Go with your sixth sense!

Did you ever notice when you are playing slots that when you feel good it seems to have an effect on whether you win? You move around from machine to machine until you find one that starts paying off. Also, when you get in a funk and you just know you are going to lose, you can push that bet button 100 times in a row without a single payoff?

Does the mind have something to do with whether you will win or lose? Or do you somehow tap into an extrasensory knowledge about what is going to happen? Everytime I visit a casino I have these experiences.

Even at BJ. When I feel good it seems that the cards just start coming. I should double my bet at these times and play until i start feeling like I'm going to lose. Also, when it seems like I can't win, I should stop immediately. Forget all that scientific mumbo jumbo. When you feel like you're going to lose, you will lose no matter how well you play. Feel the force. Go with the flow. Play your instincts. It works.

Maybe it's because according to some evidence in quantum physics, the future has already happened. If this is the case, maybe we can look back and see the future result. Maybe that's what we're hooked into when we have these winning feelings, when we sense that we are going to win. Try it--and be sure to send me 10% of your winnings for this advice!

part of the problem with all of that is depending on how you play albeit you may have satisfactory short time results, in the long haul the statistics will play out as they should according to the normal distribution expected.

Don't you have to play like 10 million hands for that? I'd rather play about a million or so hands with some serious positive variance and call it a day.

In the case of slots-maybe the brainwave (an electric impulse) effects the electronic mechanics of the machine?

GOTTA be a dissertation in THAT thouht somewhere!

I'd rather set a goal of winning whatever, over how long I'm gonna be playing what game with a bankroll of whatever and design a betting system that is more likely to accomplish that goal compared to flat-betting. Or even, dare I say, card-counting.

For me, it's a small goal over a few hundred thousand hands.

But I'm old lol.

Sixth Sense? As in: "I see dead cards"?

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800019665/info (Archive copy)

We all see the dead cards

We all see the dead cards in blackjack. Knowing live cards can give you a great advantage.

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Yes ..... everyone SEES the dead cards, but how many SEE THEM well enough to predict the live cards?

Yes, your mind subjectively interprets the event. Like when you hit the “spin” button and “win” that 1:1 payout. Actually you’ve broken even but your mind tells you that you’ve won. Or when you get free drinks and a meal comp for a measly $20 loss and feel like you’ve “won” something. Your mind may not be able to make you win or lose, but it has everything to do with whether you think you did!

Some of the best winning sessions I’ve had were during my deepest depressions. It only made them that much sweeter.

Feelings can be dangerous. Blackjack has a way of making winners feel like losers and losers feel like winners. That’s why so many people play it, and that’s why so many people play it so badly.

Will you also reimburse 10% of my losses? That’s more than Lucky Ned is willing to do. Your advice is way better than his. :grin:

-Sonny-

P.S. – I played video poker next to a blind guy once. I asked him “How do you know which cards to hold?” He said “Easy, I just use my fifth sense.”

Fifth sense? Sight, Hearing, taste, smell, or touch? lol

He was blind, he didn't have sight. His "sixth sense" got demoted to a fifth sense.

-Sonny-

It's not the first time I've been a little slow on the draw. lol

Why, Aslan you play just like an Asian. Go on admit it. You are Asian

Interesting subject.

I don't play much golf but when I used to shoot the links more often once had a near unique experience while lining up a twenty foot putt. My eyes, brain and body "locked into the zone" and I was near certain that the putt would hole out if i tapped it at THAT particular time.

OK a certain amount of skill entered the equation. However since I'm not a very strong golfer that part was certainly limited. Anyway the putt holed out perfectly down the middle of the cup edge. No doubt about it the whole way. At the time it seemed I was "visualizing" the whole length of the putt at a level I'm not generally very good at.

Well I apply this "sixth sense" not to specific blackjack games but my choice of when to go play on a given day. Again there aren't many good games around here. None in my local vicinity except for the automatic shuffle 21 st century B/S. At least they don't collect a fee each game. The Oaks Card Club in Oakland does that and still fills up one full table! Fools.

Today was one of those days but i didn't feel quite as certain. Still won a little but left. My nerve not being quite there. And without a real shuffle I figured it was possibly a matter of time before the law of averages worked against me.

Conclusion? Best to THINK POSITIVE even after a loss. My worst day at blackjack was over a year ago when i lost five hundred. not a terrible concern although not happy either. However i substituted a positive thought for a negative. Said to myself after losing my alloted funds: "That was just a bad day at the office".

OK it's not the most beautiful spin on an unpleasant experience however it doesn't reinforce negative thinking. Negative thinking would have been "This game sucks, i can never win" and quit altogether.

The sixth sense is somewhere entwined with positive thinking. Visualizing success a major factor. As in business. Had I not thought there was money to be made in going it alone in the construction business i wouldn't have entered it 24 years ago. And when business gets bad it ALWAYS rebounds.

That is a metaphysical law.

I must say, when I began this thread, it was partly from experience and partly tongue in cheek. I'm sure we have all had these supernatural experiences, like when losing a bundle but continuing to "keep the faith", suddenly you hit the jackpot, or catch a straight flush, or place a large bet on a throw of the dice and win. Just don't forget the other times when you were losing a bundle and "nothing" happened to redeem you. I remember one trip to Vegas where I couldn't do anything wrong the first few days. I was beating the slots right and left. Then, the last two days, I was unable to win at any machine no matter what I did. I went back to all my "lucky" machines and they acted like they didn't know me. lol I lost all my winnings and a serious amount of my own money. To put a little twist on a popular paraphrase, what went to Vegas, stayed in Vegas.