Playing 4 Keeps™ a Gaming Newsletter for Winners

Celebrating Ten Years!

A Gaming News Letter For Winners

February 2005

Volume 7 Issue 2

Copyright ©2005 Michael Vernon

"Luck Has Nothing To Do With It When You Are Playing 4 Keeps™!

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Welcome this special edition of Playing 4 Keeps™ newsletter. I have been under the gun with several projects, among them a re-write of my Blackjack for Winners™ playbook. Two of my best friends in the gaming business graciously offered articles for this edition when I asked for their help.

Ladies first! I doubt that there is a woman more knowledge about the game of dice than Deborah Garcia is. Not to leave out my male comrades, she probably surpasses the guys as well. (I have to clutch to some male ego here.) Should you ever have the opportunity to meet Deborah, there is no doubt that her knowledge of the game will generously spill into your life as a blessing.

Self-empowerment means exactly that. You empower yourself. Read what Deborah has to say about how you can empower yourself and start the New Year winning.

Winning Starts With.....

"Chance favors the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur

I happened to glance at my horoscope today. It read: "Pie in the sky dreams are lucky. It could happen! If you want to know wealth, don't look to someone else to provide it for you." Well, as the song goes, "God bless the child that's got his own." To make winning happen, it is all up to you.

Oh, the timing of that horoscope! At a time of year that we all need to ponder, even if just for a moment, what we would like to achieve this year with our gaming endeavors. This is the best time of the year for scripting our future, for writing down our goals. Doing this forces us to define what we know and, more importantly, what we want.

There is power in our pens. But first, we have to be clear on our goals for our casino sessions. It is so important to know what we intend to do to make ourselves winners. Keeping our intentions uppermost in our minds, we have to get a sense of what matters the most to us when we play.

When I write my intentions down, it means that I believe they are achievable. It means that I am committed to accomplishing a win. As opposed to vocalizing my intentions, writing down my goals creates a stronger connection to my game. In putting my thoughts down on paper, it is forcing me to be aware of what I have to work on, what I have to achieve in order to accomplish my winning goals.

Listing my goals in writing also helps me maintain my individuality. I am forced to be specific and clear about my desire to win. And, any indecision or confusion created by a group mind-set is removed when I focus on what I really want to achieve with my skill.

I place no immediate time limit on my written goals. I just believe that writing "pulls" toward me the experiences I need to expand my abilities. I will spend the rest of my year preparing to receive those experiences and making the most of them.

There are those who maintain a "seeing is believing" mentality. I do not completely ground my self in logic. I don't have to touch, taste or see something materialize, before I can believe that winning will happen. In my case, more often than not, "believing" is truly seeing.

It just would not be January, the beginning of a fresh New Year, if we did not take the time to declare our winning intentions for the year ahead. For the novice, as well as the long time player, it is a great time to focus on our goals for our play. It is a time to take the initiative to establish exactly what we want to accomplish in this coming year. And then write it down so there is no doubt about our intentions.

If winning is important to you- write it down to make it happen.

© Deborah Garcia - Soft Touch

Reprinted with permission

When it comes to Beau "Dice Coach" Parker, complementing him is easy. He is one of the most gracious men you’d ever hope to meet. There is no other person I know that loves the game, no matter what game, more than Beau does. He teaches about gaming from the heart with a passion that assures every one of his students success. In his article below, Beau addresses one of my favorite topics, those little things that can add up to influencing how you play the game. Look after the little things and the bigger things will just seem to fall into place.

Casino Signs or Superstitions?

When you find a penny on the ground with heads up, do you pick the penny up for good luck?

When a black cat runs across your path, will this will give you bad luck?

It is bad luck to walk under a ladder?

When the dice leave the table, do you call off your bets on the next roll?

When there is a stick change, do you call off your bets?

When the cocktail server brings the shooter a drink, do you call off your bets?

When the shooter is interrupted, by some other person in the middle of his or her roll, do you call off your bets?

Are these signs or superstitions? Well, I guess it depends on your beliefs? I personally believe that when something happens at the table that affects the shooter, you as a player must consider that break in focus and respond to it.

When something disturbs the shooter, it takes them out of their rhythm or zone. I believe it is all about focus. When the shooter is not focused, their performance goes down hill fast, generally with negative results.

This is particularly true of dice setters and rhythm rollers.

When you know your shooter and what dice sets he or she uses, you should also know what results should be appearing. If the shooter is using the 3V, with the 5-1 and 6-2, hard 8 on the bottom, and a crap number comes up, the shooter needs to make an adjustment with his grip and release. If the adjustment is made and another crap number comes up, then I call off my bets. This is not a superstition; this is a problem with the shooter not being focused.

A good illustration of this break in focus happened a couple of weeks ago when Sonny T. and I went downtown to the Golden Nugget to shoot.

I had accidentally left my player's card in the other car, so with my buy-in I handed them my driver's license, informing them that I had just forgotten my card. We played at this table for a while and then decided to change tables to the other side of the pit. I was the shooter and had already established a number by the time the "Suit" came over to talk about my lost player’s card. Although this conversation only lasted about 60 seconds, it was the first "sign" that I might be out of my zone. I was at stick right, and during this time the stick man had returned the dice in the center of the table. When play resumed, he passed dice to Sonny T. at stick left. I ask the "Stickman" what he was doing as it was still my hand. He said he was sorry, gave me the dice, and that was "sign" number two! I had $130.00 across with a $5.00 pass line bet with $25.00 odds. I knew I should call my bets off, but thought that I could overcome the situation. Well you guessed it; my next throw was a 7-out, line-away.

I am sure if you look back at your own sessions, you will remember similar situations, and probably with similar results.

It is all about your focus as the shooter. The things that bring you out of your zone, out of your rhythm, will turn your good roll into a negative result.

So yes, I do believe the penny, the black cat and the ladder are all superstitions.

But the things that happen at the dice table that changes the focus and or the rhythm of the shooter are "signs". They need to be heeded, and it is a good time to consider calling off your bets. This is just good common sense, and definitely not superstitions.

©Beau Parker www.dicecoach.com

Reprinted with permission

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No single method of play works all of the time. The more you know, the more options you have facing adverse conditions playing casino games.

May 20-22, brings together again four of the most knowledgeable dice players teaching the game. The eclectic styles of Irishsetter, Heavy, Dice Coach and the Professor join forces again in the City of Dreams. This is a rare opportunity to not only meet and play with legends of the game, but to learn from their collective years of experience, up close and personal.

Craps Fest begins on Friday with the experts of dice each sharing how they successful conquered the game of craps. After seeing the dynamics of how this foursome works together, you will want to have the rest of the experience. You are sure to benefit from the personalized attention you will receive in the weekend workshops, Saturday and Sunday.

Don’t be left out! Join Thom "Irishsetter" Morgan, Steve "Heavy" Haltom, Beau "Dice Coach" Parker and myself, Michael "The Professor" Vernon in Las Vegas this May for the gaming experience of the year.

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Well, that’s it for this edition of the Playing 4 Keeps™ Newsletter.

See you at the tables Playing 4 Keeps™!

Michael Vernon

Author and Gaming Instructor

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See you at the tables Playing 4 Keeps™!

Michael Vernon

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