The TwoCat Riverwind Report

[TwoCatSam]

Hi

Just returned from Riverwind where I played "Two's Company", "Tic Tac Toe" and that "Basil" thing of MR J's.

Wound up 302 units up.

Questions gladly answered.

Sam

[rouletteKEY]

hope you were playing with the black chips Sam...I guess the green ones would cover a tank of gas too

I would imagine you let them give you a buffet or two on top of the 300u

what a great day!

[RouletteGhost]

Awesome. I should learn these methods

[TwoCatSam]

Thanks, fellers.  At this point, I only play with quarters.  Still $75.50 was a good day.

No buffet but I learned how to get one and $20 to play on, too.

Sam

[RouletteGhost]

Lucky. The casino by me has a 10 dollar minimum on organic roulette

[TwoCatSam]

Understand, this is Roulette Evolution, an RNG device--not a real wheel.  While I have been told otherwise, I trust it to be a fair wheel.  During most of my time today, I was the only one playing.  Would not have been hard to scam me...

[GLC]

Hey, 302 units is a great day at the casino in anybody's book.  63 more units and you've won 1 unit for each day of the year.  I'd say dinner or no dinner, that's a good trip to the casino.

Of course, any time you play one of Mr J's thingy's, you've got a really good chance to walk away a decent winner.

On another note.  Regarding your signature.  What if cats and dogs don't go to the same place??  

Tough decision, huh?

GLC

We decided to fly instead of drive back East, so we won't be in your neck of the woods this trip.

[GLC]

While thinking about Sam's winning session, I remembered the following advice I copied from a system I read a few years back.

I’d be willing to bet in most cases when you lose, it will have been you that failed yourself. Most of the time the biggest battle won’t be between you and the casino, it will be between you and yourself.

To win in the casino you must have the rest of your life in order.  Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. We do not fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To put it more simply, failure is nothing more than a few errors in judgment repeated every day.

For some of us it's these bad habits that need to change, we make poor choices daily because we don't think that it matters. On their own, our daily acts do not seem that important. A minor oversight, a poor decision, or a wasted hour generally doesn't result
in an instant and measurable impact.  More often than not, we escape from any immediate consequences of our deeds.  In fact, sometimes these accumulated errors in judgment occur throughout a period of great joy and prosperity in our lives. Like eating the wrong foods or prolonging a doctor's physical or maybe bad habits like smoking cigarettes. Since nothing terrible happens to us,
since there are no instant consequences to capture our attention, we simply drift from one day to the next, repeating the errors, thinking the wrong thoughts, listening to the wrong voices and making the wrong choices.

Some of you might be saying what does this have to do with winning in the casino? It has a lot to do with it.  You see, no system will work without self-control or without making the right decisions. And I believe, as many will agree it starts with you as a whole person and how you handle your emotions.

There is good news, you can change, you can win, just like the formula for failure, the formula for success is easy to follow: It's a few simple disciplines practiced every day.

Now here is an interesting question worth pondering: How can we change the errors in the formula for failure into the disciplines required in the formula for success? The answer is by making "the future" an important part of our current philosophy. Both success and failure  involve future consequences, namely the inevitable rewards or unavoidable regrets resulting from past activities.

If this is true, why don't more people take time to ponder the future? The answer is simple: They are so caught up in the current moment that it doesn't seem to matter. The problems and the rewards of today are so absorbing to some people that they never pause long enough to think about tomorrow. Without focusing on your goals and consequences you will probably lose control and fail in the casino.

But what if we did develop a new discipline to take just a few minutes every day to look a little further down the road? We would then be able to foresee the impending consequences of our current conduct. Armed with that valuable information, we would be able to take the necessary action to change our errors into new success-oriented disciplines. In other words, by disciplining ourselves to see the future in advance, we would be able to change our thinking, amend our errors and develop new habits to replace the old. So you must
prepare yourself daily!

One of the exciting things about the formula for success, a few simple disciplines practiced every day is that the results are almost immediate. As we voluntarily change daily errors into daily disciplines, we experience positive results in a very short period of time. Which also will transform your play in the heat of the casino when you need it most.

When we change our diet, our health improves noticeably in just a few weeks. When we start exercising, we feel a new vitality almost immediately. When we begin reading, we experience a growing awareness and a new level of self-confidence. Whatever new discipline we begin to practice daily will produce exciting results that will drive us to become even better at developing new disciplines and certainly will help you in casino warfare.

The real magic of new disciplines is that they will cause us to amend our thinking. If we were to start today to read the books, keep a journal, quit smoking, eat better, listen more and observe more, this would help not only playing baccarat but would be leading you to a
better future. If we were to start today to try harder, and in every way make a conscious and consistent effort to change subtle and deadly errors into constructive and rewarding disciplines, we would never again settle for a life of mediocrity.

You must think and act like a winner to be a winner. Remember winners never deviate when off course nor do they quit. Your casino play can be what you want it to be. Take the days and sessions one at a time and you will make it through anything that comes along.

Nothing wastes more energy and zaps your will more than fear or worrying. The old saying is “IF” you can’t take the heat, then get out of the kitchen. This is also true when you’re gambling. If you can’t stay calm during the tough runs against you and veer off course, you
don’t belong in there and will never in the long run win.

So make those daily changes, one baby step at a time.  Only you know what they are, and start becoming a winner.

Share your successes with the rest of us.  We love to hear about winning.

Cheers,
GLC

[TwoCatSam]

Wow!!  GLC............

Words to live by!  So very true.

I did only one smart thing:  I did not chase a loss.  That was one of the hardest things for me to learn.  With this "Tic Tac Toe", it is easy to overlook where you should bet and sometimes you bet a number twice.  I failed to bet yesterday when I should have.  Once upon a time, I would have chased that loss.  Not anymore.

Thanks for that lengthy philosophical lecture.  I'll read it again.

Sam

[Turner]

Nice words George.
Our mechanical, almost clockwork looking universe lulls us into a false sense of security. Tomorrow seems very predictable...and it probably is.
I didnt mean probably as the everyday word but more probability.
I just read that a red dwarf star passed our solar system 70,000 years ago. Closer than 0.8 light years Thats close...
The future seems predictable...but it should always be treated with great respect.
Not just at a massive level (killer comets and the like) but at a microscopic one (Small decisions we make)

[TwoCatSam]

Well, carrying on.........

I have lived by two axioms:

1.  If you're failing to plan, you're planning to fail.

2.  You are where you are today because of decisions you made yesterday.

I added to the last one:  Let me make good decisions today so I'll be in a good place tomorrow.

Sam

[TwoCatSam]

Went down Friday morning.......

Played same three systems.  Got terribly bored.  Made mistakes.  Failed to bet twice on winners.  I have it figured out:

When you get really good at a system, you get bored.
When you get bored, you make mistakes.
When you make mistakes and lose money, you get mad.
Then you're not bored!!   

Still won around $11 and should have won $40 or more...

Sam

[GLC]

Went down Friday morning.......

Played same three systems.  Got terribly bored.  Made mistakes.  Failed to bet twice on winners.  I have it figured out:

When you get really good at a system, you get bored.
When you get bored, you make mistakes.
When you make mistakes and lose money, you get mad.
Then you're not bored!!   

Still won around $11 and should have won $40 or more...

Sam

As long as you don't lose so much money that you can no longer smile, you're still recreating.

Stay focused my friend.  $30 is a meal for both of you at Golden Corral.

GLC

[TwoCatSam]

George

Went to see "Still Alice" last night.  A must-see movie if you're over 65, I'd say.  It makes you wonder how much of your rock-headedness is from just being inattentive and how much is from the heavy metal clogging your brain.  Well, I should speak for Sam.

I am going to establish an almost military-like method of rechecking my bets before the 32 seconds elapses. 

I've long heard people say, "Well, you're only human and humans make mistakes."  Would you like your brain/heart surgeon to adopt that attitude? 

I vow to quit making mistakes.

Sam

[MrJ]

Roulette mistakes can kill, no question but....... (I was sitting next to the wheel), I needed to make a "large" bet on the 19. I instead bet on the 16, the 6 upside down looks like a 9. I simply was not paying attention. Well, the 16 hit (lol), sometimes it works out.

Ken