Quote from: Jaguar88 on September 04, 2017, 12:55:04 PM
Been tied up, but with a good amount at the tables throwing plays down range as hard as ever. Do you have a link on the piece about the player you mention? Thanks!
These are people I play with regularly at the local casinos, not Vegas/AC and some of the larger properties in Southern California. But as an overall view-observance over the past 7 years or so--these are very very common 'average' players with little or lots of funding, the game has changed in the years around 2004/5 to 2008 if you ask me.
http://betselection.cc/alrelax's-blog/mentality-more-than-anything-else!/
Also, this is related as well:
http://betselection.cc/alrelax's-blog/figuring-it-all-outtrying-to-make-it-less-complicated/
Side note: I stopped by the one casino I played at Thursday and Friday nights as I wrote about also, did very well on Fortune 7's with $40-$50 out there a few times and caught the winning F-7's. Anyway, last night, I was passing by and stopped in. Bought in with an extremely low amount of money just to fiddle around with a very close buddy that i have not seen for a couple of months. He was on something and had the feeling. Pointed out to me what it was, had to due with winning hand point values, combined with the trend, and a couple of other things. I am not one to bet a mechanical bet placement, and he does quite a bit. But I saw what he did also and 'Amy' and another player that will constantly wager negative progression was well into it. Out of at least 20 wagers we got 15 of them correct. Every time, no--no way and I would never do it. But it was there and when it is there---you HAVE TO TAKE it and not wager against it. That is where the huge PSYCH factor comes into play I have wrote about extensively. I turned a very small amount of money into about $2k in those hands, of course I should have been wagering $300 to $500 or even $700-$800. But i was not in the mind frame to play, I know my buddy wagers almost similar to what he was preaching to me, but it was there and when it is there that is EZ-pickings. 'Amy' and the other players lost huge money, at least $25k wagering strictly pink chips in the 20 or so hands. They hit a couple and started a come-back, but it was so obvious we were both wagering low on the side that we thought and out of sheer respect because we do get along for the other ones, we never made eye contact with them or their wagers before the cards came out. 'Amy' and the other guy got wiped out and the rest of the table did okay. If the whole table was together, the camaraderie and the wins would have been huge, but people are far too stubborn and believe too much in their attempt to change the shoe presentments!!!! And, almost all of their losses were over their instance to play the 'cut' when it was obviously strong and then when it was weak (chop-chop) they insisted on the repeats that never came. The other things we were following were point value winnings and losings, which I rather not get into here because it only causes some members to blast back about superstitions, etc.
Sad but true.