What winning really means and what is the psychology involved?

It�s important that you understand the psychology of winning because your attitude and emotions play a crucial role in winning, whether you win $50 or several thousand.
Over the years, I�ve taught myself to be happy with a win of any amount. It may be elementary, but you must appreciate the fact that winning any amount of money is much better than losing any amount of money. If the winning session are small, let them accumulate. You must train yourself to be happy with a win of any amount, simply because it is a win. You�re on the plus side of the ledger.

Well, the next time you plan a trip to a casino, consider a new definition for winning or losing. Winning is being successful; losing is being a failure. If you win, you succeed and if you lose you fail.
Does it sounds different? Failing sure sounds a lot worse than losing doesn�t it? No one wants to fail; in business, in marriage or in school. Those are scars no one wants. But for some reasons, failing in casino is an accepted failure. We�ve all trained ourselves to accept a gambling loss because �is part of Standard Deviation� and if you keep losing it doesn�t matter because in the �long run� eventually we will win what the computer sims tells us. I am just plain sick of the �experts� who peddle virtually worthless advice in their books regarding BJ. Somewhere in their pitch you�re told that they�re not millionaires because they are not allowed to play the way the sims tells then is the correct way to do or they�re not interested in playing because they want to dedicate themselves in writing books for us to learn how to play the proper way. Bunk! Don�t believe it when they tell you that even if you lose today is not a big deal and you should keep playing and betting by the count and �EVENTUALY� you will win back your money and some more.

If you�re not positively sure you seriously want to win, you probably won�t. It�s that simple. Part of winning is your attitude and philosophy, which affects your preparation, commitment, discipline. It has to be there. Do you know what it means to quit winners? Can you say to yourself, �That�s enough, I�ve got what I want, I can play again later�? if you are an average player with an average income, will $500 make you happy> Us that enough?

If you managed to win $500 during a brief �opportunity� why give it back looking for the big score when the opportunity has long vanished? Try it latter! Remember, winning must be reduced in your mind to its simplest terms - If you have won any amount of money, you have not lost

Many friends of mine are honest-to-gosh professional BJ players who live in Vegas, play regularly, and win regularly every day. Unlike some posters on this forum that they claim to lose $60,000 in a day and is fine because is part of Stdev �, Bunk! That�s no pro BJ, that is pure gambling at its worse. A real pro is looking for a steady $300/day on every day. He is looking for a total of about $10,000/month, on every month over and over. But he is accomplish this task by winning small amounts every day.

Always follow the cardinal rule of betting: Start small, press up 30 to 50% when you are winning and lay back or walk away when you start losing hands. Play against the dealer and not against the deck. Use card counting only for strategy deviations like when to Insure, double or not to double, when to split or not and when to hit or stand.

There are times more frequent than you might imagine when you are ahead during a typical playing session. Set aside some of the winnings. This practice will insure that you quit winners and you know you�ve beaten them!

Puiu

. A real pro is looking for a steady $300/day on every day. He is looking for a total of about $10,000/month, on every month over and over. But he is accomplish this task by winning small amounts every day.

How is he going to get to $10,000 a month on $300 per day? Is he going to play more than 33 DAYS IN A MONTH? What month is that?

At $300 per day, playing 22 days per month, an average work month for normal people, he will win $6600. Good income, but I point out the difference to illustrate the FLAW in your math and logic. Who could possibly play every day without some days off?

Oh no, did I say FLAW?

Will the real John Patrick please stand up?

Is it: (1) JP, (2) FS, or (3) Puiu?

A real pro is looking for a steady $300/day on every day. He is looking for a total of about $10,000/month, on every month over and over. But he is accomplish this task by winning small amounts every day.

A professional salaried employee is looking for this kind of consistent return. You may average 10K a month over 48 months. But you won't consistently win 10K per month, or what ever you average is. If you are looking for "steady" then you are in the wrong profession. If returns were that steady you would need only a very small bankroll, you could ramp up quickly, and you could retire very quickly.

is half original voodoo, half plagiarized voodoo and half original plagiarisms.

I say we call upon the postbusters to bomb the whole thread to oblivion, what say you?

Puiu offers beginners a learning opportunity. His penchant for posting voodoo theory in a authoritative manner can be the basis of an educational thread. His assertions are invariably countered by a response from knowledgeable players, resulting in a net learning process for many. Of course, this requires vigilance in correcting Puiu's frequent incorrect assertions.

On downside, as your comment suggests, the process can be one of high maintenance.

regards,
adhoc

Bet small if you are going to lose and big if you are going to win.

That's aristotelian logic.

Puiu (still don't know if that is pronounced "poo-ey" ) offers food for thought, even if he steals if from the dumpsters of mistaken blackjack theorists. At least his posts are a lot easier to follow than Clarke's. If he tries to tell beginners to limit losses and take small wins, there is no harm done. As adhoc has stated, invariably more reasonable posters usually line up to de-bunk and attribute his posts to plagiarism and progressionistic poppycock. I enjoy his style and even when I disagree...which is always... I like having the contrasting approach around on the forum. In his fantasy it is easy pickings approaching the table maximums and for me that makes for entertaining reading.

Now if we could only get Aria back from her multiple photo shoots to tell us about her high stakes escapades again it would be a perfect world. :-)

They would all be websites for posting information on internet plaggerism!

Step one: open another browser window on google.com

Step two: drag a sentence from the Puiu post over to the search window at google.com

Step three: note the results for the Puiu post search.

Step four: open a third window on the site you have selected to report internet plaggerism.

Step five: Drag over to the window, in step four, the results from step three and the original Puiu post(s).

Step six: repete with every Puiu post!

No matter that we argue a lot on this board. I don�t give a s****t about. I am on your side from now to the eternity. Honest. If is between you and a casino I am on your side. If you are right or wrong I am with you! Period!
I understand very well the VARIANCE and all the subtle things of the game. I assure you. It just trouble me to even learn that some players got to go thru a horrible 60,000 hole in order to achieve what they suppose. But that�s history!

Go Get�m all and hurt them hard!

Puiu

The problem with Puiu's "food for thought" is that far too many readers get the impression this stuff is debatable, when it's literally been settled for centuries. It will take a far, far bigger man than Puiu to turn probability theory on its head, and that is precisely what he CONTINUALLY tries to do.

If he doesn't know his posts contradict Probability 101, then he has no business posting with the air of authority. If he DOES know (and he certainly should by now -- he's been told by dozens of experts), it's even worse. It means he deliberately spouts garbage to cause trouble on the boards, laugh cynically at anyone who takes him seriously, and ultimately prod them to throw away hard earned money in casinos.

Puiu has been screwing around like this FOR YEARS. There is NO possibility he is well-intentioned. None. People who believe he is, have simply never interfaced with a troll. It IS hard to believe there are people with such sad, pathetic lives, that they have nothing better to do than cause trouble. But there it is.

ETF

You know... If I EVER posted all that crap, faked sims, copied other peoples work and posted it here... AND got called on the carpet for it! I would NEVER show my face again. Be just too embarassing!

BUT HE CONTINUES this childish behaviour regardless... like no one is on to him. Sad, really...

The theory of probability is neither exact or reliable; that is
why it is logic-not math. While I was there,the Duke University
math dept. NEVER chalanged that statement.

"The theory of probability is neither exact or reliable; that is
why it is logic-not math.
While I was there,the Duke University math dept. NEVER chalanged that statement."

I wouldn't either. I would be content to hand you over a diploma and be done with it.

good advice Puiu but 99% of the time out of 98% Of all players who sit down at a blackjack table lose consistently from the second they begin play.