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how good is your discipline? is it correlation to your bankroll?
what % do you end your trip session corresponding to your bankroll?
from 1/4 of the royal or 1/2?
being greedy seems to bite into your winning's when one has a chance to end a big winner oppose to ending a minor winner

AMEN ON THE GREED PART!
An old casino vet told me 40 years ago, when i started, that there are only 2 emotions in a casino fear & greed. Same as the market.

I’m not so sure it’s greed. It’s more like just seeing a giant win appear on the screen. Most of us have our machines set on credits. Not the amount of cash in the machine. I never think about like wow if I hit here I can buy this or that. It is just like what I posted above

The default display mode for the vast majority of machines is credits. They clearly seek to deflect focus from the ludicrous monetary losses being tabulated. I agree that it’s a fear/greed dichotomy. I have had fear as my primary emotion the past few months. This prevents the tsunami losses. But puny wins awful.

Some say that it is smart to have the credits displayed and not cash because then, other people can't tell as easily how much money you have (in the machine).

I always play with the display in cash because I can more easily identify it as real money.

Casinos don't want players to remember that they are playing with real money instead of chips/credits.

Tedlark wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 05, 2019 6:46 pm

Some say that it is smart to have the credits displayed and not cash because then, other people can't tell as easily how much money you have (in the machine).

I always play with the display in cash because I can more easily identify it as real money.

Casinos don't want players to remember that they are playing with real money instead of chips/credits.

I agree TED, I don't like credits and flip it to cash when I start play. I like to see where I am and where i'm going.

Great minds think alike here. Cash is king! I’m not tripping, I’m flipping. Kool Aid I ain’t sipping!
(Beats by FAA Flavor)

stevel96a1 wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:26 pm

how good is your discipline? is it correlation to your bankroll?
what % do you end your trip session corresponding to your bankroll?
from 1/4 of the royal or 1/2?
being greedy seems to bite into your winning's when one has a chance to end a big winner oppose to ending a minor winner

Steve it depends on what kind of player you are. Recreational, Advantage player, or a hit and run player.Playing 9/6 JOB this is a losing game by it self. Even if you hit the Royal you will most likely give it back over time. If you don't understand this your not going to be the player you want to be. Having a big enough bankroll to play is really the key.

Like Friday was down early playing $5 bucks a hand. Down over $500 the first 90 mins. playing a mix of 9/6 JOB and 8/5 BP. After 4 hours of play $23,000 coin in cashed out even. On JOB hit 3 quads in 20 hands for $125 each. VP has many ups and downs. The bigger the bankroll you have the easier it is to ride the ups and downs of the game.

I can’t even count how many people have asked me, wow! You just won 200 quarters. How much is that? It’s so weird. If I go out to lunch or dinner with my wife or even with another couple, I aleays know how much the bill will be within fifty cents no matter what anyone has ordered as long as I had a chance to glance at the menu prices before we or anyone else orders. That way, I instantly know how much the 20 percent tip will be. I have seen other prople without their phones or a tip calculator spend fifteen minutes trying to figure out the bill and how much tip to leave.

We used to have a friend who carried a tip chart in his wallet. While he was calculating the "proper" tip at restaurants the rest of us would just be tossing dough into a pile on the table.....the tip usually added up to 100% of the bill or better.