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#466
AsymBacGuy / Re: Why bac could be beatable itlr
January 10, 2021, 11:48:45 PM
As you said, "There are no wrong or right methods to beat (or not) this game itlr, there are only methods that do work".

Exactly!  So true. 

I remember talking to a very experienced long-time dealer at a large casino not long ago and he primarily deals Baccarat full-time 6 days a week. So naturally he is dealing the cards a lot more than each of us is playing the game. And he really summed it up and I've said some of it before in the past.

Which is what wins on one shoe will lose on the very next shoe or what wins in the current shoe will lose consistently for the following shoes. What wins in the first half of the shoe will lose every single time in the second half of the shoe. What wins within 10 hands will lose within the next ten hands and to everybody's surprise will win again for another 10 hands and then will lose again for the subsequent ten hands.

And then he goes on to talk about dealers.  Somebody has winning sessions with one dealer repetitively that same person will have losing sessions with eventually and blame the dealer for it, all the while other people are winning with the same dealer, that person was losing with.

And then he went on to casinos, citing how some players swear up and down that they can win at one casino when they cannot win at another casino. Then he went on to days of the week, where players will swear up and down they can win on certain days of the week as well as certain times of the day or the night and lose at other times. He cited a lot more examples but you get the point.

As you said, "Our datasets show that dissecting the shoe into an average number of 4 or 5 key situations will make the highest player's edge. Yet remember that not every shoe is playable".  And I have posted extensively about Sections.  I have found that proper use of Sections to be an advantage many times. 

There is most certainly winning and losing times and I've talked about that in my own posts referencing such things as Sections and Plateaus. 

No matter how a person links the wins and the losses to the numbers, the cards, to people playing, the dealers, the casinos, the time of day or night, the color of his chips, the seat number, or any one of another 20 or 30 factors the bottom line will always be the same. And that is something will be related to wins for short sections of time, but will not consistently hold true shoe after shoe, day after day, month after month, from casino to casino. And that is 100% fact.
#467
Intro & Part 1

Your subconscious mind determines where you will go in most all situations.

Your conscious mind attempts to deal with your immediate and minute-to-minute decisions as well as adjust with some type of realization, attempting to deal with or provide you excuses after the fact.

Fear takes over and causes so much of the loss at the gaming tables and most players have no idea why the fear actually sets in and it has to do with primarily your subconscious mind frame and reservoir that stores the subconscious.

The basis of your decision making process at gaming is actually contained within your subconscious mind which so many of us have no idea about.

There is actually a block between your subconscious and your conscious minds. You have to remove the block in order to be successful at gaming.

What you have to realize and deal with is your conscious mind is 99% unaware of the subconscious and what the subconscious will produce and make your agenda.

But the subconscious mind overwhelms most decisions made or about to be made by the conscious mind. In other words and in reality, you are self-defeating yourself the highest majority of the times. And when frustration and anxiety along with emotions set in, that will be most likely be 100% of the time. This is what needs to be addressed, not how to follow the last decision or not follow the last decision or follow the chop chop or follow the streak or follow the person winning at the table or bet opposite the person losing at the table or only bet a certain amount of your buy-in and all that other garbage that is written on the internet.

You have to understand your conscious mind contains all of the thoughts, feelings, and wishes of which we are all holding at any given moment. The unconscious mind is a genuine reservoir of your thoughts feelings memories and urges that are outside of your conscious awareness. No matter if they're positive or negative.  However the negative will generally be produced and held much longer than the positive experiences within the subconscious reservoir and that is what makes it so dangerous especially at the gaming tables.

Your conscious mind commands you and generally directs your decision making process in real time. Stay with me here please. Your subconscious mind obeys. Your subconscious mind is your unquestioning servant that is working day and night to make your behavior fit into and with your emotional thoughts, hopes, and desires. All of your habits of thinking and acting are stored in your subconscious mind. And again this is what makes it so dangerous at the gaming table for your decision making process because of the influence that you cannot control and in most cases don't even know about.

Once activated your subconscious goals, choices, and actions persist until met. That is exactly the reason for continued wagering at the tables once the wins are capitalized on as well as continued wagering when experiencing continued losses.

It is not as easy as saying, "I will do this or that" or "I will prime my subconscious and be aware of it all the time" or "I'm only going to follow my conscious mind", etc., etc., etc.

Your subconscious includes feelings, hidden memories, habits, thoughts, desires, and reactions. Memories and emotions that are painful, embarrassing, shameful and of the likes are all stored within your subconscious and will influence your  behavior and real-time decision making process, both heavily and continually.

Now maybe you can start to realize why each of us experience conflict within our decision-making process at the tables and how our frustration builds after losses as well as failing to capitalize on winning bets and sections with larger wins that we actually either had an advantage and seen somehow, or just felt very confident were going to come about and they did.

There are things a table game player can do to combat the levels of your mind and access your subconscious and develop roles that will give you a better advantage in your decision-making process.

More to come in detail within my next post about Levels and Roles.

Thanks for reading and stay safe!




#468
Macau casinos ended their worst year on record with little sign of progress in a recovery, though hopes remain for a rebound in the world?s largest gambling hub later in 2021.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-01/macau-casinos-end-their-worst-year-with-little-sign-of-recovery
#469
The plan is we'll be making small incremental upgrades instead of a big disruptive one.

This way we can try a bit, roll back easily, update on good result & fix things.

Do feel free to use the forum.

As well, to everyone Happy New Year and hopefully 2021 is a great year for all!!
#470
Cannot envision that happening again.
#471
Hi Everyone! We're going to make one last server reinstall to close the year to be aligned to fix the bugs this January 2021.

Forum gets a little downtime but it's all OK since the data is backed.

Going to perform a "soft" reinstall to close the year & prepare thing for the biggie one which will -hopefully- fix things in our pages and the other minor errors.


Will also try to get us a working responsive forum template to get in shape @ mobile devices.

Just wanted to advice so you know it's programmed :nod:

2020 sucked!  Let's make it better all the way around for each of us!
Best to each and everyone of you guys. 

Cheers & happy holidays!  Alrelax.
#472
Quote from: usernametaken on December 17, 2020, 03:13:32 AM
I must say that this gives us hope. I feel that 2021 will be a great year for all of us. We will put the work in. Happy Holidays for all.

Love the "Positiveness"!  Thanks!
#473
A proposal to raise the threshold at which gamblers must report their slot winnings isn't going to make or break Las Vegas, but it would offer a bit of help for the Nevada economy at a time when we really need it.

https://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2020/dec/18/updating-jackpot-threshold-would-be-a-win-win/
#474
Wagering & Intricacies / Re: Sections and Turning Points
December 17, 2020, 02:25:41 PM
Re-Read the following:

Sections, is the shoe divided up into 3 to 5 windows that help me focus on numerous things.  A couple of those are the following.  First and foremost, to concentrate on what is being presented as a constant reminder on what the shoe is producing.  Some call that the flow of the cards or the presentments as they are happening, etc.  Either way, those or any of the other labels, it is reality and what is actually happening.  I do believe one of the greatest mistakes in playing baccarat is the continual looking back as to what happened or the opposite, what has not happened or what should happen, etc.  Second, after years and years of actual play, relying or counting on streaks, chops, doubles, cuts, ones and threes, ones and twos, etc., will only get you what is actually being presented.  Not what is due, what you want, what you are counting on, what could happen or anything of those desires we all have most of the times.  I have come to realize a few years back, that the shoe will do what the shoe will do, nothing more and nothing less.  Hence, the Section is reality as it is happening.  Third, there is no trigger(s) being defined, there are no sure wagers being defined, there are no should appear type of favoritism being brought about, if used the way I intended it to be used.
#475
The problem is Richard, it's not fun to do it the way you're talking about. Actually reading, applying, researching, learning and repeating the process. The way most people engage in their forums or most people apply themselves is to read a few posts, believe they had mastered everything, pretending they grasped the Holy Grail and apply it in the casino or even online. That's the fun way, that's the way that appeals to most everyone these days.  Sorry if I offended anybody but to me that's reality of what's happening these days.
#476
Vegas and Atlantic City / The Real Vegas Seriously Sad
December 13, 2020, 07:11:39 AM
LAS VEGAS   The casino has been closed for months. The hotel rooms are empty. Out front, the three-story sign that once beckoned to gamblers with $1.99 margaritas now advertises a food bank in the parking lot every Thursday.

"8 a.m. until all food is distributed," says the sign at the Fiesta Henderson.

It wasn't supposed to be like this in America.


https://apnews.com/article/immigration-las-vegas-coronavirus-pandemic-united-states-2646ed15ddda61212ee3d44be7f9f10f
#477
Vegas and Atlantic City / Las Vegas is falling
December 10, 2020, 02:36:38 PM
Las Vegas Strip Casino Closes Hotel Tower

Las Vegas Sands Corp. Announced Palazzo Would Close Its Hotel Effective Immediately


Sands President and COO Rob Goldstein said that he "Never felt more gloomy than I do today about what's happening in Las Vegas."

https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/25534-las-vegas-strip-casino-closes-hotel-tower
#478
AsymBacGuy / Re: Why bac could be beatable itlr
December 07, 2020, 11:24:07 AM
After that first strong section I would look for 1s and 2s and then 1s and 3s being careful not to get sucked in on the 2s, the doubles.  Maybe look for a section, long section of chops and 1s and 3s and then a long and strong Player streak out of nowhere. 
#479
Quote from: Garfield on November 12, 2020, 08:41:56 AM
So I was wondering....if the bead plate showed consistency and so with the main road..... it happened quite a few time...which one would you choose? Based on your experience and PoV....

The bead plate to me and a lot of people I play with are much more important than the big road. The big road is only what's happening as it happens. The bead plate especially with low ties, is an excellent predictor of what's going to happen to the right hand side going out. Which would be every sixth hand after the current hand.

However and a huge disclaimer is that the shoe will only present what it's set up to present and no one can change it and that's what everybody has to realize that's playing this game. But when it's presenting time after time, no matter what predictor or what pattern you are choosing, you have to follow it and not go against it. I hope that makes sense to you.
#480
I do favor the bead plate the majority of the time, especially when it is perfectly repeating itself whatever it is. And yes this particular shoe we did follow the bead plate most of the time.