Seth
I've been very quickly reviewing a few shoes using your metho, things worked well. Then I came across this sucker, shoe 1 from a session.
P
B
PPP
BB
PP
BBBB
P
B (4u bet lost)
P (4u bet won)
BB (bet 4u lose, bet 4u lost)
P (win 4u bet, next bet 8 units, so far no disaster)
BBBBBBBB (a 9 streak at 8u each bet, that is plain ridiculous)
PP (okay you cleared the debt after making a 70+ unit bet, but it's nuts to drop so much in a single shoe)
BB
PPPP
BB
P
A winning shoe no doubt, but you will be up and down like a roller coaster, not counting the stress factor.
All it takes is a long banker streak and your not betting 1u. There are probably better bet selections than betting one side only for this
MM, you could simply revert to LTD + 2 or whatever if you happened to betting on banker.
Take it easy, I'll look at the Excel sheet later on.
J
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:56:23 -0700
From:
sethbets@gmail.com
To:
john_baccarat@live.co.uk
Subject: Re: Skipsim
JJ - Replace the e's in my BF name with 5s. It will work fine in XL2010 - let me know if you have problems.
Enjoyed your latest post. Right on the money.
If LOTI is self-appointed as the BF tester, he's not too good at it. I have never known anyone run a short-term test (or any test) without first checking protocol. How does anyone place a bet of 100,000 units? The man's an idiot! Imspirit did exactly the same thing, so my guess is he followed LOTI's lead without bothering to contact me first.
Soxfan's method is eerily similar to Target. The win progression is identical. No problem: Target has been on the Net for years. The post-win parlay doesn't work, but never mind.
As for draw-downs, I can state categorically that there is no alternative. Stop-losses are a disaster.
I have said my piece on the yawning gap between sims and real play. LOTI, Imspirit and Shackleford are all fully aware of this and don't care.
Like I keep saying, the only way to evaluate Target is to play it. It is ultimately self-supporting. The turnarounds are dramatic, especially at blackjack. After a while, backing the strategy effectively becomes a non-issue. I do very well with a $5,000
BR but life and its demands and obligations prevent me from going beyond that. One of these days...
My biggest problem (and I know it's huge!) is that I hate casinos - all that smoke and noise and widespread self-destruction by booze-soaked punters who don't take the time to learn the right way to bet. Their choice and their right, of course, but I don't like watching it. Online "casinos" are not an option for me. They cheat.
Re the sim, I'm well-used to nonsensical flak from theoretical mythematicians who insist that runaway sims are the only option. People simply don't play that way (except maybe for the aforementioned drunks and fools!).
I take your point about single-table situations. Solutions: Wait for the next shoe, go play a different game...or go home. The casino wants you to feel glued to your seat.
Keep winning!
Seth T.
On 10/15/2011 7:27 AM, j j wrote:
Hi Seth
No problem with the sharing of information, I will keep it all confidential...
To be honest, while the accumulation of Banker tax makes a lot of sense, I am not really a fan of Target Betting mainly due to the potential draw-downs. I can see a heavily Banker shoe is going to give the punter a lot of grief. It goes against my own methodology to try and recoup draw-downs inside two bets, the advantages are not great enough to outweigh the risks.
BF
IMO is 90% amateurish, there are few who are willing to put in the effort to succeed. All they want to know is which side to bet and when, then need solutions served on a plate and then have unrealistic expectations.
Regarding LOTI, he is the self appointed board tester, so well liked for his usefulness, I very much doubt he actually plays at all, well not until he finds something to beat a million sims.
The funny thing is, he has helped me with a few systems over the years, we hit a brick wall, he gives up, I take it to the casino and win a decent amount of money playing them. There lies the difference between a player and a tester.
I've exchanged emails with Michael, I am aware of the accusations that get thrown his way, yet his WOO site I think is excellent for all casino games.
Regarding your defensive moves, while I understand where you are coming from, let's say your playing a shoe that has thrown a few long banker streaks at you, well all my mind is telling me, is each hand is independent, a few banker streaks doesn't rule out a few player streaks, in a one table environment leaving a table doesn't seem a viable option. However backing off on the bets, certainly does. Which is why I posted that variation, yet I can see chops will also be an issue.
If you are that confident in securing a twin win, here is a progression posted by Soxfan.
1-1-1-2 parlay all winning bets
5-10-15-25-40-65-105 (all winning bets are repeated) The profit after WW is below
5-10-10-15-20-30-45 (total cost 270 units and scope for 11 bets without a twin win).
Take Care
John
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:48:28 -0700
From:
sethbets@gmail.com
To:
john_baccarat@live.co.uk
Subject: Skipsim
Hello, Egalite - The sim is attached. The methodology section should make it easy for you to follow and use. It's in Excel 2010 format, and I can convert it to XL2007 or earlier if necessary (although it won't look as pretty and the macro may not work!).
I have been at war with "runaway sims" for years. The idea that in normal play, someone would sit through a killer trend without defensive action insults the intelligence of anyone interested in the real arithmetic of games of chance.
The sims are a very handy tool for those on the BF and other world-wide gambling forums who are paid to demolish any betting method that utilizes progressive betting, but they are cynically used because the premise is knowingly false. I am especially disgusted by the "Wizard of Odds" - Shackleford pretends to be a player advocate, but he's worse than a shill: he's a paid professional liar.
I may sound like a conspiracy nut to you, but I have been through this many times. It always saddens me that there are so few people out there who genuinely want to learn how to beat casino table games.
And, of course, the games have to be beatable. Otherwise, there'd be no winners, and without winners, losers would not be drawn in. I'm not talking about luck here, either. The house edge is razor thin in most games (especially in baccarat and, even better, blackjack) and can be consistently overturned with disciplined, well-planned progressive betting.
As for LOTI, his math is faulty and his manners are worse. I'd bet money that he is in the casino business.
Anyway, the sim speaks for itself. If you walk away from potential or actual downtrends, preventing the possibility of an extended negative pattern that may develop and seriously threaten your
BR, logic (and math!) dictate that you will cut into the house edge even before progressive betting overturns it and hands you an end-of-session profit. This happens because you don't walk away from winning streaks and you don't react to short-term losing streaks. Scroll down through the 1,000 lines of the sim and you'll see what I am talking about.
The file is password-protected. Annoying, I know, but I will give you the key as soon as I have your promise that the sim and all that the file contains, including any personal information of mine, and off-board e-mails like this one, will be kept strictly between us. I enjoy working with people who take this challenge seriously, but I have been burned a few times. That doesn't stop me from trying to get Target into play by as many people as possible.
Thanks for your suggested modifications, by the way. I have tried them all (the same ideas, long before I joined BF) and that's why Target is the way it is. Someone on BF recently told me the strategy might be made playable "with a little more work." I got a good laugh from that. This has been almost a full-time obsession for more years than most people surfing the Internet have been alive - but miraculously, I'm still a young man!
Best,
Seth T.
(ends e-mails)
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