge through counting them (perhaps in the latter half of the shoe), but to my knowledge no such advantage is possible.

I agree.  Card counting is not a viable play in baccarat.

Quote from: Bayes on June 16, 2013, 05:31:40 PMReplacing cards may result in something other than the game of baccarat, but since (according to the experts) not replacing cards doesn't make any difference insofar as potential profits are concerned (unlike Blackjack) then it has to asked, where is the harm?

The "harm" is that you're no longer playing baccarat!  Introducing what amounts to a whole new shoe after each hand is simply not the way to play the game.  That in itself is reason to avoid this particular iteration of the game.

Although card counting is apparently ineffective in baccarat, there is a large subset of players who do believe that the shoe is basically "cast in stone" once the first card is drawn and they can determine, with some degree of success, if there is any type of bias showing up.   If their assumptions are correct, they then have a real advantage (or perceived advantage) that they can play the shoe "correctly" and pull a win out of it.

AD

Quote from: Bayes on June 16, 2013, 08:57:01 AM

AD, not wishing to start a flame war here, but...
WHY is a computer generated game any different, in terms of outcomes, than a "real" game of baccarat with dealers and shoes?

The comment was made with reference to this "new" game that was posted.   As well you know, the game of baccarat is dealt from a FINITE shoe meaning it has a defined start and finish to it.   The rules of the game are quite specific.   Reshuffling the cards after each hand makes this something other than the game of baccarat.  It now becomes an RNG that produces a number that you wager on.

Quote from: Bayes on June 16, 2013, 08:57:01 AM
Disregarding rigged RNGs, why should the distribution of B & P be significantly different in an RNG if the game is modelled correctly using simulated decks?

The distribution of the B&P may be mathematically correct and indeed random, but it NOT the game of baccarat if the RNG is shuffling the cards after each hand.

Quote from: Bayes on June 16, 2013, 08:57:01 AM
Do you think RNG's are "junk" because they're too random, or perhaps not random enough? what is it about a real shoe which makes the game beatable, as opposed to an RNG. I'd really like to know, because this stuff comes up all the time on forums and it drives me crazy. It always seems to come down to a lack of trust in RNG's (because it's perceived that manipulating outcomes is easier), rather than any hard evidence that outcomes are inherently different.

Once again, if the RNG game would play from a true 6 or 8 deck shoe, then it might be well worth looking into.  However, as it shuffles each hand, it is not the game you are paying for.  It is merely a computer generated, perfectly modeled game of "Pick a Number" and nothing more.

Baccarat is an international game with standard rules.  The casinos keep trying to change it in many ways, always to THEIR advantage, in order to make it look like something else.   One of my biggest pet peeves with most casinos is their refusal to allow you to sit out hand.  But I digress.

Baccarat is a game played from a set amount of cards, not a new deck every hand.  That is the reason that I gave the "junk" rating to this new game.  It would not be difficult to make the RNG game play it "correctly", they just don't want to do that and that's why I will not play RNG baccarat for real money.

I hate to keep harping on the "finite amount of cards" thing but it is a KEY part of the baccarat game.  Cards are removed and not replaced.  This is a big deal and I believe there have been attempts to use the Continuous Shuffle Machines at the baccarat table and the experiment failed miserable as nobody would play the game dealt that way. 

The hardest part of the baccarat game, at least for me, is the start.  You don't know what the shoe may be doing and you've seen nothing to suggest a strategy.   Now bring in the RNG baccarat and you're looking at a new shoe every hand!  Not a good position to be in.

AD

Having read the offending comment, I'll have to go along with Esoito on this one.

This is supposed to be a place for civil discussion and hopefully mutual progress towards goals in roulette.

Childish and sometimes inflamatory outbursts by adults should not be treated as acceptable behavior here.

AD

"The cards are shuffled after each hand".

No need to read any more.  It's merely a computer generated "game" with a front end that resembles "Punto Banco" or a version of Baccarat.

Just say no to this piece of junk.

AD

Quote from: TwoCatSam on June 04, 2013, 07:21:35 PM
Shoe 894 had a profit of 15 units with a draw down of 42 units with the largest bet being 11 units

OK, this is boring.

Any comments?

A drawdown of 42 units on the normal green table is just over $1000.

This doesn't look all that good, just from that perspective!

AD

Darn it.

I made another reply to this thread and I swore I wouldn't.

Oh well, if Al won't send me the penultimate bad number from that spreadsheet I'll just send my solution to the problem to Victor and if he believes I've solved the problem legitimately, I'll post it up.

AD (180 replies to a pointless challenge.  Go figure.)