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Hi, I'm Jimmy the Scott and I'm going to show you how to win at Bachara. Do you know Bachara
is your best gambling game of all the gambling games? I know I say that about a lot of games
because I'm in love with all the gambling games. But this game above anybody else is
your best gambling game. You go to any casino in Las Vegas, Reno, Atlantic City, Tahoe,
do it. Walk up to the pit boss, say pardon me, what's the best game for me to play? He'll
say Bachara. And what's the best percentage game for me against the casino? Bachara. What
would be the easiest game for me to learn? Bachara. This is your game. It's a one percent
gambling game. That's why they play for big bucks. That's why in the old days you had
to bet a hundred dollars because he only makes a dollar. Why should we let you play for less
than that? The casinos went down to 25 dollars a hand a few years ago. Now they're down to
five and ten dollars a hand and I'm going to tell you about mini Bachara that you can
play in the pit now for two bucks. This game can be cheap. To appreciate the beauty of
this game you must understand cards. This is a card game that comes from the heart.
It takes no intelligence to play this game. It's feelings. It's your luck and your money
and your luck and your money and your money and your luck and your luck and your money.
I've got a student at this game who is blind. This is the best game for all blind people
to play. It's so easy. You're going to laugh and you've got to appreciate cards. They go
back two thousand years. Cards were invented two thousand years ago in Egypt. Paper was
invented two thousand years ago in Egypt. Paper comes from the papyrus reed which grows
along the Nile River and they used to pound that out and make paper out of it and then
they'd cut it out in squares and put pictures on and that's how cards started. Two thousand
years ago as a language, it was a world's first language. That's where tarot cards
come from. Pictures on cards. They used to have more pictures, very few numbers. Then
they developed more numbers and took the pictures off and that's how decks of cards. But decks
of cards only started about a thousand years ago. Two thousand years ago when they traded
around the Mediterranean, the Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Turks, the French, the Spanish,
the Moroccans, the Algerians, you couldn't talk each other's language. A ship comes
in to port and you want to trade with this guy. You want to trade some sheep skins for
some wheat or whatever they bartered in those days. They would use pictures to talk to each
other because they couldn't understand each other's language. And if I showed you a picture
of a tagger and pointed to my wife, you know what I mean. What does a skeleton mean? Death.
A moon. Thinking. Stars. Make a wish. Sun. Health. A lion. Strength. Courage. Pictures
had meanings and I don't care what language you speak. Everybody knows what a lion looks
like and they know a lion regardless of what you say. It's a lion. I can see that it's
a lion. No matter what you call it, I call it a lion. So they used these cards as a language
around the Mediterranean. They put some numbers on the bottom of the card. Roman numerals.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ten, an X if you know Roman numerals. So they
could bicker with each other in private. They could point to something, point to a picture
on the card. But they got too many cards. They had a picture of the moon and a picture
of the sun and a picture of a river and a picture of a tree and a picture of a dog and
a picture of a horse. Why not just put four or five or six of those all in one picture
and you can condense a deck of cards and just point to a part of the card with a horse,
the dog, the thing. Do you know that that is so important? Our government put a deck
of these cards called tarot cards on board the spaceship Voyager that is now in an outer
galaxy looking for other life that maybe some day we'll get that satellite, open it up and
see this picture, language from the planet Earth. Cards. A great part of our culture
and this game more than any other. Card games started to be invented when decks were invented
about a thousand years ago. The oldest card game we know on Earth is gin rummy that's
played today. It was invented by the Persians 900 years ago. French invented poker 700 years
ago and if you know gin rummy, if you know poker, you can see how poker kind of comes
from gin rummy. Kind of like an offshoot with straight flushes and runs and three of a kind
and things like that. The French invented baccara 500 years ago. The French invented
blackjack 300 years ago. Baccarat is the father of blackjack. The French invented both games.
Now you know blackjack, right? Everybody knows blackjack. You got to get closer to 21 than
the dealer. Tens in face cards count 10. Well in baccara, tens in face cards count nothing.
That's what the word baccara means in French. Nothing. So now you can speak a little French
too. Tens in face cards count nothing. The closest to nine wins. Now in blackjack, you're
in charge of the draw, right? You get two cards. You got to get closer to 21. Do you
want another card? You can signal to the dealer if you want another card. He'll give you another
card. Well in baccara, you have nothing at all to do with the cards. You want to be a
winner at this game? Do not look at the cards. The draw is automatic. The dealer does the
drawing for the player and the banker. It's automatic and you've got nothing to do with
it at all. Now in blackjack, you can only bet on the player, can't you? You can't bet
on the dealer at blackjack. If I could bet on the dealer at blackjack, I bet on the dealer
all the time and I just break, break, break, break, break and I would win. Well in baccara,
you can bet on the dealer. We call him the banker. So you have a choice of betting on
the player or the banker, the player or the banker, the banker or the player and the best
way I can describe that to you is this. It's like flipping a coin. Heads or tails? Heads
or tails? Heads or tails? You've got nothing to do with the draw at all. It's like betting
on a Super Bowl. You're going to make a bet and then when the hand is over, the game is
over, this team wins. Do you win? Did you lose? And the dealer's not going to cheat
you. He doesn't know it. He doesn't care. Half of the people betting on the player,
half of the people betting on the banker, every hand, player, bank, bank, player, player,
bank, bank, player. It's a great game to play. Sit down and buy some chips and don't be afraid.
I know what you're thinking. Hyrule has played this game. Well you can play it for five and
ten dollars now in a lot of casinos and I play for five or ten dollars. I don't mind
that at all. Sit down and buy some chips. Put a hundred bucks on the table. Put two
hundred bucks on the table. Chips. He'll give you a couple of stacks of red chips that are
worth five dollars each. You're playing with five dollar chips. This guy's playing with
green chips. Those are worth twenty-five dollars. This guy's playing with black chips. They're
a hundred dollars each. He must be rich and look at that guy over there betting those
white chips. They're worth five hundred dollars each. He must be a millionaire. You play for
five dollars. Until you get to that level, I'll tell you how to get that level on this
tape too. Well you sit down and if it's a five dollar table and some of them are five
dollar tables, you get your chips and you're going to make a bet on the player or the bank
right in front of you. You're in seat two. You bet here or here. Player or the bank.
Player or the bank. What do you want to bet on? He's going to flip a coin. Now heads or
tails, what do you want to bet on? Who do you think is going to win this next hand?
And you have nothing at all to do with the draw. I'm going to tell you what the dealer
does right now and prove to you why you've got nothing at all to do with the cards. Don't
look at the cards. The players that I know that play this game for big money, they play
like this. They're into their money. They don't look at the dealer. They don't look
at the cocktail girl. They don't look at the Kena board. They're into their money and the
player or the bank, the player or the bank, the player or the bank and I'm going to make
even better than that. But here's what the dealer does. They've got a shoe on the table
and in that shoe they've got eight decks of cards. They deal 80 hands. Fast, fast, fast,
fast, fast. This game is fast. In Europe the game is slow. I'm going to tell you about
Shemenda Faire on this tape. In Europe between hands they take a smoke, they take a drink,
they discuss, they tell jokes, they have fun. It's a very sociable game in Europe. But of
course in America in the casinos the dealer does all the dealing and they deal the game
fast because most players want the game fast and I do too. Sit down. Buy some chips. Alright
make a bet. You bet on the player or you bet on the bank. And here's what the dealer does.
He starts by saying this. Cards for the player please. Two cards for the player. Cards for
the bank please. Two cards for the bank. Now here's the rule and you've got nothing to
do with it. Player stands on six, bank stands on seven. Other than that they draw one card
and only one card and they draw to the player's hand before the bank. Well the player has
two, right? Tens in face, cards count nothing. Player's got to draw a card. He'll say card
for the player please. Player draws a four. Player has six. Bank has three. Tens in face,
cards count nothing. Remember that. Alright. Card for the bank. Bank draws a six. Bank
has nine. Player has six. Bank wins. Nine over six. The closest to nine wins and you've
got nothing to do with it. He'll take that hand, put it in the discard tray. Now come
on get your bets out. Here comes the next hand. This game is fast. What do you bet on
this time? The player or the bank? You make your bet, leave your money. Here comes the
cards. Ready? Cards for the player. Player draws nine. Tens in face, cards count nothing.
Boy if you got a bet on the bank right now you'd sweat, right? Well here they are. Cards
for the bank. Bank has nothing. Now here's another rule and you've got nothing to do
with this. If either side gets an eight or a nine on the first two cards that's an automatic
win and the other side can't draw. In this case it's an automatic win for the player.
If it was the other way around and he said cards for the player, player draws nothing.
Baccarat, nothing. Cards for the player. Bank please. Bank draws a nine. Natural nine. Bank
wins. Nine over nothing. In this case they'd pay the bank and take the money away from
the players. This game is so silly. Honest to God. You can play this as good as me. I'm
going to have you play this game as good as anybody in the world because the winning is
in the money. The winning isn't in the cards. Get your mind out of the cards altogether.
After you see this, erase. Forget it. Here's another situation that might develop when
he's dealing the cards. Cards for the player or the bank, regardless. Look at the first
two cards. What is that total? Fourteen. Well you can't over nine. So if it gets over nine
subtract ten. Knock off the first digit. He'll say player has four. Card for the player.
Player draws an eight, right? Now add that all up. What is the total now? Twenty-two?
Player has two. Gets over nineteen. Subtract twenty. If it gets over nine, subtract ten.
If it gets over nineteen, subtract twenty. It'll never get to thirty because tens in
phase cards count zero and they only draw one card. And that's as simple as this game
goes. I'll show you one more thing. Cards for the player. Player has four. Cards for
the bank, please. Bank has five. Card for the player. Player draws a queen. Player still
has four, right? Bank has five, right? Well the bank already has a player beat so it doesn't
have to draw another card. So there are some exceptions to the draw, but you don't have
to know it. Do you want to know it? Look at this chart right now on this tape. Look at
this chart. If the bank's two cards total three, four, five, or six, and if the player's
third card total is, these are your exceptions. Now you know it. Do you want to study it?
Go ahead. If you want to be a dealer, I'm not teaching you to be a dealer. I'm teaching
you to be a player. I'm teaching you to be a winner. And if you want to be a winner,
get your mind out of the cards. Forget what I just told you. Now they give you a chart
at the table. This casino gives you a chart. This casino gives you a chart. I like this
chart. This is really cute. I've held onto this for years. I picked it up at the Reno
Hilton. It's all in Chinese. Man, it's that class. But any casino, when you sit down to
play bocce, they'll give you a chart. Use it. It's how you keep a record of the player
in the bank and the bank and the player and the player in the bank and the bank and the
player. That's all they got on here. Player bank, player bank, player bank, player bank
on these cards at the table. Now for example, if the bank wins, you'd put an X under B.
If the player wins, you'd put an X under P. Bank, player, bank, player, bank, player.
Keep a record. They'll let you. And most players do. Because as the game progresses, as those
80 hands are dealt out of the shoe, you can see the momentum on the player and the bank
and keep a record of what's happening. And it might even help you with your betting.
It's a visual aid. And anything that helps you with your betting, you've got to take
advantage of. That's why all casinos have these cards. I'll tell you more about those
in just a minute, too. Now, if it's a player, I put an X under P. If it's a bank, I put
an X under B. Player, bank, bank, player, player, bank, bank, player. Tie a hole. Sometimes
it can be a tie. And when it is, I draw a line on my little scorecard. A tie. Yes, it
can be a tie. But listen to this. If it's a tie, you don't lose. You get a bet on the
bank, it's a tie, keep your money. You get a bet on the player, it's a tie, keep your
money. Yeah, the hand can be a draw, can be a tie. You didn't win, though. You didn't
lose, but you didn't win. But you can. Because here's how you win at Baccarat. You sit down,
you bet on the player, the bank, the bank, the player, the player, the bank, the bank,
the player. And when you think it's time for a tie, put a bet right out here where it says
tie. And if it's a next hand as a tie, they'll pay an eight to one for your five bucks. They'll
pay you 40 more dollars. Put a hundred out there, that next hand's a tie, they'll pay
you 800 more dollars. Just like that. It's the only other bet you have at the table.
You watch those Orientals, they're betting on that tie all the time. The odds in a tie,
one to one. Every tenth hand will be a tie. That's the law of averages. That's why they
pay you eight to one. So they got a markup on it. You don't have to worry about it. This
guy bets on the player, he bets on the bank, he bets on the player, he bets on the bank.
The next hand's a tie, keep your money. You don't lose. Pick up your money. Change your
bet if you want. But you didn't win. You win on the tie by betting on the tie right out
in front of you. I like to wait about two or three or four hands. Sometimes I wait five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten hands. There's a casino in town, you know what they did,
I'll never forget it, I don't want to mention their name. On the strip, on the strip, at
their Baccarat table they put a reader board over the Baccarat table. They thought it would
be a great help to the players. And when the hand won, the dealer would press a button
and it would show on the reader board, player. Next hand, bank, you press on the bank. So
you can see player, bank, player, bank, player, bank. A lot of us were standing behind that
table with five dollar bills, ten dollar bills, twenty dollar bills on our hand. Not playing,
just watching and watching and waiting and waiting and waiting and then just jumping
in and putting a twenty dollar bill on that tie. Now another twenty dollar bill on that
tie. Another twenty dollar bill on that tie. In it comes, I get a hundred and sixty dollars.
It cost me sixty to win a hundred and sixty, I just felt it coming so they took that reader
board out in a hurry. You do the same thing on these score cards. Please, keep a score
card at the table and keep a record at the table. Player, bank, bank, player, player,
bank, bank, player. Now listen to this. The bank will win four percent more than the player.
You got to be smart enough to say, well if the bank wins more than the player, I'm going
to bet on the bank. Would I win more often? Yes you will. But because you know that, here's
what we do. We take five percent of what you win. When are you going to win four percent
more often? So when you win on the bank, we take five percent and that's what makes the
bank a one percent bet. It's about one point three percent actually, but so close to one
percent, we call it a one percent bet. In a shoe, out of eighty hands in a shoe, the
average shoe, there will be thirty-eight wins on the bank. There will be thirty-six wins
on the player and there will be eight ties because every tenth hand on an average will
be a tie and out of eighty hands there will be about eight ties and that's your average
but nothing ever comes true to odds. You know that. But it's something for you to keep in
mind while you're playing in this game. Player, bank, bank, player, player, bank. Now here's
what happens when you bet on the bank and you win. Let's say I put five dollars on the
bank and this next hand I just watch. Now I don't get into the cards, but I watch because
I want the dealer to know that I'm not counting cards with them and I'm not getting into their
draw and I'm not checking up on them. You don't have to check up on a dealer. They've
got a pit boss there with a fifty dollar cigar watching every move they make. You get your
mind into your money if you want to be a winner of this game. But if you bet five dollars
on the bank and the next hand the bank wins, they're going to take five percent, right?
Twenty-five cents, right? Well, at the end of every hand, they don't take the money from
the players and then all the winners on the bank come out and say, sir, you owe me twenty-five
cents. No, what the dealer will do is this. He'll take twenty-five cents out of his rack.
I'm sitting in seat two. He'll put that twenty-five cents up there on the table in box number
two. Dealer's got boxes in front of him. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, up to
fifteen because there are fifteen seats at the table. Player number fifteen, he wins
five dollars on the bank. They'll put twenty-five cents on number fifteen. You bet a hundred
dollars on the bank. They'll put a five dollar chip on number two. You've got to pay five
percent when you win on the bank. And don't look at the dealer. Don't be looking at the
dealer to make sure he only puts twenty-five cents up there. The dealer's not going to
cheat you. Don't look at the cards. The dealer's not going to cheat you. And don't look at
those quarters. The dealer's not going to cheat you. They got that pit boss there with
a five hundred dollar suit watching every move that dealer makes. Never mind the dealer.
Never mind the vigorous. We call it a commission, a vig, a vigorous. It's five percent when
you win on the bank. Now, they pick it up at the end of the eighty hands. They don't
pick it up after the end of every hand. That would bring this game to a dead stop and nobody
would play the game. Would you folks wait please? Sir, you owe me a quarter. Ma'am,
you owe me twenty-five cents. Sir, you owe me fifty cents. Ma'am, you owe me a dollar.
That would drive everybody nuts. So they wait and at the end of the eighty hands, before
they shuffle the eight decks of cards, they turn to the players and say, it's time now
to collect taxes. Sir, in seat number one, you owe me fifty cents. Well, in the eighty
hands, he bet twice on the bank. I guess five dollars each and there's fifty cents. So now
he's got to pay the fifty cents. I owe five dollars. Well, I was betting five dollars
and I won about twenty hands on the bank and twenty times twenty-five is five dollars.
This guy owes five dollars. He only made one one hundred dollar bet. But he owes the bank
five dollars. And don't worry. You say, what happens if I run out of money and I still
owe them money? They won't let you do that. You get down to your last five dollars on
the table and you owe the house five dollars. The dealer would go, sir, that's our money
you're playing with right now. Of course, if you're working on credit, they got credit
buttons up there. You ought to bet a hundred, five hundred, thousand. They got those credit
buttons up there. You can just work on credit, credit, credit. And at the end of the night,
that's what the rich people do. They take a note and they say, sir, you owe us fifty
thousand dollars. All right. So you don't even have to have chips at the table nowadays.
You have to have chips. And in a lot of casinos, paper, paper, paper. They used paper for years
and years and years and used to chalk that paper and put wax on so the five dollar bills
used to snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap. This game had class
to it. Now they use chips in most casinos and we all do it. So don't be afraid to use
chips at the table. Now there's only six ways to play this game. Three ways to play and
three systems. And I'm going to tell you those six basic ways to play. Number one, sit down,
buy some chips. And I like to start at the start of a shoe. I wait, I'm going to stand
out there and I'm going to wait until the end of the shoe. I'll even watch while they
finish the shoe, while they finish the next ten, fifteen, twenty hands. Then I sit down.
I usually ask the pit boss, what's your minimum here please? Five dollars. Okay, thank you.
There's usually a guy sitting up in a chair. You can ask him and not bother the players.
Some casinos 25 dollar minimum, some casinos is a 10 dollar minimum. So I sit down and
you buy some chips, okay? Now here's one way to play. Always bet the player. Never mind
the bank. Just bet on the player. You say, well, Jimmy, am I not at a four percent disadvantage?
Yeah. But when you play blackjack, you only bet on the player. And that's about a four
percent disadvantage for a good player, a fairly good player. So play it just like blackjack
and you don't have to worry about that 25 cents and 50 cents. Another way to play this
game is this. Sit down and only bet on the bank. Never mind the player. Bet on the bank.
There it's only a one percent bet. They're going to win more often there than they will
down here in the player, so get your money in the bank. But the trouble with this is
people have the assumption that after the 80 hands and they got to pay that five, ten
dollars that they're losing money. No, you're going to win more often. Player's a four
percent bet. If you bet on the bank all the time, it's a one percent bet. You got to work
your money. You got to manage your money. And I'm going to teach you money management
on this tape. The other way to play is bet on whatever you want. Player, the bank, the
bank, the player, the player, the bank, the player. Just listen to your heart and go with
the flow and just feel whatever you do. You win, you lose, you win, you lose. The trouble
with that system though is this. Sometime in the middle of that shoe you're going to
run into a rut. It happens to all of us. You bet on the player, the bank wins. You bet
on the bank, the player wins. You bet on the bank, the player wins. You bet on the bank,
the player wins. You bet on the player, the bank wins. You're in a rut right now. Should
you leave the table? No, just get down to the minimum. You're not cool right now. It's
not working for you right now. Get down to your minimum. Wait for it because in a few
hands from now it'll come back. You'll hit that high and that low and you got to take
advantage of those highs. Now, you do that in all systems, of course. Now, that's three
ways to play. Here are three systems. System number one is this. Follow the shoe. Whatever
hand won the last hand, bet on it again. You see, somewhere in that 80 hands there will
be a run in the bank or a run in the player. You can't miss it. You'll be there. Bank wins,
bet on the bank. Bank wins again, bet on the bank. Bank wins again, bet on the bank. Bank
wins again, press your bet on the bank. Say, okay, God, now? And press your bet because
this could be the magic time when it hits five, six, seven, eight in a row. You keep
this score card and when you go home just check it out and look at it and you'll see,
oh, there's three on the bank there. There's five on the bank there. There's seven on the
bank there. Take this up to your motel room with you and check it out. You'll get a better
feeling in the flow of the game and all the hands are dealt in this game. And now some
shoes are really kind of crazy. But that's how you play this game. One way is to call
follow the shoe. Here's the other system. Alternate the shoe. Whatever won the last
hand, bet on the other hand. Player won, bet on the bank. Bank won, bet on the player.
Yours is all trading. It's a zigzag pattern and you'll see as many zigzag patterns as
any straight on patterns. You're just betting patterns as far as betting is concerned in
this game. Now here's the way that I play. I don't play until I see somebody sitting
down at that table who's winning. Then I sit down and I bet on a winner. Just like I do
at the craps table. You're throwing the dice, pal, I'm betting on you. I'm in the pass line.
You win, I win. You win, you throw again, I win again. You throw again, you win again,
I win again. You win again, I win again. You win again, I win again. I love to bet on a
winner. And at craps, I got to wait for the dice to get to you, to bet on you. I don't
have to at baccarat. I can bet on you right now if I want. If you start running bad and
this lady's starting to win over here, I'm going to start watching her for a while. She's
winning right now and when she starts losing, this guy starts winning, I'm going to bet
on this guy. I can pick my shooters at this table. So I like about four, five, six players
before I sit down. I'll tell you, one night I was walking through a casino and there was
an Oriental gentleman sitting at the table and he had about $60,000 in front of him.
Big crowd. Everybody watching. I just went up to the floor man and I said, pardon me
what's your minimum here? He says, $10. Far on. I just sat down right next to him, about
$200 in red chips and I sat down and whatever you bet for $1,000, I bet for $10. This guy
got $60 grand, he's betting $1,000, $2,000, $5,000. Whatever he bets for $1,000, I bet
for $10, I got me a winner. He bets on the bank, I bet on the bank. He looked at me,
he changed his bet to the player, I changed mine to the player. He says, you're betting
what I'm betting. I says, yes sir, you look like a winner to me. Oh, don't shout, thank
you. I got this guy working for me now. I love three Arabians playing this game. They
don't care about money. They're so cool. It's the challenge to them. One of them plays,
he's got two coaches behind him and in between every hand they go into a huddle. Whatever
they bet on, I bet on it if they're winning. Look at all the checks those guys got. I can't
understand his language. I don't even know what system he's doing. I can't understand
his language. But if I catch a winner, I follow a winner. Let me ask you this. If you're walking
through a casino and you saw Frank Sinatra playing Bachra, wouldn't you sit down beside
him now and play a few hands for $5, $10 sitting next to Frank Sinatra? Sure darn right. So
I see Kenny Rogers playing, I sit down right beside Kenny Rogers and here's what I do.
I wait until it's near the end of the shoe before I sit down. I watch that shoe and when
you get down near the end of the shoe, there's only about two or three hands in, I sit down
and I buy $200 in chips. I bet on the $10 on the player, win or lose, bet $10 on the
bank, win or lose, $10 on the player, win or lose. Now they've got to shuffle eight
decks of cards. Hello Kenny, my name is Jim Jordan. How are you? Can I have your autograph
for my little girl? I'm sitting talking to Kenny Rogers. This is a great game, a great
game. Sit down and don't be afraid. Don't be afraid to play this game. Please don't
be afraid. Now let's get into money management because here's the part of this tape that's
going to make you a winner at this game, money management. I'm going to put a chart up here
right now. I want you to look at this chart. I call it a win-loss chart. In any four hands,
I don't care if it's four of the blackjack or four of craps or four roulette or four
of anything else. If the game is true odds, and no game is true odds, but this game at
one percent is about as close as you can get to even with a casino. So this game here is
as close as you'll get to heads or tails, heads or tails, heads or tails. Well look
at this chart right now and you'll see out of the next four hands where you're going
to lose one, win one, lose one, win one. Then the next time you're going to win, lose, win,
lose. Then the next time you're going to win, win, lose, lose. Next time you're going to
lose, lose, win, win. These are the only combinations in four hands where you can win or lose and
study it and look at this now and see where, out of those 16 variables, 16 different ways
that four hands can come up, win or loss. And I know a gentleman, a gambler, a great
gambler who compared this to having children. He said if you were to have four children,
out of four children, the odds of you having two boys and two girls is six out of 16 tries.
But the odds of you having three of one and one of the other is eight out of 16. That's
half the time. Just check it out. This just might help you with your betting at this table,
okay? Find a lucky streak. People say, what is a lucky streak? Well I'll tell you what
it isn't. You will not beat a dealer 10 hands in a row. Not in a year. It's so rare, don't
wait for it, don't look for it. It doesn't happen. You beat a dealer three, maybe four
hands in a row. Or win this game on the player or the bank three or four hands in a row.
That's how you win. There's where you got to make your money because you don't often
win five or six or seven or eight or nine or 10. So you got to start making your money
and you got to start making your money fast at this game. And don't be erotic. For Pete's
sake, watch your money. You should ask yourself a few questions before you sit down. Number
one, what amount am I going to bet? What's my minimum bet going to be? What is my maximum
bet going to be? And never let your maximum bet ever get out of reach of your minimum
bet. If you're betting one chip, I think maybe 10 chips is as far as you should go. Really.
Two chips to 10 chips is what I tell most of my classes. Because if you bet a dollar
and lose and bet a dollar and lose and bet a dollar and lose and then put out $50, that's
dumb. Why? You lose that one bet, you can go home right now. Because pal, you can buy
some more chips, go back to your one unit bet and win most of your bets the rest of
the day. You'll never recover that 50 unit loss. It's too heavy of a loss for a $1 base
bet to recover. So never let your maximum bet ever get out of reach of your minimum
bet. Ask yourself, what can I afford to lose? Count your money. What are you going to do
tonight? What are you going to do tomorrow? Do you want to play Crafts? Do you want to
play Blackjack? How long are you in town? Three, four, five days? Try Blackjack. Try
Baccarat. Try all the games. But please try Baccarat. You might be good at this game.
I'm going to tell you some stories in just a couple of minutes about some of my students
at this game. And the winning is in the heart. You can play just as good as me. So be careful
about your gambling, your betting at this game. Money, most important. How much do you
want to win? There's another question. How long do you want to play? There's another
question. Because you've got to stretch your money out. Or if you want to win fast and
get your rear end out of there, which is a smart thing to do. Because the longer you
spend at any game, the better chance a casino has of beating you. Remember, the percentage
is always in their favor. Watch your money. God, when I was walking in, there was a kid
outside bumming money in the street. He's got three kids. He's a kid. He's got three
kids. He stops me. He says, sir, have you got $10 so we can have something to eat? You
can't turn down a guy with three kids. I gave him $10. I hear, hear, go and eat. I, wait
a minute, wait a minute. Don't you spend that on gambling. Oh, no, no, no. I got my gambling
money right here. Watch your money. Budget yourself. You've got to bet more when you're
winning and less when you're losing. A Greek 2,000 years ago said, if you bet more money
when you're winning and less money when you're losing, you'll win all the time. And you will.
And you know when you're winning? Because your stack is growing. You know when you're losing?
It looks like an elephant walked through and stepped on your stack. Hey, I'm losing. When
you're losing, be careful. When you're on their money, do what you like. You know what
James Bond does? He'll bet $1,000. Win or lose. He'll bet $1,000. Win or lose. He'll
bet $1,000. Win or lose. And when he gets up $2,000 or $3,000, then he'll start elevating
his bet to $2,000 or $3,000. He's gambling on their money. He's not even gambling on
his money anymore. As soon as he starts getting on their money, and when he feels the time
is right, that's when he adds to his bet. But if he's on his money, he's really careful
with his money. And that's smart gambling. And never start with one chip. I'll tell you
why. Even at a $5 table. I play at a $5 Bachra table. I still bet $10 minimum. I bet two
chips to start with. Well, I have more options going for me. You see, if you bet one chip
and if you win, you only have two options open to you. Number one, take one chip and
let one ride, right? Or let them both ride. Those are your two options. If I start with
two chips, I have four options open to me on my next bet. You only have two options.
I have four. I got more options open to me. If I win two chips, I can take two and let
two ride. I can parley and let all four ride. I can take three and let one ride, which I
very seldom do unless I'm really into a rut. But most of all, I'll take one and let three
ride. I'm adding to my bet and still taking something back because in case I lose my next
hand, at least I saved one to pay for half of my next bet. The winning is in the money.
So right now, let me tell you how I like to manage my money. This, I believe, is the best
of all money management systems and then I'll teach you two mechanical systems if you want.
If you like mechanical systems, I'll teach you two of the best and I'll give you the
reasons for them, too. Get a pencil and paper handy. Here's a system I like called a two,
three, four system. It's been around Las Vegas for 100 years. It's in all the library books.
I don't invent anything I'm telling you on my tapes. I'm telling you what I've learned
over the last 50 years of being in this business and giving in this business and being a shift
boss in this business, floor man in this business. I worked in 20 casinos. Most of the owners
in town know me. I know these games. They become my hobby and I love gambling as long
as you watch your money and be careful. I am not a compulsive gambler. I'm a consistent
gambler. I gamble damn near every day. It's my lifestyle. It's how I make my money. Ask
the IRS. Always start with two chips. Here it is. Two, three, four system. I start with
two chips. I win my first hand. I take one. I let three ride. If I win my second hand,
I take two and let four ride. Two, three, four. Why is that a good system? Well, let's
go back to the beginning. I start with two chips and I win my first hand. I take one.
I let three ride. In case I lose my next hand, as I told you a minute ago, I got one chip
to pay for half of my next bet. I was being aggressive and yet cautious at the same time
because the trouble with gambling is nobody knows when they're starting the lucky streak.
How do you know when you're starting your lucky streak? Give me a break. You win your
first hand. You got to say, okay, God, is this it? You win your second hand. Oh, is
this it? You win your third hand. I'll get it next time. It's over. You can't wait until
you win six hands in a row and say, hey, I'm starting to get lucky. It's too late now,
man. The train left the station half an hour ago. So you got to start making money right
off the bat because your lucky streaks don't last that long. Start right off the bat. I
start with two chips. I win my first hand. Dealer pays me. I take one. I let three ride.
If I win my second hand, I take two and let four ride. In case I lose my third hand, I
got two chips to play for my next hand. And if I lose that, I still got one chip from
the hand before that to pay for half of my bet on my fourth hand. And here's the first
time I'm going back to my money now in four hands. Anytime you gamble on your money, you
got a chance to lose. Anytime you gamble on their money, you got a chance to win. The
winning is all in the money. Jimmy, what do you do if you win your third hand? Well, let's
start again. I start with two chips. I win my first hand. I take one. I let three ride.
I win my second hand. I take two chips and I let four ride. Here's where I lost last
time. Okay, let me win my third hand. Now I got eight chips out there, $40. Hey, if it's
all profit, well, I don't want to go right now and have two steak and lobster dinners.
Me and my girlfriend in the gourmet restaurant, I'll just pack my chips up, walk out. Nobody's
going to stop you. Go to the cashier's gate, cash out, and away you go. But if you're a
gambler and you're winning, you never quit on a winning streak. No coach ever calls time
out when he's winning. Time out when you're losing. When you're losing, time out. But
when you're winning, you're keeping alive. You feel sorry for the casino, but get your
money on the table. What should you do? Well, why don't you take one chip and let seven
ride? Yeah, in case you lose, at least you say something to pay for your next start.
But if you win now, whoa, gangbusters, big win. Oh, you don't feel that lucky taking
one and let seven ride? Well then, why don't you take three and let five ride? You're still
pressing your bet from two to three to four to five. And yet, in case now, if you lose
your fourth hand, you've got two chips to pay for your fifth hand. And if you lose that,
you've still got one chip left over to pay for half your bet on your sixth hand. The
point is you're controlling your money. Now, Jimmy, you say, what do I do if I take one
and let seven ride and I win that seven chips? You know what you should do now? Go to the
next level, pal. Leave the two, three, four behind and go to the three, five, seven. Step
up to the next level and you're doing it on their money. Now you start with three chips.
You win your first hand, you take one, you let five ride. In case you lose your second
hand, you save one to pay for a third of your fresh start. You start with three chips, you
win your first hand, you take one, you let five ride, you win your second hand, you've
got a big winner out there. Now what should you do? Well, why don't you take three and
let seven ride? That's why it's called a three, five, seven system. Win pretty good in your
next hand and it's all profit. And in case you lose, you've got three chips to pay for
a fresh start. And if you lose that, you've still got one chip left over from the previous
hand to pay for a third of your bet on your fourth hand before you go back to your money.
You've got to learn how to operate on their money. And that's not the total answer. If
it was that easy, we'd all be rich. So here's the bottom line, knowing how to parlay. And
here's a trick. When you parlay, press your bet, called capping your bet. You've got to
know when to throw those punches. It's just like Joe Lewis. He didn't come out there just
punching, punching, punching. He waits for an opening. Just like Joe Montana. You go
off, tackle, off, tackle, off, tackle, off, tackle. I know the team is going to get wise
to you in the first quarter. Once in a while, you've got to rear back. You've got to throw
that bomb. You've got to open up that defense. Go for it. There comes a time to go for it.
You've got to listen to your heart because in this game, you don't have to worry about
the cards. You don't have to worry about the dealer. You don't have to worry about anything
but your money. And don't forget that tie. Why are you betting on the player of the bank,
the bank, the player of the player of the bank? You keep one eye on that tie, baby,
because there's where you get eight to one. All of a sudden, I put a bet out there. If
I lose, I put another bet out there. I lose, I put another bet out there. Come on, tie,
come on, tie. And there's a tie and I get eight to one. And if it isn't a tie, I'm winning
down here in the player of the bank. And you don't lose on the player of the bank when
it's a tie. So remember that tie. Keep that. It's your only other bet you have at the table.
Other than that, it's heads or tails, heads or tails, player or banker, banker, player,
banker, banker, banker, banker, player. And the winning is all in the money. Now, here's
what I mean by a parley and a press. I start with two chips, two, three, four. I'm starting
again. I win my first hand. I don't always take one on that three-ride. Hell no, man.
If I feel lucky, I'll parley. And when you parley, go back to your stack and cap your
bet with one more chip. It's pressing your bet. It's capping your bet. Why? Because the
next hand, I got a chance to win big bucks. Had you lost, you'd have had to put out two
for your next hand. You're only putting out one. And what's a better time to put one more
chip on your bet than when you just won your hand? You never start a winning streak until
you win your first hand. You lose your first hand. You haven't started your winning streak
yet. You win your first hand. Do you feel it? Is this it? Is this it? You got the money.
You got the heart. You want to press your bet. Remember, parley and press. And you don't
have to do it in the first hand. I start with two chips. I win my first hand. I'll take
one. I let three ride. I win my second hand. Now, I parley. Now, I cap with one more chip.
Go for it. So, the winning is in the money. It's knowing how and when to throw those punches
if you want to be a winner. Now, you want some mechanical systems? That's how I play.
Here's a couple of mechanical systems. And I'm going to put the chart right up right
now on the screen. Have a look at this chart and I'll explain it to you. I'll start by
explaining the 31-double-1 system. Also called a 31-double-once, a 31-double-back, a 31-double-up
system, 31-double. Here's how it works. You've got one chip, one chip, one chip. Two chips,
two chips, four chips, four chips, eight chips, eight chips. Now, by then, it's been nine
hands. It's tough to lose nine hands in a row. And as soon as you win, parley once.
That's why they call it the 31-double-one. You see, if I start with one chip, and I lose,
and I start with one chip, and I lose, one chip, and I win, and they pay me, you parley.
Next hand I win, I got four. One of them's mine. Those two, I'm up one chip. I'm up one
chip. If you start with one and you lose, and one and you lose, and one and you lose,
and you bet two, on the next hand if you win, you parley the four. And if you win, they'll
pay you four. I'm still up one. That was my money. This is theirs. I cost me three. I'm
still up one chip. Five dollars. You can grind five dollars, grind five dollars, grind five
dollars. And I'll tell you this right now. There are books that will back me up on this.
You play that system, you could win twenty to thirty dollars an hour with that system
if you want a job. And it's a job. You always got to, you're so mechanical, you're not even
new at the table anymore. You're a darn slot machine there. Here's a system I taught to
a security guard called a Fibonacci system. He even quit his job. Oh, God. Rule number
one in gambling. Don't quit your job. This is called a Fibonacci system. Started in Italy
three hundred years ago. Fibonacci. Money management goes back years. You get my money
management gambling tape. I'll teach you the Ascot system, the Martingale system, to the
Chambord system, to the Lambert system. I'll teach you French and German and English systems
that go back hundreds of years. Money management systems that you can try at all games. And
that's what's going to make you a winner, because the winning in gambling is all in
the money. And here's this Fibonacci system and here's how this works. You bet one. Then
you bet two. Then you bet three. Then you bet five. Then you bet eight. Then you bet
thirteen. Then you bet twenty-one. Then you bet thirty-four. Then you bet fifty-five.
Then you bet eighty-nine. What you're doing actually is just adding up your last two bets.
And you make a little bit more with this system than with a thirty-one double back, because
when you win you sometimes win three and four chips ahead of the casino. Instead of just
one chip every time you win. And when you win, you've got to go back one. All right?
And if you win twice, just like the thirty-one double back, when you win twice, go back to
the beginning. You start all over again. So look at these two systems. If you want to
try them, go ahead. Yeah, I taught a security guard how to do this and he quit his job.
He got so greedy he started betting, instead of one dollar chips, he started betting five
dollar chips. He started with one chip, then two chips, then three chips, then five chips,
then eight chips. You add up the last two, that's your bet. He said he was making between
two, three hundred dollars pretty well every day and he did that for a month. One day I
met him in the casino. I said, how are you doing? He says, I'm doing great, man. I'm
doing great. I said, really? Yeah. He says, I'm pulling in two, three, four, five hundred
dollars someday. I'm doing pretty good at this, Jimmy, doing the Fibonacci system. He
has a system where he alternates the shoe and when he wins three hands in a row he goes
to the other side. He plays that until he wins three in a row, then he goes to the other
side. That's the system he used. You do what you like. But at any rate, I didn't see him
for about a month, two months, and then one day I bumped into him again. I said, how are
you doing? He says, I'm working at the so and so casino, the strip. He went back to
his job. As soon as you quit work you start getting greedy. Now it becomes pressure. Now
you've got to earn that two, three hundred dollars a day. You've got to make your payment.
You've got to make your rent. You start chewing your money. That's why I like to watch Arabians
play this game. In Europe they play a game called, I told you, Chimendefer. It's the
same as baccarat except in Chimendefer the shoe goes around the table and you can deal
the cards. You just give the card. Instead of the dealer giving you the cards, you give
the cards to the dealer, all right? And it's when the player wins that the shoe goes to
the next player at the table and the shoe just goes around. So we all have a chance
to be a dealer and it's really kind of cute and kind of fun. Chimendefer. And in between
hands they light up cigars. They sip their tea. They talk to each other. They tell jokes.
It's really kind of funny. The other story I like to tell is the blind gentleman that
I taught to play this game. He's so good. He is so good. He just knows here's the player.
He knows there's the bank. And every once in a while he knows the bet on the tie. He
just reaches out there and puts it way out there in the tie. He knows where it is right
in front of him. Very good at this game. The other story I love to tell is when I was teaching
this game at the Dunes and a guy and a girl came into my class one day and I had about
50, 60 people in the audience. He was a stud. She was so beautiful. I can't, everybody in
the audience turned to look at him. Everything stopped. I stopped while they came in and
sat down. As a matter of fact, I was on the microphone and I said, by any chance, is that
your sister? She was so beautiful. She sat there, crossed her legs, started doing her
nails, but he sat there and started listening to me. And just with the part of my program
I was teaching baccalaureate and he listened. And at the end of my class they disappeared.
Next day he was back again. He listened again. Next day he was back again. He listened again.
Then he disappeared for about a week and one day he came in and he says, Jimmy, I want
to thank you. I'm doing excellent at baccalaureate. I'm playing two or three shoes a night. He
sits down, he plays his shoe, counts his money. Then he might play a second shoe, count his
money. He plays a third shoe, count his money. And he usually does that. He says, I'm winning
a thousand, two thousand bucks a night. Well, that's great. He says, I can't believe it.
This is a game. I'm so into it. I feel so good. About a week later he came back to me
and he says, how can I bet more than $10,000? Well, you can't. In any casino you make a
$10,000 bet or a $10,000 transaction, the IRS has to be involved. Fingerprinting, it's
something to do with money, laundering, things like that. Well, he didn't want it. He sold
his gold mine in Tonopah and he and his girl, I said, no, you've got to go to Europe, pal.
And he went to Europe and the last I heard of him he was in Monte Carlo. He was in all
over France and Germany and England. They play baccalaureate all over the world. There
you can play for the big money. We have a game in Las Vegas called mini baccalaureate.
You want to play mini baccalaureate right in the blackjack pit. That you can play for two
bucks. But when you play that game only bet on the player. Well, when you sit down to
play blackjack you only bet on the player. The reason is this. When you bet on the bank
they take 5% of what you win, right? And it's minimum 25 cents. So if you put two bucks
in the bank and you win he takes 25 cents. That's too much. That's too much of a $2 bet.
See, they take the same thing of a $5 bet. So if you're playing mini baccalaureate, please
keep your bets to $5. Player bank, player bank, player bank. Or if you're going to just
play for $2, just bet on the player, please. Never mind the bank. Now here's the card counting
system. I'm going to leave you with this. Everybody says, is there a card counting system
at this game like there is at blackjack? Yes, there is. And very few people know about this.
But I'm going to tell you about it right now and it helps me to be a great player. The
simple card counting system at baccalaureate is this. Watch the fives. Watch the fives
as they come out of that shoe. Watch the fives. Bunch of fives leave the shoe in a hurry, bet
on the bank. Five leave, bet on the bank. Fives in the shoe, bet on the player. Now
they've got eight decks of cards, right? They've got about 400 cards, eight decks of cards,
400 cards. All right. There's 32 fives in there. Eight decks times four, 32 fives in
there. Well, when I'm keeping a record of the player in the bank, the player in the
bank, and the player in the bank, instead of putting X's down there, I will sometimes
put fives down there. And if two fives come out, I'll put two fives down there. This hand,
no five comes out, but the player won. This hand, no fives come out, but the player won.
This hand was a tie. I draw a line when it's a tie. Here the player won. Here one five
came out, the bank won. Here one five came out. And after 20 hands, 20 hands, which is
roughly 100 cards, there's about five cards per hand at this game. So when I get down
to the bottom of this column, I count up the fives. And if there's about 12 to 15 fives
came out in the first quarter, that's half the fives in the first quarter, I'll now start
pressing my bet on the bank and favoring the bank. If only about six or eight fives came
out in 20 hands, then I'll bet on the player. When the fives leave, bet on the bank, and
it's an excellent card counting system. And finally, as I tell you on all my gambling
tapes, here are the eight qualities of an excellent gambler. You want to be a gambler?
Number one, you need knowledge, which you're getting on this tape. Number two, skill. And
that comes through practice. The more you play at any game, the better you'll become.
Number three, patience. Patience, my friends. Since I was 12 years old, all the old men
that were winners, I said, what makes you a winner, sir? Most of them said, patience,
Jimmy. Patience. But then the other quality is timing. You got to have time. You can wait
as long as you want. But if you don't know when to throw that punch, you're going to
be a loser. Timing. And money management. Very important quality. Money management.
The winning is all in the money. Stick to your system. You got to have a system and
stick to it. And the seventh quality is guts. There comes a time when you say, oh God, should
I stay with this system or should I quit? I'm losing right now. Stick to your system
and you've got to have the guts to stick to that system. And guts also, when you're playing
poker and the guy raises you a thousand, you've got to come right back and re-raise a thousand
to be a gambler. You've got to have guts. Don't be afraid of money. When I'm sitting
down in the poker room and I see a guy come up there and he starts looking in his pocket,
he starts counting his money, I'm saying, please come to my table. Please. I love a
guy that's afraid of his money. And the last quality that every good gambler must possess
is knowing when to quit. Quit when you're winning. Quit when you're losing. Thank you.
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