Maybe it's just me and my imagination. But I have noticed that almost all of the people that are relatively new to the message boards and or gambling, they'll come on a message board and say how great they are doing. So many have one common denominator which is they can't reveal their whole wagering selection or system whatever you want label it.

They'll give you a few things and then say how great they're doing and how much they are making and people will press them for what it is. The more you press on the more conversation and posting back and forth.

Eventually the person that was doing so great, just fades away.  Again maybe it's my imagination?  Kind of comical, at least that's the way I find it.

Thank you!

My point being, the possible number of outcomes is far north/above billions.  That is huge, too huge to work with in reality. 

Without knowing the order that the shoe is set in, which you can never ever know, unless you counted down the entire shoe and you are within a couple hands of the very end, and you suddenly came up with 9 nines left or 12 face cards left, then your next two hands will be ties, ultra slim chance of that happening, but whatever.

What is left does not matter.  The order matters.  My point.  And with that number of possibilities, how can you tell or plan on what is coming up and in what order? 

That is why one shoe will produce only 1's and 2's and an occasional 3.  While other subsequent shoes will produce 9 to 14 streak bankers followed by strong player streaks as well. 

The theorists have a field day with what is supposed to happen but they fall short virtually every time because of what happens overrules the should happen theory. 

Quote from: Sputnik on July 23, 2018, 03:28:24 PM
We are different gamblers, for example, Gizmo talks about his global effect and I talk about my methodology.
You mention sides bets and parlays that is a different approach.



I read this several times and still don't get it.
Why and how does someone make side bets and play both sides at the same time?
If I understand you correctly and not misunderstand your way to play the game.

I mentioned side bets and parlays as an example to my choice/option of striking when I see the bias actually there.  To me there is a huge difference in wagering for it and wagering once it is there.  Either way it is the same risk, continues or cancels out. 

However, if it continues and gets stronger, I win and win huge.   If it cancels, I lost a flat bet or whatever I wagered on it to continue. 

I am a gambler, I am not a writer or a theorist, please understand that!

I attempt to put into words and explain, not easy most times.

Side Bets:  There are the side bets on the bac table such as Panda 8, Fortune 7, 3 card 8/9's, Bad Beat, natural 8 over 7's, etc.  I do wager on some of those as well as parlays or positive progressions on the Banker or Player side, etc.

I also have my (1 + 4 Side Parlay) wager, which I will always allocated the start of it from win money.  To me, that is a huge advantage and if I hit a couple out of say ten attempts, I will be far ahead.  I always reset and refresh, which so few players actually do practice.

The 1 + 4 Side Parlay wager I have, is always in addition to a flat bet or any other wager.  Not against or playing both sides as you might think.  I pay no attention to it and it does not effect my wagering.  It is a psych thing and works for myself.  I do not wager the 1 + 4 on the table side wagers, it is a side wager (but on top of my other wager) on the banker or player side. 

It strictly is a huge boast in winning that I do not have to have prevail to continue wagering, count on or rely on in anyway.  It is included in my striking wagering. 

Am I still unclear?

Out of a table of say 7 players, there might very well be 7 different/varying ways of wagering.

All might win the session, all might lose the session, maybe only 1 or 2 will win and most lose.

The session will determine which players were correct in their application of wagering. 

That is the way I see it after all these years.

I never say you are wrong.  Don't think that. 

I really do see the best profiting players using non-conventional wagering techniques these days for hitting the casino hard and actually winning, if they can control themselves that is. 

Can anyone figure this out as to how many possible outcomes exist?

You know, just the possibilities of what can happen in a bac shoe are in the multi billions, IMO. 

That is staggering if you really clear your head, sit down and think about it.

I could not even think of how to set up that math equation, maybe one of the math gurus here can??

8 decks of cards, remove the first 2 to 11 as the burn cards, cut off the last 15 or so.  416 cards minus, say 25 or so.  How many possibilities on a declining scale does a player actually face?  Huge amounts!  Especially when you are not looking to have optional draws like BJ, etc.

Striking

Okay, I have stopped the thoughts about planning when the time might come, or how to figure out when it is going to appear, etc.  That is usually the downfall or the path to losing more than you can win, or sets the player onto the path to recoup, instead of smacking the casino a bit. 

I call it striking, not so much riding the bias or taking advantage.  Plain and simple, striking.

What serves me well and avoids me from the, 'I was an unintelligent and simply did not wager' punishment!

Bias, to me is seeing it as it is happening, not wagering for it.  As it happens, just say I was flat betting a few hands.  It started.  I won 3 hands straight and I now see the bias, whatever it might be.  The correction, the abnormality, the curve, the rarity, whatever it is--does not matter one bit.  (That is where so many, most all, players go wrong.  They are trying to define and figure it out.) 

So I won the 3 hands flat betting.  Say I was at $150.00 a hand as an example.  I am up $450.00 for that section.  I will take the $450.00 and split it into 4 units of $110.00 each and use those 4 wagers of $110.00 for my (1 + 4 Side Parlay) wagering for the striking attempts.  One successful (1 + 4 Side Parlay) will get me $3,520.00 if I am not mistaking.  Yes, some of the wagers will have to be sacrificed, some flat bets and possibly one or more of the (1 + 4 Side Parlay) attempts.  Progression and a continuance (1 + 4 Side Parlay) is a lot to ask to come out of.  But when something is hitting, don't be scared, scared to win-scared to wager, IMO is the worst thing a player can subscribe to. 

But as far as a striking, that is something along the lines as to what I would do.  Rather than a planned attack.  Planned attacks to me are extremely difficult and usually do not work out. 

Quote from: Albalaha on July 22, 2018, 08:04:48 AM
The rotten debate or whining over house edge are not my cup of tea. Those who feel that the game is not beatable or worth earning are only myopic in my humble knowledge. Pressing on old world ideas to earn from casino will get one nowhere, that is for sure.

To win, in a game of roulette or baccarat or anything alike you need to understand this fact:
   Anything is possible in short run but in long run, things will be closer to the average expectancy.

    IF we understand and agree over this, what we should do are:
a) do not try to predict for short run
b) do not try any silly progression meant for a short run of play as it is exactly what kills you and throws you out of casino.  Idiotic hyper
    progressions killed more gamblers than road accidents. avoid them to survive for long.
c) since short run is very volatile, you need to have ample chips to keep on playing.
d) since you can neither predict as to what will you get while playing and house edge and variance both can keep you behind the house,
    do not dream of winning flat either.

House edge doesn't kill by their own. If you know that a single number of say European roulette has to hit within 37 or even 39 spins, you can plan to beat that easily but even after knowing the same hit of 1000 times in say 37,000 or even 39,000 spins, you get confused. Uneven scatter of hits, fistful of chips, brain full of greed and silly progressions together kill you.

Just think over long run and make a plan to play their, nothing kills you and you can earn some money.

Depends what side of the spectrum you're reading this post from,  from my side and how I play as he said in number 2, idiotic hyper!  Spot On!!

And I sincerely appreciate this because I like to read how everybody thinks, no matter if I respond or anyone responds.

But I'll tell you what, the real money is in the extreme short-term but of course you got to play to win and looking at the tables and looking at the time to go, you ain't going to win. That's the flip side.

As well.  Theory might be right in trial, but in real play, imo, theory is a serial killer of the worst kind!

We are talking, but I was able to put into writing what I did after reading your end of it.

I am oblivious to on-line in every way. 

But in live, there are edges that IMO, are not mechanical in nature, Gizmo touches upon it as well.

Thanks, Glen.

 Do you remember what I went into detail about numerous years ago, recalling what a bunch of people sat down playing baccarat at the old Bally's Grand in Atlantic City, visiting from NYC setting up stuff with on-line gaming said?  Anyone remember?  They were from Russia, Bosnia,Kazakhstan, etc. 

"An Edge Without A Physical Bias" (??)  << The Term Quoted from: Nickmsi

My Thoughts, As Follows:

That is what wins the game for me, when I concentrate and truly adhere to all the things I spend time to detail and write about on the board.  Some will go into dialog about my posts are too wordy, too long, too hard to understand, etc.  But, I am very sorry, there is no other way for me to explain as there are just numerous variables I have found that play parts together to make up each session's outcome.  And yes, I do throw in analogies and a few other things as well, you can always skip my threads, no problem.  Thanks, Glen.

Physics?  You just cannot grasp anything to do with it?  Mathematical and statistical adherence to what the pros (the real ones [LOL] you know, they are the bonafide and certified ones) say the test results produced and yet you still lose?  Complete failure to understand anything to do with those?  Perhaps you understand it is sheer greed and if you can only control yourself with a tiny bit of profit you can multiply that by 30 and make a heck of a great living sipping drinks all day and lounging at the casino table without a boss, the way certain members of many gambling forums claim that they do, especially the ones that post repetitively the same short concise statements saying that they do.  You know you actually over-stay every session you play and yet, you still stay when losing no matter how much you already won and when winning, you can never leave---so you are totally convinced that you have it all figured out and will literally beat the casino but somehow you just can't pull it off.  Those are just a few of the scenarios that exist in everyday real life at the casino but there are so many more. 

I have spent decades gambling in Brick & Mortar casinos, never on-line.  I have numerous family members in all 3 of the largest gaming jurisdictions of the USA in some type of upper management positions, mostly in marketing or in table game operations.  I know about gaming and I know about players as well, I know about casinos.  IMO, it is no different than a retail store or a service business that has specialties they offer to the industry.  Marketing, salesmanship, industry press releases, perception, what the market will bear, and so on will set the prices, the need, the willingness to support one or more businesses of the same type, the poor quality business and the high quality class act ones as well. 

Stores selling merchandise at below inventory wholesale costs, to attract customers that will usually wind up spending far in excess of what the business would lose if people failure to act on impulse, desire, greed, desire, eye-candy and many other factors of the same nature.   Value has a lot to do with gambling and something few of us actually think about.  Basically, I say when you don't have it or never did, there really is not much value when you actually get it.  Meaning, you don't have the slightest clue what you have because you already have it.  Sounds contradictory, but I plead with you, that it is probably 99% spot on in most every case. It's just the way our desires, emotions, greed and everything else mixed up inside of us, works and governs each of us at the casino table!  Especially with money and hard assets.

An attempt to understand the casino system and what their largest ammunition really is, would be the understanding of the following: "People are under the illusion that they can outsmart the system".  That sentence holds true to the hundredth power in any casino, police/detective work, retail offering, and employment background screening investigation, liquor licensing applications and thousands of other things as well!  Once you really understand that sentence and how you look at things you learn, research, attempt to apply and will wager with, then you are starting your journey down the correct path. 

But it all boils down to the human brain, with desires, greed, lust and a host of other things along those very same lines.  Fortunately, for the casinos and unfortunately for the players, almost every single one of us has those things instilled in us from a very early age.  It all started with your mom and dad and their "rewards", for yourself when you were good and those same things taken away when you were bad.  Then you learned how to milk the system and then manipulation you taught yourself without even knowing it.  You found the sweetness of self-rewarding yourself with the "fruits of your desires", sort of saying.  Each of us has it and each of us deals with that in many different ways, some good and others not so good. 

'Gamblers have a stronger misperception of randomness and are so willingly to bet on it'.  Please understand the words, Misperception, Understanding, Interpretation, Inaccurate and Inadequate) they are specifically different and very relative to gamble, but in the attempt to keep this from being way too long, I am saying, Misperception. ("A wrong or incorrect understanding or interpretation"). I have termed it, probability matching, and that is a side effect all humans are subjected to at the gaming table.  Especially when they are winning large or losing large.  It was instilled in our pre-human ancestors when they were out hunting and searching for food.

Evolution has primed us to have a low threshold for detecting patterns.  That is the physiological bottom line.  You would learn that in Psych 101.  That is medical science, nothing I made up.  So that very same thing will affect your gambling decision making thought process.  And that is exactly my point in all this.  It is not reality sitting at that table and almost all of you think it is.  It is different, virtually the opposite and then once you have it all figured out, it reverts back the other way.  And those my friends are all the parts that throw the mathematical and statistical data right into the garbage can every time.   

The down sides and why there are actually down sides you can detect.  Because it is that we get a lot of false alarms.  In the casino, that equates to losses.  In almost everything else, we chalk them up to and use them as rejections, mistakes, learning, improving, necessary happenings, etc.  But in the casino, they equate to devastating losses and missed wins/profits.  That is the key element to the entanglement of your mind and its ability to continue to play, figure out and stick to whatever can win and get away from what cost you not to wager on correct presentments, etc. 

Generally, those false alarms are harmless to most, but that is not always the case.  In so many player's agendas, they will convince themselves what is correct to wager upon, as to what is coming out or what has not came out, or what is supposed to happen according to the numbers, etc.  That is the key triggers that so many, most all will fall prey to.  Gamblers place money on those, no matter if they admit or not that was their reasoning.  Some will wager large amounts of money and other will grind it slowly with smaller amounts.  And no matter the value of their wagers, it does not matter.  They will do it repetitively and consistently.  Then they win some or lose some and that does not even matter.  They will wager against whatever they were wagering on that won, then they continue to lose.  Or they lose when they actually convinced themselves, that they were supposed to have won, but they did not follow doctor or wizard, 'so and so' math and stats that proved rightfully correct.  So then they lose their intelligence per-se and they become controlled by their desires, their emotions, and other factors that cannot and will never be able to match with certainty, their wager with each upcoming presentment.  The more the play, the more they lose.  Even when they win, they only fueled themselves with false fuel to keep going. 

Then what happens?  Well I have observed, that right about the time the people will point to whatever allowed them to feel that they choose the right side by matter of intelligent choice, nothing really existed that will allow them to repeatedly use just that in upcoming presentments that will be a solid 51% or greater positive experience on a consistent basis from thereon out.  Please re-read that and understand that, because that right there is a major key in understanding yourself and the reason for control in the game of baccarat.  And there is a double whammy to this as well.  That is, the strongest patterns and trends are always the worst for most players these days.  Because they challenge the strongest parts and have either convinced themselves or had themselves convinced, that baccarat is a true 50-50 game, a game that always equals itself out and you can prevail if you only wager against anything that is repeating itself or dominants. 

Then the losses start, their impulsiveness starts as well.  Reducing or increasing pattern recognition becomes the key to success which will not ever come about the conventional way.  Meaning, by reading the books by the doctors, the wizards, the self-proclaimed professional gamblers, the X dealers and casino personnel, etc.  Buying systems guides or being exclusively mentored and tutored or joining a $50.00 a month elite club of wanna-be millionaire gamblers, etc.  It will not happen no matter how much you believe that it just might.  Sorry, but that is the cold hard truth of the day. 

And if you can even begin to really understand what I just said, then you might be one of the few, the very few that might survive the "Flip of the Switch".  We all seem to unknowingly inflict ourselves with false fuel, continued torture and just plain, guaranteed losing when we found ourselves with that last, "all in" wager, or the other one, "all or nothing", types of wagers.  Winning and losing without letting yourself get beat down, by using a buy in which is only a smaller percentage of a bank roll and a bank roll that is administered properly is the start.  The rest of it will depend on your ability to remove yourself from everything I mentioned, desires, emotions, the mindset that allows yourself to think you have an edge to beat the casino, etc.  We continually let ourselves literally lose our money, the casino does not take it, you give it to them with the decisions you made.  The blame only adds more false fuel and further bad intelligence to your game.  I promise you that.

We give them our money because of our blatantly wrong information, data and beliefs we choose to believe.  Almost all gamblers will do the proper research, engage in training, obtain the proper information for almost all their non-gambling activities such as, seeding and fertilize their lawns, sports, hobbies, crafts, etc.  But when it comes to gambling, once again, almost everyone believes in that, "I can outsmart the system" type of intelligence that will only repeatedly hurt them until they are broke. 

What is the, "Flip of the Switch"?

"Flip of the Switch", is complicated, but for sake of keeping it to a couple of sentences, it is the player's thought process that will govern him with the recognition of patterns, trends, and whatever else he is convinced will be the next presentment from the shoe.  His wagering on that without regards to reality and then being sucked into gambling fallacy, LOCK, STOCK & BARREL.  The gambler has no idea that he actually wagered on his impulse and not on a tangible pattern, trend, or other defined presentment as he was really thinking he was doing.

Hence, "Flip of the Switch".  In other words, the lights were turned out on the player.  He lost once again.  Simple.  As well, once the action starts, say 4 Bankers appear, half the gamblers next to him just know and say out loud, how it has to cut back to the Players side and begin to wager for such.  The other of the people there, just know it has to continue and streak with the Banker.  So a switch gets flipped in the person's brain somewhere, changing the way we each define the game. 

And when you don't have the experience, the knowledge, the insight and much more, the compelling biases are truly overwhelming, "Flipping of your Switch", when you're in the game playing, actual play with actual money.  And if you lose and are losing more than you are winning, it is not the auto shuffler, it is not the unlucky dealer, it is not you lost count of the VIN/SAP Counts, it is no the failure of the Banker to continually excel the way it is supposed to, it is not the failure of the shoe to produce an exact replication of those 1,000,000 shoes broken down to the 3 or 5 or 10 you sat down to gamble at, etc., etc., and so on.  It was the fault of your wagering in direct conflict with what legitimately came out of the shoe, no matter if you wagered or not. You were just convinced to wager on the losing side because of the numerous factors I wrote about earlier and those factors turn very quickly into strong compelling biases that almost everyone has no idea what they are or how to figure them out.

And therefore, with yourself deep into biases, you play and play and play and believe compelling biases that cannot and will not hold up on a regular and a consistent basis totaling the majority of your play. Unless and only unless, you can twist, turn and manipulate the same system that legally, with precision and a well-planned entire scenario, relies on human nature to wager with their desires coupled with greed, that governs the player based on their beliefs that wreak havoc on their emotional and financial life.

Sections and turning points in my opinion are related to bias identification.

Naturally some of my sections and turning points, how I described them are related to baccarat and not what you specifically are seeking. But I do believe you can use the general basis of what I refer to with different directions etc.

How frequent are the changes, that is the answer no one knows but to define or see a section, will put you way ahead of the players that cannot. That's the point I was trying to bring forward to you when I mentioned sections and turning points. Thanks.

You know, we went to the casino the other night.  Before we went, we ate at my buddy's house.

Eggs, Salmon, Blueberries, Bananas, Greens w/Spinach in the eggs also.  We also sliced up red peppers.  Bottom line, we did our home work.  We ate that!  We try.  Sure we love pasta and sauce and garlic breads and sausages, all that too!  But we eat all that after we are done gambling, when we are back home.

We just are tired of the days of Red Bull, coffee and greasy burgers and breads, etc.  It does make a difference. 

When you are at the baccarat table and you are rubbing your eyes, your brain is pounding, you can't even remember what you bought in for or what your M.M.S. is, etc.  When you can't focus and you miss the no ties, hand 45, no F-7's, only 1 Panda out there, no 3 card 8/9's yet, and numerous other things, something is wrong! 

As in anything else, learn, research, invent something that might just help you, instead of hurt  you or hamper yourself accomplish something.

https://www.health.com/food/10-foods-that-boost-concentration

I mentioned red peppers.  Here is something about those.  We have other foods, but I am just trying to show you to get on the right path, learn the curves, the junctions and the dead ends.  Doesn't really cost anything.  IMO!

"Red bell peppers boost your immune system due to high vitamin A, C and antioxidant properties, including beta carotene, which helps maintain healthy skin and vision. In fact, these mighty red vegetables contain 1.5 times more vitamin C, 8 times more vitamin A and 11 times more beta carotene than green bell peppers.Jun 7, 2012" 

Quote from: Sputnik on July 14, 2018, 06:10:12 PM
Hello Alrelax, what does it mean and how to use "section/turning points" to your efforts?
If you have time can you explain more in detail?

Many Thanks

https://betselection.cc/alrelax's-blog/sections-and-turning-points/

Suggestion:  Try adding 'sections/turning points' to your efforts. 

Counter Measures?


If you are looking for a quick magical sure-fire fix to win quick money, keep looking.  However, if you are a true bank-roll holder with a couple of weekly play sessions with earmarked 'buy-ins' and attempting to win some money, read on.  But foremost I have to say, even though I almost did not, Mark/Gizmotron made me sit down and put into some kind of definition, 'what it takes to win' and 'what my outlook is on gambling'.  That is, "Calculated Deduction", plain and simple.  When I start to compile the wins at the casino table, with my dedicated buy-in wagers, it is nice and great--all at the same time.  I am risking, without a few unit stop-loss which I am dead-set against, to win and get into the double to triple the buy-in status and then employ my money management system and my side-parlay wagering attempts.  If I don't get to that point, I get wiped out of my buy-in amount.  I refuse to grind, I have other ways to make more cash with a career and a business, rather than driving and risking money each day to the casinos in the hope to sustain.   I don't have to win to go on, while others do.  Meaning, I also make money each and every week for the basics and the long term matters from outside casino sources.  Equally, while at the table, each wager is not based on hitting the 'lottery' as I call it, to continue wagering and actually having a chance to win the session.  That is the huge difference in the frame-of-mind and my focus/vision for what is happening and about to happen.

First of all, let me define hitting the lottery and actually having a chance to win the session.  For me, those are two very different things.  Hitting the lottery is a far-flung chance that might happen, but chances are, will not.  And when it does it fuels the wrong paths for yourself to continue play or worse yet, reinforces your play style with no advantage to really win and keep winning.  I am not talking about a life changing amount that the player will receive, I am talking about giving much larger amounts to the casino than you ever take away, at least on a consistent basis.  Here let me explain.

Enter a female named Amy.  She entered the world of baccarat about a year ago.  She quickly won some cash.  She was convinced that baccarat was the pot-of-gold at the proverbial end of the rainbow.  No doubt.  When she sat down at the table, she was sheer energy.  Nothing but. 

Amy eventually reduced herself to wagering on numerous or all of the side wagers at baccarat with numerous ones from 25 to 1, 40 to 1, 50 to 1, 80 to 1 and 200 to 1 payouts.  And she did it repetitively and consistently, 30 to 40 hands out of 50 or so a shoe, most every shoe she would play.  Hitting several at once is larger amounts of money, not life changing, but tens of thousands for only hundreds out there.  It happens and it happened often.  Not consistently.  But, when you lay $50.00 out there on a 40 to 1 on 4 spots and win $8,000.00 for the $200.00 you had placed on it, 2 or 3 times in shoe, it is another level of play.  Same thing with $10.00 on a 200 to 1 with $40.00 laid out on it and $8,000.00 is thrown at you for that one. Having no plan, no realization, no recognition of how or when or what happened, will lead the player to disaster every time.  When the player can figure out the things I wrote about here and realize where the path is and what the curves and junctions mean, within those paths, the player is taking the knowledge and the experience and using it in a 100% pro-active and informational source that will benefit the player if he can only truly understand "Fooled by Reality" and "Fooled by His Own Desire".

Amy did very well many sessions and other session, disaster and then the chasing started.  When you have 3 to 5 Fortune 7's within a few shoes and then you go 7 shoes with maybe 1 or 2 Fortune 7's collectively, it hurts and hurts big.  When you hit 3 three card 8/9's within a shoe and then cannot hit one in 5 or 6 shoes, same thing.  The story goes on, but one day I was talking with Amy and she told me, with a tear in her eye, what she was into the casino for, attempting to get a few good wins where she could recoup her money.  It was not pretty, not pretty at all. 

Amy had no M.M.S. and no system to allow her to wager those kinds of bets with previous win money and her "non-buy in" risk capital, etc.  That was really her downfall, not so much the type of wagering she was doing.  She was governed by nothing and all the wins did was transport her to a false reality and she could not remove herself from being there, once she was there.

Read this, please! It is so spot-on and applies here as well as many other things.
(When you understand the following, you are truly on the right path, I promise you).

The parable (If you don't read this, you will never understand what you are up against attempting to gain knowledge-insight-wisdom-or tips from others):

"The earliest versions of the parable of blind men and elephant are found in Buddhist, Hindu and Jain texts, as they discuss the limits of perception and the importance of complete context. The parable has several Indian variations, but broadly goes as follows:

A group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought to the town, but none of them were aware of its shape and form. Out of curiosity, they said: "We must inspect and know it by touch, of which we are capable". So, they sought it out, and when they found it they groped about it. In the case of the first person, whose hand landed on the trunk, said "This being is like a thick snake". For another one whose hand reached its ear, it seemed like a kind of fan. As for another person, whose hand was upon its leg, said, the elephant is a pillar like a tree-trunk. The blind man who placed his hand upon its side said, "Elephant is a wall". Another who felt its tail, described it as a rope. The last felt its tusk, stating the elephant is that which is hard, smooth and like a spear.

In some versions, the blind men then discover their disagreements, suspect the others to be not telling the truth and come to blows. The stories also differ primarily in how the elephant's body parts are described, how violent the conflict becomes and how (or if) the conflict among the men and their perspectives is resolved. In some versions, they stop talking, start listening and collaborate to "see" the full elephant. In another, a sighted man enters the parable and describes the entire elephant from various perspectives; the blind men then learn that they were all partially correct and partially wrong. While one's subjective experience is true, it may not be the totality of truth.

The parable has been used to illustrate a range of truths and fallacies; broadly, the parable implies that one's subjective experience can be true, but that such experience is inherently limited by its failure to account for other truths or a totality of truth. At various times the parable has provided insight into the relativism, opaqueness or inexpressible nature of truth, the behavior of experts in fields where there is a deficit or inaccessibility of information, the need for communication, and respect for different perspectives."

For those of you, that want to read more about this, here is the Wiki link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

Pressure.  All under the realm of recognition. 

Be a player that does not beat himself.

Be careful and you must avoid the "TILT".   By far the worst thing that you face at the baccarat table: 

Patience, Discipline, Maintain complete control inside of yourself.

Don't get to the point, where you "have to" bet and "hurry up" to win or go all in for a final determination of your sessions wagering.  If you do either, you are out of control and you will wind up beating yourself each and every session.  I know many will not agree and those that do not, IMO--will have very limited experience.  Most likely less than a good solid 10-15 years of play. 

The number one cause for bringing pressure to a player during gambling is, negative events repeatedly happening.  The usual reaction is to wager bigger and quickly recover.  Getting whole and starting fresh again.  Over betting will also become your worst enemy and real quick.  Actually if you engage in any of those, you commit baccarat suicide, plain and simple. 

One more real prevalent event happens at baccarat.  The "Should Be", but it is the "Should Be" that will help save you or make you money, all in your thoughts that will always distract you or throw you off your guard.  When the "Should Be's" come about, IMO, you need to govern yourself into the no-bet-option mode.  At least until the shoe and  yourself, are in-tune with each other. 

Wagering for the "Might Occur Sooner or Later".  Disaster!  If you reduce your goal or attempted hits to that one, you will always give it all back chasing additional ones to get even or win the session.  Always.  You can't control it to start with, but when it sets in, you can take care of it and recognize it has surfaced.  Then you have to back off. 

When it comes, your bet side/wagers, does not matter.  You can't bully the casino into changing the decisions coming out of the shoe and into the flow.  Stop thinking you can, because in sheer reality, you cannot. 

Wait for the point that coincides with your confidence plays.  The path that you can jump on and play the game in a near 100% positive manner, without the feeling in the pit of your stomach.  You know exactly what I am talking about, stop denying it.  If you can't do that, you can't win with a frame-of-mind, which will allow you to recognize what just happened or more importantly, what will happen or what possibly  will happen.  This is a key deciding factor of yourself wagering on a series of wagers that will allow yourself to win, "Sections of Opportunity" that will present themselves if you are able to identify them.  They do frequently come, the reason you can't see them, is because you are looking to base your wagers on math and statistical data that has not been decided yet, for the game you are involved in.

You can't "Wish It" away, you can't "Big Bet" it away and you certainly can't "Bully It" away.   Those players that do those things and believe in them, fall into the first posting on this thread about, "Fooled by Reality--Fooled by Desires, What is so sad, is that we really just fool ourselves."  

Be extra careful of the personal conflicts at this point.  With all the above and maybe more in your own personal findings that you need to stay conscious of, betting against and betting with other people is a real dangerous subconscious practice.   We have all done it, no need to deny it.  Betting against and they will most times, win.  Betting with and they will at most times, lose.  It works once in a while and that is the problem, but not many every truly figure it out.

Camaraderie is one thing and difficult to understand.  Revenge and/or "I will show you" or using it as a tactic that "should work", are entirely different things that should not be used.  It is a baccarat syndrome and I call it, "Congrats, you just f**ked yourself syndrome", it will send you down the wrong road, almost every time.

Concentration.   Ultimately to maintain your vision, plans and focus.  Not easy at all while gambling at baccarat.  I have written a bit about all this.  But here it is in a nutshell.   Most of the players do not even know what they are concentrating on if you were to ask them, and you got an honest answer.  Find what you need to concentrate on and then do just that.  Here is what I concentrate on and how I do it, or at least attempt to.

Money Management System:  Mine is normally implemented after I double or triple the buy-in amount.  If I can't do that, I continue to risk the capital I bought to the session and then begin to weigh other factors as to how long I should attempt to accomplish something.  Let's say it was positive.  I then move to my M.M.S. 1/3rd-1/3rd-1/3rd.    Alongside of that, I set aside certain flat bet wins to be converted into my, 1 + 4 Side Parlay Wagers.   I want to say once again, I do not believe in a subscription to flat betting, positive or negative recovery progressions on any type of a mechanical pre-planned scheduled whatsoever.  Never ever.  I simply attempt to win more when I am winning without being scared, come back when I am down, and after so many attempts to win, without being successful past pushing back-and-forth, that is it.  The thing that actually allowed myself to get the largest handle on, the best recognition of playing while I am playing, and the ability to wager non-scared or continue to win without buy-in risk, is the use of the 1/3rd M.M.S. and my 1 + 4 Side Parlay Wagering set-aside, by far and large!

Here is my (1 + 4 Side Parlay Wager) and what it does for me.  Say I won a $300.00 wager for example.  I will earmark that for 4 attempts to win $2,400.00.  It is pure win money.  It does not affect my buy-in.  I would consider that a great win for the risked capital.  Out of the $300.00, I would attempt four times my (1 + 4's).  First bet, $75.  If successful 1st parlay, $150.  If successful, 2nd parlay $300.  If successful 3rd parlay, $600.  If successful, 4th parlay, $1,200.00.  Possible end pull down would have been, $2,400.00.  Say I won a Fortune 7 with a quarter out there on it.  I might earmark $500.00 for this and put $500.00 in my pocket from the pay-off, never to be seen again on the table for the session, etc.  Then instead of the $75, it would read like this:  4 attempts of $125.00.  As follows:  $250.00/$500.00/$1000.00/$2,000.00.   Possible end pull down, $4,000.00.

Think-----Develop-----Plan-----Implement-----Sustain-----Recognize & Control.....

But, the bottom line is, without concentration, vision, focus, and all the other intangible and factors that influence (and generally will control you), it is nearly impossible to sit down and fall oblivious to everything I write about, wager a whole lots of hands and continually win.  At least, win more than you lose on a consistent basis. 

And stop the energy drinks, the diet of greasy and junk food all day before the casino, coffee and soda only, etc.  All you are doing is compounding your failure to concentrate.   I really do believe that.  Although there is no quick fix for what I just said, you better realize that playing baccarat and attempting to stay whole and win nice payouts, is no different than being able to physically stay in shape if say you are a concrete worker or a construction laborer.  Eating the wrong diet will only cause or increase your "jitters", heart racing, fatigue and your ability to really focus the way you need to. 

Your Craft & the 2 other most important things to recognize.

YOUR CRAFT: Knowledge and experience that only guides you partially at the instant time.  (BTW--The rest is derived from and will come from, your psyche, your emotions, your gut, and many other intangibles that I have written about, that you better recognize and control somehow).

EXTERNAL:  On stage or within the crowd.  The influential that will influence you and become actual reasons your wagering was decided outside Your Craft's knowledge and experience. 

INTERNAL:   Systems, body, mind thinking process and what they lead to.

Your goal and path needs to be the conscious recognition of reality that will benefit you at the baccarat table.  It is the most confusing and hard to find intangible that there is, IMO.

Suspension of Reality As It Appears and to Actually Stay in Your Own Reality That Matters At The Baccarat Table.  That is your goal or should I say, the goal of a successful player?

What am I talking about?  If you can quickly understand "Suspension of Disbelief", then you can understand what I term, "Suspension of Reality", as I mention in the sentence above.  Please read along.  This is what has really helped me in the game of baccarat, and I seriously mean that!  If you walk into a book store and purchase a book by Stephen King, bring it home, set up a table on the patio and prepare to read the book over several days, but you have the belief you are about to embark on some multi day worthless effort to understand what a fictional writer spend years to perfect while he was only after a pay-day and for the ultimate con of selling a totally worthless manuscript to a publishing house.  Furthermore, that publishing house actually committed the second con, by hyping a worthless work of fiction that only ripped off your $30.00 along with several days of your valuable time, and so on and so forth.  Versus, I am going to embark on a few day journey through the eyes of a master of thrilling stories that could have possibly happened somewhere, sometime to some people and I am going to completely be non-combative to the presentments the author paints and describes, because I naturally have never encountered those but I will transport myself to the premises which might also lend to my own personal engagement and perhaps, the placement of my very own thoughts, ideas, feelings, emotions and feeling I am actually experiencing living within Derry, Maine.  Or, perhaps I can apply all of what I just said, when I go to the movies with my little boy and I will be able to picture myself just north of Tanzania, which would be in Wakanda, looking around for the Black Panther.  In reality, but actually in a suspended state of belief that might just transport me to a place I would never see or experience for the price I paid for the book or the movie ticket, etc. 

With that said, I actually use the "Suspension of Disbelief" when I am at the baccarat table.  It allows me or at least, helps to allow myself to believe what is not supposed to happen or should I say, the casino does not want to happen when you feel it or are just wagering for it to happen or continue to happen.  But, in order to do that, I find myself with two distinct and confusing agendas, the real/reality and what is happening, as well as the textbook, what everyone says or is supposed to happen. 

(I hope this supplements the original post I started this thread with.  These notes are from my actual positive and negative experiences along with what I realized is my proper and more profitable way to play when I am at the baccarat table.  What has led me to very nice wins and disastrous losses of all types.)