EXCITEMENT in casino games

Friends! I suggest sharing here thoughts about how each person works with the strong emotion of excitement. It is thanks to this strong and insidious passion capable of choking any person - the business process called Casino flourishes!
It is this business process that we respect and deeply appreciate the opportunity it provides us with, that makes us stronger, more successful and unites us as a team!


Before you get answers to more - ask yourself about less!!!

Is it worth thinking about a lot when you are not able to control yourself - the little things???

"An active player" - a player who plays at least once a week stops listening to any advice - he thinks in other categories and scales! Even if he agrees with the right path, he will do everything in his own way! - (The desire to listen, for such a player - as a rule, arises only when all the money is hopelessly lost without a trace and minutes of late bitter insight come!!!)

We are all prone to error! As you will agree - there is no strength, in time to admit our own mistakes, or wrongness! - Therefore, although I abandon all hope that I will be heard on the first try - I will remind...

The bitter anatomy of the "Acting Player"!!! (the main type of player visiting Russian casinos)

To begin with, let's mention "Stubbornness" and the mysterious "Obstinacy" in our own language - these are the main components of a player!

Next comes the Desire to "cut the easy way"! - this plays in the blood of every player and inevitably destroys the player as soon as the "desire" takes precedence over common sense, which says - "there are no easy ways!"

"We're all on our own!" - Players don't feel or perceive the bitter experiences of others! They never learn from others' mistakes - lining up in a common queue, they prefer to methodically step on the same "rake" over and over again!

"I never lose!" - A common self-confident phrase of those who have been lucky for a while! - Such a statement by a player should be regarded as a symptom of an imminent loss - because he has come to believe in his own infallibility!

"Law of the Jungle" - Players are the most disorganized spontaneous part of humanity - everyone is for himself! Even if a player comes to play with his comrades, the joy of their victory - God forbid it happens - the player will never share! - The joy on his face - will go badly with the hatred in his eyes!

The player is not distinguished by - "Love for his neighbor"! - In every neighbor he willy-nilly seeks the one who has jinxed him! - Everyone without exception falls into the category of "extreme"! - Including those who had too much fun; those who were not cheerful enough; especially - relatives; friends and, of course, enemies; buddies - it would be better if they did not exist! - Not to mention the "mean croupiers" who are just itching to put a pig on him...

Duality of players! - During an ordinary meeting we see in the player, beyond recognition, another person! - The situation is such that "one person" enters and leaves the casino - but at the gaming table there is a completely different person - his other "I"! The switch occurs unnoticed by the player himself - instantly as soon as he approaches the table! - And smoothly, but quickly in the opposite direction - as soon as the player is taken away from the table!

"Players"!!!

"Professional player" and "Player" are different concepts! A professional knows how to earn money and earns it by playing - a "Player" loses money and, in fact, has nothing but emotions and a desire to win. (Experience does not matter - many "Players" can boast of crazy experience, but many years of experience of losses only forces you to relearn longer! - After all, established habits are hard to change!)

The avid players - strange as it may seem - were precisely those people who never liked to lose - and who for this very reason could never love the game - but nevertheless they were the ones who easily got involved in this "Adventure"!

Among the players we sometimes meet representatives of "short-sighted humanity", striving for an easy life, who decided to get rich quickly, or to settle local financial problems with the game - but these temporary people change often, because they lose quickly! - (There is nothing easy in earning money from professional play, and most importantly, there is nothing that could bring pleasure!!!)

Without bending the truth, I dare to assert - A rich player, even the most careless and showing his entire disdain for money - no matter how much he laments this and whatever he says - still comes to the casino to play and win! - Bury for yourself the naive thought that supposedly rich people come to the casino to publicly and demonstratively lose money in support of their "Ego"! - (This thought especially often visits the heads of casino workers, as an argument that they like to hear!!!)

In our country, when gambling in the "Casino" we more often meet either - very rich and respectable people - or the creative half of humanity, which has always invented and will invent the "Perpetual Motion Machine"! - Who knows? - Perhaps this is where the cunning plan of the "Devil" is hidden - to distract the influence of the former and the rational forces of the latter with gambling! - From creation to self-destruction!

Of course, there are also scammers among the players, but you have to be super-smart to avoid getting on the casino's "black list"!

Only a few players are real professionals "playing for the fight" - these are, as a rule, people who have managed to go through all the stages of becoming a player, including the bitterness of losses. - (The most inconspicuous - the fewest! You will never recognize a grandmaster in such a player! - Do not expect him to brag about his played...)

"Play for the fight" - play fair! Be able to count cards, or if it concerns roulette - know and master systems that can beat roulette. (Such a player becomes vulnerable only when unfair play begins against him.)

Professional "Fighting Game"!

What is it? And what do you eat it with? - It's time to dispel the "Myth" about big wins and the carefree life of the "pros"! - The "Myth" is stuck in the minds of those who desire "castles in the air" and if you don't tell about how things really are, the "Dreamers" are taking a risk, setting themselves up for the rosy prospects of crashing into the "rocks of reality"!!!

First of all, a "pro" achieves "stability" from his game - therefore there are no fabulous sums, but there is - "little by little, but more often in the plus than in the minus"! Of course, it is not forbidden to play "ALL-IN", but the level of concentration in such a game will be the maximum at the limit of human capabilities! - This is if you do not rely on "maybe"!

The life of a professional player is not long! - The nervous system is not made of alloy steel and your immune system will sooner or later ask to retire under peak loads! Even if you are a very healthy person - after the first intense week-long game you will need a maximum of twelve hours for restorative sleep - (daily)! After another week - all sixteen! After - (If not right away!) - insomnia will come! And then - if you do not have enough strength to stop - you will fall, as if into an abyss, into the oblivion of a thoughtless game and you will lose, lose, lose...

Therefore, the life of a player, like that of a “monk,” is one continuous prayer - a continuous struggle for health and self-control - “God forbid you lose it!”

Start of discussion Loiri , on March 23 03:29
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FoxDuhovny, 05.03.2018 20:44
FoxSpiritual
Since I was about 25, I have been interested in the topic of player psychology (gambling psychology) from the point of view of developing the ability to independently form gaming behavior for a specific purpose. When a novice player begins his gaming history in a casino, his gaming behavior - the client's behavior is equated to the average statistical indicator of all newcomers for a certain period, as the gaming history (statistics) is formed, the user behavior of the client is formed depending on the number of losses and wins, deposits and payments. Of course, over a certain period, the player gains gaming experience, which, at the player's request and desire, can improve and develop, so the player becomes a novice miner. In search of information on effective strategies that bring winnings, his gaming behavior changes. I suggest everyone carefully study their own gaming history for several important factors: the size of deposits, the size and volume of the bet per gaming session, rises and drains, the size of the win and payments with one single goal:
If a PLAYER gets a successful tool for winning at the casino roulette, then his user behavior should change STRICTLY only in one of the listed factors - the size of the win and payout. Everything else in quantitative and time values should remain at a level of 20% to 40% of the size of the win and payout. For example, if a player wants to win 2K credits from a deposit of 50 credits, then he must make at least 4 deposits of 50 credits, three of which must be raised to the levels of 200, 400 and 800 credits and drained back to the casino. Thus, the gaming behavior of the Potential gambling addict (user client behavior) is preserved and the ability to win is reliably masked by the ability to lose with a cost of losses of 150 credits.
Mira, 15.05.2017 10:33
Mira
Your mindset is responsible for how you approach the game. When you pay attention to certain patterns in your mental state, whether it’s in the game of poker or in your personal life, you begin to understand how your state affects your decision-making process. Awareness and mindfulness are the first steps to developing a professional poker mindset. Once you become mindful, you realize that you can control and work on your own mindset, which directly impacts your results.



Most poker players usually hire coaches to work on strategy and sometimes completely ignore working on important emotional obstacles such as tilt, anxiety, stress and lack of motivation.



3 Levels of Poker Mindset
Level 1 – Fish Thinking: Focused only on the result. If you win money, it’s good, if you lose, it’s bad.



Level 2 - EV thinking: focus on creating +EV situations.



Level 3 – Professional Mindset: Process-oriented and based on good strong habits such as a balanced diet, regular exercise, meditation, listening to motivational music or books, and completely avoiding distractions while playing. By maintaining this healthy mindset, you will have a better chance of becoming a much better poker player.



How to develop healthy habits?
There are several exercises that you can do both at the poker table and in your everyday life to gradually develop a healthier poker mindset.



The first exercise is to ask your future self, who has already achieved their goals and developed all the healthy habits: “What do I need to start doing now to become better?”



Answers could be: “Work harder and more at your game, watch your diet, or change your check-raise frequency, etc.” Create a checklist and use it as daily/weekly motivation for yourself to become a more successful person and poker player.



Another useful exercise is to script your “perfect day.” Imagine what your best day would be like, when you’re on your A-game and feel great from the moment you wake up until the moment you go to bed. Think about all the perfect actions and behaviors you could take that day to prepare yourself for the game. Then compare that perfect day to reality and identify areas that need improvement.



What makes a player successful?
A strict daily routine is one of the main conditions for playing poker profitably. For example, your weekly plan might look like this: 25 hours playing poker, 15 hours studying, 2 hours with a coach, 6 hours analyzing hands, etc. Players who stick to such a specific routine know exactly when they are ready to move on to the next level.



It may seem like players who grind hard have more success at the tables than those who spend a lot of time studying because they play more. Eventually, the player who works hard will catch up and even surpass the grinder. It's not just about how hard you work at the tables, studying away from the tables is just as important. You need to do everything you can, or you'll stall and fall behind.



The thing you don’t want to do the most is probably the thing you need to do first. It’s this type of resistance that usually justifies the fear that’s holding you back from success. So whatever you’re putting off may be the very thing you need to do to get to the next level. Face your fear.



One big goal
Always start with only one goal. For example, you want to improve your win rate or move up a limit. What would you do to achieve these goals?



Poker players often focus too much on strategy and tactics and completely forget about the psychological aspect of poker, which is essentially the foundation that affects every other aspect of your game.
FoxDuhovny, 24.03.2017 12:34
FoxSpiritual
Well, who is interested in what, who concentrated on what and tells about it... the usual thing. It seems that most players do not understand the essence of the game business process... business is not built on random events, therefore there are patterns, however, there are many especially gifted pseudo-specialists quasi-professionalized on logically-reasonable criterion of reasoning... Outwardly, their stories look quite attractive for reading... Our friend Loiri in this case simply reminded us of their existence in a very attractive way, thank him very much for interesting notes, especially since I did not know who QueenStar was...
Stepan, 03/24/2017 09:07
Stepan
Loiri jotted down Kvinstar's notes. I don't trust KWN very much, he writes like a pro, and he himself has no experience of real casino roulette games. He treats everything like a lab assistant at the mathematics department: he sets a task, tries to solve it, makes runs on the RNG.

Therefore, "The myth of big wins and carefree life of a pro" has always been a myth for him. He has never won large sums and thinks that +$20 for 1000 spins is the right way to set the task.
FoxDuhovny, 23.03.2017 16:57
FoxSpiritual
The truth is out there... In one of the old episodes of the program "Eagle and Tails" the host talked about Monaco and of course made a special report inside Monte Carlo, any blogger can do this during the day. My attentive gaze saw chips for the roulette table with 5- and 6-digit denominations... and now imagine that no one comes to the casino for 15 minutes with one chip... then realize the balance fluctuations when playing roulette? You are absolutely right about the fact that the age of a pro as a player is short! They outgrow the casino as a business process and go to the stock markets with the capital that they carefully built using the services of the gambling business. From time to time they visit the casino as a sign of respect for the elementary school of success... in 15 minutes a person turns a balance of 500K euros into 5 million in front of the amazed public, and then spends several hours communicating and making new acquaintances and contacts... These are truly true professionals... a long time ago I accidentally met one of them, we were talking on the way while I was driving him to the airport, he was flying to the USA from Moscow, in life he is a doctor of the pediatric neurosurgery department, his hobby is the stock market, and he started his life in Moscow and left for permanent residence in the USA a year before the casinos in the Russian Federation were closed... he and his friends celebrated his first fee for a year of a successful career in a clinic in Monte Carlo... that's when he made 5 million in 15 minutes and a year later went to the stock markets...

Passion intoxicates insidiously and imperceptibly - quietly creeping in with a harmless desire to play!

Before you know it, you are in his power - you have the need to experience the thrill of the game again and again - the game that clouds your mind! - Then you will need more and more, because the old is no longer what it was before...

You, of course - like everyone in your place - will claim that you are able to control yourself and are able to stop whenever you want! - Nonsense!!!

Add to this the uncontrollable "thirst for profit" - "thirst to win back" and you are baked - you are ready to slide into the abyss, where the game that gave you so many thrills - will begin to bring only the pain of loss - a little more and they will throw "Loser" after you!

Wake up - before this happens! No matter how seditious it may sound, but a person who follows passion is not a player! Just like the pursuit of luck is the lot of "Ludomaniacs"!

"Ludomania" ("Igromania") is a morbid addiction to gambling.

The brains of those prone to addictions work differently - what's the point of hypnotizing a slot machine, cards or a roulette ball, "shamanizing" or muttering cherished numbers to yourself? - Where's the point of burning out nerve cells from excitement in a furnace that doesn't give off heat?! - The hope of winning is a good companion, but only if it is backed up by sound calculations and common sense!

Who is at risk of becoming a victim of "Ludomania"?

"Ludomania" develops in those players who are superstitious and have a ghostly belief in their "inevitable luck"! - "Our intuition will not let us down!" - and the game chips are poured into the machine or onto the gaming table cloth at random, "as the inner voice tells us"! - Trouble comes to such people not when they lose - it creeps in at the moment of their accidental win, when their unfounded "intuition" is supposedly confirmed! - Paradoxically - the infallible "intuition" helps once, twice and then it goes on...

Symptoms of "Ludomania" are also observed in those who like to clearly plan their profits - "Get it and put it!" - they plan their profit from the game in advance, something that is initially unrealistic and which must be abandoned immediately! - Attempts to follow such guidelines lead to unreasonable delays at the gaming table! - The result - in a rush to snatch the missing "three kopecks" to the planned goal - everything is lost! - A good "appetite" is a sure sign of clouding...

Symptoms of "Ludomania"?

At the heart of "Ludomania" is the struggle between appetite and control over this appetite; between desire and its limitation. Obvious and serious problems arise when the player starts making bets that he cannot afford - this is the final stage! As a rule, this is a "all-in" yoke or an attempt to win back the last "pennies" - up to the money for the return trip from the casino! You are carried away thoughtlessly...

Immersion in the game - for a CASINO player is standard and inevitable - you stop noticing the people around you! After this point, try to control yourself in the following manifestations of the "Gold Rush":

The first manifestation is that they didn’t notice the change of the dealer at the table!

The second manifestation of fever is when playing cards - you involuntarily begin to "hypnotize the closed cards"!

If it is a roulette, then, looking at the spinning wheel, you begin to "hypnotize" the jumping ball - unconsciously trying to drive it into the cell-hole with your gaze!

The third manifestation is (you stop "breathing evenly towards the game") "twitching", experiencing indecision - or, on the contrary, excessive determination.

A typical signal to think about it - for gamblers in roulette, can be a certain test for the "spinning top syndrome":

Upon arrival at the Casino, before the game, do not bother yourself to find an inactive closed roulette table and for a minute stare intently at the stopped - dead, non-spinning roulette wheel! - If your head starts to spin - you will noticeably be led by the non-spinning wheel - as if it were spinning! - Then it is time for you to think not about the game, but about rest!!!

Light, insignificant dizziness is not dangerous, but the stronger it is, the more your mental resistance and stability are impaired - this means that the storms from the last games have not subsided in your mind...

Is it possible to protect yourself from the disease "ludomania"? - Time heals! - The shorter the game, the less chance of getting sick!

Advice for especially disciplined players:

In no case should you plan to win in the game and you should focus strictly on the time spent at the table! Set yourself the task of playing a maximum of two hours a day! - (Since then the player's adequate perception of the game is completely disrupted!)

If you had a bad day, then the next scheduled game should be shortened in time, to an hour and a half! If this time you fail, shorten the game to an hour!

If you are lucky, do not rush to increase the game time - wait for the results of the next game day!

(Advice for avid players!!!) In order not to lose control over yourself and your bets - in accordance with everything stated above - I recommend playing no more than two or three times a week!

Don't forget - with frequent and long games, any acute, worrying situation gradually undermines the stability and resistance of your psyche! - Day after day, adding, drop by drop, the tension will undermine and sooner or later break through any strong platinum! Without a long rest after frequent shocks, you are simply doomed!!!

To all this it should be added that "passion" is like a drug. Without having a chemical dependence, you are psychologically subordinated to "passion". And like any drug, "passion" can wait!!!

If you have recovered from "ludomania", and you have an unstable position in society, and your earnings from time to time are reduced to zero? - Going over all possible options in your memory, you quickly awaken "passion" - a sleeping beast hidden in your subconscious, which can offer you to borrow money (if you don't have any) and try fate one more time...

To avoid such incidents, you should recognize in yourself that you are not yet fully recovered and do not be embarrassed to seek qualified help from psychoanalysts, or if such people bother you, turn to reliable friends...

Here, we should make a reservation in advance about the "painful addiction to gambling" and the casino! The casino is not to blame for your vicious passion and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can recover! Looking for scapegoats and shifting the blame for what is happening to you is just avoiding the problem!!!

REFERENCE: The loss of a player - he went broke or got offended by the casino - reduces the overall attendance of the casino, reducing the profitability of the enterprise as a whole. On this topic, the corporation "KONTI-GROUP" conducted internal research and came to the conclusion that it is much more profitable to keep a player afloat than to let him lose mercilessly! - The profitability of a player "sick with gambling" is much lower than from a regular visitor who does not suffer from the complex of "painful addiction to gambling"!



Start of discussion Loiri , on March 23 03:3

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Before we begin to describe such a complex path, let's draw a line between those who have fun playing the game and those who try to earn money playing it.

As a rule, the first category of players are not threatened by the extremes that follow from regular visits to the casino, since such players always remain aloof from the result - be it a loss or a win! - Their motto: "The result is not important - the process is important!"

Therefore, the description of the development of a player will mainly suit the second category of casino visitors - those trying to get more than moral satisfaction from the game!

Although there is nothing reprehensible in earning money through gambling, those trying to do so should be warned in advance that this path is not easy and only a few manage to complete it!

The formation of a "player" occurs in the following stages:

I. Stage one: - Beginning to take an interest in the game - the player, moving from theory to practice, carefully studies the rules. Accumulating information, the player forms an attitude towards the game and a sense of the game (learns to keep his finger on the "pulse" of the game)...

- For now, the player is like a child, remembering the bright moments of winning and does not clearly see the difficulties associated with losing!

II. Stage two: (What will happen to the centipede - if it thinks about how it moves on forty legs?) - The player, having studied the rules of the game, freeing his attention from routine observations, begins a more detailed analysis. - He draws conclusions and begins to use logic based on his observations...

- Typically, it's just - "Simple logic"! - This is usually where the time for mistakes and first serious failures begins! - You already want to be on top, but the height is only felt, not achieved! - Someone will get confused in their own actions and give up this activity, but someone, on the contrary, will imagine themselves to be an "ace"! (A certain type of players develops a progressive illusion of "knowing it all" - in slang, a "loser" begins to expertly teach a "pro"!) - Try to control yourself so that when such a desire arises, you do not look ridiculous and constantly ask yourself the question - are you adequate in your actions and judgments?

III. Stage three: - when a player, observing the game, is able to make bets of any complexity - almost automatically! - Such a player already has his own developed technique and is able to track standard situations that arise during the game...

- Only a tenth of players reach this stage, and it is also where they mostly drop out! - As a rule, this happens due to "painful dependence on the game" - when nerves fail, and serious impulses to mindlessly play at random begin from time to time!

- A painful addiction arises from an ever-increasing appetite, the cause of which is the increasing frequency of losses, usually associated with all sorts of player experiments during the game!

IV. Stage four: - a level where a rare experienced player tries to cope with his addictions, trying to control himself during the game (the return journey begins)...

- As sad as it would be to hear this, but after going through such a difficult path, you discover that you were going backwards, not forwards! All three previous stages are brought up on emotions, and not going through the emotional path means not becoming a professional at all!

- The main thing is to be aware of the problem - and awareness comes only through practice! ("Understand" and "realize" - there is also a big difference!) So in the case of the game, you understand that excitement is bothering you - but until you finally know what it is? (Without experiencing it yourself, in all its manifestations!) You will not be able to win consistently! - Without feeling all the "charms" of losing - you will not feel the charm of winning! - Alas! - But the truth is that only after going through the first three stages, you begin the return journey - having realized the "dark side of excitement" you force yourself (really harshly) to exclude emotions from the game!

V. Stage five: - having mastered yourself and suppressed your emotions, you can calmly call yourself "Elite", since the rest of the methods of beating the casino (let's say "roulette") is a matter of technique and nothing more!!!

- A player who has dealt with his own weaknesses, ultimately still cannot get rid of them at all - but, having realized that he is not omnipotent, this person will be much more careful than those who rush headlong into hell! You will feel the onset of the fifth stage by two manifestations:

- The first thing is that you will win more than you lose! (This means a positive balance not for one game, but for a series of games measured in months and years!)

- Second - like any routine work, the game will become boring to you! Because the lack of emotions allows you to really assess how tiring and long the game process is, how monotonous and identical it is!

If you played purposefully but, starting from the second stage and further, dropped out of the race, then you inevitably, to one degree or another, fell into psychological dependence on the game and the memory of acute sensations settled in you.

This "devilish little beast" has settled inside you forever...

Now about the seditious - Any good psychiatrist can help you put this "little animal" to sleep - but, by urging you to give up the game, he will not be able to kill it at all! When faced with the game, the "addiction" will inevitably wake up and you will still be suppressed and deprived of your will! The only way to solve the problem is to train the "beast"! - And as a way to do this - I can offer you the "System Game"!

Start of discussion Loiri , on March 23 03:32
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Avax, 20.11.2017 13:12
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Based on such data, it is already possible to clearly build the psychology of the formation and development of a player, at first large deposits and almost no conclusions (but in the process of the game often goes into big pluses) in the hope of big wins,
then the first cashouts,
then the deposits are smaller and the cashouts are smaller, but still the cashouts are much less frequent,
and then deposit - cashout almost every other time, due to the fear of "getting ruined". Something like that)
Most likely, this is due to a drop in motivation in players with big wins.
FoxDuhovny, 24.03.2017 19:54
FoxSpiritual
Psychiatrists keep quiet about this, otherwise they will be left without work...
FoxDuhovny, 24.03.2017 19:53
FoxSpiritual
Training is carried out by specialists to practice circus acts or to help people with visual impairments... Casinos do not belong to such categories... Casinos are highly professional business processes with exceptional service and well-being indicators, won over many years of prosperity and success. The best rooms, the best hotels, the best cuisine... The best wages in the service sector...
As for routine work, it is not for professionals... maintaining the shape yes, of course, and it only brings pleasure from doing what you love... but to reach such a level, yes, it is routine work, struggle and overcoming that "little animal" inside yourself and oh miracle, it turns out that it is not at all devilish as suggested by system programs... despite all its aggressiveness and manners of a predator, it turned out that he is very small and all his aggressiveness is a way of survival in difficult conditions, nothing more, and that his habits are very primitive and funny, if you understand the essence and dependencies... what kind of training is there, yes, if you do not feed the "little animal" at all, it will crawl to you as a beaten and exhausted puppy, will wag its tail, whine, lick your boots, just to get a piece of lust, well, at least a small one... well, at least to sniff... sniffed - march to the place - and now he has already hidden in the kennel and does not get out until he is called... hunger - the strongest motivator of evolution... that's all the training...