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Playing 4 Keeps™ Gaming Newsletter for Winners Celebrating 11 Years!
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™ A Gaming News Letter For Winners March 2006 Volume 8 Issue 3 Copyright ©2006 Michael Vernon
"Luck Has Nothing To Do With It When You Are Playing 4 Keeps!"
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Soft Touch Joins The Dice Busters! On the Coat Tales of a Gambler Dice Setter Precision Shooter's Forum ***************************************************************
*************************************************************** It is truly wonderful that we are all so different. That, which makes us unique, defines who we are and contributes to the palette of life. I have long said, that the person who gets out of bed, goes to work, and does the daily routine of life, is the same person that you take to the gaming table. All your strengths and all of your weaknesses will make their appearance, especially in the heat of a game. If controlling your temper is a problem for you in day-to-day life, your temper problem will, no doubt, make its appearance in a game. If you are afraid of risk, likely your game will be too tight and even when you are experiencing a good run, you will miss out on the profit. If you lack discipline in your life, you will be short on discipline in the game. I have taught a number of people how to play and win. The quick studies were the ones who came to me without prior gambling baggage or bad habits. I am never surprised by the strategies or methods of play to which the students subscribe to. They love to explain their game to me in excitement, even though, by their own admission, it seldom has resulted in success. So, why do they cling to the system? It is simple really. Everyone has to have a system of play. The catch is the player holds dear to their belief, though they usually never really examine the system to see if there is any merit for the system. The tendency is to cling to a “belief” rather than to notice if the method of play actually works. Recently my wife and I moved house and life to another town and state to care for my ailing mother. Each morning, my mother cuts a banana in half and has it with her breakfast. She always tries to get my wife or me to eat the other half. It has nothing to do with the size of the banana, big or small, she will only have half. One day, my wife asked my mother why she couldn’t seem to eat a whole banana. My mother replied, “When my husband was alive, we would share a banana.” My father passed away nearly ten years ago but my mother continues with the ritual of eating only a half banana. She does not want the banana wasted, but she will never eat a whole banana. During a lesson, I asked a student a few questions so I could better understand their game. One thing that he told me was he buys in for $300 and his stop loss is $500. Whoa! Back up the wagon. How can a person have a stop loss greater than their buy-in? A poker buddy of mine calls it “gardening”… digging in your pocket. This individual was a craps player that made a $10 line bet with $20-25 odds and placed the 6/8 for $12 each. With three bets, this player would have $54 of his $300 buy-in in action. A $300 buy-in is enough to make the set-up only five times. (I recommend a minimum of ten set-ups) Not to criticize this student, but to show an example of how we get an idea in our head, right or wrong, and ride with it to the bank or bankruptcy. Buy-in for $300 and then planning to pull out $200 more, if needed, was what this player understood as money management. To further explain my example, I will say this this; as a player, you must have sufficient funding for each bet to see you through the swings in a game. Otherwise, you may find yourself going from game to game under bankroll, down and out. “How come I keep losing?” Well, from the above example, the player is betting too aggressive for the bankroll allowed. In a tough game, this player will run out of money in a shorter time and have to leave. They move on to another table under bankrolled and repeat the same scenario. I am not saying that, had the player been at the table longer then they would have won, I am saying that gaming is about swings and trends. If you walk into a cold trending table you will lose. If you come into a game that is on the up swing, but you are under bankrolled, you may still lose. Money management is about having enough money to support your method of play. It is about giving your cold hard cash the chance at opportunity and positioning yourself in a game worthy of investment long enough to hit a return. We all have our stories about what we believe to work, to win, or give us an advantage. My point is that these stories need to be carefully examined. A pleasurable habit is not always a winning strategy. Nostalgia is great but remember that it is a yearning for the past, not an honest look at the situation now. Take time to reflect on your game. Write some things down and review them for validity. Scrutinize your play and look for any “half banana” routines in your game. In a zero sum game, with odds against the player to win, it is all the little things that add up providing you with an edge. Being an advantage player means taking advantage of every piece of the game that makes you a stronger player. Eliminating the weak links in your “chain” also makes your game stronger. On the Coat Tales of a Gambler... Part VThe continued story of Sailor...Most of the big cockfights were in Mississippi. I went to a few back home too. The real big ones and I mean big money… thousands of dollars, you had to drive to Mississippi. The ones in Alabama were small and held in the back woods. Now, those could have been easily busted. The Mississippi cops had been paid off at that place for over 100 years. Where it was I don’t recall but just north and west of the boarder, because it didn’t take too long once into Mississippi. It was towards Tunica, I want to say Ludlow or something like that. You know a lot of gambling went on in Northern Mississippi, between there and Memphis. No wonder the casinos set up shop there in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes guys would just go out by a river or in the deep woods and drink, roll dice or they’d play poker. I never went out into the woods myself for anything except to see cockfights. Out in the middle of nowhere, drinking and guns… least I was smart enough that way. My oldest uncle would be well over 100 if alive today. He lived far in the country. He had a front that he was a farmer but, all his life his livelihood was as a bootlegger. There were lots of bootleggers in the south, still are for sure. Even the sheriff came to buy from him. My uncle and aunt never had any kids. I used to love to go spend a couple of weeks during the summer with them. I was just a kid. I’d play in the creek, make up my own adventures, you know. I was real free to come and go. We ate a lot of goat meat. My uncle raised goats. Stinky animals, goats, especially the Billy goats. You know they piss themselves. My uncle lived so far in back wood, there was no electricity or running water. He had a root cellar. I played there too. My uncle made the white lighting in the kitchen. He hid some of it in that root cellar. A good smell in that root cellar, I can still recall it. He played a little poker but, not much, just low stakes with friends. All my other uncles were up right with honest legal jobs. Grandpa was an honest farmer and had a sawmill. Part VIScarpone told me a story once. He and two others drove over to Mississippi for a cock-fight. Something happened and it got called off. Cops didn’t get paid or someone got wind of it that would have caused it to get busted. Anyway, Scarpone was mad after driving all that way. They stopped at a roadhouse on the way back, just before the boarder. After a few drinks, they asked the bartender if there was any action to be found, dice or poker. He told them of a place out a ways, in the country. Turns out, the bar tender was setting them up. The joint in the woods was a bootlegger’s. There was a rough crew there, according to Scar. Anyway, they got into a game. After a while, Scar caught one of the bootleggers cheating. Well, Scar was not about to take any sh.. from cheats. He pulls out that 38, and tells them, “listen mfers we’re taking the money and three cases of your booze, agreed?” The way Scarpone told me the story, he had that 38 up the nose of their boss man. I don’t know. He shot a guy once. I think I told you that story though. Apparently, whatever Scar did say and do, it was enough for them to get back to their car, dump the whiskey in the trunk and hit it. Scarpone said at the time that he was kind of surprised that it was that easy. Only that, once they got back on the road, the crack of a bullet smashing the back window answered that question. The cops were shooting at them and chasing after Scarpone and his two friends. Well, he punches down the peddle and that big’o Lincoln’s engine just roared. They raced like the devil was on to them until they hit the main highway back to Alabama. Now Scarpone really knew that road good. He shifted into overdrive and then turned his lights out. He told me that he was going over 100 when he shut off the lights. I think that was bull. But when he told me the story I played like I believe him all right. They got away once they crossed over to Alabama. Scarpone was still pissed because the cops put enough rounds into the trunk to break six bottles of whiskey. Scar was funny that way, the bullet holes didn’t matter to him. I never had to run for my life. But once one of the guys, Mickey, was supposed to go in and pay for a four-day stay for a motel, two rooms for four guys. We were waiting for him in the car. He got in car and said, “Let’s go!” Scar asked, “Did you pay the bill?” Mickey said yes. As we start to pull away, this guys runs out of the office waving his arms. Next, Mickey, the guy that said he paid, says, “Step on it! I stiffed him!” Scar said, “If I didn’t know you for all these years Mic, I would kick your f’n ass good! Trying to get us in trouble over a few bucks, you’re a dumb son of a bitch.” It was a long time before Mickey came round Scar again. A guy could owe Scarpone money and he could be okay with that. But something like cheating really got up his nose. I'd seen Scar lose his temper and he'd get real scary...crazy like. Next minute, he's laughing again like nothing happened. He always treated my good though. All I have for now. Maybe I'll send you more from Vegas... Sailor On The Coat Tales of a Gambler continues next issue...
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Playing 4 Keeps™ enriches a player's experience to become a consistent winner. My commitment to you is empowerment. Learning to employ discipline creates confidence and strengthens intention through metaphysical lessons. I empower students by showing them how to avoid losing sessions. Most importantly I create metaphors that link the knowledge of casino games to winning ways in "the game of life". Michael Vernon
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