Learn How to Learn

Do not ignore the game to its true principles. And that is exactly what almost all players do because of their frame of mind. Ignore the past as it is truly relevant. When the fire erupts most all players will just pour more fuel on to it. And the single most important part of baccarat is learning the true principles of the game and how it affects the present hand as well as yourself.

Another very important item in the game of baccarat is your frame of mind and how you view the past the present and the future and applying it to the game. Be real careful and understand what you were getting into when you believe your own Visions as the highest and greatest amount of the time do not affect the outcome of the present.

Because people allow the past, whether the immediate past or earlier in the shoe or previous shoes or even yesterday or days before come into play. I'm telling you ignore the past, it is totally irrelevant. Do not fight the present, which if you do, you will squash most all of your chances to win the larger sums of money because you're stuck in the past. The past does not matter, as only the present does in each and every hand that's being presented in the game of Baccarat.

The present is also the continuance of the shoe and directly related to your intentions. Your intentions are to win and you cannot win in the past you can't win in the future. You only win in the present time with the present hand. When the present hand is the next hand, it is then the present hand. True the next hand turns into the future but you're not wagering on the future until you pass the present hand, you have to understand that.

So how do we learn how to learn?

Most Important to be Learned & in Learning:

Discard Fallacy
Discard 'Talk'
DIscard Getting Rich
Realize what winning and losing sessions are
Establish 'Risk Capital' vs. a 'Irreplaceable One-Time Bankroll'

Concentration-Learning-Accuracy-Focus and Memory.  The 5 Points that need to be merged together in your decision-making.

Realize Fact
Stop Greed
Learn Patience
Learn and Abide by your true Level and Plateau of Wagering

Learn to wait comfortably between sessions

Being in complete control

Exiting Points must be learned and established with concrete rules which will reflect your ability in immediate switching of your frame of mind.

Learn

What luck is vs. what your skill is.

Anyone can win
Anyone can lose

The control is what each of us truly believes they have but really and rarely possesses.  Learn true and conscious control.  Super important and extremely difficult!

Take that a step further, if you actually possess control or when you are able to learn it, you must be totally conscious of it. And that means being able to turn it on and off in order to give you an advantage when the presentments are right to make wagers or stay out.

You must learn to respond to what is actually factual and happening. And not to what you think or is in your beliefs about what might happen because then you are indulging in fallacy and not the immediate presentment of what is going to be factual from the shoe.

Very interesting and valuable thread Al!

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"You must learn to respond to what is actually factual and happening. And not to what you think or is in your beliefs",  and so on.

Leave out the beliefs, leave out the emotions, leave out thinking every wagering hand about your bank roll or your buy in money. You must!!!!

You cannot touch upon or interface with math at the table for the 15 or 25 or so hands for the 1, 2 or 3 shoes your wagering real money on, in real time attempting Progressive Wagers in order to actually take down some money.

You know in my opinion and that of many other experienced players, the most intelligent and profitable players have the best chance to capitalize on the game of baccarat using extreme control and being conscious of everything that we talk about.

There are lots of important items to learn, use and possess that will give you large advantages in baccarat. Like I said anyone can win and anyone can lose. How much you do of either one is totally up to you and it has a lot to do with many things especially Control and Consciousness at the table.

Just for example, control will allow you to capitalize on positive progressions when it is the right time as well as not getting sucked in and following worthless fallacies and destined losers amongst many other things at the tables.

"...What luck is vs. what your skill is.
Anyone can win
Anyone can lose,..."

I agree. I also think the first one(luck vs skill) is often difficult to discern (For beginners as well as veterans).

Mainly because its difficult to determine if we just stumbled onto a streaky shoe and went with the flow--or-- did we use skill to make our  various-pattern selections/ that happened to also be in sync with the outcomes--or-- a person always wagered for one pattern and Variance raised up and smiled & granted favor for that one pattern in a 74-hand stint...etc.

     The above scenarios are often confusing and misinterpreted. IMO that misguided confusion is what often makes it difficult to see in the Luck vs. Skill dilemma because Luck and Skill are often blended and not clear.

*I recall very early on in my bac play I was wagering for P streaks and stumbled onto a P-Dom shoe that produced 9,8,6,6,5  Pstreaks. Im not sure why i was only betting for P streaks(prob read it in a book, saw a big bettor win big with P streaks,....etc or similar nonsensical thinking).

If I remember correctly I was doing a 1,2,4,8,8, then continuing with a cumulative 20% add on each compound to the end. I won almost 300% of buyin and felt really smart. I had noted two other neg-pro players bust in the shoe(so Im sure their perception of P streaks,variance, luck, skill,..etc  was different than mine)

Guess what I wagered  for in my next shoe, next shoe, next shoe: P streaks. I didn't feel so intelligent after a few more similar-wagered shoes.

In hindsight Im quite sure it didn't have anything to do with my superlative Bac skillset. Was it luck or skill?
Probably just luck, or we could say it was simply Variance and I was fortunate to be in sync.


Continued Success,

Both sides have the same characteristics. Except player will and does have a better chance to form more clumps and runs then Banker does.

It's just like everything else in player and banker and side bets at the baccarat table, sometimes it happens and sometimes it does not. 

You're sitting there for a very limited amount of time and all of the math and all of the fallacies from hundreds of thousands of hands or hundreds of thousands of shoes, does not count for that one, two or three shoes you're sitting down for your session.

Hi Alrelax

re: your sentence  "...Except player will and does have a better chance to form more clumps and runs then Banker does..."

Can you give an example of what u mean by clumps. For example are you referencing outcomes such as : PPPbPPPbPPPP for a (10-2) P-dom clump?? or say: PPPPPPP b PPPPPPPP ,...etc where two long runs are back-to-back,   or are you referring to something else ?  None of the above?

Thx in advance

Quote from: KungFuBac on April 26, 2021, 03:47:25 AM
Hi Alrelax

re: your sentence  "...Except player will and does have a better chance to form more clumps and runs then Banker does..."

Can you give an example of what u mean by clumps. For example are you referencing outcomes such as : PPPbPPPbPPPP for a (10-2) P-dom clump?? or say: PPPPPPP b PPPPPPPP ,...etc where two long runs are back-to-back,   or are you referring to something else ?  None of the above?

Thx in advance

2s, 3s and 4s close together with single Bankers, maybe token double banker stuck in as well.  Could be longer than 4s, no restrictions on length, just telling you what I see most of the time.