Expecting the Best
So what a wild ride I've been on so far. Have you ever experienced a time in your life when the only thing that can go wrong is when you don't believe that it will go right? Everyday I wake up and try to control my thoughts and put my mind in the right place to become accustomed to the kind of experience I've been having now. Not only am I being successful playing Baccarat, but my life is full of successes and pleasant surprises.
Yesterday I met with an investor hoping for about $5,000 and looking for about $20,000. After I showed him my work, he talked about $50,000 and more. He has a brother who had risked $100,000 to win $250,000. He has been in close proximity to high roller gambling and wagers to such a degree that my proposal was neither intimidating nor surprising. In fact, before I begin showing him what I was talking about, I got the impression he was already going to invest and was only listening and learning out of curiosity.
So, needless to say, this morning I am terribly happy with the results of my meeting. 50,000 is more than enough for me to get my business thriving. I started with what little I had, but it has been blossoming from the start. Creating joint accounts with students was a fantastic idea. I had my apprehensions, but when you meet the right people, you can strike a deal that's mutually beneficial and captures both interest and integrity . . . Quite literally in fact!
I was debating whether or not to make this a public post. But besides the successful meeting with a potential investor who approached me unsolicited, I also had a professional baccarat player in Miami contact me to stake me and put me on a plane to Miami. I told him my terms and asked for a relatively small amount and he agreed immediately. They should be sending me the information I requested along with an itinerary and I'm off to the races!
I set up some major goals both for the business and in my life. I've done something like this before but I was always plagued by doubt. The amount of satisfaction I've had from successful analysis and application of strategy both in simulation and with real money up to this point, have turned me into my own believer. Once again I feel like the star and the movie of my own life like I did when I would be performing on stage as a younger man.
All the joy and optimism I once had in my soul is both replenished and growing. Let's imagined my life being like this before. It's incredible how if you believe you can achieve. I'm trying to remove the phrase I can't believe it. I'm trying to put myself in a Yoda frame of mind. Why should I try to successfully navigate a shoe into profit when I can simply do it.
Neither one I showed the investor yesterday I paused on two successful hits because I was playing aggressively with a small bankroll. There's something about a shoe that says when it is hitting it will continue to hit. Not just a feeling but observable behavior. I can remember the shoes that haven't played well. Even a shoe I played this morning had just two ties and both were predictable.
What I want to know now is when to stop chasing in a shoe. I've built in layers of progression so that aggressive bedding on a shoe that yields no return can be overcome by simply playing the next shoe. Still, it would be even more satisfying to recognize a shoe that won't end with eight ties after a dry spell of 60. These shoes are rare so I don't have enough data collected.
So today I will contact a friend of mine and ask him to put his studies on this. They study so far has been attempting to recognize symmetries. I'm going to ask him to focus on specific shoe types. Namely the distribution, scores, and lack of symmetries in dry or bad shoes.
I know exactly what to do. But now I want to know what not to do. I want the what not to do to be part of my to do list.
I expect to win every time, but when the unexpected presents itself ever so rarely, I want to have expected it. I want to expect the unexpected, both good and bad. I want my expectation of failure to be success because of it.
Up to this point I have failed forward. I just didn't realize that my fascination with numbers and successful gambling would be the sunshine on my career path. I expect a lovely day and an incredible story.
Now get out there and play fearlessly with your entire bankroll. Don't stop one wager short of sensational profit. Decide how much you're willing to spend, and commit to zero on that expense in a time frame, a reasonable profit percentage, or a reasonable win rate.
Good luck Funk Stars
B-Funk