The above is why , I have been playing a table minimum DP wager followed by laying the most odds my bankroll can handle while staying within 4% of my total gambling bankroll.
I tell other players who ask , "Do you win all the time?"
"No!", I answer. "I never win or lose . I just give the casino 7 cents every time I put a $5 wager on the Dont Pass.
They usually don`t talk to me any more after that answer because they don`t understand the house edge and think I am not being straight with them.
Determining your session stake
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Re: Determining your session stake
The amount of money that we are able to dedicate to our buy-in varies with each player. So too does the amount of anxiety that each of us attaches to each and every bet that we make.
The higher the anxiety that each bet carries; the more difficult it is for us to produce nicely-relaxed fluidly-executed de-randomized tosses.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that the physical toss-execution signals that our brain sends down to our fingertips, are often impeded and muddied in their clarity by the anxiety and mental-distraction that our bets cause.
Don’t laugh.
Think about it.
How often have you, while setting your grip, had an errant bet-size thought trickle into your mind?
And, how often has the end of that toss resulted in a 7-Out?
Maybe it’s just me; but whenever a bet-size concern starts to leak into my toss-focus; the resulting toss-outcome is often the one that I least want to see.
To my way of thinking, it doesn’t take much to slightly distract and derail an otherwise good toss. In fact, that stress can be so subtle and so ongoing, that you don’t even consciously notice it…but your sub-consciousness sure does.
Our good friend, Jeff47, did a lot of un-posted research on this subject. I'll dig around and see what I can share with you.
In essence, he wanted us to think of it this way:
"Think of it in terms of ongoing low-grade stress.
If you’ve ever been a soldier at war, or an inmate of a prison; there is always an underlying amount of stress even when you aren’t being fired at, or you aren’t at overt risk of being shanked.
Just being there is stressful enough, even if you are relatively safe at that particular moment. It’s the overall situation that lends itself to the ongoing stress, and it pervades your underlying psyche even when you are thinking of other things.
So too, in a casino, there is always the underlying and ongoing low-grade stress of just being there, knowing that you are going to be putting money at risk.
When it comes to your actual toss, and the point at which your money is now fully at risk; it’s understandable that your stress level will rise.
Make it ‘scared money’ and your stress level rises even further.
That’s the point where your “perfect-at-home” toss starts to demonstrate far less real-world proficiency."
So how do we desensitize ourselves to all of that.
Practice, my friends; lots and lots of practice.
You have to run the same higher-buck betting-regimens at home as you plan to run in the casino. You have to see for yourself, first hand, how ANY betting-approach both wins and loses.
For example, if you want to see exactly how my MP-$204 Equal-Payout Regression works; you first have to experience its ups and downs at home on a real-time hundreds upon hundreds of hands basis.
You have to see how it can lose, and you also have to see how it recovers…and you have to go through that win/loss cycle so many times that those ebbs and flows become second-nature to you.
Let me put it this way:
If you’ve experienced something a couple of hundred time in realistic-action training; then it doesn’t un-nerve you as much when it actually happens in the real-world.
Now I’m not saying that it won’t be stressful the first couple of times you experience a $204-Across loss in the real-world, because it will be.
But what I’m also saying is that you won’t be shocked by its appearance, nor will you be as reluctant to stick with an already-proven method if you’ve already shown yourself over and over again, WHY it will work and HOW it is able to stage mid-horizon recoveries.
If you don’t train for that and you don’t desensitize yourself to an early and errant 7-Out when so much money is in play; then you'll tend to get gun-shy (and possibly even shell-shocked) when it does. You'll also tend to tighten up so much that your basic toss turns to complete crap.
I think this is a worthwhile subject that I’d like to discuss a bit further.
If you have any thoughts in terms of ways and means to disconnect your toss from the money that you put at risk (other than chronically under-betting to the point where even your best-ever hands only turn in a mediocre profit); I think we’d all like to hear about it.
Feel free to share.
MP
The higher the anxiety that each bet carries; the more difficult it is for us to produce nicely-relaxed fluidly-executed de-randomized tosses.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that the physical toss-execution signals that our brain sends down to our fingertips, are often impeded and muddied in their clarity by the anxiety and mental-distraction that our bets cause.
Don’t laugh.
Think about it.
How often have you, while setting your grip, had an errant bet-size thought trickle into your mind?
And, how often has the end of that toss resulted in a 7-Out?
Maybe it’s just me; but whenever a bet-size concern starts to leak into my toss-focus; the resulting toss-outcome is often the one that I least want to see.
To my way of thinking, it doesn’t take much to slightly distract and derail an otherwise good toss. In fact, that stress can be so subtle and so ongoing, that you don’t even consciously notice it…but your sub-consciousness sure does.
Our good friend, Jeff47, did a lot of un-posted research on this subject. I'll dig around and see what I can share with you.
In essence, he wanted us to think of it this way:
"Think of it in terms of ongoing low-grade stress.
If you’ve ever been a soldier at war, or an inmate of a prison; there is always an underlying amount of stress even when you aren’t being fired at, or you aren’t at overt risk of being shanked.
Just being there is stressful enough, even if you are relatively safe at that particular moment. It’s the overall situation that lends itself to the ongoing stress, and it pervades your underlying psyche even when you are thinking of other things.
So too, in a casino, there is always the underlying and ongoing low-grade stress of just being there, knowing that you are going to be putting money at risk.
When it comes to your actual toss, and the point at which your money is now fully at risk; it’s understandable that your stress level will rise.
Make it ‘scared money’ and your stress level rises even further.
That’s the point where your “perfect-at-home” toss starts to demonstrate far less real-world proficiency."
So how do we desensitize ourselves to all of that.
Practice, my friends; lots and lots of practice.
You have to run the same higher-buck betting-regimens at home as you plan to run in the casino. You have to see for yourself, first hand, how ANY betting-approach both wins and loses.
For example, if you want to see exactly how my MP-$204 Equal-Payout Regression works; you first have to experience its ups and downs at home on a real-time hundreds upon hundreds of hands basis.
You have to see how it can lose, and you also have to see how it recovers…and you have to go through that win/loss cycle so many times that those ebbs and flows become second-nature to you.
Let me put it this way:
If you’ve experienced something a couple of hundred time in realistic-action training; then it doesn’t un-nerve you as much when it actually happens in the real-world.
Now I’m not saying that it won’t be stressful the first couple of times you experience a $204-Across loss in the real-world, because it will be.
But what I’m also saying is that you won’t be shocked by its appearance, nor will you be as reluctant to stick with an already-proven method if you’ve already shown yourself over and over again, WHY it will work and HOW it is able to stage mid-horizon recoveries.
If you don’t train for that and you don’t desensitize yourself to an early and errant 7-Out when so much money is in play; then you'll tend to get gun-shy (and possibly even shell-shocked) when it does. You'll also tend to tighten up so much that your basic toss turns to complete crap.
I think this is a worthwhile subject that I’d like to discuss a bit further.
If you have any thoughts in terms of ways and means to disconnect your toss from the money that you put at risk (other than chronically under-betting to the point where even your best-ever hands only turn in a mediocre profit); I think we’d all like to hear about it.
Feel free to share.
MP