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Russell Hunter The Power V Formula Silverthorne Publications, Inc. The Power V Formula By Russell Hunter COPYRIGHT © 2011 Silverthorne Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Except for brief passages used in legitimate reviews, no parts of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the written permission of the publisher. Address all inquiries to the publisher: Silverthorne Publications, Inc. 848 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 601 Las Vegas, Nevada 89107 United States of America The material contained in this book is intended to inform and educate the reader and in no way represents an inducement to gamble legally or illegally. This publication is designed to provide an independent viewpoint and analysis of the subject matter. The publisher and the author disclaim all legal responsibility for any personal loss or liability caused by the use of any of the information contained herein. Questions about this publication may be addressed to: [email protected] Published in the United States of America The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 2 All Rights Reserved Table of Contents Introduction Win a Little At a Time Playing Even-Money Bets Playing Craps Playing Roulette Playing Baccarat How Much Will You Bet? The Power-V Bet Selector Neutral Betting Vector Signals Offensive Betting Defensive Betting Winning at Craps A Sample Craps Game Winning at Roulette A Sample Roulette Game Winning at Baccarat A Sample Baccarat Game The Importance of Target Wins Long-Term Performance Testing Betting, Bankroll and Imaginary Bets Summary of Bets and Bankroll Requirements for Different Levels of Play How Much Can You Make? Record Keeping Walking Out a Winner Summary of Power V Formula Power V Formula Automatic Playmaker Player Cards The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 3 4 8 11 14 19 23 26 33 37 39 41 42 44 48 52 56 58 63 67 69 75 78 83 85 88 91 100 105 All Rights Reserved Introduction You are about to learn a new way of gambling that totally eliminates the casino’s edge! Developed by combining the scientific knowledge of a rocket scientist with the practical money management skills of a stock trader, it is like no other gambling system ever released! You are about to learn – • How you can turn $20 into $10,513 your first day using this outstanding new casino beater! • How you can easily create an income of $39,520 a week playing just five hours a week! • How you can quickly turn the game of roulette into the most reliable cash source you have ever experienced! • How you can change the craps game from a treacherous money trap into your own personal “easy money source.” • How you can play baccarat professionally and easily bring in $100,000 a month! • How you can get started with just $20 and set up the most powerful source of income you have ever seen! “The Power V Formula is the highest performing system I have ever used. What really impresses me is that it is not only a low bankroll system but it is so easy to learn and use. “Want proof? I made $9,894 my first day using it and ended up with a profit of $51,895 at the end of my first week. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 4 All Rights Reserved “This system is truly a ‘super system.’” Ron B. – The Power V Formula Sets The New Standard For High-Performance, LowRisk Gambling! The Power V Formula is truly a one-of-a-kind super winning strategy! It is a proven way to make from $494 to $4,956 every hour you use it! It is so reliable that you can use it over and over to bring in large amounts of cash virtually on demand! It is a strategy that is so good that anyone who uses it can easily turn $20 into $10,000 their first day! And they can do this over and over! The Power V Formula Is Easy to Learn, Easy to Use and is 100% Reliable. The Power V Formula is unmatched in its ability to beat the casinos worldwide! It is a strategy proven to overpower and solidly beat the games of roulette, craps and baccarat. Perhaps the best testament I can share with you is that the casino bosses absolutely hate this strategy! What’s more, there is nothing theoretical about the Power V Formula’s sterling win record. People just like you are making thousands of dollars a day right now! The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 5 All Rights Reserved The Power V Formula Was Created For The Even-Money Bets at Roulette, Baccarat and Craps! The Power V Formula is the only gambling system combining the precision of principles used in physics with a professional money management system borrowed from stock trading! This strategy is so dependable that it has been called “the most reliable gambling strategy ever created!” It literally overcomes the house edge so that anyone using it will consistently win at roulette, baccarat or craps! I am talking about a scientifically based super system that you can use to – • Log onto one of our Select Top Ranked Online Casinos and easily win $500 or more your first hour of play – making small wagers! • Set up a regular source of income that is more reliable than holding any job! You can set your daily profit level at $2,000, $3,000 or even $5,000 and then hit it every day playing from thirty minutes to a couple of hours! • Win large amounts in brick and mortar casinos using a strategy that the bosses are powerless to stop. The Power V Formula has just been picked as the Number One choice for professional level baccarat play! • Easily use our turnkey plan to set up your own Power V Formula based business and bring in $25,000 or more every week without fail! The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 6 All Rights Reserved Vector Betting Breaks the Casinos’ Edge and Turns Gambling Into a Solid Way to Pull In Profits Quickly and Safely! Most gamblers don’t know a thing about vectors. They may remember hearing something about vectors in a high school algebra class, but any real knowledge of them has long since disappeared. You may not be aware that vectors play an important role in physics when dealing with the velocity and acceleration of a moving object. In fact, many other physical quantities can be thought of as vectors. However, until now, no one has ever applied the concept of vectors to casino games. It took a real rocket scientist to make the connection between trends and changes in direction in gambling games and his knowledge of vectors. Dr W., known as the Wizard of Bets in Las Vegas, discovered how to identify Dominant Vectors in the casino games of craps, roulette and baccarat. This is one of the most important discoveries in the history of gambling. And, the most amazing part is that once you identify the Dominant Vector in a casino game, you will be able to beat the game so easily that your play will be unstoppable! The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 7 All Rights Reserved Win a Little At a Time The best way to gamble is to set smaller targets and then win with them over and over until your returns add up. How much do you think you should target to win in a gambling session? 100% Return – No way. If you try to double your money each time you play, you will end up losing 90% of the time. 50% Return – You are dreaming. Gambling is far too risky to hope to make 50% on your money every session. 20% Return – Bingo. Now we are in the ream of reasonable expectations. With my approach, you will usually aim for a return of 20% to 25% per game. Determining how much you expect to win is easy – If you buy in for $300, then you will expect a win from $50 to $60 before wrapping up a game. If you buy in for $600, you will be looking for a win between $100 and $120. Or, if your buy-in is just $60, you will have to be satisfied with a targeted win of between $10 and $12. Now, these don’t seem like very large wins do they? If you are dreaming about making thousands, then $50 per game doesn’t seem like much? Or, is it? Let’s consider a couple of other factors. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 8 All Rights Reserved Like, how long will it take you to bring in a profit equal to 20% to 25% of your buy in? And, how quickly will your bankroll grow with you generating returns of 20% to 25% of your game bankroll over and over, day after day? Using The Power V Formula at the games of craps, roulette or baccarat, your average game will last from 23 to 27 decisions. With roulette the average game takes 23 spins of the roulette wheel. With baccarat it is 23 hands of cards played out. And with craps it means 27 pass line or don’t pass decisions. If you don’t understand these games, don’t worry. I’ll explain how to play these games and how you will wager in the next few chapters. For now, I am just giving you an overview of some basic concepts. In any of these games, a decision in an online game occurs fairly quickly. In land-based casinos, these games are much slower. In a craps games, played in a land-based casino, you will have 30 to 40 Pass Line or Don’t Pass decisions per hour. With roulette, played in a land-based casino, you may get 50 to 60 decisions per hour. And in mini-baccarat, the number of decisions will be 75 or so per hour. Now, let’s consider that the average length of a game using the Power V Formula is about 25 decisions. Using this information, you can see that you can play from one and a half to about three 25- decision games per hour, depending on the speed of the game. It you are making $60 in average profits per game, then your hourly return from craps would be $96 an hour. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 9 All Rights Reserved At roulette or baccarat, with an expected win of $60 per 25-decision game, you will be making $144 an hour. I think you will agree that these are very respectable returns. However, it gets even better when you play online. With online gambling, you can expect to play 250 to 350 decisions per hour. This is possible because computer based games are played at a much higher rate of speed than games played in real casinos. At 300 decisions per hour, you can play twelve 25-decision long games in an hour. If you are making an average of $60 per game and you play 12 games an hour, this works out to a return of $720 an hour! Once I translate the 20% to 25% return per game into dollars returned per hour spent playing, you begin to see the power of this approach. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 10 All Rights Reserved Playing Even-Money Bets The Power V Formula is designed for even-money wagers in the games of craps, roulette and baccarat. In craps, you will make pass line and don’t pass wagers. In roulette, you will pick and play one of the three types of even-money bets – colors (red and black), high and low numbers (1to 18 or 19 to 36) or odd or even numbers. With baccarat you will wager on either player or banker. You won’t make any other wagers using the Power V Formula. With craps, you can forget all about the long-shot proposition bets in the center of the table. With roulette, you won’t be betting dozens or columns, combinations of numbers or straight up number bets. You will only make even-money outside bets. And, with baccarat you will never wager on tie. Just wager on player or banker. The returns for each wager made are very good. With craps you will win $1.44 for each $5 wagered. With roulette, the average return is $1.57 per $5 bet. And when we use the Power V Formula at baccarat, we will win $1.41 for each fivedollar bet. If we use a return of $1.50 per five dollars wagered as our average return we can see the power of this approach. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 11 All Rights Reserved As a $5 bettor we will expect to average $1.50 per bet. If a game lasts 25 wagers, we would expect to net about $37.50 at this level of play. Using a return of 30% per base wager you can easily estimate the returns per wager and for the time played for different levels of betting played at different speeds. The Table below shows the hourly returns for land-based play, at 60 bets per hour and online play at 300 bets per hour. Base Bets $1 $5 $10 $25 $50 $100 $200 $500 Average Return Per Bet Made (30% of Base Bets) $0.30 $1.50 $3.00 $7.50 $15.00 $30.00 $60.00 $150.00 Hourly Winnings at Land-based Play (60 bets per hour) $18 $90 $180 $450 $900 $1,800 $3,600 $9,000 Hourly Winnings Online (300 bets per hour) $90 $450 $900 $1,800 $3,600 $7,200 NA NA While none of the games are quite 50-50 propositions like flipping a coin, it is helpful to think of them as similar to coin flipping. With the Power V Formula, we first determine which betting mode we are in. If we are in a Neutral Betting Mode we will follow the rules for Neutral Betting. If we are in the Offensive Betting Mode we will use a different set of betting rules. And, if we are in Defensive Betting Mode, our betting will change to match this mode of betting. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 12 All Rights Reserved Thus, before we start betting, we need to know which mode we are in. Fortunately, we have an easy way to determine our Betting Mode. Each betting mode is determined by a Signal Event. All we have to do is know the Signal Event for our game and then we will know how to bet. In addition to determining the right betting system to match the game we will also use the Bet Controller to tell us where to bet. So, to use the Power V Formula, we need to follow these steps: a. Determine the Betting Mode (Neutral, Offensive or Defensive). This is the Betting Vector or direction of the game at the moment. b. Match the Betting Vector to the appropriate V-Bet Formula. c. Watch for Vector Signals to tell us of changes in Vector direction. d. Place each bets according to the Power V-Bet Selector. We have a chapter devoted to each of the four parts of the Power V Formula. But, first lets cover basic play for each of the games. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 13 All Rights Reserved Playing Craps Craps can be a pretty intimidating game for beginners. The table has wagers spread all over it. The stickman is speaking in a language unique to craps, where a point of 4 is called “Little Joe” and a point of 10 may be called “Big Dick.” Elevens are yo’levens and when a player fails to make his point, it is “seven out pay the front line, take from the don’ts.” You can make hardway bets or bet on big red. Or make a “craps check” wager. Or throw a bet into the field or bet that they come or don’t come. Or maybe horn or whirl bets turn you on. You might be offered an odds bets or even allowed to take double or triple odds. It is enough to drive a novice crazy. Fortunately, you will only have to learn the two most basic bets to win at craps using the The Power V Formula – the Pass Line and the Don’t Pass wagers. The most important concept to grasp about the craps game is that it is a game of rounds. The first round of a game entails establishing a point and is called the Come Out Roll. If a 2, 3, 7, 11 or 12 is rolled on a Come Out Roll, that round ends with a win or loss for Pass Line or Don’t Pass wagers. If a point number of a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 is rolled, a new phase of play begins where the object of the game is to see if the shooter can roll his point number before rolling a seven. A white puck is placed on the table to indicate which number is the point number. If the puck is turned over with the black side facing up and placed in the Don’t Come Betting box, the game is in the Come Out Roll phase where a point has yet to be established. Once a point is established, the puck is moved to the back of the box for the point number with the while side facing up. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 14 All Rights Reserved The Pass Line A Pass Line bet is made before a Come Out Roll. Come Out Rolls occur when: 1. A new shooter is starting. 2. After the shooter has started a new Come Out Roll and rolled a 2, 3, 7, 11 or 12 resulting in wins or losses for Pass Line and Don’t Pass Wagers. 3. After a shooter has made a point and is rolling the dice to establish another point. On a Come Out Roll, a Pass Line Bet wins if a 7 or 11 is rolled. It loses if a 2, 3 or 12 is rolled (called craps numbers). If a point number is rolled (a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10), then that number becomes the shooter’s point. The shooter will continue to roll the dice until he either makes his point, which is a win for a Pass Line Bet or rolls a seven, which is a loss for the Pass Line Bet. If the shooter fails to make his point, he is said to have sevened out and the dice pass to the next player who will have the chance to shoot. So, to sum – 1. Pass Line Bets win on Come Out Rolls of 7 or 11 (called “naturals”). 2. Pass Line Bets lose on Come Out Rolls of 2, 3 or 12 (called “Craps”). 3. Pass Line wins if a point number is established and rolled again before rolling a seven. 4. Pass Line loses if a seven is rolled before the point number. When the dealer pushes the dice to you to roll for the first time, this is your Come Out Roll. To roll the dice you will need to make a wager on either Pass Line or Don’t Pass, The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 15 All Rights Reserved called Line Bets. Let’s assume you wager $5 on Pass Line. If you roll a 7 or 11 on this roll, you will have rolled a natural for the Pass Line and you will be paid $5. Go ahead and pick up your winning chip. If you roll a craps number of 2, 3 or 12, the dealer will whisk your Pass Line wager away as you have lost the bet. Online Craps Layout When naturals or craps numbers are thrown on the Come Out Roll, the shooter will continue to roll the dice and the next roll will also be a Come Out Roll. Let’s assume you roll a 7, followed by a 2, and then roll an 11. All of these rolls are Come Out Rolls since you have not yet rolled a point number of 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10. Let’s assume your next roll is a 6, which is a point number. Now the game moves into a different phase. Rolling a craps number will no longer cause your Pass Line wager to lose. Likewise, rolling an 11 will not give you a win with your Pass Line wager. Once you have established a point, the only numbers affecting your Pass Line wager are your point number and the number 7. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 16 All Rights Reserved Since you established 6 as your point, your Pass Line wager will win if you can roll another 6 before a 7 shows. Let’s assume you roll the following numbers – 2 – No effect on your Pass Line bet 11 - No effect on your Pass Line bet 5 - No effect on your Pass Line bet 9 - No effect on your Pass Line bet 6 - You made your point. The Pass Line bet wins With a Pass Line wager, once you establish a point, you must leave your wager in place until it either wins or losses. During Come Out Rolls, you can pick up your Pass Line Wager after any roll unless a point is established. For example, you bet $5 and the shooter rolls a 7 on the Come Out. The dealer slides a $5 chip next to your wager as your winnings. You may pick up both your wager and your winnings after this roll since no point was established. Don’t Pass Wagers A Don’t Pass bet is made before a Come Out Roll. Come Out Rolls occur when: 1. A new shooter is starting. 2. After the shooter has started a new Come Out Roll and rolled a 2, 3, 7, 11 or 12 resulting in wins or losses for Pass Line and Don’t Pass Wagers 3. After a shooter has made a point and is rolling the dice to establish another point. On Come Out Rolls, Don’t Pass wagers – The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 17 All Rights Reserved 1. 2. Lose if a natural of 7 or 11 is rolled. Win if a 2 or 3 is rolled and neither win nor lose if a 12 is rolled. In some casinos, notably casinos in Northern Nevada, Don’t Pass bets win if a 3 or 12 is rolled, with the 2 barred instead of the usual 12. The house bars either the 2 or 12 as a win for the Don’t Pass wager on a Come Out Roll. This is done to preserve the house edge on this wager. If the Don’t Pass wager won on all of the craps numbers of 2, 3 and 12 on Come Out rolls, then this wager would be “player favorable” as it would have an edge over the house. And casinos are not known for booking bets favoring the player. Since 2s or 12s are not usually barred with street craps games, the Don’t Pass bettor always has the best of it (unless of course the game is a crooked game using gaffed dice or other methods of cheating the players.) The house edge over a Pass Line bet is 1.414% Its edge over the Don’t Pass bet is 1.402%. For our purposes, we will treat these wagers as even-money bets. To be successful using the Power V Formula at Craps you will only make Pass Line or Don’t Pass wagers. If you want to learn about the other wagers at craps as well as learn more about the game, you can pick up a book at your local bookstore which will give you this information. Here we will cover just what you need to know to be a winner at craps. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 18 All Rights Reserved Playing Roulette Roulette – the name means “little wheel” – became the gambling game of choice in nineteenth century France. Roulette consists of a wheel, a ball and a table marked with separate boxes where wagers may be placed. Roulette is easy to play and a wide variety of wagers can be made. The American version of the game is fairly fast with 50 to 60 spins per hour in a land-based casino with 300 to 400 spins per hour possible in an online game. The French version of the game is more leisurely with only 30 to 40 spins per hour. The bets are basically the Repeat in the French and American versions of the game, with the principle difference being that the American wheel has both a zero and a double zero on it. The French wheel has only one zero. Another difference between French and American roulette is that games in Europe are played with house chips, whereas in the U.S. special colored chips are used which have no value anywhere other than at the roulette table where you are playing. When a player buys in, he or she gets his own color of chips. This makes it much easier to track your wagers, especially when several players may place their wagers on the Repeat number or spot. United States Rules A U.S. roulette wheel consists of 38 numbered slots, corresponding to numbers 1 to 36 and a zero and double zero. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 19 All Rights Reserved The betting layout consists of every individual number as well as a number of outside bets and combinations of bets. Players may generally continue to make their wagers even after the ball is spinning until the dealer indicates, “No more bets.” An American wheel is shown below: An American Roulette Wheel In the typical American version of roulette, all wagers lose when a zero or double zero shows (except wagers made on either the zero or double zero). When played this way, the house edge on all bets is 1/19 or 5.26%, except for one bet. The exception is the bet covering the 0-00-1-2-3 combination, which has a house edge of 7.89%, and is the worst bet you can make at roulette. Single Zero Rules A few places in the U.S. offer single zero roulette. Playing with a single zero wheel lowers the house edge on every wager to 1/37 or 2.70%. Below is a list of U.S. casinos offering single zero roulette wheels: The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 20 All Rights Reserved Las Vegas The Tropicana The Monte Carlo The Stratosphere Mandalay Bay Venetian Aladdin Luxor Nevada Palace (25 cent minimum) Atlantic City AC Hilton ($25 table minimum) Bally’s ($25 table minimum) Borgata (high limit area $50 table minimum) Caesar’s (high limit area $100 table minimum) Harrah’s (high limit area $25 table minimum) Sand’s (high limit area $25 table minimum) Taj Mahal (high limit area $100 table minimum) Tropicana (high limit area $25 to $50 table minimum) Trump Marina ($25 table minimum) Other Venues Grand Tunica, Mississippi Atlantic City Rules Atlantic City roulette games use a variation of the European en prison (imprisonment) rule. Whenever a 0 or 00 shows, even money wagers (red-black, odd-even, high-low) only lose half of the wager. This lowers the house edge on these wagers to 2.63%. This rule does not apply to single zero games. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 21 All Rights Reserved European Rules European roulette uses a single-zero wheel and incorporates the en prison (imprisonment) rule. Under this rule if the ball lands on zero, then even money wagers (red-black, oddeven, high-low) only lose half of the wager or the bet becomes imprisoned. If an imprisoned bet wins on the next spin, it is released and the player gets it back without winnings. The similar la partage rule offers half of the wager back without the option to go to prison. The house edge with either rule is 1.3514%. California Roulette In California, cards must be used to determine the outcome of wagers in all table games, including craps and roulette. (This is another example of how our politicians remain ever vigilant to protect the public interest.) Pala uses a wheel with 38 slots, identified by color only. It has 12 red, 12 white, 12 blue and 2 green. There is also a 38-card deck, with one card each for all of the 38 possible outcomes in double-zero roulette. Four cards are dealt from the deck and placed on colored regions of the table, one for each color of the wheel. The color the ball lands in determines which card is flipped over, determining the value of the spin. Barona has a wheel with 36 slots, numbered 1 to 36. There is also a 37-card deck, with one card each for all 37 possible outcomes in single-zero roulette. Three cards are dealt from the deck and placed on the table in the regions labeled “1-12, 13-24 and 25-36.” The range the ball falls into determines which card is flipped over, which determines the value of the spin. Harrah’s Rincon uses a bingo hopper with 76 balls, two each of every ball numbered 1 to 36 plus 0 and 00. A ball is drawn which corresponds to the value of each spin. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 22 All Rights Reserved Playing Baccarat If you would like to learn a game with a low house edge that is very simple to play, then look no further than baccarat. The house edge for the two bets you will consider making (banker and player) are slightly over one percent, beating the best versions of roulette and craps for even-money bets. There are two versions of baccarat – the big table version and the mini-version. The rules are essentially the Repeat except that “Big Table Baccarat” has more elaborate procedures, higher minimum wagers and is played at a slower pace. The Mini-Baccarat game is the game you are most likely to find in American casinos as well as in online casinos. This version of the game is played on a blackjack-sized table. The major difference between this version of the game and the version played on the big tables is that in mini-baccarat all hands are dealt by the dealer and the players never touch them. Other than that, the rules are Repeat, except of course, that the mini version has much lower minimum wagers and you can usually find tables with $5 minimums in most U.S. casinos. Online, you can find tables with $1 minimum wagers. The only decision the player makes in baccarat is whether to wager on Player, Banker or Tie. After the players make their wagers, a round of play begins and two 2-card hands are dealt from a shoe that contains eight decks of cards. One 2-card hand is dealt for Player and one for Banker. The values of the two cards are added together with the object of the game to get as close to 9 as possible. After the values of each hand with two cards is determined, a third card may be drawn by either the Player, the Banker or both. But this decision is not at the discretion of the players or the dealer. The rules of the game determine whether each hand draws a third card. The name of baccarat comes from the Italian word for zero, and you will see lots of hands totaling zero in this game. All 10s and face cards count as zero, while all other hands The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 23 All Rights Reserved from ace through 9 are counted at their face values. So, a hand of King, 7, has a total of 7; 10, 3, has a total of 3; Queen, 6 has a total of 6; and a hand of ace, Jack, which would be a great hand in blackjack, only has a total of 1. Also, there is no busting in Baccarat, as the highest card total is 9. If your cards total more than 9, you subtract 10 to get the value of the hand. For example, 8,7 totals 15, but you subtract 10 to determine its value of 5. So, 8,3 has a value of 1, and 9,6 has a value of 5. And, 5, 5 has a value of 0. Since the object of the game is to have a total as close to 9 as possible, after the first two cards are dealt, if either the Player or Banker has a total of 9, which is a natural, then that hand is the winner. If neither hand has a value of 9, then the next best hand is one totaling 8, which is also called a natural and that hand would be the winner. If both the Payer and Banker end with the Repeat total, then it is a tie and neither hand wins. If neither the Player nor the Banker has an 8 or 9, then the rules of the game determine whether each hand draws a third card. Once that is done, the values of the cards are added together to determine which hand wins. If both hands end up with the Repeat total, then it is a tie and neither hand wins or loses. Banker and Player bets pay off at even money or $1 for every $1 bet. The casino edge on a Player wager is 1.36% slightly better than pass line or don’t pass at craps. Because of the rules used in baccarat, if the Banker bet were paid off 1 to 1, it would have a slight edge over the house. To retain the casino advantage over the wager, the casino has to make an adjustment to how the wager is paid. The house has to treat the Banker bet slightly differently than the Player wager to swing the house edge back in favor of the house. This is done by charging players with winning Banker wagers a 5% commission on their winnings. Thus, if you win a $10 Banker wager, the dealer will put 50 cents in the commission box for the player winning the Banker wager. When you leave the table or when the cards are shuffled, commissions are usually collected. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 24 All Rights Reserved The Baccarat Online Game When you play baccarat online, commissions on winning Banker bets are collected by deducting the amount of the commission from your winnings as they are paid. Thus, if you win a $10 Banker bet, you will receive $9.50 as your winnings. After deducting commissions on winning Banker wagers, the house has an edge of 1.17% on Banker bets. Ties pay off at 8-to-1, or $8 for every $1 bet. This is a big payoff, but is actually a lousy wager as the house edge is a very high 14.1%. You should never wager on a Tie. The only confusing part of Baccarat is trying to understand the rules concerning the draw of the third card. However, you don’t need to know all of these rules to play as the dealer makes the decisions for you. All you really have to be concerned about is whether your wager wins or loses. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 25 All Rights Reserved How Much Will You Bet? The Power V Formula consists of following these steps when used with even-money bets in craps, roulette and baccarat – Determining the Betting Mode (Neutral, Offensive or Defensive) Matching a Betting Formula to the Mode Watching for Vector Signals which call for changes Using the Power V-Bet Selector The Betting Formula for each Betting Mode determines the size of each bet while the Power V-Bet Selector determines where each bet is placed. We will devote one chapter to each of these methods and then show how we combine them to beat the games of craps, roulette and baccarat. There are different betting series used for each mode of the game. Let’s take a look at the Betting Series Used for playing Craps when in the Offensive Betting Mode. Neutral Betting This Neutral Betting Series for a craps game using $5 Base Bets would be: 5 8 13 20 30 Games with $2 or $3 or even $25 minimum wagers will each have a defined betting series matching the level of the game. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 26 All Rights Reserved Different Neutral Betting Series are used for the games of roulette and baccarat. However, the Repeat betting rules are used for each Neutral Betting Series. These betting rules are: 1. Always start any betting series with the lowest level bet. To begin the $5 betting series, wager $5. If this bet wins, stay at this level of betting. If this bet loses, raise your next bet to the next higher bet in the Betting Series. 2. If a bet loses, raise the next bet one level to the next higher wager in the Betting Series. If you lose the $5 bet in the $5 betting series, wager $8 next. 3. Reduce your next bet one level following a winning wager. If you wager $8 in the $5 betting series and win, bet $5 next. 4. Anytime you win two bets in a row or win two out of three bets, drop the next wager two bet levels in the Betting Series. Let’s assume the following sequence of wagers using the $5 Betting Series: Bet $5 $8 $13 Outcome Loss Loss Win $8 $13 Loss Win $5 Win Rule and Action Taken (2) Increase next bet one level (2) Increase next bet one level (3) Reduce bet one level following a winning bet (2) Increase next bet one level (4) Reduce bet two levels following winning two bets in a row or winning two out of three bets (3) Reduce bet one level following a winning bet The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 27 All Rights Reserved $5 Win (1) Since the lowest level wager won, stay at the Repeat level Defensive Betting A different Betting Series is used when the mode of the game is Defensive. Defensive Betting Series are set up as Martingale type of betting series where only one win is required to complete the betting series. Playing craps in a game allowing $1 minimum bet, you would use the following Defensive Bets: 1 2 4 8 16 32. An example of using Defensive Bets follows. Bet $1 $2 $4 $8 Outcome Loss Loss Loss Win Rule and Action Taken Increase bet following a loss Increase bet following a loss Increase bet following a loss Defensive Betting Completed with one win You will move into Defensive Betting Mode after losing two consecutive bets in Neutral Betting Mode. Offensive Betting You will move into Offensive Betting Mode following two consecutive winning bets in Neutral Betting Mode. The Offensive Betting Rules are as follows: 1. Increase the Neutral Bet for that level by one unit. For example, if the normal Neutral Bet is $5, increase the bet to $6. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 28 All Rights Reserved 2. If the first Offensive Bet wins, increase the next bet by another unit. Example: If a $6 bet wins increase the next bet to $7. 3. If you win two Offensive Bets in a row, regress to the original Neutral Series bet after two wins. Example: Neutral Bet is $5. First Offensive Bet of $6 won. Second Offensive Bet of $6 won. Regress to $5 for third Offensive Bet. 4. If you win the third Offensive Bet, continue to increase each bet by one unit as long as the winning streak continues. 5. Upon the loss of any Offensive Bet, resume betting in the Neutral Betting Series one level higher than the Neutral Bet level lost. Below is illustrated a series of bets where we win two consecutive Neutral Bets and then move into Offensive Betting Mode. Neutral Bets: 5 8 13 20 30 Betting Mode N=Neutral O=Offensive N N O Amount Bet Amount Win or Lost Cumulative Won Betting Rule 20 13 6 W-20 W-13 W-6 +20 +33 +39 O 7 W-7 +46 O 5 W-5 +51 O 6 W-6 +57 O 7 W-7 +64 O 8 W-8 +72 O 9 L-9 +63 N 8 W-8 +7` Start example with wager of 20 Following win drop bet one level After two consecutive winning bets, more into O mode and increase Normal Neutral Bet of 5 by 1 unit. Following win in O mode increase bet 1 unit After two winning bets in O mode, regress to normal Neutral Bet. Following win in O mode increase bet 1 unit Following win in O mode increase bet 1 unit Following win in O mode increase bet 1 unit Following win in O mode increase bet 1 unit After losing an O bet, return to Neutral Betting one Level higher than lost bet. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 29 All Rights Reserved Vector Signals A Vector Signal determines each Betting Mode, such as Neutral, Offensive and Defensive. Craps is played using the following rules: 1. Always start in Neutral Betting Mode. For $5 Base Bets you will use this betting series: 5 8 13 20 30. The betting rules have already been covered for Neutral Betting. 2. Continue in Neutral Betting Mode until winning two consecutive bets. This is the Vector Signal to change from Neutral Betting to Offensive Betting as shown in the previous example. Once in Offensive Betting Mode continue in this mode until losing one bet. The loss of any bet in Offensive Betting Mode is a Vector Signal to return to Neutral Betting. 3. Whenever you lose two consecutive bets in Neutral Betting Mode, you will begin Defensive Betting Mode. You will continue in Defensive Betting Mode until wining one bet. The Defensive Betting Series used for craps as a $5 Base Bettor is: 1 2 4 8 16 32. If the minimum bet required is $5, then use this Defensive Betting Series: 5 10 20 40 80 160. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 30 All Rights Reserved A Sample Craps Game Using the Complete The Power V Formula System (Only Bets are shown, as we will cover bet placement later.) Below is a game of craps illustrating moving from Neutral Betting to both Offensive and Defensive Betting Modes. Here are the assumptions used for this game: Base Bet = $5 Minimum Bets = $1 Neutral Betting Series: 5 8 13 20 40 Defensive Betting Series: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Betting Incremental Bet: $1 Target Win = $40 Bet No Amount Bet Amount Win or Lost Cumulative Won Betting Rule 1 2 3 Betting Mode N=Neutral O=Offensive D=Defensive N N D 5 8 1 L-5 L-8 L-1 -5 -13 -14 4 5 6 D D N 2 4 13 L-2 W-4 W-13 -16 -12 +1 7 8 N O 8 6 W-8 W-6 +9 +15 9 O 7 W-7 +22 10 O 5 L-5 +17 11 N 8 L-8 +9 12 13 N D 13 1 L-13 W-1 -4 -3 Start game in N mode with Level 1 bet. Following loss move up one bet. With two consecutive losses, move to D Betting Mode. Start D Betting Series After D bet loss move up one level After D bet loss move up one level Following D Bet win resume N Betting at one level higher than bet lost before starting D Betting. With win drop bet one level. Following two consecutive wins, change to O Betting Mode. Add 1-unit to N Bet at this level. Following O bet win, add one more unit to bet. After winning first two O bets, regress to original N Bet. With O Bet loss resume N Betting one level higher than lost bet. With loss increase bet one level. After two losing bets change to D betting mode. Start D Betting Series The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 31 All Rights Reserved Bet No Amount Bet Amount Win or Lost Cumulative Won Betting Rule 14 Betting Mode N=Neutral O=Offensive D=Defensive N 20 W-20 +17 15 16 17 N N N 13 20 8 L-13 W-20 W-8 +4 +24 +32 18 O 6 W-6 +38 19 O 7 W-7 +45 Following D Bet win resume N Betting at one level higher than bet lost before starting D Betting. With win drop bet one level. Following loss move up one bet. After winning two out of three N Bets, drop two levels. Following two out of three N Mode wins, change to O Betting Mode. Add 1-unit to N Bet at this level. Following O bet win, add one more unit to bet. After winning bet we exceed Target Win of 40 and call game completed. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 32 All Rights Reserved The Power-V Bet Selector With the Power V Formula you will only bet on even-money bets at craps, roulette and baccarat. You will bet on every round of play. This system doesn’t require that you refrain from betting and just observe some rounds. Where you bet is determined by which bet won the previous round of play. There are two patterns used for bet selection: Repeat – With this pattern you will bet that the previous decision will repeat. If banker won the last round, you will bet banker. If player won, you will bet on player. Chop – With this pattern you will bet the Chop of the last decision. If banker won, you will bet player. If player won you will bet on banker. If a zero shows in roulette, you will ignore it in terms of determining where to bet. Likewise with baccarat and craps, you will ignore the tie in terms of determining where to bet If a tie occurs in baccarat, you will ignore the tie in terms of determining where to bet. If you are betting the Repeat Pattern and you have the decisions P (player) T (tie), you will bet P the next round, ignoring the Tie decision. If a twelve shows on a come out roll at craps where the 12 is barred as a winning roll for the don’t pass, the roll will be treated as a don’t pass win since a pass line bet will lose on this roll. That’s all there is to bet selection. You will bet the Repeat as the last decision or the Chop of the last decision. We will refer to these pattern selection methods as Repeat (S) or Chop (O). The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 33 All Rights Reserved Now that you have our bet selection method, let’s go over how you will use it. We usually start a game using the R pattern, that is, betting that the previous decision will repeat. For online play, where no previous decisions are available and you must make a bet in order for the game to function, the easiest way to handle the lack of a previous decision is to just start the game with a wager. At craps, start with the S pattern betting on Don’t Pass. When playing roulette online the starting wager is usually on Red using the S pattern. At baccarat wager on Player using the O pattern. The chapters on each of these games have examples of using the system that will help you understand how to use it. If our wager wins, we will continue to bet for a repeat using the S betting pattern. The S pattern is excellent for catching long strings of repeating decisions and it will put you in the position of winning every wager. We will always continue to follow the S bet selection pattern until we lose a wager. As soon as we lose a bet we will change our pattern of bet selection to betting the Chop of the last decision. Assume we are playing baccarat. We have been betting on Player using the S pattern. Banker wins a round. We change our pattern to betting the Chop of the last decisions and we bet on Player. If our wager wins, we will continue with the O betting pattern until we lose a wager. Let’s sum up our rules so far: 1. We will continue using a bet selection method until we lose a wager. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 34 All Rights Reserved 2. If we lose a bet using the S bet selection method, we change to the O method for the next round of play. 3. If we lose a bet using the C bet selection method, we will change to the R method for our next wager. There is only one additional rule to add that applies only to baccarat: In baccarat, if we lose three wagers in a row, we will continue the current betting pattern for another round of betting. If we use “S” to represent betting the Repeat as the previous decision and “O” to represent betting the Chop of the previous decision, our bet selection method for a series of bets is as follows: R R C R, etc. If we use “W” to stand for a wager we win and “L” to represent a wager we lose, then we can match up our bet selection method and the outcome of each bet as follows: Round Bet Pattern Bet Outcome 1 S 2 S 3 O 4 S 5 S 6 O W L L W L W If you look at the bets represented in the previous table, you will notice that we continued with a bet selection method until we had a loss that triggered a change in our bet selection method. In the previous example we never lost three bets in a row. You can follow our bet selection method easily. If we won, we kept the Repeat method, and if we lost, we changed it. This is the methodology we will follow nearly all of the time. However, if we lose three bets in a row, we will stick with the current bet selection method for one more round. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 35 All Rights Reserved Here is an example of this rule coming into play. Round Bet Pattern Bet Outcome 1 S 2 S 3 O 4 S 5 S 6 S W L L L W W In this example, we use the standard method of bet selection up through round 4. The loss in round 4 gives us three consecutive losing wagers. The standard rule is to change bet selection methods following a loss. If we had followed this rule, we would have changed to the O method for round 5. However, using our special three-loss-in-a-row rules, we repeat round 4’s bet selection method with the third loss and use the S pattern again in round 5. In this example we won round 5. If we had lost this bet, we would have reverted to our standard method of changing our bet selection method following a loss and we would have changed to the O pattern for round 6. Please note that whenever you use the special “three-losses-in-a-row rule” you will start your count of the number of losses needed with the round following the one where you applied this rule. Since we used the rule in round 5, we would start counting from round 6 on to see if we needed to use this rule again. If we lost our wagers in rounds 6, 7 and 8, then we would use the three-losses-in-a-row rule for selecting our bet for round 9. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 36 All Rights Reserved Neutral Betting Neutral Betting is the default form of betting in each game. For instance, you will always start a game using a Neutral Betting series. Neutral Betting consists of using a predefined betting series for each of the games. Each game has its own Neutral Betting Series. Each betting series was determined by testing hundreds of different betting series and choosing the one which best balanced risk and returns. Craps Neutral Betting For $5 Base Bets, the Neutral Betting Series used at craps is: Craps Neutral Betting Series Level 1 2 3 4 5 Bet 5 8 13 20 30 Roulette Neutral Betting A different Neutral Betting Series is used for playing roulette as shown below: Level 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bet 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 Baccarat Neutral Betting Baccarat and roulette share the Repeat Neutral Betting Series. The $5 Base Bet series used when playing baccarat is: The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 37 All Rights Reserved Level 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bet 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 Neutral Series Betting Rules The Repeat betting rules are used for each Neutral Betting Series. These betting rules are: 1. Always start any betting series with the lowest level bet. To begin the $5 betting series, wager $5. If this bet wins, stay at this level of betting. If this bet loses, raise your next bet to the next higher bet in the Betting Series. 2. If a bet loses, raise the next bet one level to the next higher wager in the Betting Series. If you lose the $5 bet in the $5 betting series, wager $8 next. 3. Reduce your next bet one level following a winning wager. If you wager $8 in the $5 betting series and win, bet $5 next. 4. Anytime you win two bets in a row or win two out of three bets, drop the next wager two bet levels in the Betting Series. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 38 All Rights Reserved Vector Signals Vector Signals are used to determine the game’s vector, or major direction at that time. Vector Signals are, as one player said, “up close and personal.” Vector Signals are directly tied to how well a player is doing at that moment. Thus, two consecutive wins trigger a change in the Betting Mode from Neutral Betting to Offensive Betting. Conversely, two consecutive losing bets trigger a change from Neutral Betting to Offensive Betting. Once you have shifted from the Neutral Betting Mode to the Offensive Betting Mode, a single loss is the Vector Signal to return to Neutral Betting. If you are in Defensive Betting Mode any win is the Vector Signal to shift from Defensive Betting to Neutral Betting. The key to recognizing a Vector Signal is two consecutive wins or losses in Neutral Mode. Single wins and losses are the Vector Signals when in Offensive Mode (one loss) or Defensive Betting (one win). Thus, each Betting Mode, such as Neutral, Offensive and Defensive, is determined by a different Vector Signal. Here are the Vector Change rules used for craps, roulette and baccarat: 1. Always start a game in Neutral Betting Mode. You will stay in this mode until a Vector Signal, consisting of two consecutive losing bets, is given. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 39 All Rights Reserved 2. Offensive Betting Signal: Continue in Neutral Betting Mode until winning two consecutive bets. This is the Vector Signal to change from Neutral Betting to Offensive Betting. Once in Offensive Betting Mode continue in this mode until losing one bet. The loss of any bet in Offensive Betting Mode is a Vector Signal to return to Neutral Betting. 3. Defensive Betting: Whenever you lose two consecutive bets in Neutral Betting Mode, you will change to Defensive Betting Mode. You will continue in Defensive Betting Mode until wining one bet. As you play a game, you will change from Neutral Betting to Defensive Betting and Offensive Betting as determined by Vector Signals. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 40 All Rights Reserved Offensive Betting Moving into Offensive Betting Mode is always exciting. You will move into this mode when you are in a winning streak. You will move into Offensive Betting Mode from Neutral Betting Mode after winning two consecutive bets in the Neutral Mode. The Offensive Betting Rules are as follows: 1. Increase the Neutral Bet for that level by 1 unit. For example, if the normal Neutral Bet is $5, increase the bet to $6. 2. If the first Offensive Bet wins, increase the next bet by another unit. Example: If a $6 bet wins increase the next bet to $7. 3. If you win two Offensive Bets in a row, regress to the original Neutral Series bet after two wins. Example: Neutral Bet is $5. First Offensive Bet of $6 won. Second Offensive Bet of $6 won. Regress to $5 for third Offensive Bet. 4. If you win the third Offensive Bet, continue to increase each bet by one unit as long as the winning streak continues. 5. Upon the loss of any Offensive Bet, resume betting in the Neutral Betting Series one level higher than the Neutral Bet level lost. Please note that you will never move from Offensive Betting Mode directly to Defensive Betting Mode. Entry to Offensive Betting Mode is always from Neutral Betting to Offensive Betting. Departure from Offensive Betting Mode, signaled by any losing bet, is always from Offensive Betting Mode back to Neutral Betting Mode. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 41 All Rights Reserved Defensive Betting Defensive Betting is triggered by losing two consecutive bets when in Neutral Betting Mode. A different Betting Series is used when the mode of the game is Defensive. Defensive Betting Series are set up as Martingale types of betting series where only one win is required to complete the betting series. In games allowing $1 minimum bet, you would use the following Defensive Bets: 1 2 4 8 16 32. If the minimum bet is $5, you will use the following Defensive Bets: 5 10 20 40 80 160. Obviously, a higher bankroll is required to make the Defensive Bets in the $5 betting series as compared to the $1 betting series. Whenever possible you should play in a game with lower betting limits and use the lowest betting series possible for Defensive Bets. For example, is you were playing in a game with $3 minimum bets, you could use the following Defensive Betting Series: 3 6 12 24 48 96. There is another option available in lieu of making Defensive Bets. You can skip betting altogether and make imaginary bets using the Power V Formula System. As soon as an imaginary bet wins you will resume making Neutral Series bets beginning with bet one level higher than the last one you lost in the Neutral Betting Mode. The option of making imaginary bets is an alternative for land-based play where table minimums are higher than online games. For example, if you are playing at a $5 minimum bet table, using $5 Base Bets, you may not be comfortable using the following Defensive Bets: 5 10 20 40 80 160. You will need $315 additional bankroll to make these bets which is a significant increase in the amount needed to play at this level. In this situation you may well decide to make imaginary Defensive Bets. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 42 All Rights Reserved When you are playing online, making imaginary bets is not usually an option. However, if you play in a game with lower betting limits, such as $1 minimum bets, you can use the lower Defensive Bets of 1 2 4 8 16 32 with only $63 additional bankroll. A final word on Defensive Betting. The purpose of Defensive Betting is primarily to prevent additional losses when you are in the Neutral Betting Mode. By moving to Defensive Betting Mode you may eliminate losing bets which would have caused you to make larger and larger bets if you had continued to play in Neutral Betting Mode. Defensive Bets can be thought of as more of a defense against losses than a moneymaking proposition in and of itself. With the progressions used, a single win will result in a small increase in winnings. However, the increase is small enough that if you decide to forgo Defensive Betting and make imaginary bets, the profitability of this system will not be greatly affected. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 43 All Rights Reserved Winning at Craps Craps is an excellent choice of a game with which to use the Power V Formula. You will only bet on pass line and don’t pass at craps. Limiting your bets to pass line and don’t pass makes for a slow game when a shooter is rolling a lot of numbers between points. However, our testing of this system in thousands of documented games in both land-based and online games proves the profitability of this system used at craps. When you use the system, start with a Don’t Pass bet using Repeat betting pattern. When you begin a game you will always start the game in Neutral Betting Mode making the smallest bet in the betting series. The following Betting Rules are used for craps play: Bet Selection: You will bet on every round of play. This system doesn’t require that you refrain from betting and just observe some rounds. Where you bet is determined by which bet won the previous round of play. There are two patterns used for bet selection: Repeat – With this pattern you will bet that the previous decision will repeat. If Don’t Pass wins, you will bet for Don’t Pass (d) to repeat. If Pass Line wins, you will bet on Pass Line (p) to repeat. Chop – With this pattern you will bet the Chop of the last decision. If d wins, you will bet on p for the next round. If p wins you will bet on d. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 44 All Rights Reserved If a twelve shows on a come out roll at craps where the 12 is barred as a winning roll for the don’t pass, the roll will be treated as a don’t pass win since a pass line bet will lose on this roll. That’s all there is to bet selection. You will bet the Repeat as the last decision or the Chop of the last decision. We will refer to these pattern selection methods as Repeat (S) or Chop (O). Neutral Betting Series: For $5 Base Betting, the following Neutral Betting Series is used for craps: 5 8 13 20 30. Standard betting rules are used for Neutral Betting as follows: 1. Always start any betting series with the lowest level bet. To begin the $5 betting series, wager $5. If this bet wins, stay at this level of betting. If this bet loses, raise your next bet to the next higher bet in the Betting Series. 2. If a bet loses, raise the next bet one level to the next higher wager in the Betting Series. If you lose the $5 bet in the $5 betting series, wager $8 next. 3. Reduce your next bet one level following a winning wager. If you wager $8 in the $5 betting series and win, bet $5 next. 4. Any time you win two bets in a row or win two out of three bets, drop the next wager two levels of bets in the Betting Series. Vector Signals: Here are the Vector Change rules used for craps: 1. Always start a game in Neutral Betting Mode. You will stay in this mode until a Vector Signal, consisting of two consecutive losing bets, is given. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 45 All Rights Reserved 2. Offensive Betting Signal: Continue in Neutral Betting Mode until winning two consecutive bets. This is the Vector Signal to change from Neutral Betting to Offensive Betting. Once in Offensive Betting Mode continue in this mode until losing one bet. The loss of any bet in Offensive Betting Mode is a Vector Signal to return to Neutral Betting. 3. Defensive Betting: Whenever you lose two consecutive bets in Neutral Betting Mode, you will change to Defensive Betting Mode. You will continue in Defensive Betting Mode until wining one bet. As you play a game, you will change from Neutral Betting to Defensive Betting and Offensive Betting as determined by Vector Signals. Offensive Betting: The Offensive Betting Rules are as follows: 1. Increase the Neutral Bet for that level by one unit. For example, if the normal Neutral Bet is $5, increase the bet to $6. 2. If the first Offensive Bet wins, increase the next bet by another unit. Example: If a $6 bet wins increase the next bet to $7. 3. If you win two Offensive Bets in a row, regress to the original Neutral Series bet after two wins. Example: Neutral Bet is $5. First Offensive Bet of $6 won. Second Offensive Bet of $6 won. Regress to $5 for third Offensive Bet. 4. If you win the third Offensive Bet, continue to increase each bet by one unit as long as the winning streak continues. 5. Upon the loss of any Offensive Bet, resume betting in the Neutral Betting Series one level higher than the Neutral Bet level lost. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 46 All Rights Reserved Defensive Betting: Defensive Betting is triggered by losing two consecutive bets when in Neutral Betting Mode. A different Betting Series is used when the mode of the game is Defensive. Defensive Betting Series are set up as Martingale types of betting series where only one win is required to complete the betting series. In games allowing $1 minimum bets, you would use the following Defensive Bets: 1 2 4 8 16 32. If the minimum bet is $5, you will use the following Defensive Bets: 5 10 20 40 80 160. If you prefer, you can make Imaginary Bets when in Defensive Mode. When you are wagering real money or making Imaginary Bets, as soon as you win one wager you will return to the Neutral Betting Mode. You will resume Neutral Betting making a wager one level higher than the last bet lost in Neutral Betting Mode. For example, if the last bet lost before starting Defensive Betting was $13, you will resume Neutral Betting making a bet of $20. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 47 All Rights Reserved A Sample Craps Game Let’s take a look at a craps game played using Power-V Betting. The rules are: Base Bet = $5 Minimum Bets = $1 Neutral Betting Series: 5 8 13 20 30 Defensive Betting Series: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Betting Incremental Bet: $1 Target Win = $40 Bet Pattern Selection: Start out betting for the previous decision to Repeat (R) Continue to beat this pattern until there is a loss. With a loss, change to the Chop (C) betting pattern and continue with it until there is a loss. After any losing bet change the bet selection pattern for the next wager. Key: Craps Decision: P=Pass Line D=Don’t Pass Betting Pattern: R=Repeat C=Chop Betting Mode N=Neutral O=Offensive D=Defensive Bet No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Craps Decision D D D D P P P D Betting Mode N N O O O N N N Betting Pattern R R R R R C R R Bet On D D D D D D P D Amount Bet 5 5 6 7 5 8 13 8 Amount Won or Lost +5 +5 +6 +7 -5 -8 +13 -8 The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 48 Cumulative Won +5 +10 +16 +23 +18 +10 +23 +15 All Rights Reserved Bet No 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Craps Decision D P P P P P D D D D D Betting Mode N D D N N N O N D N N Betting Pattern C R C C R R R C R R R Bet On P D D D P P P P D D D Amount Bet 13 1 2 20 30 20 9 13 1 20 13 Amount Won or Lost -13 -1 +2 -20 +30 +20 -9 -13 +1 +20 +13 Cumulative Won +2 +1 +3 -17 +13 +33 +24 +11 +12 +32 +45 Here’s a round by round review of this game. 1. We start out in Neutral Mode betting $5 on Don’t Pass using the Repeat Bet Selection Pattern. We win the bet. 2. Following the win we continue in Neutral Betting Mode with the Repeat Pattern of bet selection. We Bet 5 on Don’t Pass and win. 3. Following two consecutive winning bets, we change from Neutral Betting Mode to the Chop Betting Mode. We add +1 to the $5 bet and wager $6. We continue to use the Repeat Bet Pattern for bet selection. We win the bet. 4. Having won our first Offensive Bet we increase the next bet by +1 and wager $7. We continue with the R betting pattern and wager on Don’t Pass. We win the bet. 5. We have now won two Offensive Bets in a row. We regress to the original bet of $5 for this round. We lose the bet. 6. Upon losing an Offensive Bet, we always revert to Neutral Betting Mode and wager the bet one level higher than the losing Offensive Bet. We wager $8. Following the losing bet, we change betting patterns from R to C and wager on D. We lose the bet. 7. Following a loss we increase our Neutral Bet one level. We also change our betting pattern back to S. We bet $13 on P and win. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 49 All Rights Reserved 8. Following a Neutral Bet win we reduce our bet one level and bet $8. We continue with the R bet selection pattern and bet on D. Our bet loses. 9.With a loss in N Betting Mode, we increase our bet one level to $13. We change bet selection patterns to Chop and bet on P. We lose the bet. 10. Two consecutive losing N bets signal a change to Defensive Betting. We change our bet selection pattern to Repeat and wager $1 on D and lose. 11. We continue in Defensive Betting Mode making a $2 bet. Following a loss we change our Bet Selector to the Chop pattern and bet on D. We win the bet. 12. Any win in Defensive Betting Mode signals a change back to Neutral Betting. We resume betting with a wager one level higher than the previous losing bet in Neutral Betting Mode. We wager $20 on D and lose. 13. With a loss in Neutral Betting Mode we increase our bet one level and wager $30. We also change our Bet Selection Pattern back to betting the Repeat as the preceding decision. We wager $30 on P and win. 14. With a win we drop our bet one level to $20. We keep the Bet Selection Pattern of betting Repeat. We bet $20 on P and win. 15. After two consecutive winning bets in Neutral Betting Mode, we change to Offensive Betting. We drop our bet two levels to a wager of $8. We increase this wager by +$1 and wager $9. Our bet loses. 16. Following a losing Offensive Bet we immediately revert to the Neutral Betting Mode making a wager one level higher than our previous Neutral Mode Bet. We wager $13 on Pass Line and lose. 17. Two consecutive losses trigger a betting mode change to Defensive Betting. We bet The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 50 All Rights Reserved $1 on Don’t Pass and win. 18. Following a win in Defensive Mode we revert to the Neutral Betting Mode and increase our bet one level to $20. We change our bet selection method from Chop to Repeat and bet on Don’t Pass. We win the wager. 19. We drop our bet one level to $13 and win. With this win the Cumulative Amount won is +$45, exceeding our Target Win of $40. We call the game completed. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 51 All Rights Reserved Winning at Roulette We earned our highest return per bet using the Power V Formula and playing European Roulette. This game returned 31.4% on each dollar wagered. This is an excellent return. With this system you will only make even-money bets at roulette. I prefer to bet on the colors of Red and Black. However, you may choose to bet on Odd and Even or High and Low. Once you make a decision on which even-money bets to make, you should stick with it. When I start a game I usually start with a bet on Red using the Repeat Betting Pattern. You will always start a game in the Neutral Betting Mode making a wager equal to the smallest bet in the betting series. Bet Selection: You will bet on every spin of the wheel. This system doesn’t require that you refrain from betting and just observe some spins. Where you bet is determined by which bet won the previous round of play. There are two patterns used for bet selection: Repeat – With this pattern you will bet that the previous decision will repeat. If Red wins, you will bet for Red to repeat. If Black wins, you will bet on Black to repeat. Chop – With this pattern you will bet the Chop of the last decision. If Red wins, you will bet on Black for the next round.. If Black wins you will bet on Red. If a zero shows, you will ignore it with respect to the betting pattern. If you have a bet of $8 on Red using the Repeat pattern and a zero shows, you will lose the bet. For your next The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 52 All Rights Reserved bet you will continue to bet on Red with the amount determined by the betting rules for the Betting Mode you are in. That’s it for bet selection. You will always bet that the last decision will Repeat or that it will Chop. Neutral Betting Series: For $5 Base Betting, the following Neutral Betting Series is used for roulette: 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 Standard betting rules are used for Neutral Betting as follows: 1. Always start any betting series with the lowest level bet. To begin the $5 betting series, wager $5. If this bet wins, stay at this level of betting. If this bet loses, raise your next bet to the next higher bet in the Betting Series. 2. If a bet loses, raise the next bet one level to the next higher wager in the Betting Series. If you lose the $5 bet in the $5 betting series, wager $8 next. 3. Reduce your next bet one level following a winning wager. If you wager $8 in the $5 betting series and win, bet $5 next. 4. Anytime you win two bets in a row or win two out of three bets, drop the next wager two bet levels in the Betting Series. Vector Signals: Here are the Vector Change rules used for roulette: 1. Always start a game in Neutral Betting Mode. You will stay in this mode until a Vector Signal, consisting of two consecutive losing bets, is given. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 53 All Rights Reserved 2. Offensive Betting Signal: Continue in Neutral Betting Mode until winning two consecutive bets. This is the Vector Signal to change from Neutral Betting to Offensive Betting. Once in Offensive Betting Mode continue in this mode until losing one bet. The loss of any bet in Offensive Betting Mode is a Vector Signal to return to Neutral Betting. 3. Defensive Betting: Whenever you lose two consecutive bets in Neutral Betting Mode, you will change to Defensive Betting Mode. You will continue in Defensive Betting Mode until wining one bet. As you play a game, you will change from Neutral Betting to Defensive Betting and Offensive Betting as determined by Vector Signals. Offensive Betting: The Offensive Betting Rules are as follows: 1. Increase the Neutral Bet for that level by one unit. For example, if the normal Neutral Bet is $5, increase the bet to $6. 2. If the first Offensive Bet wins, increase the next bet by another unit. Example: If a $6 bet wins increase the next bet to $7. 3. If you win two Offensive Bets in a row, regress to the original Neutral Series bet after two wins. Example: Neutral Bet is $5. First Offensive Bet of $6 won. Second Offensive Bet of $6 won. Regress to $5 for third Offensive Bet. 4. If you win the third Offensive Bet, continue to increase each bet by one unit as long as the winning streak continues. 5. Upon the loss of any Offensive Bet, resume betting in the Neutral Betting Series one level higher than the Neutral Bet level lost. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 54 All Rights Reserved Defensive Betting: Defensive Betting is triggered by losing two consecutive bets when in Neutral Betting Mode. A different Betting Series is used when the mode of the game is Defensive. Defensive Betting Series are set up as Martingale types of betting series where only one win is required to complete the betting series. In games allowing $1 minimum bet, you would use the following Defensive Bets: 1 2 4 8 16 32. If the minimum bet is $5, you will use the following Defensive Bets: 5 10 20 40 80 160. If you prefer, you can make Imaginary Bets when in Defensive Mode. When you are wagering real money or making Imaginary Bets, as soon as you win one wager you will return to the Neutral Betting Mode. You will resume Neutral Betting making a wager one level higher than the last bet lost in Neutral Betting Mode. For example, if the last bet lost before starting Defensive Betting was $13, you will resume Neutral Betting making a bet of $20. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 55 All Rights Reserved A Sample Roulette Game Let’s take a look at a roulette game played using Power-V Betting. The rules are: Base Bet = $5 Minimum Bets = $1 Neutral Betting Series: 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 Defensive Betting Series: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Betting Incremental Bet: $1 Target Win = $40 Bet Pattern Selection: Start out betting for the previous decision to Repeat (R) Continue to beat this pattern until there is a loss. With a loss, change to the Chop (C) betting pattern and continue with it until there is a loss. After any losing bet change the bet selection pattern for the next wager Key: Roulette Decision: R=Red B=Black Betting Pattern: R=Repeat C=Chop Betting Mode N=Neutral O=Offensive D=Defensive Bet No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Roulette Decision R R R B B R R Betting Mode N N O O N D D Betting Pattern R R R R C R C Bet On R R R R R B B Amount Bet 5 5 6 7 8 1 2 Amount Won or Lost W-5 W-5 W-5 L-7 L-8 L-1 L-2 The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 56 Cumulative Won +5 +10 +16 +9 +1 -0-2 All Rights Reserved Bet No 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Craps Decision B R R B R B R R R R R R Betting Mode D D N N D N N N N N O O Betting Pattern R C C R C C C C R R R R Bet On R R R R R B R B R R R R Amount Bet 4 8 13 20 1 30 20 8 13 5 6 7 Amount Won or Lost L-4 W-8 L-13 L-20 W-1 W-30 W-20 L-8 W-13 W-5 W-6 W-7 Cumulative Won -6 +2 -11 -31 -30 -0+20 +12 +25 +30 +36 +43 I am not going to review this game round by round. Roulette betting is similar enough to craps betting that if you are unclear on how this strategy works you can review the Sample Game presented for Craps. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 57 All Rights Reserved Winning at Baccarat While we won the highest amount per wager playing roulette, the game which provides the highest return per hour of play is baccarat. Baccarat is a faster game than roulette and because you can make more bets per hour playing baccarat, the net return per hour of play is the best of all the table games where we used our system With this system you will only make even-money bets at baccarat. You will bet on Player or Banker and never bet on Tie. When I start a game I usually start with a bet on Player using the Chop Betting Pattern. You will always start a game in the Neutral Betting Mode making a wager equal to the smallest bet in the betting series. Bet Selection: You will bet on every spin of the wheel. This system doesn’t require that you refrain from betting and just observe some spins. Where you bet is determined by which bet won the previous round of play. There are two patterns used for bet selection: Repeat – With this pattern you will bet that the previous decision will repeat. If Red wins, you will bet for Red to repeat. If Black wins, you will bet on Black to repeat. Chop – With this pattern you will bet the Chop of the last decision. If Red wins, you will bet on Black for the next round.. If Black wins you will bet on Red. If a Tie shows you will ignore it with respect to the betting pattern. With a Tie just repeat the same bet and continue with the same betting pattern. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 58 All Rights Reserved Baccarat has a different twist to its bet selection method than craps or roulette. In Baccarat if you lose three bets in a row, you will carry over the same betting pattern to the next wager. Here is an example of four wagers showing the Bet Selection Patterns of Repeat –R and Chop-C. Bet Number Betting Pattern Win or Lose 1 R L 2 C L 3 R L 4 R W Here we lose wagers 1, 2 and 3. After our third loss where we were using the Repeat Pattern, we carry over this pattern to the next wager rather than changing patterns again. This pattern carryover move is not dependent upon the betting mode. For example, after two losses you will have changed to Defensive Betting Mode. However, this change does not affect your betting pattern. Neutral Betting Series: For $5 Base Betting, the following Neutral Betting Series is used for roulette: 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 Standard betting rules are used for Neutral Betting as follows: 1. Always start any betting series with the lowest level bet. To begin the $5 betting series, wager $5. If this bet wins, stay at this level of betting. If this bet loses, raise your next bet to the next higher bet in the Betting Series. 2. If a bet loses, raise the next bet one level to the next higher wager in the Betting Series. If you lose the $5 bet in the $5 betting series, wager $8 next. 3. Reduce your next bet one level following a winning wager. If you wager $8 in the $5 The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 59 All Rights Reserved betting series and win, bet $5 next. 4. Anytime you win two bets in a row or win two out of three bets, drop the next wager two levels of bets in the Betting Series. Vector Signals: Here are the Vector Change rules used for roulette: 1. Always start a game in Neutral Betting Mode. You will stay in this mode until a Vector Signal, consisting of two consecutive losing bets, is given. 2. Offensive Betting Signal: Continue in Neutral Betting Mode until winning two consecutive bets. This is the Vector Signal to change from Neutral Betting to Offensive Betting. Once in Offensive Betting Mode, continue in this mode until losing one bet. The loss of any bet in Offensive Betting Mode is a Vector Signal to return to Neutral Betting. 3. Defensive Betting: Whenever you lose two consecutive bets in Neutral Betting Mode, you will change to Defensive Betting Mode. You will continue in Defensive Betting Mode until wining one bet. As you play a game you will change from Neutral Betting to Defensive Betting and Offensive Betting as determined by Vector Signals. Offensive Betting: The Offensive Betting Rules are as follows: 1. Increase the Neutral Bet for that level by one unit. For example, if the normal Neutral Bet is $5, increase the bet to $6. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 60 All Rights Reserved 2. If the first Offensive Bet wins, increase the next bet by another unit. Example: If a $6 bet wins increase the next bet to $7. 3. If you win two Offensive Bets in a row, regress to the original Neutral Series bet after two wins. Example: Neutral Bet is $5. First Offensive Bet of $6 won. Second Offensive Bet of $6 won. Regress to $5 for third Offensive Bet. 4. If you win the third Offensive Bet, continue to increase each bet by one unit as long as the winning streak continues. 5. Upon the loss of any Offensive Bet, resume betting in the Neutral Betting Series one level higher than the Neutral Bet level lost. Defensive Betting: Defensive Betting is triggered by losing two consecutive bets when in Neutral Betting Mode. A different Betting Series is used when the mode of the game is Defensive. Defensive Betting Series are set up as Martingale types of betting series where only one win is required to complete the betting series. In games allowing $1 minimum bets, you would use the following Defensive Bets: 1 2 4 8 16 32. If the minimum bet is $5, you will use the following Defensive Bets: 5 10 20 40 80 160. If you prefer, you can make Imaginary Bets when in Defensive Mode. When you are wagering real money or making Imaginary Bets, as soon as you win one wager you will return to the Neutral Betting Mode. You will resume Neutral Betting The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 61 All Rights Reserved making a wager one level higher than the last bet lost in Neutral Betting Mode. For example, if the last bet lost before starting Defensive Betting was $13, you will resume Neutral Betting making a bet of $20. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 62 All Rights Reserved A Sample Baccarat Game Let’s take a look at a baccarat game played using Power-V Betting. The rules are: Base Bet = $5 Minimum Bets = $1 Neutral Betting Series: 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 Defensive Betting Series: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Betting Incremental Bet: $1 Target Win = $40 Bet Pattern Selection: Start out betting for the previous decision to Repeat (R) Continue to beat this pattern until there is a loss. With a loss, change to the Chop (C) betting pattern and continue with it until there is a loss. After any losing bet change the bet selection pattern for the next wager. With Baccarat if you have three losses in a row, carry over the same pattern to the next bet after the third consecutive loss. Key: Baccarat Decision: P=Player B=Banker Betting Pattern: R=Repeat C=Chop Betting Mode N=Neutral O=Offensive D=Defensive Bet No 1 2 3 4 Baccarat Decision P B B P Betting Mode N N O N Betting Pattern C C C R Bet On P B P B Amount Bet 5 5 7 8 Amount Won or Lost W-5 W-5 L-7 L-8 The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 63 Cumulative Won +5 +10 +3 -5 All Rights Reserved Bet No 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Baccarat Decision P P P B P P P B P B P B P B P P P P P Betting Mode D D D N N D N N N N O O O O O N N O O Betting Pattern C C R R C R R R C C C C C C C R R R R Bet On B B P P P P P P P B P B P B B P P P P Amount Bet 1 2 4 13 20 1 30 20 30 8 6 7 5 6 7 8 5 6 7 Amount Won or Lost L-1 L-2 W-4 L-13 L-20 W-1 W-30 L-20 W-30 W-8 W-6 W-7 W-5 W-6 L-7 W-8 W-5 W-6 W-7 Cumulative Won -6 -8 -4 -17 -37 -36 -6 -26 +4 +12 +18 +25 +30 +24 +17 +25 +30 +36 +43 Here is a round by round review of this game. 1. We start the game in Neutral Betting Mode with a Level-1 bet of $5. We start with a Chop Pattern betting on Player (P). We win the wager. 2. We continue using the C Bet Selection Pattern and wager $5 on B. We win the bet. 3. With two consecutive wins we have a signal to change to Offensive Betting Mode. We keep the Chop bet selection pattern and increase our normal wager of $5 by $1 and bet $6. We lose the bet. 4. The loss of an Offensive Bet moves us back into Neutral Betting Mode. We change our Bet Selection Pattern to Repeat. We wager $8 on Black and lose. 5. We change bet selection back to the Chop pattern. With two consecutive loses we move into Defensive Betting Mode. We wager $1 on B and lose. 6. We have now lost three wagers in a row. Instead of changing our bet selection pattern The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 64 All Rights Reserved we carry it over and use the Chop pattern again. We wager $2 on Banker and lose. 7. We change our betting pattern back to Repeat. We raise our bet to $4 and win. 8. Any win in Defensive Betting Mode triggers a move back to Neutral Betting. We keep the R betting pattern and resume betting in Neutral Mode at the bet one level higher than our last Neutral Bet. We bet $13 and lose. 9. When we lose, we change our bet selection pattern to Chop. We raise our bet of $20 and lose. 10. With two consecutive losses we change to Defensive Betting Mode. We change to the Repeat pattern. We bet $1 on Player and win. 11. A Defensive Bet win moves us back to Neutral Betting Mode. We stick with the Repeat pattern and wager the Neutral Bet Mode wager of $30 and win. 12. Following a win we drop our Neutral Mode bet one level keeping the same bet selection pattern of Repeat. We lose the bet. 13. We increase our bet one level and change our bet selection pattern to Chop. We bet $30 on P and win. 14. Having won two out of three bets, we drop our next bet two levels to $8. Our bet wins. 15.With two back-to-back wins in Neutral Betting Mode we shift to Offensive Betting. We add +$1 to the normal bet of $5 and wager $6. We win. 16. We make our second wager in Offensive Betting mode, adding another $1 to our previous wager and bet $7. Our wager wins. 17. Following two winning bets in Offensive Betting Mode we regress to the original bet The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 65 All Rights Reserved and wager $5. We win the wager. 18. So long as we are winning, we will stay in Offensive Betting Mode. We increase our last bet $1, bet $6 and win. 19. We raise our Offensive Mode bet by $1, betting $7 and lose the wager. 20. With any losing bet in Offensive Mode we switch back to Neutral Betting Mode, wagering one level higher than the last bet in this mode. We bet $8 and win. 21. Still in Neutral Mode we drop our bet one level, wager $5 and win. 22. With two consecutive wins, we change to Offensive Mode again and add $1 to the normal $5 bet and wager $6. We win the bet. 23. We make our second Offensive Mode wager of $7 and win. Our net winnings have reached $43, exceeding our Target Win of $40. We call the game completed. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 66 All Rights Reserved The Importance of Target Wins Although they may seem like an afterthought, Target Wins are a critical part of the Power V Formula System. Each level of betting has its own Target Win. Target Wins give us reasonable win goals for each level of play. Target Wins are set at levels that are attainable in 20 to 25 wagers. They serve the important function of keeping our games short. However, Target Wins also provide a way of reducing our bets from higher betting levels. Let me give you an example of how Target Wins reduce the size of our bets and help protect our bankroll. Below is a portion of a roulette game. We are using our normal Neutral Betting Series of 5 8 13 20 30 50 75. Our Target Win is $40. By spin 14 we are down –38. Here’s what happens from spins 14 through 19. Bet No 14 15 16 17 18 19 Roulette Decision R R R R R R Betting Mode N N D N N N Betting Pattern R C R R R R Bet On B B R R R R Amount Bet 30 50 1 75 50 5 Amount Won or Lost L-30 L-50 W-1 W-75 W-50 W-5 Cumulative Won -38 -88 -87 -12 +38 +43 Round by round discussion of play: 14. We wager $30 and lose the bet. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 67 All Rights Reserved 15. We change bet selection patterns to C raise our bet to $50 and lose the bet. We are now down -$88. 16. Following two consecutive losing bets we shift to Defensive Betting Mode. We wager $1 on Red and win. 17. Following a Defensive Bet win we revert to Neutral Betting. We wager $75 on Red and win. 18. With one win our deficit position was reduced from -$87 to just -$12. We could reduce our next bet more than called for by our betting progression. For example we might bet $20 instead of the bet called for of $50. We elect to make the wager of $50. We win the bet. We are now up +$38. In this spot I would either call the game over or drop my bet to a minimum amount. We elect to make a $5 bet which wins. The game is over with a win of +$43. In the above game we used the Target Win to reduce our risk. As soon as we were within striking range of the Target Win amount, we dropped our wager to a minimum amount. Using Target Wins are one of the important bankroll safeguards incorporated in the Power V Formula. Using them will help you win more consistently with less risk. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 68 All Rights Reserved Long-Term Performance Testing Each version of the Power V Formula was developed by testing different variations of betting and bet placement systems and optimizing betting, bet switching and other timing aspects of the system of each casino game. After each version of this system was optimized to the point where we felt like we had the best possible system for craps, roulette and baccarat, we tested the strategies in real casino play. We recruited a number of volunteer players and gave them instructions on how to play the system and how to document the results of their play. Each tester kept careful records so that when we were finished with the testing we had valid information for analyzing the performance of the system at each game. Our testers played in both land-based and online casinos and at various bet levels ranging from $1 bets all the way to $100 bets. We normalized the results of each level of testing so that the results were comparable to those of making $5 Base Bets. Once we had done this we were able to combine all of the results of our testers. Each of the summaries of results presented for each game in this chapter have been converted to the equivalent rate of $5 betting. Thus, if you bet more, you will win at a higher rate than the presentations in this chapter. Craps Testing All craps games were converted to playing with the following parameters: Base Bet = $5 Minimum Bets = $1 Neutral Betting Series: 5 8 13 20 30 Defensive Betting Series: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Betting Incremental Bet: $1 Target Win = $40 The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 69 All Rights Reserved Bet Pattern Selection: Start out betting for the previous decision to Repeat (R) Continue to beat this pattern until there is a loss. With a loss, change to the Chop (C) betting pattern and continue with it until there is a loss. After any losing bet change the bet selection pattern for the next wager Craps Games Played With $5 Base Bets Total Sessions Sessions Won Sessions Lost Win Percent Total Bets Made Net Won Average Winnings per round of play Average Winning per game (all games) Average Rounds per Game 137,256 rounds played/ 5,160 games = 5,160 4,988 172 96.67% 137,256 $198,144 $1.44 $38.40 26.60 We played a total of 5,160 games of craps in both land-based and online casinos. We won 4,988 of these games, for a win percentage of 96.67%. We achieved our highest win percentage playing craps, (roulette’s win percentage was 96.55% and baccarat’s win percentage was 96.29%). We won an average of $38.40 per game which is very close to our Target Win of $40 per game. Please note that $38.40 is a net amount, with losing games deducted to derive this amount. We won an average of $1.44 per wager using $5 Base Bets. With this amount we can predict hourly win rates dependent upon the speed of a game and the betting level. For example, if we play with $10 Base Bets we can assume a win rate per bet two times the size of the $5 Base Bet win rate, or $2.44 per bet. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 70 All Rights Reserved Now, to predict hourly winnings all we need to know is the number of bets we will make per hour. In a land-based game we might average 40 decisions per hour. As a $10 bettor we would average making $115 an hour. Online games might average 250 decisions per hour. In these games a $10 bettor would win $720 an hour. Please note that these amounts are net of any losses and should accurately project your net winnings. Roulette Testing All roulette games were converted to the following parameters: Base Bet = $5 Minimum Bets = $1 Neutral Betting Series: 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 Defensive Betting Series: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Betting Incremental Bet: $1 Target Win = $40 Bet Pattern Selection: Start out betting for the previous decision to Repeat (R) Continue to bet this pattern until there is a loss. With a loss, change to the Chop (C) betting pattern and continue with it until there is a loss. After any losing bet change the bet selection pattern for the next wager. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 71 All Rights Reserved Roulette Games Played With $5 Base Bets Total Sessions Sessions Won Sessions Lost Win Percent Total Bets Made Net Won Average Winnings per round of play Average Winning per game (all games) Average Rounds per Game 118,366 rounds played/ 5,162 games = 5,162 4,984 178 96.55% 118,726 $186,366 $1.57 $36.10 22.93 There were 5,162 games in our long-term test of roulette. All games were played on single-zero wheels in both land-based and online casinos. We won 96.55% of all games played which is very strong. We won an average of $36.10 net per game played, just slightly less than our Target Win of $40 per game. On the average, games were very short, with the average game lasting just 22.93 spins of the wheel. In a land-based game, played at 60 spins an hour, each game would last about 23 minutes. In an online game, with 300 spins per hour, each game would be wrapped up in an average of just five minutes! We won an average of $1.57 per wager using $5 Base Bets. With this information we can predict hourly win rates based on different levels of play and different game speeds. For example, if we make $25 Base Bets and play in an online game averaging 300 spins per hour, we will average winning $2355 an hour. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 72 All Rights Reserved Baccarat Testing All Baccarat games were adjusted to the following parameters of play: Base Bet = $5 Minimum Bets = $1 Neutral Betting Series: 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 Defensive Betting Series: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Betting Incremental Bet: $1 Target Win = $40 Bet Pattern Selection: Start out betting for the previous decision to Repeat (R) Continue to bet this pattern until there is a loss. With a loss, change to the Chop (C) betting pattern and continue with it until there is a loss. After any losing bet change the bet selection pattern for the next wager. With Baccarat if you have three losses in a row, carry over the same pattern to the next bet after the third consecutive loss. Baccarat Games Played With $5 Base Bets Total Sessions Sessions Won Sessions Lost Win Percent Total Bets Made Net Won Average Winnings per bet Average Winning per game (all games) Average Rounds per Game 116,802 rounds played/ 5,103 games = 5,103 4,914 189 96.29% 116,802 $164,836 $1.41 $32.29 22.88 We played 5,103 baccarat games and won 4,914 of them for a game win-rate of 96.29%. We won an average of $32.29 per game at baccarat, somewhat less than our Target Win of $40. I have reviewed the game and the only explanation I can find for this lower average amount won per game is that the players stopped their games short of reaching The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 73 All Rights Reserved the $40 Win Target more often. We always expect some variability when testing is done by human beings in live casinos and the lower average amount won per game doesn’t bother me because the overall performance of the system at baccarat is so good. The average amount won per bet of $1.41 is the most significant number to come from our testing. With the information that we had a net win of $1.41 per bet, making $5 Base Bets, we can use this information to forecast win rates for different bet levels at various game speeds. For example, many players like to make $100 Base Bets in land-based games of minibaccarat. Let’s see how you would fare making $100 Base Bets in a game played at 80 bets per hour: Your win rate per bet would be 20 times the rate of $5 play, or $28.20 per bet. At 80 bets an hour, you would average 80 x $28.20 = $2256 an hour. This should motivate you to use this system whenever you play baccarat! The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 74 All Rights Reserved Betting, Bankroll and Imaginary Bets You can use the Power V Formula for all levels of play. If you choose to play online, you will find plenty of games allowing $1 minimum wagers and you very well may wish to start using the $1 betting series. For this betting level, as a craps player, you can start with a buy-in as low as $17. Dollar betting is the ideal level for someone who has little money or gambling experience. Most online casinos allow play in “practice mode” so that you can try out the Power V Formula without risking a cent of your money. The betting series using base bets ranging from $1 to $5 can be used in online games with bet limits of $1 to $100 for roulette and baccarat. Since craps uses a different betting series for Neutral Betting, you can play craps with base bets ranging from $1 to $15 in the $1 to $100 games. With play in land-based casinos, you probably won’t use a betting series smaller than $5 and in some venues, you may have to use $10 betting series. A word of caution: Always make sure that you have the required bankroll before playing with a higher level betting series. Defensive Betting works best in games with lower minimum bets than the Base Bets. For example, the $5 Base Bet set up for roulette and baccarat, used throughout this book, is ideal for playing in online games with $1 to $100 bet limits. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 75 All Rights Reserved Ideal System for Playing In Online Games with $1 to $100 Bet Limits Base Bet = $5 Minimum Bets = $1 Neutral Betting Series: 5 8 13 20 30 Defensive Betting Series: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Betting Incremental Bet: $1 Target Win = $40 To use this system as shown above requires a Game Bankroll of $264, consisting of $201 needed to cover the Neutral Betting Series, and $63 for the Defensive Bets. This is a reasonable amount of bankroll for this level of play. However, this system can’t be used in a game with $5 minimum bets because $1 bets are not accepted. Therefore to play with $5 Base Bets in a game with $5 minimum bets, you will have to use larger Defensive Bets and the following set up: Base Bet = $5 Minimum Bets = $1 Neutral Betting Series: 5 8 13 20 30 Defensive Betting Series: 5 10 20 40 80 160 Offensive Betting Incremental Bet: $1 Target Win = $40 To use this system with higher level Defensive Bets requires a bankroll of $516, consisting of $201 for the Neutral Bets, and $315 for the Defensive Bets. While this is a profitable set up in that the loss of the Defensive Bets is so rare that the additional bankroll will almost never be at risk, many players feel that this is too high a bankroll requirement for play. There is a lower bankroll option which achieves 96% of the efficiency of the original system but which can be used with much lower bankrolls. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 76 All Rights Reserved Using Imaginary Bets One way around having to use a larger bankroll to cover the cost of making higher Defensive Bets is to not make any bets when called on to enter the Defensive Betting Mode. Instead of making Defensive Bets consisting of real bets, you will make Imaginary Bets. To make Imaginary Bets, you will refrain from making any bets for each round of Defensive Play. However, you will still need to keep track of where you would have bet and if your bet would have won. With Imaginary Betting, as soon as an Imaginary Bet wins you will revert to Neutral Betting, resuming betting one level higher than the level of the Neutral Bet lost prior to starting Defensive Betting. If you decide to use Imaginary Bets, then you will only need a Game Bankroll for roulette or baccarat of $201 for $5 betting. When you consider that you will achieve 96% of the efficiency of the original system with a substantial reduction in bankroll, you may want to try Imaginary Betting. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 77 All Rights Reserved Summary of Bets and Bankroll Requirements for Different Levels of Play This chapter summarizes the betting requirements for bets ranging from $1 to $500. Craps is presented as one section with Roulette and Baccarat presented as a separate section. Total Bankroll Your total bankroll should be three times the size of your Game Bankroll. You can determine how large a bankroll you need by referring to the tables for each casino game. Craps Play The following table shows the Base Bets, Neutral Bets, Defensive Bets, Offensive Bets, Target Wins and Game Bankrolls for Base Bets ranging from $1 to $500. This table is set up for making real Defensive Bets. Alternatives are shown for Defensive Bets, depending on the minimum bets allowed in a game. For example, we show two different sets of Defensive Bets for $5 Betting; one for $1 minimum wager tables and one for $5 minimum wager tables. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 78 All Rights Reserved Craps Play - Bets, Bankroll, Target Wins and Game Bankroll Making Real Defensive Bets Base Bet Neutral Bets Defensive Bets $1-$1 Minimum Table $3-$1 Minimum Table $5-$1 Minimum Table $5-$5 Minimum Table $10-$1 Minimum Table $10-$5 Minimum Table $25-$5 Minimum Table $25-$10 Minimum Table $50-$10 Minimum Table $100-$25 Minimum Table 12356 1 2 4 8 16 32 3 5 8 12 18 1 2 4 8 16 32 5 8 13 20 30 1 2 4 8 16 32 5 8 13 20 30 5 10 20 40 80 160 10 16 26 40 60 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 10 16 26 40 60 5 10 20 40 80 160 25 40 65 100 150 25 40 65 100 150 50 80 130 200 300 100 160 260 400 600 5 10 20 40 80 160 $200-$25 Minimum Table 200 320 520 800 1200 25 50 100 200 400 800 1600 $500-$100 Minimum Table 500 800 1300 2000 3000 100 200 400 800 1600 3200 10 20 40 80 160 320 10 20 40 80 160 320 25 50 100 200 400 800 1600 Offensive Bets +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +10 After Two Wins +$25 After Two Wins +$50 After Two Wins +100 After Two Wins Target Win 10 24 $40 $45 $80 $90 $200 $225 $450 $800 Game Bankroll 17+63=80 Rounded to $80 46+63=$109 Rounded to $110 76+63=139 Rounded to $140 76+315=391 Rounded to $400 152+127=279 Rounded to $300 152+315=467 Rounded to $500 380+315=695 Rounded to $700 380+630=1010 Rounded to $1000 760+630=1390 Rounded to $1400 1520+1575=3095 Rounded to $3000 $1600 3040+1575=4615 Rounded to $4500 $3200 7600+6300=13900 Rounded to $14,000 The next table shows the same information where Imaginary Bets are used for Defensive Betting. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 79 All Rights Reserved Craps Play - Bets, Bankroll, Target Wins and Game Bankroll Making Imaginary Defensive Bets Base Bet Neutral Bets Defensive Bets $1-$1 Minimum Table $3-$1 Minimum Table $5-$1 Minimum Table $5-$5 Minimum Table $10-$1 Minimum Table $10-$5 Minimum Table $25-$5 Minimum Table $25-$10 Minimum Table $50-$10 Minimum Table $100-$25 Minimum Table 12356 0 3 5 8 12 18 0 5 8 13 20 30 0 5 8 13 20 30 0 10 16 26 40 60 0 10 16 26 40 60 0 25 40 65 100 150 25 40 65 100 150 50 80 130 200 300 100 160 260 400 600 0 $200-$25 Minimum Table 200 320 520 800 1200 0 $500-$100 Minimum Table 500 800 1300 2000 3000 0 0 0 0 Offensive Bets +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +10 After Two Wins +$25 After Two Wins +$50 After Two Wins +100 After Two Wins Target Win 10 24 $40 $45 $80 $90 $200 $225 $450 $800 Game Bankroll 17 Rounded to $20 46 Rounded to $50 76 Rounded to $80 76 Rounded to $80 152 Rounded to $160 152 Rounded to $160 380 Rounded to $400 380 Rounded to $400 760 Rounded to $800 1520 Rounded to $1600 $1600 3040 Rounded to $3040 $3200 7600+6300=13900 Rounded to $14,000 Roulette and Baccarat Play The following table shows the Base Bets, Neutral Bets, Defensive Bets, Offensive Bets, Target Wins and Game Bankrolls for Base Bets ranging from $1 to $500. This table is set up for making real Defensive Bets. Alternatives are shown for Defensive Bets, depending on the minimum bets allowed in a game. For example, we show two different sets of Defensive Bets for $5 Betting; one for $1 minimum wager tables and one for $5 minimum wager tables. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 80 All Rights Reserved Roulette and Baccarat Play Bets, Bankroll, Target Wins and Game Bankroll Making Defensive Bets Base Bet Neutral Bets Defensive Bets $1-$1 Minimum Table $3-$1 Minimum Table $5-$1 Minimum Table $5-$5 Minimum Table $10-$1 Minimum Table $10-$5 Minimum Table $25-$5 Minimum Table $25-$10 Minimum Table $50-$10 Minimum Table $100-$25 Minimum Table 1 2 3 5 6 10 15 1 2 4 8 16 32 3 5 8 12 18 30 45 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 10 16 26 40 60 100 150 10 16 26 40 60 100 150 25 40 65 100 150 250 375 25 40 65 100 150 250 375 50 80 130 200 300 500 750 100 160 260 400 600 1500 1 2 4 8 16 32 $200-$25 Minimum Table 200 320 520 800 1200 3000 25 50 100 200 400 800 1600 $500-$100 Minimum Table 500 800 1300 2000 3000 7500 100 200 400 800 1600 3200 1 2 4 8 16 32 5 10 20 40 80 160 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 5 10 20 40 80 160 5 10 20 40 80 160 10 20 40 80 160 320 10 20 40 80 160 320 25 50 100 200 400 800 1600 Offensive Bets +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +10 After Two Wins +$25 After Two Wins +$50 After Two Wins +100 After Two Wins Target Win 10 24 $40 $45 $80 $90 $200 $225 $450 $800 Game Bankroll 42+63=105 Rounded to $100 121+63=$184 Rounded to $200 201+63=264 Rounded to $270 201+315=516 Rounded to $500 402+63=465 Rounded to $470 402+315=717 Rounded to $720 1005+315=1320 Rounded to $1300 1005+630=1010 Rounded to $1000 2010+630=2640 Rounded to $2700 3020+1575=4595 Rounded to $4600 $1600 6040+1575=7615 Rounded to $7600 $3200 15100+6300=21400 Rounded to $21,500 The next table shows the same information where Imaginary Bets are used for Defensive Betting. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 81 All Rights Reserved Roulette and Baccarat Play Bets, Bankroll, Target Wins and Game Bankroll Making Imaginary Defensive Bets Base Bet Neutral Bets Defensive Bets $1-$1 Minimum Table $3-$1 Minimum Table $5-$1 Minimum Table $5-$5 Minimum Table $10-$1 Minimum Table $10-$5 Minimum Table $25-$5 Minimum Table $25-$10 Minimum Table $50-$10 Minimum Table $100-$25 Minimum Table 1 2 3 5 6 10 15 0 3 5 8 12 18 30 45 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 10 16 26 40 60 100 150 10 16 26 40 60 100 150 25 40 65 100 150 250 375 25 40 65 100 150 250 375 50 80 130 200 300 500 750 100 160 260 400 600 1500 0 $200-$25 Minimum Table 200 320 520 800 1200 3000 0 $500-$100 Minimum Table 500 800 1300 2000 3000 7500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Offensive Bets +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +10 After Two Wins +$25 After Two Wins +$50 After Two Wins +100 After Two Wins The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 82 Target Win 10 24 $40 $45 $80 $90 $200 $225 $450 $800 Game Bankroll 42 Rounded to $50 121 Rounded to $125 201 Rounded to $200 201 Rounded to $200 402 Rounded to $400 402 Rounded to $400 1005 Rounded to $1000 1005 Rounded to $1000 2010 Rounded to $2000 3020 Rounded to $3000 $1600 6040 Rounded to $6000 $3200 15100 Rounded to $15,000 All Rights Reserved How Much Can You Make? We believe that you can use the results of our long-term performance testing to accurately forecast your win rates using the Power V Formula at craps, roulette or baccarat. In this chapter we show projected net winnings based on the results of our long-term testing. While your short-term play may vary considerably from our projections, the longer you play, the more your averages should start to resemble ours. Craps Win Rates Play Level $5-$1 Minimum Table $10-$1 Minimum Table $25-$5 Minimum Table $50-$10 Minimum Table $100-$25 Minimum Table $200-$25 Minimum Table $500-$100 Minimum Table Land-Based Winning Win Rate per (40 Decisions per Bet Hour) $1.44 $58 $2.88 $115 $7.25 $290 $14.38 $575 $29.20 $1168 $58.60 $2344 $146 $5840 Online Winnings (250 Decisions per Hour) $360 $720 $1,813 $2,595 $7,300 NA* NA * Online games have lower betting limits and it may not be possible to find online games allowing play this high. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 83 All Rights Reserved Roulette Win Rates Play Level Win Rate per Bet $5-$1 Minimum Table $10-$1 Minimum Table $25-$5 Minimum Table $50-$10 Minimum Table $100-$25 Minimum Table $200-$25 Minimum Table $500-$100 Minimum Table $1.57 $3.14 $7.88 $15.76 $31.53 $63.06 $157.65 Land-Based Winning (60 Decisions per Hour) $94 $188 $473 $946 $1892 $3784 $9460 Online Winnings (300 Decisions per Hour) $471 $942 $2364 $4728 $9459 NA* NA * Online games have lower betting limits and it may not be possible to find online games allowing play this high. Baccarat Win Rates Play Level Win Rate per Bet $5-$1 Minimum Table $10-$1 Minimum Table $25-$5 Minimum Table $50-$10 Minimum Table $100-$25 Minimum Table $200-$25 Minimum Table $500-$100 Minimum Table $1.41 2.82 $7.08 $14.16 $28.32 $56.64 $141.60 Land-Based Winning (80 Decisions per Hour) $113 $226 $566 $1133 $2266 $4531 $11,328 Online Winnings (350 Decisions per Hour) $494 $987 $2478 $4956 $9912 NA* NA * Online games have lower betting limits and it may not be possible to find online games allowing play this high. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 84 All Rights Reserved Record Keeping You will want to keep records of all of your games. I’ll show you how in this chapter. There are a couple of reasons you will want to keep records. One is to honestly measure how well (or how badly) you are doing. Most players wince at this suggestion. They know that they have been long-term losers. I am going to ask you to be honest and start writing down how you actually do. You don’t have to show this to anyone else. But, aren’t you at least a little curious about your actual wins and losses? Another reason I am suggesting that you start keeping written records is that you will eventually need them for income tax reporting. I’ll tell you more about this later. I have given you a couple of good reasons to start keeping written records of your gambling. They are – First, to honestly measure how well (or badly) you are dong, and Second, to have a record for income tax reporting. How you set up your records is up to you. You may want to purchase a small notebook which fits in your pocket or purse. I like to keep records on individual sheets of standard size 8.5” x 11” accounting paper. I usually carry one sheet with me, neatly folded in my pocket. After each session of play, I will update the information I like to record on the piece of paper. Eventually, after I have returned home, the sheet will be filed in a looseleaf notebook. Whatever system you use is fine; just make sure that you use some kind of recording system. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 85 All Rights Reserved Before I start a gambling excursion, I like to record some basic information about what I plan to do. This information will outline my strategy and would look like this: Location Profit Goal for Trip Games – Roulette & MiniBaccarat Gambling Bankroll Base Bet Size Game Buy-in Days of Play Number of Sessions Target Profit per Game Loss Limit per Game Las Vegas $3,000 $3,000 $25 $1,000 2 days 7-8 a day $200 $500 The results of each session should be recorded as soon as possible after finishing play. The following information should be recorded: Location: (City, casino, etc.) Date and Time Played Game Played Table Number Base Bet Size Betting Series (Neutral & Defensive Bets) Won (Lost): Amount that you won or lost for the session. Total Won (Lost): A running total of the amount you have won or lost. Your actual record might look like the following record : The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 86 All Rights Reserved All Games below played at Mini-Baccarat, $25 Base Bets, $10 Minimum Tables Neutral Bets: 25 40 64 100 150 250 375 Defensive Bets: 10 20 40 80 160 Game Location LV – Golden Nugget LV – Golden Nugget LV – Orleans LV – Orleans LV Orleans LV- Main Street Stat Date & Time 12-9-11 10 to 11 AM 12-9-11 11 to 11:30 AM 12-9-11 2:10 to 2:40 PM 12-9-11 3:30 to 4:10 PM 12-9-11 5:20 to 5:50 PM 12-9-11 7:00 to 10:00 Bac Base Bet Size $25 Amount Won (Lost) $205 Cumulative Won $205 Bac $25 $237 $442 Bac $25 $189 $631 Bac $25 $203 $834 Bac $25 $194 $1028 Bac $25 $953 $1,981 For US players the basic rules for gambling are that all gambling winnings should be reported on your tax returns as other income. Gambling losses are deductible only to the extent that you report gambling winnings and then only as an itemized deduction. Home ownership with the attendant home mortgage interest is usually the deductible expense which allows people to itemize their deductions. If you don’t own a home, or if your home mortgage interest is too low, or you have paid off your mortgage, you may not have enough expenses to itemize deductions. This could mean that you end up reporting gambling winnings as income but are not allowed to deduct gambling losses. As a practical matter, most folks ignore their gambling wins and losses when filling out their tax returns because all they have is losses, and they couldn’t document them if their lives depended on it. Because of the skill you now have with the Power V Formula you are more likely than ever to have reportable gambling income. The easiest way to meet the IRS guidelines for documentation is to keep a daily record of baccarat play, as well as invoices, receipts and other documentation from your trip. File this information in an envelope, a file folder or a notebook. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 87 All Rights Reserved Walking Out a Winner The object of using the Power V Formula is to win and to walk out of the casino with more money than you came in with. That's what this book has been about. If you want to have fun gambling, that’s great too. It's supposed to be fun. But, if you have consistently been losing to the casinos, then I question how much fun you have really been having. There is no substitute for winning. Can I guarantee that you will always be a winner? No. But I will guarantee that your play will improve immensely and that you will have a better chance of winning than ever before if you follow the suggestions I have given you. Here is a brief rundown of what you should do to become a consistent winner: 1. You should first read this entire manual. If you don’t understand parts of the strategy you can go back to them later. 2. Learn the strategy for one game. Your best choice is mini-baccarat. Your second best choice is single-zero roulette. I rank craps in third place because it is a more difficult game to learn and because it is played at a slower rate. 3. Decide whether you are going to play in land-based or online games. Regardless of your choice I recommend that you play in practice mode in an online casino and keep records of your play. For instance, you can play in practice mode at Bodog (www.bodoglife.com/). 4. Learn the Power V Formula before you start playing. This entails learning where to place your bets using the Power V Bet Selection Method. To learn how to use this strategy, you should try it in practice mode. You can use the Master Bet Controller as your bet tracker and record the placement of each bet in practice games. At this point, don’t worry about the size of each bet. Just use a flat bet of $5 and practice choosing where to place each bet. 4. After learning the Bet Selection Method, you will learn the Power V Formula Betting Strategies. You will need to understand Neutral Betting, Offensive Betting, Defensive Betting and how to transition from one mode to another. Before you start you should The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 88 All Rights Reserved decide whether you will wager real money for Defensive Betting or make Imaginary Bets. If you play online, you will have to make real wagers in order to activate the game. It is very important that you learn how to use the bet Registry. The easiest way to determine if you have mastered betting is to review the example games in this book and see if you completely understand how we determined the amount of each bet. 5. After learning the Bet Selection and Betting Strategies, you will need to add the Money Management Rules to complete the strategy. Be sure that you understand the concepts of Base Bets, Game Bankrolls, Total Bankroll and how to use Target Profits. 6. Be sure to review all of the example games in this book, making sure that you completely understand how to determine each bet and why we stopped play in each game. 7. Keep good records of your practice games. Be sure that you are consistently winning before starting to play for real money. 8. Get ready for real play. The easiest way to do this is to deposit money in the online casino where you have been practicing and start playing for real. You will have to adhere to our bankroll requirements. If you decide to start with $1 bets, you will only need an $80 buy-in for craps Since many online casinos offer 100% match bonuses, you can get started with as little as $40 and use the casino’s bonus of $40 to complete your bankroll. 9. Be sure that you keep accurate records. I employ record keeping mainly to keep score. If I have a Profit Goal in mind, I want to know when I have reached it. I know for a fact that most gamblers underestimate the amount of their losses and overestimate how much they are ahead. Record keeping will not only keep you honest, but it will also improve your winnings. 10. Set modest goals when you first start playing for real. It is always better to start playing with a lower bankroll so that if you do make mistakes your losses will be smaller. Only move up in play after you have built up the bankroll needed out of winnings. If your winnings are not growing, then you are not using the strategy correctly. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 89 All Rights Reserved 11. Finally, learn to play another casino game. I suggest craps for a real change. You’ll get the chance to stand while you play and even cheer the shooter if you like. My point is that your casino experience will be much more enjoyable if you learn another game. 12. Play for blood. The best way to do this is to start out small and then increase the size of your wagers as your bankroll grows. While the casino may not pay much attention to your wins as a $5 bettor, the casino bosses will definitely take notice when you start beating them making $100 Base Bets. I hope you enjoyed this book and picked up some useful pointers. It's tough to win at gambling. But the real trick is not to lose too much. If you keep your losses low, then when the large payoff comes (and it will if you are hang on long enough to enjoy it), you will end up a net winner. I know how hard it is to use discipline in a casino environment. But once you leave the casino and arrive home with real winnings, you will see the value in the strategies. I wish you the very best in your gambling endeavors. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 90 All Rights Reserved Summary of Power V Formula Determining How Much to Bet The Power V Formula consists of moving between different V Factors or vectors which occur throughout a game. There are three modes of play used by the Power V Formula: Neutral Betting is the default mode of betting. Every game will start in this mode of betting. Anytime a signal is given to change betting modes, you will return to Neutral Betting. Offensive Betting is used when there is a Vector Signal to start Offensive Betting. Whenever you are in Offensive Betting Mode, you will continue in this mode until losing one bet. Any loss in Offensive Betting Mode signals a return to Neutral Betting Mode. When you return to Neutral Betting Mode, you will start with a wager one level higher than the last Neutral Bet made before entering Offensive Betting. Defensive Betting is used when there is a Vector Signal to change from Neutral Betting to Defensive Betting. Anytime you have two consecutive losses in Neutral Betting Mode, you will change to Defensive Betting for the next wager. Once in Defensive Mode you will stay in this mode until you have one win. Any win in Defensive Betting Mode signals a return to Neutral Betting Mode. Vector Signals are used to determine changes in betting mode. There are summarized below: Current Mode Neutral Betting Neutral Betting Offensive Betting Defensive Betting Vector Signal Two Consecutive Wins Two Consecutive Loss One Loss One Win Action Change to Offensive Betting Change to Defensive Betting Change to Neutral Betting Change to Neutral Betting The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 91 All Rights Reserved Neutral Betting Mode When in Neutral Betting Mode you will use a Betting Series. Craps uses a different betting series from the one used for roulette and baccarat. Below are summarized the Neutral Betting Series for $5 Base Bets for Craps and Roulette/Baccarat. Craps Neutral Betting Series for $5 Base Bets: 5 8 13 20 30 Roulette/Baccarat Neutral Betting Series for $5 Base Bets: 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 The same betting rules are used for Neutral Betting regardless of differences in the betting series. 1. Always start any betting series with the lowest level bet. To begin the $5 betting series, wager $5. If this bet wins, stay at this level of betting. If this bet loses, raise your next bet to the next higher bet in the Betting Series. 2. If a bet loses, raise the next bet one level to the next higher wager in the Betting Series. If you lose the $5 bet in the $5 betting series, wager $8 next. 3. Reduce your next bet one level following a winning wager. If you wager $8 in the $5 betting series and win, bet $5 next. 4. Anytime you win two bets in a row or win two out of three bets, drop the next wager two levels of bets in the Betting Series. 5. Whenever you have left Neutral Betting Mode because of a Vector Signal and then returned to this mode, you will resume betting one level higher than your last bet in Neutral Betting Mode. Example: You win a wager of $13 and then one of $8. Your next wager would normally by for $5. However, with two consecutive wins you change to Offensive Betting Mode. After any loss in Offensive Betting Mode you will return to Neutral Betting and wager $8, one level higher than the last indicated level in Neutral The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 92 All Rights Reserved Betting Mode. Offensive Betting Two consecutive wins in Neutral Betting Mode is the signal to change to Offensive Betting Mode. The Offensive Betting Rules are as follows: 1. Increase the Neutral Bet for that level by one unit. For example, if the normal Neutral Bet is $5, increase the bet to $6. 2. If the first Offensive Bet wins, increase the next bet by another unit. Example: If a $6 bet wins increase the next bet to $7. 3. If you win two Offensive Bets in a row, regress to the original Neutral Series bet after two wins. Example: Neutral Bet is $5. First Offensive Bet of $6 won. Second Offensive Bet of $6 won. Regress to $5 for third Offensive Bet. 4. If you win the third Offensive Bet, continue to increase each bet by one unit as long as the winning streak continues. 5. Upon the loss of any Offensive Bet, resume betting in the Neutral Betting Series one level higher than the Neutral Bet level lost. You will adjust the size of Offensive Bets upwards when you play with larger Base Bets. For example, using $25 Base Bets, you will use $5 betting units to increase the size of your Offensive Bets. As a $100 Base Bettor, you may want to use $25 betting units for Offensive Betting. Defensive Betting The trigger to move into Defensive Betting Mode is the loss of two consecutive bets in Neutral Betting Mode. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 93 All Rights Reserved A different Betting Series is used when the mode of the game is Defensive. Defensive Betting Series are set up as Martingale types of betting series where only one win is required to complete the betting series. In games allowing $1 minimum bet, you would use the following Defensive Bets: 1 2 4 8 16 32. If the minimum bet is $5, you will use the following Defensive Bets: 5 10 20 40 80 160. If you prefer you can make Imaginary Bets when in Defensive Mode. One way around having to use a larger bankroll to cover the cost of making higher Defensive Bets is to not make any bets when called on to enter the Defensive Betting Mode. Instead of making Defensive Bets consisting of real bets, you will make Imaginary Bets instead. To make Imaginary Bets you will refrain from making any bets for each round of Defensive Play. However, you will still need to keep track of where you would have bet and if your bet would have won. With Imaginary Betting, as soon as an Imaginary Bet wins you will revert to Neutral Betting, resuming betting one level higher than the level of the Neutral Bet lost prior to starting Defensive Betting. If you decide to use Imaginary Bets, then you will only need a Game Bankroll for roulette or baccarat of $201 for $5 betting. When you consider that you will achieve 96% of the efficiency of the original system with a substantial reduction in bankroll, you may want to try Imaginary Betting. Whether you are wagering real money or making Imaginary Bets, as soon as you win one wager you will return to the Neutral Betting Mode. You will resume Neutral Betting making a wager one level higher than the last bet lost in Neutral Betting Mode. For The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 94 All Rights Reserved example, if the last bet lost before starting Defensive Betting was $13, you will resume Neutral Betting making a bet of $20. Craps Bets, Bankroll and Target Wins Craps Play - Bets, Bankroll, Target Wins and Game Bankroll Making Real Defensive Bets Base Bet Neutral Bets Defensive Bets Offensive Bets +1 After Two Wins Target Win 10 Game Bankroll $80 Total Bankroll $240 $1-$1 Minimum Table $3-$1 Minimum Table $5-$1 Minimum Table $5-$5 Minimum Table $10-$1 Minimum Table $10-$5 Minimum Table $25-$5 Minimum Table $25-$10 Minimum Table $50-$10 Minimum Table $100-$25 Minimum Table $200-$25 Minimum Table $500-$100 Minimum Table 12356 1 2 4 8 16 32 3 5 8 12 18 1 2 4 8 16 32 +1 After Two Wins 24 $110 $330 5 8 13 20 30 1 2 4 8 16 32 +1 After Two Wins $40 $150 $450 5 8 13 20 30 5 10 20 40 80 160 +1 After Two Wins $45 $400 $1200 10 16 26 40 60 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 +2 After Two Wins $80 $300 $900 10 16 26 40 60 5 10 20 40 80 160 +2 After Two Wins $90 $500 $1500 25 40 65 100 150 5 10 20 40 80 160 +5 After Two Wins $200 $700 $2100 25 40 65 100 150 10 20 40 80 160 320 +5 After Two Wins $200 $1000 $3000 50 80 130 200 300 10 20 40 80 160 320 +10 After Two Wins $400 $1400 $4200 100 160 260 400 600 25 50 100 200 400 800 1600 +$25 After Two Wins $800 $3000 $9000 200 320 520 800 1200 25 50 100 200 400 800 1600 +$50 After Two Wins $1600 $4500 $13500 500 800 1300 2000 3000 100 200 400 800 1600 3200 +100 After Two Wins $3200 $14000 $42000 The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 95 All Rights Reserved Craps Play - Bets, Bankroll, Target Wins and Game Bankroll Making Imaginary Defensive Bets Base Bet Neutral Bets $1-$1 Minimum Table $3-$1 Minimum Table $5-$1 Minimum Table $5-$5 Minimum Table $10-$1 Minimum Table $10-$5 Minimum Table $25-$5 Minimum Table $25-$10 Minimum Table $50-$10 Minimum Table $100-$25 Minimum Table 12356 Defensive Bets 0 3 5 8 12 18 0 5 8 13 20 30 0 5 8 13 20 30 0 10 16 26 40 60 0 10 16 26 40 60 0 25 40 65 100 150 0 25 40 65 100 150 0 50 80 130 200 300 0 100 160 260 400 600 0 $200-$25 Minimum Table 200 320 520 800 1200 0 $500-$100 Minimum Table 500 800 1300 2000 3000 0 Offensive Bets +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +10 After Two Wins +$25 After Two Wins +$50 After Two Wins +100 After Two Wins Target Win 10 Game Bankroll $20 Total Bankroll $60 24 $50 $150 $40 $80 $240 $40 $80 $240 $80 $160 $540 $80 $160 $540 $200 $400 $200 $200 $400 $1200 $450 $800 $2400 $800 $1600 $4800 $1600 $3000 $9000 $3200 $7,600 $22,800 The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 96 All Rights Reserved Roulette & Baccarat Bets, Bankroll and Target Wins Roulette and Baccarat Play Bets, Bankroll, Target Wins and Game Bankroll Making Defensive Bets Base Bet Neutral Bets Defensive Bets $1-$1 Minimum Table $3-$1 Minimum Table $5-$1 Minimum Table $5-$5 Minimum Table $10-$1 Minimum Table $10-$5 Minimum Table $25-$5 Minimum Table $25-$10 Minimum Table $50-$10 Minimum Table 1 2 3 5 6 10 15 3 5 8 12 18 30 45 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 10 16 26 40 60 100 150 10 16 26 40 60 100 150 25 40 65 100 150 250 375 25 40 65 100 150 250 375 50 80 130 200 300 500 750 100 160 260 400 600 1000 1500 200 320 520 800 1200 2000 3000 500 800 1300 2000 3000 5000 7500 1 2 4 8 16 32 $100-$25 Minimum Table $200-$25 Minimum Table $500-$100 Minimum Table 1 2 4 8 16 32 1 2 4 8 16 32 5 10 20 40 80 160 1 2 4 8 16 32 5 10 20 40 80 160 5 10 20 40 80 160 10 20 40 80 160 320 10 20 40 80 160 320 25 50 100 200 400 800 1600 25 50 100 200 400 800 1600 100 200 400 800 1600 3200 Offensive Bets +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +10 After Two Wins Target Win 10 Game Bankroll $100 Total Bankroll $300 24 $200 $600 $40 $270 $720 $45 $500 $1500 $80 $470 $1410 $90 $720 $2,160 $200 $1300 $3900 $200 $1000 $3000 $450 $2700 $8100 +$25 After Two Wins +$50 After Two Wins +100 After Two Wins $800 $7200 $21,600 $1600 $11,200 $33.600 $3200 $26,000 $78,000 The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 97 All Rights Reserved Craps Play - Bets, Bankroll, Target Wins and Game Bankroll Making Imaginary Defensive Bets Base Bet Neutral Bets 12356 Defensive Bets 0 Offensive Bets +1 After Two Wins Target Win 10 Game Bankroll $20 $1-$1 Minimum Table $3-$1 Minimum Table $5-$1 Minimum Table $5-$5 Minimum Table $10-$1 Minimum Table $10-$5 Minimum Table $25-$5 Minimum Table $25-$10 Minimum Table $50-$10 Minimum Table $100-$25 Minimum Table $200-$25 Minimum Table $500-$100 Minimum Table 3 5 8 12 18 0 +1 After Two Wins 24 $50 5 8 13 20 30 0 +1 After Two Wins $40 $80 5 8 13 20 30 0 +1 After Two Wins $45 $80 10 16 26 40 60 0 +2 After Two Wins $80 $160 10 16 26 40 60 0 +2 After Two Wins $90 $160 25 40 65 100 150 0 +5 After Two Wins $200 $400 25 40 65 100 150 0 +5 After Two Wins $225 $400 50 80 130 200 300 0 +10 After Two Wins $450 $800 100 160 260 400 600 0 +$25 After Two Wins $800 $1600 200 320 520 800 1200 0 +$50 After Two Wins $1600 $3040 500 800 1300 2000 3000 0 +100 After Two Wins $3200 The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 98 $1,4000 All Rights Reserved Roulette and Baccarat Play Bets, Bankroll, Target Wins and Game Bankroll Making Imaginary Defensive Bets Base Bet Neutral Bets $1-$1 Minimum Table $3-$1 Minimum Table $5-$1 Minimum Table $5-$5 Minimum Table $10-$1 Minimum Table $10-$5 Minimum Table $25-$5 Minimum Table $25-$10 Minimum Table $50-$10 Minimum Table $100-$25 Minimum Table 1 2 3 5 6 10 15 Defensive Bets 0 3 5 8 12 18 30 45 0 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 0 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 0 10 16 26 40 60 100 150 10 16 26 40 60 100 150 25 40 65 100 150 250 375 25 40 65 100 150 250 375 50 80 130 200 300 500 750 100 160 260 400 600 1000 1500 0 $200-$25 Minimum Table 200 320 520 800 1200 2000 3000 0 $500-$100 Minimum Table 500 800 1300 2000 3000 5000 7500 0 0 0 0 0 0 Offensive Bets +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +1 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +2 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +5 After Two Wins +10 After Two Wins +$25 After Two Wins +$50 After Two Wins +100 After Two Wins Target Win 10 Game Bankroll $50 Total Bankroll $150 24 $125 $375 $40 $200 $600 $45 $200 $600 $80 $400 $1200 $90 $400 $1200 $200 $1000 $3000 $225 $1000 $3000 $450 $2000 $6000 $800 $4000 $12000 $1600 $8000 $24000 $3200 $20,000 $60,000 The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 99 All Rights Reserved Power V Formula Automatic Playmaker You may wish to use our Power V Formula Automatic Playmaker when you play. To use it, record the results of each round of play as you play. The Sample Game for roulette is shown below as originally shown in this manual. On the next page the same game is shown using Automatic Playmaker. On the page following that you will find a blank Automatic Playmakers for Roulette, Baccarat and Craps that you can copy and take with you when you play. I suggest that you trim in down to the size of the card so that it will fit in your pocket. Be sure to make a number of copies of this form before you go on a casino excursion. The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 100 All Rights Reserved Sample Roulette Game Key: Roulette Decision: R=Red B=Black Betting Pattern: R=Repeat C=Chop Betting Mode N=Neutral O=Offensive D=Defensive Bet No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Roulette Decision R R R B B R R B R R B R B R R R R R R Betting Mode N N O O N D D D D N N D N N N N N O O Betting Pattern R R R R C R C R C C R C C C C R R R R Bet On R R R R R B B R R R R R B R B R R R R Amount Bet 5 5 6 7 8 1 2 4 8 13 20 1 30 20 8 13 5 6 7 Win or Lost W-5 W-5 W-5 L-7 L-8 L-1 L-2 L-4 W-8 L-13 L-20 W-1 W-30 W-20 L-8 W-13 W-5 W-6 W-7 The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 101 Cumulative Won +5 +10 +16 +9 +1 -0-2 -6 +2 -11 -31 -30 -0+20 +12 +25 +30 +36 +43 All Rights Reserved Power V Formula Automatic Playmaker – Roulette Location:____________________________________ Date:________________Base Bet______ N Bets____________________________ D Bets_______________ O bet Unit__ Target Win___ Betting Mode Betting Pattern: Roulette Decision: N=Neutral R=Repeat R=Red O=Offensive C=Chop B=Black D=Defensive Bet No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Roulette Decision Betting Mode Betting Pattern Bet On Amount Bet Win or Lost The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 102 Cumulative Won All Rights Reserved Power V Formula Automatic Playmaker – Baccarat Location:____________________________________ Date:________________Base Bet______ N Bets____________________________ D Bets_______________ O bet Unit__ Target Win___ Betting Mode Betting Pattern: Roulette Decision: N=Neutral R=Repeat P=Player O=Offensive C=Chop B=Banker D=Defensive Bet No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Roulette Decision Betting Mode Betting Pattern Bet On Amount Bet Win or Lost The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 103 Cumulative Won All Rights Reserved Power V Formula Automatic Playmaker – Craps Location:____________________________________ Date:________________Base Bet______ N Bets____________________________ D Bets_______________ O bet Unit__ Target Win___ Betting Mode Betting Pattern: Roulette Decision: N=Neutral R=Repeat P=Pass Line O=Offensive C=Chop D=Don’t Pass D=Defensive Bet No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Roulette Decision Betting Mode Betting Pattern Bet On Amount Bet Win or Lost The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 104 Cumulative Won All Rights Reserved Player Cards Roulette/Baccarat– Real Defensive Betting Roulette/Baccarat $1 Base Bets, Real Defensive Bets Power V Formula Roulette/Baccarat $1 Bets $1 Base Bets – Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $100 Target Win = $10 Neutral Bets: 1 2 3 5 6 10 15 Defensive Bets: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Bets: Add 1 to N Bet after two wins Roulette/Baccarat $5 Base Bets, Real Defensive Bets Power V Formula Roulette/Baccarat $5 Bets $5 Base Bets – Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $270 Target Win = $40 Neutral Bets: 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 Defensive Bets: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Bets: Add 1 to N Bet after two wins Roulette/Baccarat $10 Base Bets, Real Defensive Bets Power V Formula Roulette/Baccarat $10 Bets $10 Base Bets – Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $470 Target Win = $80 Neutral Bets: 10 16 26 40 60 100 150 Defensive Bets: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Bets: Add 2 to N Bet after two wins The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 105 All Rights Reserved Roulette/Baccarat $25 Base Bets, Real Defensive Bets Power V Formula Roulette/Baccarat $25 Bets $25 Base Bets – Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $1300 Target Win = $200 Neutral Bets: 25 40 65 100 150 250 375 Defensive Bets: 5 10 20 40 80 160 Offensive Bets: Add 5 to N Bet after two wins Roulette/Baccarat $50 Base Bets, Real Defensive Bets Power V Formula Roulette/Baccarat $50 Bets $50 Base Bets – Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $2700 Target Win = $450 Neutral Bets: 50 80 130 200 300 500 750 Defensive Bets: 10 20 40 80 160 320 Offensive Bets: Add 10 to N Bet after two wins Roulette/Baccarat $100 Base Bets, Real Defensive Bets Power V Formula Roulette/Baccarat $100 Bets Craps $5 Base Bets – Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $7200 Target Win = $1600 Neutral Bets: 100 160 260 400 600 1000 1500 Defensive Bets: 25 50 100 200 400 800 1600 Offensive Bets: Add 25 to N Bet after two wins The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 106 All Rights Reserved Roulette/Baccarat– Defensive Betting With Imaginary Bets Roulette/Baccarat $1 Base Bets, Imaginary Defensive Bets Power V Formula Roulette/Baccarat $1 Bets $1 Base Bets – Imaginary Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $50 Target Win = $10 Neutral Bets: 1 2 3 5 6 10 15 Defensive Bets: None Offensive Bets: Add 1 to N Bet after two wins Roulette/Baccarat $5 Base Bets, Imaginary Defensive Bets Power V Formula Roulette/Baccarat $5 Bets $5 Base Bets – Imaginary Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $200 Target Win = $40 Neutral Bets: 5 8 13 20 30 50 75 Defensive Bets: None Offensive Bets: Add 1 to N Bet after two wins Roulette/Baccarat $10 Base Bets, Imaginary Defensive Bets Power V Formula Roulette/Baccarat $10 Bets $10 Base Bets – Imaginary Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $400 Target Win = $80 Neutral Bets: 10 16 26 40 60 100 150 Defensive Bets: None Offensive Bets: Add 2 to N Bet after two wins The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 107 All Rights Reserved Roulette/Baccarat $25 Base Bets, Imaginary Defensive Bets Power V Formula Roulette/Baccarat $25 Bets $25 Base Bets – Imaginary Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $1000 Target Win = $225 Neutral Bets: 25 40 65 100 150 250 375 Defensive Bets: None Offensive Bets: Add 5 to N Bet after two wins Roulette/Baccarat $50 Base Bets, Imaginary Defensive Bets Power V Formula Roulette/Baccarat $50 Bets $50 Base Bets – Imaginary Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $2000 Target Win = $450 Neutral Bets: 50 80 130 200 300 500 750 Defensive Bets: None Offensive Bets: Add 10 to N Bet after two wins Roulette/Baccarat $100 Base Bets, Imaginary Defensive Bets Power V Formula Roulette/Baccarat $100 Bets $100 Base Bets – Imaginary Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $4000 Target Win = $800 Neutral Bets: 100 160 260 400 600 1000 1500 Defensive Bets: None Offensive Bets: Add 10 to N Bet after two wins The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 108 All Rights Reserved Craps– Real Defensive Betting Craps - $1 Base Bets, Real Defensive Bets Power V Formula Craps $1 Bets $1 Base Bets – Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $80 Target Win = $10 Neutral Bets: 1 2 3 5 6 Defensive Bets: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Bets: Add 1 to N Bet after two wins Craps - $5 Base Bets, Real Defensive Bets Power V Formula Craps $5 Bets $5 Base Bets – Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $150 Target Win = $40 Neutral Bets: 5 8 13 20 30 Defensive Bets: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Bets: Add 1 to N Bet after two wins Craps - $10 Base Bets, Real Defensive Bets Power V Formula Craps $10 Bets $10 Base Bets – Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $300 Target Win = $80 Neutral Bets: 10 16 26 40 60 Defensive Bets: 1 2 4 8 16 32 Offensive Bets: Add 2 to N Bet after two wins The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 109 All Rights Reserved Craps - $25 Base Bets, Real Defensive Bets Power V Formula Craps $25 Bets $25 Base Bets – Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $700 Target Win = $200 Neutral Bets: 25 40 65 100 150 Defensive Bets: 5 10 20 40 80 160 Offensive Bets: Add 5 to N Bet after two wins Craps - $50 Base Bets, Real Defensive Bets Power V Formula Craps $50 Bets $50 Base Bets – Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $1400 Target Win = $450 Neutral Bets: 50 80 130 200 300 Defensive Bets: 10 20 40 80 160 320 Offensive Bets: Add 10 to N Bet after two wins Craps - $100 Base Bets, Real Defensive Bets Power V Formula Craps $100 Bets $100 Base Bets – Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $3000 Target Win = $800 Neutral Bets: 100 160 260 400 600 Defensive Bets: 25 50 100 200 400 800 1600 Offensive Bets: Add 25 to N Bet after two wins The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 110 All Rights Reserved Craps - Defensive Betting With Imaginary Bets Craps - $1 Base Bets, imaginary Defensive Bets Power V Formula Craps $1 Bets $1 Base Bets – Imaginary Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $20 Target Win = $10 Neutral Bets: 1 2 3 5 6 Defensive Bets: None Offensive Bets: Add 1 to N Bet after two wins Craps - $5 Base Bets, imaginary Defensive Bets Power V Formula Craps $5 Bets $5 Base Bets – Imaginary Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $80 Target Win = $40 Neutral Bets: 5 8 13 20 30 Defensive Bets: None Offensive Bets: Add 1 to N Bet after two wins Craps - $10 Base Bets, imaginary Defensive Bets Power V Formula Craps $10 Bets $10 Base Bets – Imaginary Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $80 Target Win = $80 Neutral Bets: 10 16 26 40 60 Defensive Bets: None Offensive Bets: Add 2 to N Bet after two wins The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 111 All Rights Reserved Craps - $25 Base Bets, imaginary Defensive Bets Power V Formula Craps $25 Bets $25 Base Bets – Imaginary Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $400 Target Win = $200 Neutral Bets: 25 40 65 100 150 Defensive Bets: None Offensive Bets: Add 5 to N Bet after two wins Craps - $50 Base Bets, imaginary Defensive Bets Power V Formula Craps $50 Bets $50 Base Bets – Imaginary Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $800 Target Win = $400 Neutral Bets: 50 80 130 200 300 Defensive Bets: None Offensive Bets: Add 10 to N Bet after two wins Craps - $100 Base Bets, imaginary Defensive Bets Power V Formula Craps $100 Bets $100 Base Bets – Imaginary Defensive Bets Game Bankroll = $1600 Target Win = $800 Neutral Bets: 100 160 260 400 600 Defensive Bets: None Offensive Bets: Add 10 to N Bet after two wins The Power V Formula © 2011 Silverthorne Publications Inc 112 All Rights Reserved