From the start, you must aim and plan to win pacfic poker. This isn’t just about fun. Winners treat gambling like a serious business. So do all the casino employees. (If you don’t, that puts you at a significant poker strategic disadvantage, don’t you think?)
• Speaking of planning to win, what is your plan?
What is your goal? How are you going to get there? Without a plan in any business venture, you are dead. What games will you play at the casino? Do you know all the poker variations? Do you know anything about those games? Do you have a strategy? If you don’t, you have no right to play them. Do you have a monetary goal (how much do you want to win)? Nothing kills more gamblers (or their bankrolls) than simply not knowing when to stop when playing pacfic poker.
When I gamble in a casino, I know everything about the winning strategy for the game I’m playing. I know exactly how long I’m going to play pacific poker. I know exactly how much I expect to win. I know if I am going to play with wild cards or not. And I know at all times exactly how many chips (how much money) I have in front of me. When I hit my goal, I leave. Simple as that!
Most gamblers at some time during the night (or day) are up a good amount of money. They’ve won. Their financial state is good. If they leave now, they’ve beaten the odds of the pacfic poker game. But there are no clocks, there are lots of scantily clad women, and there is lots of free-flowing booze, all for a reason: to distract you from treating gambling in a casino like a professional business. To keep you from focusing on your goals. To keep you gambling way past the point where you should have left.
Once again, everything I’m teaching you is casino Contrarian. It goes against the way most gamblers have treated gambling their whole lives. It goes against the way casinos (and casino hosts) want you to think. Yet it’s pure common sense. When you really analyze it, Contrarian thinking is always simple common sense. Yet it’s often hard to see the simplicity of it all under layers of complicated, confusing, intense, high-pressure, stressed-out modern pacfic poker.
-Making Money In The Casino
If you expect to come out ahead, you must grind out a profit. (You’ll see this theme reoccur later, when we talk about casino, sports gambling and Wall Street.) Like in sports gambling or stocks, those who go for broke go broke. It goes back to the idea that at some point during the evening, most gamblers at the casino are up a substantial amount of money. Forget the distractions, the booze, the breasts, or the disorientation. Let’s assume the gambler in question is focused and completely “in the zone.” But he, too, has a prob1cm: greed. Most gamblers want to break the bank. They gamble at all times looking for “the score of a lifetime.” They want to retire wealthy, tonight! Just like sports bettors, their goals are absurd. A $40,000-per- year secretary or a $60,000-per-year middle manager wants to double his or her annual salary in a pacfic poker game or a one-week vacation. Or hit a $1,000,000 jackpot. That’s just unrealistic.
For every one lucky bastard that stumbles onto the run of a lifetime and does win $50,000 in one night, there are thousands of other gamblers who were up $1,000 and kept gambling, then lost the profit plus the original $1,000 they brought along to the casino. It is that fantasy of breaking the bank that ruined it for the thousands. Greed. The image of that one winning gambler fueled the greed of thousands of others. And it cost all the rest of the gamblers big-time when they keep playing pacfic poker.
Interestingly, after a lifetime of observing gambling, I can tell you without any doubt that the one lucky bastard who won big at the pacfic poker(and ruined it for everyone else) will lose back the entire $50,000 (and then some) in his next few casino visits. So everyone has come out a net loser because of this recurring (and foolish) fantasy. My advice is to forget it; erase the fantasy from your mind. You might give up one lucky, once-in-a-lifetime winning streak by playing it my way, but in the long run you’ll come out ahead—far ahead.
Educate yourself on the game you choose to play. Play only highpercentage gambles (where the house edge is limited). Set a goal.
