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    Day 20 play

    Two shoes only but it took HOURS because the casino was a tad crowded and there were others playing at my table. When I play alone, which is most of the time, I'll blaze through a shoe in twenty to thirty minutes, but when there are other players, it often goes excruciatingly slowly.

    First shoe, I played solidly and was ahead a clean eight grand at the end. Yesterday I walked right into a ten Bank run right off the bat, today a nine Player run right out the gate.

    Second shoe, things started going awry, including when this one silly player started betting against me on Bank when I was on Player, with middling results. I mean if that player had won every time, then I would have known to just back off when opposed, but it was like that player won some, lost some. Anyway, gradually I went downhill until I had gone from that +8000 to -1500 for the session, felt like Matt Damon after he decided to keep playing against KGB after winning ten grand off him and was temporarily in the pooper, then plunked 6500 on Player on a hand that looked so Player it was making me sick - the blue French Fries had always stuck together. I drew a 5, Bank 2, I drew a face to retain my 5, and Bank drew an ace. WIN!

    From there, I got nice streaks, both Bank and Player, and ended the shoe up +10,900.

    The other players kept trying to convince me to play more, but I just didn't have the willingness to play through another shoe that slowly, so I left. They were mostly amazed as to why I would leave when I was winning, but - hey, I do that all the time. How else you gonna win, other than leaving while ahead?

    Just like yesterday I cut the shoe and if we decide to do take out versus room service this evening, I'll double back to take a look at my cut card handiwork and see if I left a fabulous shoe behind again.

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    Day 21 play

    Who says the number FOUR is unlucky?

    Played just 1 1/2 shoes. First shoe, I really should have won a lot more as it was streaking nicely, but every time I tried to jack the bet to around 2000 I'd lose - second Bank or second Player just wouldn't drop on that particular row! Ended the shoe up about +3000.

    This was around shift change and as the other pit boss left pit boss shook my hand and declared, "Just want to say that it is good to have a nice player like you in the casino." Why not? I win, I have fun, I tip the dealers, I sprinkle Lincolns and Hamiltons among the servers, a good time is had by all.

    Second shoe I was doing all right, and then again, started to dump on some of the larger hands until I was -2500. I reasoned that Bank was due, and gradually sprinkled all my chips but a few blacks onto Bank - 5500 in all. I drew two face cards, zero, and Player drew a four. Mandatory two card draw. As mine was pushed towards me I declared, "I need a nine!" and sure enough, there it was! four sides with the dot in the middle and Boom! I tossed it out there. The new pit boss just shook her head and smiled - obviously this was a hand they had to record as it was my high bet for the session. Dealer drew - I think it was a face - I didn't pay much attention, as I knew I had it. That put me back at +3000 and change.

    Rest of the shoe I really didn't play right. It was streaking up and down Bank / Player side by side runs but I wasn't betting enough. I could have cleaned up majorly. After about the middle of the shoe the runs shortened and the shoe seemed like it was on the verge of getting random, so I colored up, paid off the 8K marker, and walked with +4425. Ole!

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    Day 22 play

    Yesterday was beyond hectic and the action went on for about eight hours more or less straight.

    I played - I believe it was 3 shoes. First shoe I dumped about five grand quickly. Then I rallied and held my own for the next two shoes. A poker player on break from a tournament sat down with me and was betting erratically. I lost the entire 8K of my first marker and pulled another 20K. I was actually right about at even and put 1500 on Bank which the other player put his measly two hundred (his usual bet) on Player, and this influenced me to pull my bet. Banker won 2 to 1 on that hand. The guy left and I ended up losing. If I had won that 1500 hand the next hand was also Bank and I would have pressed to 2000, and the whole session might have gone another way, but instead, I lost that 20K marker, pulled another 20K marker and was betting heavily, including a 10,600 hand case bet I won, and lots of huge bets I lost.

    I started the third shoe with about twenty thousand in front me and ended dumping all of that too. That was near my limit for what I'm willing to lose in one session, so I quit, about -48,000 for that session (less, since I had some chips on the table that I scooped up to take with me).

    I then walked, and it was not a short walk, to another resort. I was thinking that I was going to pull a massive amount and play hard from the getgo, but when I got there I ran into the pit bosses who know me as a cool reserved amiable player and I didn't want to show my currently a bit agitated colors, so I just pulled 8K.

    I arrived mid shoe and the Player was running, and no one else at the table was betting (there were no empty tables, for some reason yesterday was Baccarat day casinos were crowded with Bacc players), and the dealer kept free handing Player after Player until the pit boss said, "What are you doing?" to the dealer, knowing that I wouldn't let a streak go and I wanted to bet.

    I put 500 on Player, won, 1500 on Player, won, 4500, won. Pit boss didn't even notice the bet until heard me yelling and said, "Wow. Well I would have yelled over winning 4500 too." I honestly then wanted to put 13500 on the next hand for Player, but I chickened out and just left 4500 on there. Player went only two more times so I ended up ahead 6500 for that sequence.

    From there, for a long time, I kept getting stuck at about +5000 but eventually managed to get to +15000 for this session.

    There were two other players at the table. One, and he was there with a friend, would bet only 100 or 200, and marched to own drummer. This player bet against us at times. This player even apologize about, hey, I'm not here to break the table karma, but if I see something and that it's not going past two, then I'm going to bet it. This player was actually right much of the time, but I didn't notice getting anywhere. Flat betting over the long term just doesn't work.

    The other two players were together too. One would always bet the same amount - 3300. I asked what this was about and the player explained that it was a lucky number for Asians as it had something to do with 9. (Or, maybe was betting 3600 , I don't know, I wasn't watching that closely.) All this made me think was that there was no way this player could win because was also flat betting, albeit larger. This player's friend would jump in occasionally with $500 bets but near the end of their session was betting more a lot more, probably out of desperation. I saw them pull several 20K markers and then a 100K marker, and when they left the 100K was colored up and they walked with it, but not much more so they must have dumped some -60K or so between the two of them. I saw them toss some kind of player card I had never seen before of a color I had never seen before at this casino.

    One issue that occasionally recurred with at least one of the pit bosses is that I was being told to calm down when I was winning and not be so loud, and not throw the cards on the table. I literally threw some of the winning cards off the table a couple of times because I got so excited on the more difficult draws. I'd declare, "That's a winning 4! even off the table."

    I didn't have much experience with this pit boss who was making the most noise over my noise. I soundly ignored the pit boss and just told the pit boss that this is the way I play and I've always played this way. One pit boss told me that if I hit the dealer with the cards wouldn't let me open any longer. Again I mentioned that I never throw the cards when I lose a hand, I just fling them when I am happy. They also kept reminding to stay seated because occasionally I would throw the cards down from over the top of the plexiglass when I had a natural 9.

    The prior crew, earlier in the day, all know me and don't care what I do, and in fact have commented more than once what a pleasure it is to have a positive, excited player at the table. Actually, I might just walk back to that resort and have an EYEBALL with whoever is in charge and lodge a complaint. Yesterday even the Asians at the table were getting excited and banging on the plexiglass when they won, and if the pit bosses can't handle that, they should just find another job.

    After I got up fifteen grand at the end of the fourth shoe I think it was, I plunked 5000 on Bank and lost. Then I plunked 10000 on Bank and lost again - Player started with 1 and dealer actually pulled a 7 on top of the 1 and I couldn't draw anything more than a face card to try to increase my initial 6. Then at the beginning of the next shoe I lost 2000 to go from +15000 to -2000. That was the low point when I started to think that I might as well just accept the loss at the other casino and leave.

    Then, things started turning for me, greatly. I got multiple runs which I pressed into, followed a chop perfectly, and went through a long period when I was winning something like 80% of my hands. During that period though I was betting only 500. When the main dealer came back and saw the stack of 500s asked why I had them. I explained that the entire stack had started with just one 500 chip. Dealer shook head and said, I would not have given you those small chips, 1000s only, I know you're hot tonight. Dealer was right, I would have won twice as much during that winning streak with the higher denomination chip.

    What's amazing is that while I was knocking it out of the park the big two players were just sitting there watching. They didn't play into runs, they didn't follow streaks, they just bet very occasionally, and as far as the larger bettor of the two, always that same 3300 (or 3600) amount. Probably why they dumped sixty grand.

    At the end of the sixth shoe, I was up over +38000 and quit. The time factor was starting to wear on me. I wanted to get another ten grand but just couldn't do it all in one go and didn't want to dump again. Given that I started with just an 8K marker, winning over 38 grand in one session is not bad at all. The dealer too commented that wasn't aware that I had pulled only an 8000 and that winning over 38K off that small amount was very good.

    What's interesting is that I tipped very little during this big run session. I did lay some quarters out there, and a fifty once, and some reds early on, but somehow lost most of the green side bets for the dealer. I suppose I didn't view it as winning since I was actually in the hole for the day from the other resort, so I wasn't tipping much.

    So that was it approximately -48000 at one resort, approximately +38000 at the other, approximately -10000 for the day. To pay the other resort I didn't want to deal with the cash and the CTR so I asked them to phone the other resort in advance and tell them I'm coming with the 38000 in their chips. Of course, the resort I won at temp closed my line, but so what, I don't need them right now and the line will reopen in a few days.

    In the meantime, I am going to talk to my host to kick in my session loss rebate deal I have in place. I will actually ask for it this time. I won't get into details but I've always had that just rarely have to pull that card. Only problem I foresee is that I already paid off the line with a combination of foreign and their own chips. I should have left the amount I expect back unpaid, or paid off nothing and demanded the rebate before I paid. But, I have a hard time leaving a debt open when I have won.

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    Day __ play (4/2021)

    My slot machine in the suite rang 777 so I was expecting great things today, and great they were. Pulled the usual 8K marker, then played along got ahead about 3K on the first shoe. Second shoe I hit a rough patch and got down to a case bet of 6500 which I hit, bringing me to +5000. From there, for the next two shoes it was all gravy including the final shoe where I was plastering side by side mostly Player runs, pressing into them and putting red chips (up to $30.) for the dealer too. Hit a few ties too, for 100 � 120 (x 8) each.

    As I was ploughing through the runs the entire serving staff stood behind me watching and the dealer next door declared, �You�re on fire!�

    I wish I had realized it too, because then I would have ended up with more like +80K instead of the +16K I took from the table.

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    Day __ play (4/2021)

    I arrived towards the end of a shoe already played out where the Bank had never gone more than two. I picked up on that instantly, and bet Player � but, not for nearly enough, only 700 or so each time. This pattern never shifted � Bank never passed two. Never. I ended that partial shoe a few grand ahead.

    Second shoe I probably got up to about five thousand ahead, but not more. Kept getting stuck. A player came in with a five thousand chip, broke it down, and played that until he finally lost it, then broke down a twenty-five thousand dollar chip. I did a case bet for 5000 on Player and won, but slowly went back down the tubes after that. I lost my entire 8K marker I had pulled, and then did a call bet for 2000 on Player and took that 2000, over the course of the next several hands, to first 8000, and eventually over the course of the next two shoes, to as much as 12000.

    Along the way, another player, who admitted to me after I asked him, that he was Martingaling on Player only, came in. This youngster was funny. Inebriated and always wanting to knock knuckles with me whenever we won on the same hand. Kid kept leaving the table to go do sports bets, or collect on sports bets tickets, or some such, and came back complaining about how he had lost or been shut out, and that had to play catch up. Finally, declared that was now even, and quit.

    I got back to even, and then negative, and then plus, more than a few times, and finally quit � at 3900 ahead. The best run I caught all day I won something like 7/8 hands in a row, but was betting only a flat 1000 per hand, and was coming back from behind anyway.

    At the end the pit boss said he had me down for about four shoes, which was fine, and �about a 1000� average bet.

    �How about 1100?�

    �Why would I want to do that?�

    What a response? What an a-hole?

    �Because I take care of your dealers?�

    Had to gall to come back with something to the effect of, So what, that doesn�t help me.

    I was almost going to say, �Well what do you want, a happy handshake?� but I just let it go. So that�s two less than stellar pit bosses over the last week.

    I walked with +3900. The other Player at my table wanted to meet me to play tomorrow.

    �We win together, my friend.�

    I let the player know when I might be back, but�we shall see. I prefer to play alone.

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    Day __ play (4/2021)

    Just before I went down my host let me know that lately my play would cover the suite but no food and beverage charges. However, host stated categorically that was not implying that I needed to play more. That�s a standard disclaimer.

    I pulled an 8K marker at a table filled with people. Didn�t go well. Not even half way through the shoe I lost 8K and left for another table, with a higher minimum.

    I pulled another twenty K and was up and down like a roller coaster, gradually losing that too. I did a call bet for 2000, lost that too, and had them print another marker.

    Then I started winning like a madman, ten grand a hand, but cut back to five then just one. For the next two shoes I kept hovering around forty some thousand in chips in front of me, and I assumed I needed fifty to pay off all markers. I just couldn�t get there.

    Then I started betting heavily into a Player�s run and declared that a tie was in order. Mostly because I had no chips in front of me lower than 1000, I put 7000 on Player and 1000 on tie. Both sides opened with a 3. I drew a four sided nine. Ouch. I was down to 2. I could just see the face card coming, but, incredibly, dealer drew another nine for a 2 � 2 tie � paying me 8000. I leapt out of my seat shouting. That was quite a feeling!

    I have not bet more than 500 on a tie bet since the Old Days. In my lifetime I have WON all of the large (1000 or more) tie bets I have placed, but I think I could count all of them on one hand, or maybe on one hand plus another finger or two. It�s a rare event that I will put that much on a tie bet, but somehow, it has always paid off.

    Anyway, you can�t really put a price on hitting an 8000 tie. The whole pit lit up, or at least, in my corner everyone did.

    From there it wasn�t too hard to get the fifty grand in chips in front of me and I even had a few grand extra, but finally decided to end the play with 51300 in front of me. THEN, it turned out that I had pulled just 40000 at that table, and 8000 at the other, so I was actually up +3300 for the day. Plus the experience of winning an eight THOUSAND dollar tie bet, which is hard to measure.

    I texted my host to see how the RFB status was looking now, to see if today�s heavy hitting action put me back on track. It did, now about half of the food is being covered. There�s not a ton on there anyway, we don�t even always order from casino restaurants.

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    Day __ play (4/2021)

    Played five and a half shoes. I was up a few thousand by the end of the second shoe and was actually thinking of stopping, but wanted to see where it would go. Next thing you know, dumped all eight grand. Did a two thousand call bet, lost, pulled a twenty thousand marker and eventually dumped that too. Pulled another twenty.

    From here, it was pretty much uphill (as in, my chip stack kept growing higher and higher), although I did make a number of huge bets, up to twelve thousand dollars, as I struggled to get back to even.

    At the end of the fourth shoe, the cut card came out in the middle of the last hand. Some casinos declare that the penultimate, some the final, but in general offer the opportunity to bet the tie even after the cards have started to come out, especially if that is considered the last hand of the shoe. I mentioned this (didn�t insist) to the pit boss, that I should have the right to place the tie wager now, but finally just left it alone.

    �I would have only bet a hundred anyway.�

    Wouldn�t you know it, the tie landed.

    �That�s eight hundred you owe me!� I kept joking with the pit boss, after that.

    I eventually got within about ten grand of even, and on one bet I put six hundred on bank and tossed a chip on tie. As the cards came out I realized I had tossed a five hundred chip, not a hundred on the tie! I�d never do it that way, I�d always bet a lot more on the hand than on the tie � never a nearly equal amount.

    �That�s a mistake.� I declared.

    �Good mistake.� the dealer responded.

    Okayy. Nothing I could do anyway cards were out.

    Sure enough, Tie! Four thousand!

    How that dealer was so sure it was a �good� mistake, I�ll never know (probably was just trying to make me feel better), but in any case, that was four grand on the tie!

    �We�re even now! You no longer owe me eight hundred!�

    The pit boss just laughed and made an even (baseball umpire �Safe!� like criss cross motion with arms).

    From there it was pretty easy. I ended with a twelve bank run, not nearly betting enough but following it almost all the way, got ahead a couple grand, paid off the 48K in markers, and called it a day. It would be sacrilege to hit a $500 tie and end up losing.

    At the end this pit boss was very accommodating and asked me �What do you need?� when it came to entering the average bet. The computer showed 1400 � pit boss entered 1800.

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    Day __ play (4/2021)

    I messed up some today. Towards the end of three shoes I was up a solid ten grand, then dumped about 1500 of it. About one-third of the way through the fourth shoe I had lost the first 8K marker, pulled another 20K, and by the end I lost a huge series of hands and had maybe ten grand left. I put all of it on Player for the last hand of the shoe, and then simply because I had nine hundred in change, put Player of that on the tie. It hit! 7200.

    From there on the fifth shoe I was nearly unstoppable including with a thirteen bank run, where I actually, sadly, eased off on the gas about half way through, but still ended with about thirty grand. I didn�t think about how I was eight grand down from my peak, but rather that I had just gone from negative -18K to +2K, and called it a day.

    Pit boss said he gave me an 1100 average. This was the same pit boss from the other day who had refused to bump my bet. I won 2K but I must�ve won at least a grand maybe more for the dealers, including on tie bets on that bank run where I kept hitting them two in row at a time. It was beautiful.

    And again, how could I win 7200 on a tie bet and not walk a winner? That would be humiliating. So, I paid off all the markers, carried a couple thousand dollar chips to the winner�s stash, and headed back out for a sumptuous take out. It�s hard to keep an MDawg down.

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    Day __ play (4/2021)

    Dumped my 8K marker relatively quickly, did a 2K call bet on Bank, lost, pulled the balance to 20K.

    From there did fine and got within a grand or two of even, but my table started filling up with people and the shoe fell apart, so I left to another table.

    Now, THAT shoe, was a beauty. Long Player runs, side by side with banks, I got all my money back plus +2200 and called it quits. Dealer tried to convince me to stay, I said No, I�m done. We free handed the next fourteen hands � would you believe, ALL PLAYER? So that shoe had two nearly side by side runs, 11 Player, and 14 Player. Quite a shoe! Woulda easily cleared MINIMUM five grand on a run like that, even starting with just a couple hundred.

    Pit boss and I talked about another lifetime winner they have, who has the ability to bet up to 160K a hand. The other lifetime winner being � I! Pit boss said that even when that player is stuck a million or two, always get out of it. Must be a friend of MDawg�s!

    On the way out I ran into another pit boss I know.

    �I won!�

    �Of course you did � you always do!�

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    Day __ play (4/2021)

    8K marker was lost over the course of about � of a shoe. These two Asians kept following me, and slowed down the play. I moved tables � dealer commented �He knows when to move! he won�t just sit there if it�s not going well.� and won for a bit, and then the two Asians followed me again to my table, and slowed the play again.

    After something like four shoes I finally got just above even, them dumped to where I was -5K again. Didn�t appreciate that.

    The Asians left my table, as they finally got the hint that I didn�t want them there, free handed the first hand of the next shoe, Player, slapped 2K on Player and boom! eight players in a row. I cut back to only five hundred or so once I was ahead, but at the end of the run I was ahead almost five grand, paid off all markers and called it a day.

    Dealer commented, �I don�t know why those two don�t just follow you. I never see them win, and I never see you lose.�

    �Well, yes, but � I actually didn�t like it when they played at my table because they didn�t follow me � they kept betting against the runs. Also they wouldn�t vary their bet much, if at all. Flat betting is the sure way to lose. Over all, I just, don't like anyone at my table.�

    One of the dealers told me more about the multi-million dollar player who is also a lifetime winner at that casino. Apparently he bets EVERY hand, Bank only, with some kind of 1, 3, 7 or some such progression.

    �So what if he experiences a 14 Player run, such as we saw yesterday?�

    �Well. Then. He�s dead!�

    I see Player runs all the time, so how is this guy a lifetime winner? In any case, I did confirm that the guy is a lifetime winner with a couple of other sources, but how, betting Bank only and betting every hand in the shoe, I couldn�t say.

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