I have disagreed with you Albalaha, but don't dislike you or attempt to pick you apart and make myself a national achieved classic Herero for virtually living inside of a casino and attempting to discredit everything or anything you write about, technical or otherwise.  From he beginning, technical and mechanical systems are not 'my thing' as my believes, desires and nature is somewhat interested and desirous of other things within the casino, most times anyways. 

I guess back to basics, if I don't like eggs and bacon I would not order it or look at it, let alone eat it.  If I don't want to laugh, I don't watch the Comedy Channel or find a joke to read on the internet.    Simple, no?

Something I don't understand.  Maybe never will.  Shy of anything mandated in school or a technical or college course, why would someone become upset and vengeful against an author?  Be it a book or even posting in a Blog on something as 'voluntary' and 'not mandated' reading, such as this forum?

It appears that another person on this board is so outraged at me, he feels the need to explain himself and vindicate his blasts, reasoning's, experience and hatred towards me.  Fine, all good.  In my heart, I still wish him the best of luck in his huge plays, tireless long repetitive hours, each and every day, while he plays his tens of thousands of shoes a year. 

I have stopped writing on here for a while for various reasons and one of them was the outright disrespect by others.  But hey, I still listen to my father that past away a while ago, something along the simple lines of, "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything".  Although I am not perfect, I try to do that. 

If someone posts something on another thread and I really don't like it or really don't agree, I try not to get myself furious and worked up over it to ruin my day, which apparently happened to the other person on here.  However, someone that repeatedly comes into my 'room' and attempts to blast and berate and chastise, I rather they just stay away.  I rather not get involved with that person.  One would honestly think, if what I write is so upsetting to them, they would not even come by here?  But obviously not.

As far as coming back on here, Vic asked me too as well as several other members.  As far as memories, yes--a bit of my anecdotes, analogies and humor is derived from those and as well, cherished in certain ways.  Do I have a golden monkey, yes, absolutely!  I write what I have done, I write my thoughts and opinions based upon my experiences and actual play.  I write about locals and things and not the super technical about some kind of bet selection process based upon the test of 1,000,000 shoes dealt within a computer program and then inventing some 30 or greater progression to attempt to stay in the game while on horrible losing streaks. 

I was around the baccarat scene long before the movement of today with the Midi/Macau style tables and score boards and it was a much better game with lots more winners than today. I guess what I am trying to say, at least personally, I myself rather engage and talk to the trucker at the truck stop that has been driving since the 80's rather than the gentlemen that just started three years ago.  Time is valuable and nothing against the newbie whatsoever, just personally I like numerous experienced viewpoints rather than  hearing the mundane, 'he said and she said and I know everything' type of conversation.   

You know when I go to Vegas, I enjoy talking to the floor people at Caesar's Palace that has been working in Vegas since the 70's and 80's rather then the guy over at Aria that just graduated from college ad is trying to save up by dealing table games so he can open his computer store somewhere.  I rather speak to the 50 to 70 year old crowd playing at the tables and learn about some off strip wonderful family restaurant rather then the couple on a honeymoon at Cosmopolitan and hear about them eating at some unintelligent celebrity chef restaurant with overpriced food swimming in sauce where they had to wait 3 hours in line to get in so they could be rushed out. 

Libraries are full of books, if someone has such a burning desire that he has to read everything within the room, he will certainly find product that is not his liking and disagrees with, how one handles that is certainly reflective upon his person. I don't get into science fiction and certain other areas---so I just skip those books because I already know I will not enjoy them. 

One other thing, I have always-always-always had a career or owned a business.  I am proud of that and not that I envy or wish to be a full time professional (whatever professional really means in this case) gambler, I am not.  I run a business through my own choosing and gamble for various other reasons when I feel like.   I can only assume if you are a full-time 'professional' gambler when you read things on these boards you would be more apt to take them to heart and find no humor, entertainment or 'food for thought' from what you read.  Your mind frame would be only, looking for that holy grail and new avenues to finally beat the casino during those tens of thousands of hours you invest into your professional and technical work, sitting and waiting, within the casino.  I can only imagine the mind frame of a full time professional gambler.  Maybe, just maybe(?)< I got my answer as to why the flip flop and the chastising and rage.  A possible bad couple of days?  A bad week?  Lost everything?  I really would have to believe that or something along those lines as I have become the proverbial whipping boy for such a man of honor, accomplishment and misunderstood achievement. Think about it for a second, someone actually sits, looking at other players and all the while degrading and belittling them as worthless gamblers never learning the game or their own self worth.  Then at the end of this 'professional gamblers' day he retreats to his home and continues the berating and humiliating on his computer over the internet.  According to his own admissions, he has found the key to beating the casino at baccarat which is basically playing twenty or better shoes each and every day adding to the low count of 50,000 plus shoes he has already profitably played. The story goes on....and on.....and on....., let me take a break here I have to go take a walk outside the office to laugh rather hard. 

But, back to my original point.  If I pick up a book and skim through it and don't like for some reason, I don't buy it.  If I bought that book and start reading it and find it repulsive, untrue or perhaps a poor work of fiction that I am not entertained by, I put it down and move on.  I don't go picket the store or the authors hangout.  If someone comes in my room or on another thread and challenges me based on what he states is the absolute truth and I know it to be false or so unbelievable, I might or might not say something.  In the case that brought all this about, I believe the person truly enjoys picking a fight and trying to squash someone, when there is really no point whatsoever to the fight. 

If a player can't get through the short run he will never get to the long run. 

Large and lengthy progressions at baccarat is the most absurd thing ever.  The most patient players and those with large bankrolls will hit it extremely hard and quick in short blasts.  Such as 1-3-2-6 or 1-5-10-20.  At least the ones I am acquainted with and the more successful ones. 

You can come up with these 25 or 28 or 32 hand progressions, but they will fail the upper, and I mean upper like 99% or more of the time.

This game can not be won playing long repetitive hours on a consistent basis.  Not by you, not by me not by anyone. 

True, 1,000,000% there is no, and never will be a constant or consistent winning trend/bias.  Yes, also true, what happens in one portion of the shoe may or may not happen in the another portion of the same shoe.  Like wise, the same bias might follow for the whole shoe and the next one or two shoes.

Play what the shoe is producing. 

If you are reading or writing on this board, you are doing either that or the opposite of that. 

Fact is, you are not truly, each and every time, flipping a coin or flat betting one side with no observation at the board or your own score card.  If you are, you are looking for a bias anyways, the one side or either side you are wagering on to prevail through winning more then the other. 

The O.P. statement is the same as a written law on the books.  This is what you are supposed to do or don't do, 100% of the time.  What people do is entirely different.

But to sit here and write what you did, I am sorry, not reality and not correct.  But I will say, admit and put it on anyone's life including my own, their is no consistent and constant winning wager that can happen each and every time or even the majority of times it appears.   

Quote from: 21 Aces on May 27, 2016, 07:44:56 PM


Only seen 1 dealer, 1 floor manager, 1 banker type tables.

I was referring to the original bac tables, that is all that was around except for Mini which was usually always in the main floor.  The bac tables used to be where the players handled and maintained the shoe (as long as they made a Banker winning decision, passed the shoe clockwise when a Player came out) and dealt the cards, etc. 

There are still some left, C.P. in Vegas has 1 or 2 but offers the option to run them Macau/Midi style or original style, depending on what the players desires, Bellagio has one, there are a few other places, most got rid of them or have them in the rear private saloons behind the high limit pits, etc.

You have no idea of what was happening prior to the 2008/2009 crash of the economy.  Especially with the smaller high limit pits in Atlantic City.  They all had the large 14 player seating tables with the 2 floor people-1 at each end and the 3 dealers on one game.  It was busy and although there was no back betting involved, none, there was lots of money.  It got so bad at times, players would just call out at times "Player takes table max" and then the dealer would call it out and then they would not have to break down the wager to check it.  If you had say $10,800 out on a $10,000 max table, they would break it down after the hand, win or lose the overage of the $800 back.  Likewise there was lots for the floor people to watch including players handing each other money and chips, etc.

Seemed on the busier weekend nights, they would be stopping the game at least once a shoe to run the camera and wait for the results.  Never wrong, not that I witnessed anyways.

When the board is not predominately 2's or doubles, I like to wager the opposite after a single that prevailed, then if there was a double, I stick on the side that was the double. 

Single, wager other side
Double, wager the same side and stick until it falls off. 

So whatever happened?? 

Really guys, I don't change, I still gamble I still go to Vegas and play baccarat around the Midwest.

What happened to this 'solid' guy??    Hello...........................

Quote from: Babu on May 25, 2016, 05:53:25 PM
How do we know when opportunity is there?  Whenever I notice opportunity, it usually disappears more than not. 

That is correct.  The are there and then they are not, and everything in between. 

My point was, the limited chances are there.  Hit them when the opportunity is there and try not to get caught up in all the superstition and false reasoning(s). Try not to think back on any other previous shoes or hands and play what the current shoe is producing. 

I still say, the mentality of the game has changed to the 'cut', thereby always missing the trends/bias, chops, clusters, virtually everything except the true 'cut' to whatever is opposite.

Quote from: Babu on May 25, 2016, 04:30:30 AM
Shoulda woulda coulda

Absolutely 110%! 

There are very limited shoes we can capitalize on, at least with a decent ROI in the HL's.  I am NOT talking about the main floor, buy in with $200 to $400 or so and make $100 or $150 and walk.  I am talking about buying in with $10k to $50k and making say, $10 to $20k.  It is tough!  I am not referring to kamikaze attempts either of $5k or $10k one or two wagers.  I am talking about $300 to $1,000 average wagers. 

Now that I have all the glitz and glam out of my system about the casinos, yes, I am more dangerous.  That is why that shoe that haunts me I wrote about, I should have had $500k to $1M on that shoe easily.  If I pumped it up to $20-25k a hand, I would have won 40 or so hands and lost maybe 10. 

It can be done, extremely hard because the majority of us get burned out, broke, lose interest, or give up when we finally get the wherewithal, the experience and the knowledge coupled with the guts to do it. 

It's complicated.

Quote from: AsymBacGuy on May 24, 2016, 10:27:40 PM
Al, your comments are appropriate.

. There's no one single pattern producing an equilibrium. No one, even though most players consider as a deviation any "simple" pattern coming out.

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That's exactly correct.  The same one in a shoe, might not repeat it self for hundreds or thousands of shoes.  Then again, it might repeat itself for many spots the very next shoe.  Play it one way and the next time the same trend or bias comes around, you have to play it completely the opposite for part of it and then the same and then entirely different to continue successfully with it.  Extremely hard to do, almost impossible.  That is why, the fewer and the least wagers, pump up the value, is so important crucial. 

Rub spots, that's me your pointing the finger at.  I hope you know I was messing with him, but he believes it and preaches it I have to believe.

3,000 unit BR for $25.00 is like $75,000.00.  I personally play locally between $100 and $500 a hand, so I guess I would need around 750,000 BR to wager $250.00 a hand. 

Oh well, have to go, I am practicing rubbing and photocopying the cards the way 21Aces instructed. 

Quote from: marinetech on March 19, 2016, 08:19:47 PM
sorry, keep on with your cartoons and mythological world that you live in. Who am I to judge? go back and put the cape on and jump around the house.

I missed that, you actually made my day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Yes Sir, love it!