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More Gain &
Less Pain
I
was going to continue exactly where we left off in
Part III,
but Im going to skip far ahead to a couple of very effective training tools that I
initially thought of excluding. Ill
forewarn you right now that they are unconventional, but they have provided substantial
improvements to my own game. I hope they do
the same for yours. Tip
# 25 - Practice AFTER Playing Yes,
I wrote it right, and you read it right.
When you are finished playing a real-world in-casino session, I want you to
have an at-home (or in-room) practice session. We
are talking about practicing AFTER you play. As
usual, you wont find this in any book or dicesetting manual, because it is one of
those counter-intuitive things that at first does not appear to make any sense. However, I can assure you that the insight that
you will gain is worth its weight in casino chips. After
a session at the casino, the last thing youll probably be thinking about is
practicing for your next session. On the
drive back home or the elevator ride up to your hotel-room, many people reflect upon the
session they just played. You may think about
needing much more practice, especially after suffering a particularly cruel loss. Or you may be thinking about how you plan to
repeat the same skills that brought about a stellar winning session that you just
completed. Thinking
about it is GOOD, but DOING something about it is much BETTER! Since
the just-completed real-world session is so fresh in your mind, you are tuned in to how
things unfolded just a few minutes ago. That
real-world real-time feedback is VALUABLE to a Precision-Shooter. The
fresher the experience, the better prepared to you are to assimilate recent events. For a Precision-Shooter, that means that you can
take your loss and figure out EXACTLY what went WRONG, or take your wins and figure out
EXACTLY what went RIGHT. Yes,
you may be tired. Yes, it may be days, weeks,
or even months until you are planning on being in a real casino again, but this is the
best time to correct what is WRONG and lock-in what is RIGHT. Therefore, I want you to pick up the dice and have
a Practice Session as soon as possible AFTER you have been in the casino. Im
not talking about a full-blown thousand-roll workout.
I am talking about a short set of throws.
Just see exactly how the dice are leaving your hand and flying through the
air. Observe how they are landing and take a
look at their outcomes. After you throw a
dozen or so hands, I want you to ask yourself how closely these results mimic the ones you
just threw in the casino.
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Are
your practice session results better; the same, or worse than your just-completed
casino-session?
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What
is it that is nearly perfect about your throw, and what needs improvement?
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How
would you have changed how you threw in the casino compared to how you are throwing now?
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What
has changed about the way the dice are leaving your hand and landing at the other end of
your Practice Rig compared to the real table that you just played on?
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If
your real-world results sucked, and now you are hitting home-runs; what has changed? What should you have done differently in the
casino, and what do you think you should change now?
The
insight that you gain from an after-play session is tangible. Any exercise that helps you to figure out what
EXACTLY went WRONG and EXACTLY what went RIGHT, puts you on the proper path to consistent
profit. When you do it AFTER a
casino-session, it brings an immediacy and relevance to your game that a pre-casino
practice session just cannot do. If
you rolled great in the casino, youll see if your results continue to hold water at
home. If you shot terribly at the casino, and
you are back on track on your Practice Rig, NOW IS THE TIME to look at what has changed,
or what was wrong with your throw in the casino that suddenly improved at home. PRE-PLAY
practice DOES tune-up and prepare you for battle. However,
an AFTER-PLAY practice-session gives you BETTER INSIGHT into what just happened in the
casino. While the just-finished experience is
freshest, it gives you an actionable way to improve NOW. So
once again, my unconventional approach is designed to assist you on the path to
exceptional Precision-Shooting profit consistency. Simply
remember, Practice
BEFORE a session helps to PREPARE you. Practice
AFTER a session helps to IMPROVE you. Tip
#26 Close Your Eyes Okay,
heres an exercise that is good for you on many, many levels. Arrange
the dice into the pre-set that you want, but DONT grip them just yet. Once you set them, I want you to close your eyes. I want you to set up your grip and pre-throw by
FEEL, and not by SIGHT. By
now youve had plenty of time to perfect your dice-grip so that you are getting the
correct finger placement and the equal distribution of pressure amongst your fingers and
thumb. NOW is the time to do it by feel and
not by sight. In
this way, you learn intuitively and tactily how the dice should feel in your fingers. At first, you can open your eyes once your grip is
set, and check whether IT IS indeed correct. Now
you can make your toss in the conventional way, with your eyes open. By
learning how to grip the dice correctly and quickly with your eyes closed, it allows to
you set them and grip them squarely with the CONFIDENCE that it is right. The reason that I told you that this method is
good for you on many, many levels is because after reasonable amounts of practice, it:
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Increases
setting-speed.
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Increases
grip squareness and balance.
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Most
importantly, it increases grip-CONFIDENCE. In
Part V of this series, well continue where we left off last time, with
another dozen or so additional tips. Until
then, Good
Luck & Good Skill at the Practice Table
and in Life. Sincerely, The Mad Professor
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