3-D Baccarat Version 2.

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For me, it is virtually impossible to play a lot without learning and getting
ideas for possible changes or improvements to a method, no matter how
good the method already is. 3-D V 2.3 is the result of my efforts to simplify
3-D V.2 and make it a little less volatile while retaining its earning power. I
believe that 3-D V 2.3 goes a long way toward accomplishing those goals. I
have little doubt, however, that even more changes and improvements may
be in store somewhere along the line in the future.

This method is not meant to replace 3-D V.2, but it is given as an alternative
method that will lend even more value and versatility to 3-D V.2. It is of
course played off of the 3-D V.2 format or foundation, so there are not a lot
of new concepts to learn. It is actually kind of a blending of the Basic
Method with the Aggressive Mode.

As I just indicated, this method is not intended to be a complete replacement

of regular 3-D V.2. But it can be highly effective at some casinos (some
more than others) and may, at some casinos, exceed the overall effectiveness
of 3-D V.2 if you are playing 3-D V.2 straight (without the enhancements).

The reason I make that statement and in fact the main reason for the
presentation of this method is that some casinos tend to produce shoes that
have certain characteristics that tend to appear more often than others over
the long haul. There is a reason for this.

At Mini Bac, new cards are put into play every few hours. When 8 new
decks are prepared for play, each different casino usually has their own
unique method of preparing the cards for play (before they are put into the
shuffle machine). Some casinos will shuffle two decks together once or
twice then stack them up to go into the machine, then take the next 2 new
decks and repeat the process until all 8 decks have been slightly mixed.
Other casinos will “wash” all 8 decks before re-stacking them and putting
them into the machine. (By “washing the cards” I’m referring to the process
of spreading all 8 decks face down on the table and mixing them up by
randomly moving the loose cards all over the table). There are different
variations of these procedures that can be utilized as well.

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The point is that because of the way different casinos prepare their new
cards for play, certain shoe characteristics may tend to occur. And it usually
takes two or more times through a shuffle machine before the cards are
sufficiently randomized so that these characteristics are no longer evident.
And if a casino does not use a shuffle machine, but still shuffles by hand,
these characteristics may be carried over for many shoes because hand
shuffling does not usually randomize the cards as well as a shuffle machine.

When I talk about shoe characteristics, I don’t mean the order in which the
cards come out or that a shoe which was dominated by Bank would be
dominated by Bank the next time it was played. No, I’m talking about
whether a shoe is streaky, or the fact that it had a dominant side, or whether
it had one long streak and no short ones, or whether it had several streaks of
various lengths, or whether it was basically choppy. Also, the position of
streaks and certain patterns in a shoe might tend to be consistent from one
shoe to the next. In short, patterns of decisions and where these patterns
tend to occur in a shoe, etc. is what I’m talking about when I speak of shoe
characteristics.

Now, those who play Big Bac may see the phenomenon of reoccurring
characteristics even more than those who play Mini Bac. The reason is
obvious. With Big Bac, since the players themselves handle the cards and
usually mutilate them as play progresses, 8 new decks are put into play with
each new shoe. These decks are usually prepared for play in about the same
manner, consequently, you may tend to see more consistent shoe
characteristics manifest at the Big Bac table.

It is because of these factors that we want 3-D V.2 to be as versatile as

possible. We can in essence “tune the method” for the type shoes produced
by the various casinos we play. Right now, I’m having good success using
this method at one casino and regular 3-D V.2 (Aggressive Mode) at
another. Of course, there are those casinos which do not seem to exhibit any
definite long term characteristics and if that seems to be the case, you can
experiment with this method as opposed to regular 3-D V.2 (Aggressive
Mode), but regular V.2 will usually be the best choice and is what I would
play should I play at an unfamiliar casino.

There are other ways that 3-D V.2 can be tuned to various casinos but I want
go into that here. Extensive tuning refinements are not generally needed. I

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only mention them to make you aware that fine tuning the method is
possible but I suggest you confer with me before making any radical
changes. It is very rare that anything like that is needed.

What Stays The Same

While a few things are different, the progression remains unchanged and
operates exactly as it always has. The Streak Column and the Chop Column
also work exactly the same as before. The Indicated Bet is figured the same
as always. In live play I also still write the Indicated Bet in the far left
column as I did before.

What’s New

What has changed is that the Opposite Column is no longer needed (you’ll
see why in a moment). Also, the A1 and A2 Modes are no longer tracked as
such. In addition, there is a little change in betting procedure in certain
instances. We also now label a shoe as being prone to streaks as soon as we
have a side (either Player or Bank) win 5, 6, or more decisions in a row.

Betting Procedure

As I stated earlier, V 2.3 has a Streak Column and Chop Column that work
exactly the same as before. What is a little different is that at the beginning
of a shoe you don’t begin making actual bets until both Player and Bank
have won one decision. You do track the shoe as before, however, even
though you don’t actually place any bets until both sides have won at least
one decision.

With V 2.3, we always bet opposite the Indicated Bet until a shoe has had a
streak of 5 or more consecutive wins by either Player or Bank. The first
time in a shoe that either Player or Bank wins 5 times in a row, we cease
play until the streaking side loses one bet. As soon as the streaking side
loses a bet, we continue play as normal by placing our bets opposite the
Indicated Bet. This is illustrated in Figure A below. Figure A illustrates the
beginning of a new shoe where a streak comes early in play.

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 Streak Chop
B P B P IND. ACT. TOT
BET BET

1
2
Play does
1 1 NB NB
not begin
2 1 P1 B1 1
until both
1 1 2 B2 P2 3 Player and
1 2 1 NB NB Bank have
3 P3 B3 0 won a bet.
2 P2 B2 -2
3 P3 B3 -5 Betting
S-6+ 4 NB NB ceases
3 NB NB because
4 NB NB Player has
1 3 P2 B2 -3 won 5 in a
2 1 B1 P1 -2 row.
Betting
resumes
Figure A
after the
Player streak is broken by a Bank win. Note that the S-6+ to the left of the
illustration means that this shoe has now been designated as a Streak type
shoe and the streak went for more than 6 in a row. We only designate shoes
as a Streak 5 (S-5) if the streak ends at 5 in a row. If a streak goes for 6 in a
row it is S-6; and if it extends beyond 6 in a row it becomes S-6+. These are
the only 3 designations we use.

Also note that if a shoe has originally gone for a streak of 6 or 6+, but later
only goes to a streak of 5, the marginal designation is now S-5 and the next
streak is played as a streak of 5 instead of 6 or more. The length of the most
recent streak always becomes the designation we use when we play the next
streak.

And remember, a shoe is not designated as a streak shoe until it has a streak
of at least 5 in a row. Anything less than 5 in a row is ignored and play
continues normally. Some shoes will never have a streak of 5 in a row
through out the whole shoe. We usually do very well on shoes like that. If

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you never encounter a streak of at least 5 in a row, then you will never cease
play and you will continue to bet opposite the Indicated Bet for the whole
shoe.

Playing The Streaks

Now remember, what I have been talking about to this point and what I
illustrated above in Figure A is how we play the first time in the shoe that
we encounter a streak of 5 or more. The next time we have a potential
streak, we do things a little differently.

Let us assume that the first streak we encountered in a shoe was a streak of 5
Bankers. We now have this shoe designated as S-5. Now, a few decisions
later we encounter a streak of 3 Players (or it could be 3 Bankers, it makes
no difference). After the third Player (or Banker) in a row, instead of betting
opposite of the Indicated Bet, we now bet the same as the indicated bet.
And we bet the same as the Indicated Bet on the next decision which if it
wins would be a streak of 4 Players or Banks in a row. If the streak
continues, we then bet the same as the Indicated Bet on the 5th decision. If
the streaking side wins again giving it a 5 in a row, we then resume betting
opposite the Indicated Bet on the next decision because the streak signature
was S-5 which means that we only expect the streak to go for 5 decisions so
we make our bets accordingly.

Now you are probably asking what if the streaking side loses on the 4th or 5th
decision while we are betting the same as the Indicated Bet? If that happens,
we immediately resume betting opposite the Indicated Bet until we
encounter another streak of 3 in a row. Upon encountering another streak of
3 in a row, we do the same thing again. Bet with the Indicated Bet until
there is a loss or another 5 in a row. Then bet opposite the indicated bet as
normal.
Now, what if we encounter a streak of 3 in a row and our shoe’s streak
signature is S-5 and we bet with the Indicated Bet and win the 4th and 5th
decisions because the streak went to a 5 in a row; BUT, when we resumed
betting opposite the Indicated Bet on the 6th decision, we lost because the
streak continued to a 6 in a row? The answer is we cease betting until the
streak is broken by a loss. As soon as the streaking side loses one decision,
we resume betting opposite the Indicated Bet. But also note that we must
now change the streak signature of this shoe. If the streak was broken after a

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6 in a row, then we write S-6 in the margin and the next streak is played as a
6 in a row. If the streak went to 7 or more in a row before the streak ended,
then we write S-6+ in the margin.

Now, let’s assume that we are playing with an S-6+ streak signature and we
encounter another 3 in a row. We then reverse and bet the same as the
Indicated Bet for the next 3 decisions and win all 3 of them. We now have a
6 in a row. But our streak signature is S-6+. At this point we simply cease
betting until the streak is broken and then adjust the streak signature
according to the length of the current streak. Makes sense, right?

We’ve now covered all streak possibilities except one and the way we play a
streak signature of S-6 should be obvious. We treat it the same way as an S-
5 except we assume a streak of 6 will occur. Therefore, when you encounter
a streak of 3 in a row, you then bet with the Indicated Bet for 3 decisions and
if you win all 3, you then bet opposite the Indicated Bet because we are
assuming that the streak will be a streak of 6, thus conforming to the streak
signature.

Naturally, shoes don’t always conform and repeat the length of the last
streak, but when they do, we get a nice win.

Remember, before we go into Streak Mode and bet with the Indicated Bet
instead of opposite the Indicated Bet, we must see a streak of at least 3 in a
row and we must have had a previous streak in the shoe of at least 5 in a
row.

Here is another thing to remember concerning streaks: If a streak of at least

5 in a row does not occur until after the 40th decision of the shoe, then do not
assign a streak signature to this shoe and treat this streak as if it never
happened. That means that once the streak has ended, you will play the
remainder of the shoe normally continuing to always bet opposite the
Indicated Bet.

Below in Figure B is an illustration of how to play a streak when we have a

signature of S-5.

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 Streak Chop
B P B P IND. ACT. TO
BET BET T

1
2
1 1 NB NB
2 1 P1 B1 -1 Note that the streak
3 1 P2 B2 -3 signature is S-5.
S-5 2 P2 B2 -5
3 NB NB
1 2 P1 B1 -4 The arrows (>) to
2 1 B1 P1 -5 the far left means
> 3 1 B2 B2 -3 we make the
> 2 B2 B2 -1 Indicated Bet on
3 B3 P3 2 those decisions.
2 1 B1 P1 3 Since it was an S-
2 1 P1 B1 2 5, after the 5th
Banker in a row we
once again bet
Figure B opposite the
Indicated Bet.

Remember, in the example shown above, in the 2nd streak, had there been a
Player win and a Bank loss after the Bank had won either 3 in a row or 4 in a
row, we would have immediately resumed betting opposite the Indicated
Bet. That is, we would have resumed normal play until we encountered
another 3 Bankers or Players in a row at which time we would have again
played the streak as in the above example.

Playing The Chop Runs

For the most part, the chops are not as dangerous as the streaks. But
sometimes you will get a long run or pattern of chops and the progression in

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the Chop Column will escalate. As far as runs in the Chop Column are
concerned, you do not cease play unless the Indicated Bet wins 5 times in a
row. Should that happen, however, you will cease play until the Indicated
Bet loses (which would mean there has been a break in the chop pattern).
Once the Indicated Bet loses once, you resume play and bet opposite the
Indicated Bet as always. There is never a time that you will bet the same as
the Indicated Bet because of a long run in the Chop Column which results in
a winning streak for the Indicated Bet. We do not assign a Chop Signature
to a shoe.

Sometimes you will encounter a chop run which results in the Indicated Bet
winning 5 times in a row. If this happens, you cease play until the Indicated
Bet loses, then resume betting opposite the Indicated Bet. However, should
the chop pattern reestablish itself and the Indicated Bet continues to win,
then you should once again cease betting if you get to the 4 unit bet in the 3rd
level of the progression (3-4-6). Should you lose that bet, you once again
cease play until there is another break in the chop pattern resulting in a loss
for the Indicated Bet. After that you resume play betting as usual against the
Indicated Bet. From that point on you don’t stop anymore until the chop run
has ended (Chop Chart losses twice in a row). This is true even if there is
another loss of the 4 unit bet in the 3-4-6 series. You don’t stop betting any
more because of a chop run.

Following is an illustration of how to play a Chop Run.

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 Streak Chop
B P B P IND. ACT. TO
BET BET T

1
2
1 1 NB NB
2 1 P1 B1 1
1 1 2 B2 P2 -1
2 3 P1 B1 -2
1 1 2 P2 B2 -4
2 3 B1 P1 -5
1 1 4 B4 P4 -9 Quit betting after
2 3 P1 NB Indicated Bet wins 5
1 1 4 P4 NB times. Then resume
2 1 3 P2 B2 -7 betting as usual when
3 B3 P3 Indicated Bet loses.

Figure C
To illustrate how to handle a shoe in which the Chop Column resumes its
run after one loss therefore causing the Indicated Bet to continue winning
and escalating, see the example in Figure D.

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 Streak Chop
B P B P IND. ACT. TO
BET BET T

1
2
1 1 NB NB
2 1 P1 B1 1
1 1 2 B2 P2 -1
2 3 P1 B1 -2
1 1 2 P2 B2 -4 Betting suspended
2 3 B1 P1 -5 after the Indicated Bet
1 1 4 B4 P4 -9 won 5 times in a row
2 3 P1 NB but resumed after the
1 1 4 P4 NB Indicated Bet lost. The
2 1 3 P2 B2 -11 streak continued,
1 2 4 B3 P3 -14 however, so betting
2 1 6 P4 NB once again stopped
1 2 4 B3 NB after the loss of the 4
3 4 B1 P1 -15 unit bet in the 3rd
series. Betting
1 1 6 B6 P6 -9
resumed again after the
1 2 4 B3 P3 -6 Indicated Bet lost for a
3 P3 B3 2nd time and did not
cease again for the
Figure D duration of the Chop
run.

Problematic Shoes

One case of a problematic shoe is when you keep coming back to a zero total
(get up a little and get knocked back down to even, then go down a little and
come back up to even), and you reach the 15th to 17th decision (or later) in
the shoe and you are still at zero. When this occurs, give it another 3 or 4
decisions and try to get up by at least +4. If you aren’t successful, take any
positive total you can get and exit the shoe. If you aren’t able to get a
positive total, then go into Reverse Mode. That is, play just like you would

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normally play in every way except place the opposite bet from the bet called
for. Try to get up by 5 or 6 units, then from that point on play very carefully
and don’t let the win get away from you. These shoes don’t come around all
that often, but when they do, they seem to almost always work this way.

When a shoe has both a streak signature and has also had a run in the chop
column that caused you to cease play (Indicated Bet won 5 times in a row), I
call this a Pattern Shoe. For obvious reasons, this is the most dangerous type
shoe to this method. If you have had to cease play because of encountering
both a streak and a chop run, then you are in a Pattern Shoe. By the time
you realize you are in a Pattern Shoe, you will usually be down by 12 units
or more. It is very likely that you will lose this shoe, but occasionally I have
pulled out a win. At any rate, if your come back attempt is not successful,
then you can at least try and minimize your loss, hopefully keeping it down
to less than 7 units.

Usually the best way to deal with a Pattern Shoe is to go into Reverse Mode
as soon as the run which created the Pattern Shoe has ended.

To further clarify, in order to have a Pattern Shoe, you must have both a
streak and a chop run. If you already have a streak signature, then have a
chop run where the Indicated Bet wins 5 times in a row, as soon as that chop
run is over you now have what I define as a Pattern Shoe. At that point you
will go into Reverse Mode. Conversely, if you have already had a chop run
but no streak, then as soon as you have a streak run and it has ended because
of the streaking side losing twice in a row, at that point you will go into
Reverse Mode.

For the most part, only 3 things happen with a Pattern Shoe. The first
possibility is that you will have good success in the Reverse Mode and
recover your losses at a fairly steady rate. In this case, continue in the
Reverse Mode until you have a profit of 4 units or more, then continue to
play as long as you are winning. But get out of the shoe at the first sign of
trouble after that.

The other thing that seems to be prevalent in this type of shoe is that you
reverse, but kind of get stuck at a negative total and can’t make any
headway. You’ll know you’re stuck if you win a few units then fall back,

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then do the same again. In this case, try to get out with a -5 or less before
something worse happens.

And of course the third possibility is the “something worse” I just referred to
and that is that the shoe begins to play correctly and you wind up losing even
more because you were playing in the Reverse Mode. But this seems to be
the least frequent of the 3 scenarios.

Quitting The Shoe

As far as when to quit the shoe, other than the problematic shoes I’ve
discussed, basically play as you would regular 3-D V.2.

Many shoes will tell you plainly when to quit because they keep coming
back to the same peak. If it peaks twice at or near the same mark, then the
third time it comes back to that peak or near it, that is usually your queue to
quit. For instance, your totals run like this: +1, +3, +1, -1, -3, -1, 0, +2, +4,
+5, +7, +5, +4, +2, 0, +1, +3, +4, +6, +4, +3, +4, +6 this is where I would
normally quit. You also have to take into account how much trouble you are
having. With this shoe, I was struggling a little bit. If things were going
fairly easily and there weren’t too many negative swings but only minor
ones, I might hang in a little longer to see if the shoe would break lose. As I
keep saying, you have to get a feel for how the method interacts with the
game as a whole and each shoe individually.

If you don’t have any streaks of 5 in a row or more, and the shoe is fairly
choppy but you haven’t had any long chop runs either, you might want to
stick with this kind of shoe a little longer to make sure you’ve gotten all you
can get out of it. This is the kind of shoe that sometimes produces a big win.

A shoe in which you get up by 8 to 12 units fairly easily, but suddenly it

turns and goes straight down the tubes, you should make sure you get out of
it with a win even if it is only 3 to 5 units. Don’t ever let a shoe get away
from you after you’ve gotten up by that many units. That very much applies
to regular 3-D V.2 as well.

Other than in the case of the problematic shoes I mentioned above, there
doesn’t seem to be much merit to playing in Reverse Mode. It is generally

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better to continue playing normally even though you get down by 12 units or
more. Most shoes seem to cycle back around at some point and still give
you an opportunity to get out with either a relatively small loss or in some
cases you might even come back and get a win. I’ve seen it happen many
times.

But be willing to take a small loss rather than continuing to push and wind
up having a complete loss of your buy in. If you can’t seem to fight your
way back to positive territory, a -4 to -7 can usually be made up in one shoe.

Overall there is no substitute for practice and experience with this method to
get a good feel for the proper place to exit. Use what I’ve told you as
guidelines, then practice, practice, practice. Success never comes without a
price.

Bankroll

Your bankroll requirements are about the same as regular 3-D V.2. This
isn’t quite as volatile so you won’t have as many -25 shoes, but they do still
come along on rare occasions. But the net profit seems to be holding at
between 4 and 5 units per shoe (after commissions and subtracting losses). I
still recommend a 125 unit lifetime bankroll, mainly just so you will have
more than enough and you should never be in fear of losing your whole
bankroll even if you encounter a really rough bunch of shoes. Your buy in
per shoe is still 25 units. That is, of course, your stop loss point.

Now you can look at the Excel files which are example shoes for further
illustration.

Good Luck and God Bless,

Stu

Three Dimensional Baccarat Version 2.3 3-D V 2.3 demo shoe #1

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 B P B P IND. BET ACT. BET TOT. Decisions are highlighted.

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2
Begin play after each side has won a
1 1 NB NB < decision.
2 1 P1 B1 1 < Bet opposite the Indicated Bet as usual.
1 1 2 B2 P2 -1
2 3 P1 B1 -2
1 1 2 P2 B2 -4
2 3 B1 P1 -3
3 2 P1 B1 -4
2 P2 B2 -2
1 2 P1 B1 -1
2 1 B1 P1 0
1 1 2 P2 B2 -2
2 3 B1 P1 -3
1 1 2 B2 P2 -5
2 3 P1 B1 -4
3 2 B1 P1 -3
1 1 3 P3 B3 -6
2 4 B2 P2 -4
3 2 P1 B1 -5
2 P2 B2 -7 < Player has now won 5 in a row for the first time
S-
6 3 P3 NB this shoe. We suspend play until Player loses.
4 P4 NB
1 2 P1 B1 -8 < Player lost, resume play. We now have a strea
1 3 1 P1 B1 -9 signature of S-6.
4 1 P3 B3 -12
Here we have a streak signature of S-6 and we
> 3 P3 P3 -9 have
a Player Streak of 3 in a row so we now switch
> 4 P4 P4 -5 and
> 6 P6 P6 1 place the Indicated Bet instead of the Opposite
the Indicated Bet. Since the Player went all the
4 P4 B4 5 way
1 4 P3 B3 8 to 6 in a row and our streak signature is S-6, we
2 1 B1 P1 7 now resume betting opposite the Indicated Bet.
> 3 1 B2 B2 9 < There is another 3 in a row so we make the
> 2 B2 B2 7 Indicated Bet. The Bank streak ended after 4 in
2 1 B1 P1 8 row, so we do not change the streak signature.
The streak signature is unaffected unless there
2 1 P1 B1 7 a
5 in a row or
> 3 1 P2 P2 9 more.

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> 2 P2 P2 11
> 3 P3 P3 14 Streak signature is still S-6, so now we begin
4 P4 B4 18 betting opposite of the Indicated Bet once again
1 2 P1 B1 19
2 1 B1 P1 20
1 1 2 P2 B2 22
2 1 1 NB NB

1 2 2 B1 P1 21
2 1 3 P2 B2 23
3 1 B2 P2 25
1 1 2 P2 B2 27
2 1 1 NB NB
3 B3 P3 24
> 2 B2 B2 26 < We've had a streak of 3 Banks and since our
> 3 B3 B3 29 streak signature is S-6 we now place the Indicat
> 4 B4 B4 33 Bet figuring that we may have another 6 in a row
3 B3 P3 36 We got the expected 6 in a row, now bet opposi
3 1 B2 P2 34 the Indicated Bet which also worked. This was
great
4 1 1 B2 P2 36 shoe!
3 2 2 B3 P3 33
4 1 3 NB NB
3 2 2 B3 P3 30 Ordinarily I might quit here, but it has been such
good shoe and I'm up by a good amount I thoug
4 1 3 NB NB I
6 2 B4 P4 34 would give it one more play.
3 1 3 P1 B1 33
2 4 B2 P2 31
1 1 3 B3 P3 34
1 2 3 B2 P2 36
3 P3 B3 33
> 2 P2 P2 35
> 3 P3 P3 38 This shoe went about as well as a shoe can go.
> 4 P4 P4 34 You will get the occasional 20 to 30 unit wins bu
the average win will be more like 6 to 10 units.

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Three Dimensional Baccarat Version 2.3 3-D V 2.3 demo shoe #2
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Decisions are
B P B P IND. BET ACT. BET TOT. highlighted.
Note that by waiting for each side to register a
win
before we begin play, we avoid getting off to a
bad
start if either Player or Bank has a long
1 streak
right off the bat. Because of a tendency of
1 1 NB NB random
2 1 P1 B1 -1 numbers, we are less likely to see a long streak
right after a
3 1 P2 B2 -3 chop.
2 P2 B2 -1
1 2 P1 B1 0
2 1 B1 P1 -1
3 1 B2 P2 1
1 1 2 P2 B2 -1
2 3 B1 P1 0
3 1 P2 B2 -2
2 P2 B2 0
1 2 P1 B1 -1
1 3 1 P1 B1 0
We've now been playing for 15 decisions and
2 2 2 P2 B2 2 are
constantly coming back to even. This is one of
3 1 B2 P2 0 < the
problematic shoes I spoke of. It is going to
2 B2 P2 2 cause
2 1 B1 P1 3 trouble and we need to get out of it ASAP. If

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2 1 P1 B1 4 don't get a positive total within 4 more decisions

I'll reverse and see what happens. Fortunately I
1 1 2 B2 P2 2 did
get +4 so I would have quit. But this shoe
2 3 P1 B1 1 also
illustrates something else I spoke of, so I will
1 1 2 P2 B2 -1 play
2 3 B1 P1 -2 on further simply for the sake of illustration, but
ordinarily I would have quit with
1 1 4 B4 P4 -6 +4.
Cease betting here because the Indicated Bet
2 3 P1 NB < has
won 5 times in a row. Indicated Bet lost so
1 1 4 P4 NB < resume
2 1 3 P2 B2 -4 betting.
3 B3 P3 -7
2 B2 P2 -5
2 1 B1 P1 -6
3 1 1 B1 P1 -7
4 1 B3 P3 -10
3 B3 P3 -13
Suspend play now because of our first long
4 B4 P4 -17 streak
6 B6 NB < in the shoe.
4 B4 NB
Streaking side lost so resume play. We now
4 1 B3 P3 -14 < have
a pattern shoe because we have a streak
2 1 P1 P1 -13 signature
3 1 P2 B2 -11 and we had to cease play because the Indicated
1 1 2 B2 B2 -13 Bet won 5 times in a row because of a chop run.
That means we go into Reverse
1 2 1 NB NB Mode.
3 P3 P3 -10
2 P2 B2 -8

1 2 P1 P1 -9
2 1 B1 B1 -8
3 1 B2 P2 -10
2 B2 P2 -8
2 1 B1 B1 -7
3 1 1 B1 B1 -6
It's beginning to look like we are stuck although
4 1 B3 B3 -9 < a
2 1 2 P1 P1 -10 little progress has been

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 made.
3 1 1 B1 B1 -9
This would probably be the wisest place to quit
4 B4 B4 -5 < but
we seem to be inching up a little. We are at
3 B3 P3 -8 -5
here whereas we were at -6 at a similar
4 B4 P4 -4 point.
3 1 B2 B2 -2
4 1 1 B2 B2 0
Even though a 5 unit bet was called for here,
6 1 B5 B2 -2 < since
I struggled so long to get even, I don't want to
3 1 2 NB NB risk
4 1 1 B2 B2 0 going back down by 5 units, besides it looks like
the pattern should be breaking down, so I
6 B6 only
made a 2 unit bet, which I lost. I would risk one
more small bet to try and get back even, but if I
lost that, then I'm done and glad to get out with only
a -4. Since I won the bet, I got back to even
again.
But there is no way I'm going to make that 6 unit
bet, and since there is a previous pattern of two
Bank wins, then a loss, and also since the streak
seems to be breaking down, I'm going to be
satisfied with quitting at
even.

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