Vikings and the Packers at the season-opener at Minnesota Vikings stadium.

H-Money and myself both have a combined bet of $8,000 on the Vikings from Henry Hill Book  - 2.5 on the Vikings.

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Players with circles are Naturals

Ended over 20 ahead for Banker

After what is shown just ones and twos both sides

After the first Fortune 7 almost every players hand looked good with the first two cards then if not Natural 9 the third card reduced the player almost every time. Several Natural 8s for the players side but the Banker had Natural 9 at least four times.

The music and videos that were playing on the screens the other night at Waldo's World Casino he works at.  Thought I'd put a couple Clips up for you guys..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmzqCzCfDSw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKCGZldC_wM

FORMER BORGATA EXECUTIVE WHO LEFT FOR OCEAN CASINO MUST RETURN PHONE WITH HIGH-ROLLER DATA: JUDGE


I simply love it the Borgata throwing a stupid sissy hissy fit with what is the normal course of business when Casino Hosts go from one property to another property for a raise in compensation and benefits.  What a waste of the Court's time and all of this information was most likely downloaded the first day they left or just before they left a Borgata anyway, the rest of it's all personal knowledge that the casino hosts have.  There are no trade secrets or unfair Trade Practices, ROMAFL. That would be the same as if a guy was an really great woodworker custom cabinet maker and learned at one business and got hired on by someone else and then that original business saying, you can't make custom cabinets for our competitor.

One salesman doing the job for another competitor that was hired on.  End of story.

https://6abc.com/amp/borgata-casino-ocean-trade-secrets-atlantic-city-casinos/6420001/

Started in 2014 and continued with the second Takeover in 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpzsO_KCKsM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LiE1neqKbE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afnlAZYPo1U

Video of tribal members trying to remove documents from Casino property:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kAFzTKkvgE

The Las Vegas Strip has some real problems and they're only going to compound the rest of this year into next.


Las Vegas Strip Accused of Being Potential COVID-19 Breeding Ground


https://www.casino.org/news/las-vegas-strip-accused-of-being-potential-covid-19-breeding-ground/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gLLZ_D1Lqw

Now the real damage will start and it'll only get worse. The Free Ride & Profits all these years is officially over.

MGM Resorts International said Friday it is sending separation letters to 18,000 U.S. employees who were furloughed during the coronavirus pandemic, making their job cuts permanent for now.

MGM's Empire City remains closed in New York state, as does its Park MGM in Las Vegas. Casinos in Las Vegas, where MGM has an outsized presence on the Strip, continue to be especially affected by declines in tourism and travel, restrictions on capacity, the lack of fans at sports events, and negligible conference and group business.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/08/28/mgm-resorts-sends-separation-letters-to-18000-furloughed-employees.html

"Win", is a given not a fuel or an indicator. It has to be allocated to your Money Management Method and excluded from your decisions. It has to be, otherwise it will only be a fuel for your loss forthcoming.

"To Accept the Loss". Said without much thought really. In business, in investing, gambling, and personal life, everywhere. "To Accept the Loss" is a universal catch-all for many reasons covering many areas.

You cannot always 'control' or 'regulate' things so much really. Then when you seemingly can 'control' or 'regulate' whatever it is causing you to wager on one side or the other and are constantly winning, the number of hands will be only a few. 

Do not think your Money Management Method can overcome losses, bad decisions and your mistakes. It cannot and never will. Money Management Methods are best used effectively to allow win money to be divided up into two areas. Number 1) To go into your active play money, and/ or Number 2) To go into you're locked up money.  A proper Money Management Method will allow you to continue winning if you are and hold a certain amount of the win money and all of your buy-in, if you start to lose and have the willpower to walk away.

In essence so many baccarat players believe that their Money Management Methods, unlike what I described in the  above paragraph; will control, recoup losses and regulate themselves while playing. And that is extremely dangerous. You are hurting yourself with your own unrealistic expectations.

Because most all baccarat players believe that they have to make up for losses or enter into other forms of wagering to recoup losses to get even, they lose sight of the shoe presentments as they are happening and move into the frame of mind that 'XYZ' will be coming out for whatever justification they feel good believing. This is where whatever you win on one or a few hands, will be lost on subsequent wagers with your attempt to repeat wins.

And at this point almost all of us will be affected by our emotions, with or without our knowledge that they have.

When loss does not happen we usually excel and excel with pride, happiness, purpose and huge drive no matter if it's small, medium or large wins involved. Of course, larger is going to produce greater responses from us but even the small ones ignite our energy and hopes to get to the larger ones. But the downside is knowing when to leave the casino and these days I see less and less of people leaving with sizable win money. Like I said, winning money becomes extremely dangerous because it changes a clear way of thinking. It also influences 'Unreal Expectations', which I'll write about next.

And that is exactly why most all the internet forum people will claim they are wagering without emotions, claiming they checked their emotions at the door along with all other false hopes.  Much easier said and planned outside the casino than what is actually consistently able to be done at a live baccarat table.

For the first time in the history of New Jersey gambling, a quarterly financial report of the gaming industry was devoid of any brick-and-mortar revenue.


https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/25265-atlantic-city-casinos-post-nine-figure-loss-during-second-quarter

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WfTqL6cMSH0

More layoffs coming to the Las Vegas Strip; 350 workers could be affected

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/more-layoffs-coming-to-the-las-vegas-strip-350-workers-could-be-affected/amp/

Some Midwest casinos announced today they're back to normal hours 24 hours 7 days a week, all restrictions on hours are lifted. I'll tell you, rebuilding and getting back to schedules are much better than it is on the East and West Coasts, where people do not cooperate and people just don't understand the politics and the protocols that have to be followed.

The slow dismantling of the old Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City has begun.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/trump-plaza-atlantic-city-casino-open-demolition-20200818.html?outputType=amp

A hotbed location where C-19 is being obtained and spread; #1) into Southern California; #2) into Arizona; and #3) elsewhere throughout the United States in smaller quantities.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cellphone-data-shows-how-las-vegas-is-gambling-with-lives-across-the-country/amp

On the lighter side:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1WVhbgoe854

Perfect direction for Atlantic City.

https://breakingac.com/2020/08/snoop-dogg-tells-mayor-he-wants-to-invest-in-atlantic-city/

https://therealdeal.com/2020/08/09/mgm-desperate-for-cash-launches-work-from-vegas-program/amp/

https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2020/aug/07/caesars-still-planning-to-sell-las-vegas-casino-pr/

This is  what the baccarat pit looks like 10 tables,  3 were shut down this is about 4:30 a.m., they shut down on the weekends around 5 a.m. now with C19 rules and regulations. 6 Midi non commission tables where the players handle the cards and 4 Five Treasures Bac which is mini bac style and is a commission game, and the dealer handles the cards.  4 people allowed to play at each table, masks are required, you have to stand your distance, no congregating around the tables. It was busier about an hour ago, most of the night.

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S.O.S.: Las Vegas and the Deteriorating State of Nevada

https://www.fool.com/amp/investing/2020/08/05/sos-las-vegas-and-the-deteriorating-state-of-nevad.aspx

https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2020/08/04/station-casinos-may-not-reopen-four-properties-las-vegas/3295540001/

https://www.ktnv.com/positivelylv/two-lucky-winners-hit-mega-progressive-jackpots-at-caesars-palace-and-flamingo-las-vegas

https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/traffic-lights-to-be-synced-in-atlantic-city-venice-park-bridge-project-to-start-in/article_f5c0b90a-c327-5381-b14a-515f8e3c2bfc.amp.html

My beloved Atlantic City, paying $162,000.00 to sync about 35 traffic lights or so, from the far north to the southern ends of the city strip, ROMAFL! 

Almost everybody travels down Atlantic Avenue which runs parallel to Pacific Avenue anyway, to cut over east to the parking garages and the casino entrances rather than riding down Pacific Avenue, because Pacific Avenue is tiny.

So they pay an out-of-county engineering firm for something that the city Traffic Engineering Department, if not somebody in Atlantic County Traffic Engineering would certainly be able to handle.  And if by some remote chance, the city or the county couldn't do it which I highly doubt, at least keep the same job and pay somebody within your same city or county private business world the funds to do it.  Camden County what a joke, if your not familiar with it read about it.   

Yeah, right.   

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/us/susie-zhao-poker-player-found-dead-trnd/index.html