by CJ | Jul 17, 2017 | Casino Sessions, Podcast
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Casino : Treasury Brisbane
$400 buy in
12ft table
SL1
8 players
3V set
Well I was shocked to walk in on Friday and not only was the craps table open. But it had 4 staff on it. And both side were open.
In over 1 1/2 years I’ve not seen it open on both sides.
It was a real nice feeling to be playing on a full table. Lots of chances for my dark side play.
Some guy was in SL1 just watching. So I immediately moved to that spot and asked him politely to move.
The other side was packed and one of the regulars was in the middle of a good hand.
Waited and bought in after he made a point.
Got a couple of hits and covered my outlay before he SO.
Went dark on everyone else including myself until I warm up.
Points of interest for me.
1) Some chump threw in money in the middle of a hand and I actually said out loud “who just bought in, in the middle of the hand?”. I shocked myself. The box man was as surprised as me. But they want the money so don’t care when it gets put down.
He lasted 5 mins and was gone. What a goose.
2) I layed my first number to hedge my DP. No longer a lay virgin.
Lay 10 for $50 and dealer asked me for $1. Kept it up for the CO then brought it back down for $51. Nice
3) Lay odds on 4 and 10 DP. Times 2 odds. Dealers helped me position my chips to the left of the original DP.
4) $44 inside working on CO ( of course the dealers just love this move ). They don’t like the move to regress to $6 six and eight 2 throws later.
5) all the players and dealers commented when I got the dice and bet DP. They said dark side shooters are the best shooters. They loaded up. First roll 11. I lose. They win. Everyone laughed including me.
I reloaded with a bigger DP and made them eat their words. 
Felt good doing the moves and twisting with the table.
I only got 1 hand in today and it was shockingly bad. 5 throws only.
Still made money on it cause I DP with a $6 six and eight. I knew I was as tight as fish due to lots of yard work had stuffed my throwing shoulder.
But even with a bad throw had a great time. One of my most enjoyable sessions. Just the betting rhythm I was in and reading the table and the players.
Coloured out $482 (+$82) in 1 hour
by CJ | Jul 8, 2017 | Baccarat, Casino Sessions, Podcast
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Something different this week.
Took the family for some time away and travelled through the week to Cairns in far North Queensland at the top of Australia to see the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree rainforest. Such a beautiful place. 2 hour plane flight from home. But never got around to it. Costs a fortune of course. Upsets me that I can go to New Zealand much cheaper than see my own country.
One of my bucket list items was to snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef. So just had to do it. Here’s a snap from going through the fish. What a good feeling. Reaching out to touch them.
Great Barrier Reef – Swimming with the fishes – literally
I know why people travel the world to snorkel and dive now. Truly magnificent.
Cairns has a casino but no craps. I went into the casino to check it out. It’s very nice. But had the family with me so no time to play. Didn’t even have time to get a $5 chip as a momento of my travels. Next time.
Back to reality in Brisbane…
Showed up at my usual time at the casino and craps table was closed again. Jeez
Sought out the pit boss again and asked if it’s finally been cut. He said no, they have 2 dealers sick so they can’t open the table.
So it appears that not only do we only have one table that is only open during small windows that we only have a few dealers that can work the table. I’ve counted 6 so far but they have to juggle their shifts around because through the week they deal other games as well.
Perhaps I should become a craps dealer to help them out. Second thought no thanks. It’s a very hard job. I’ve got a mate of mine who was a craps dealer on a cruise ship. Now if I was younger with no family that cruise ship lifestyle doesn’t sound to bad.
Anyway I thought I’ll get some mini baccarat in instead.
I found a computer terminal that had 2 x roulette a sic bo and a mini baccarat running on it.
Could not believe it but it was a $1 machine. Must be my lucky day. All the rest of the terminals I’ve seen have been $10 min.
Put in $100 and started to play. I know Heavy has a baccarat system. But I’ve been wargaming Target 3 play by Seth Theobeau and doing quite well with it.
Had some emails to catch up on so did that in between hands as well as play mini baccarat. The target 3 play is quite simple once you’ve practiced it and there is 30 seconds between hands. And I only bet banker in this session. Just need to keep track of bet size not where to bet.
It’s great to sit down and play instead of standing.
Played for 15 mins and cashed out $120.50 (+$20.50) 20% very nice.
The 50c came from banker 6 hand which pays 1:2 instead of commission on each banker hand.
I’ll put this $1 mini baccarat into my rotation now when the craps table is not available and get my baccarat skills up without risking much money at all. Fantastic.
by CJ | Jul 2, 2017 | Casino Sessions, Podcast
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Casino: Treasury Brisbane
$400 buy in
1/2 table right side
SR1
2 players
3V set
Showed up at the casino last week and the table was closed. I thought this is it. They’ve finally pulled the plug and killed the game.
Went and asked the pit boss looking after baccarat and he tells me the staff are at a union meeting over a pay dispute.
I don’t have time to stick around so went and war gamed baccarat for 30 mins. Alas I lost all my fake money on a massive player shoe when I was backing banker against the trend. It was the end of the shoe so I didn’t put my real money down.
Jump to this week, and just me at the table to start with another regular coming in 1/2 way through.
What is evident to me from today is that I’m really not betting my play right. I was never ahead once this session.
And I had to initiate my 50% stop loss again.
Set the standard 3V, soft low toss, but put a fair bit of spin on them, one bounce to back wall and drop to rest. Really looked good.
But I didn’t make adjustment on it. That is my big hurdle working out what to adjust to minimise the outcome of the 7.
Check this disaster of a session out.
SRR 3.14
7, 4, 7
3, 7, 7, 7, 6, 7
11, 5, 8, 7
8, 9, 9, 12, 10, 8
11, 8, 7
8, 6, 8
5, 12, 5
7, 8, 6, 9, 7
7, 11, 7, 7, 5, 9, 8, 10, 11, 11, 7
Nuf said!
It’s become clear that betting dark side on myself has to stop, and I stopped WOTCO from my previous session stats which saved me from total disaster. My CO 7 ratio is enormous and is ruining my dark side play.
I think I really need to video my throw again and get a critique on where I’m going wrong. So I’ll do that next week.
Coloured out $202 (-$198) in 1 hour
by CJ | Jun 21, 2017 | Casino Sessions, Podcast
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Casino : Treasury Brisbane
$400 buy in
1/2 table left side
SL1
2 players
3V set and 2V set
Just one other at the table today.
I like having just one other at the table. Let’s me have small rest in between hands and takes the focus off me from the dealers and box for few mins.
Threw 4 hands – 48 times in total with 9 sevens 5 of those on the come out. 5.33 SRR
No rolls less than 8 count. And was able to earn a bit off all of them.
Still awful as far as I’m concerned, and the dealers always comment that I’m one of the better shooters that are regulars.
I was able to grind out a $11 win. Made the other guy a lot, who was betting big on hard ways and horns.
I think I need to adjust my betting again. I’m getting burned by WOTCO.
So glad I’m charting and I can assess what’s going on.
I’ve just realised I’m not recording hardways on my charting so I’ll fix that this week. I think I’m missing lots of opportunities there.
I’ll have to go back through my record book and calculate SRR to give me another metric to track my progress of control / influence.
But I’m more interested my rate of return which after a couple of losses is down to 1% return on my investment. Of course this isn’t the stock market or property.
But in saying that I’m still learning lots and having fun on the way.
This is the first hobby I’ve ever had that is paying me to do it.
Coloured out $411 (+$11) in 1 hour
by CJ | Jun 14, 2017 | Casino Sessions, Podcast
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Casino : Treasury Brisbane
$400 buy in
1/2 table right side
SO and SR2
2 players
3V set and 2V set
Just one other at the table today.
I started slow to warm up but in the end it didn’t help. Shot myself in the foot repeated times with working on the come out going down on the seven.
Big issue of the day was the increase in sevens. Out of 60 rolls I threw 14 sevens with 7 of those on the come out.
That’s a terrible SRR (4.3) and I may as well have been chicken feeding them.
Doing a three finger grip, I let my fingers go further down the dice and I was adding extra spin and trying a lower shot to avoid bouncing off the table. Might try practice the Yuri for future sessions.
Even playing a DP play as I do, I could not save myself.
After analysis I can see where I went wrong.
My repeated $66 inside WOTCO falling to the CO seven.
I need to pull back when I give myself an upper cut and grind it back before trying at that level again.
And I need to stop thinking of the clock and having to make it work in 1 hour or I have failed.
I was already late and had to get back to work so had to stop just as 2 new players joined in.
Threw a final CO seven and shot myself again so just passed the dice and walked. Shameful display of craps play.
Coloured out $157 (-$243) in 1 hour
