I Had My Head Handed to Me on a Platter Yesterday...
As much as we’d like to think that successful dice-influencing is all about winning every session or making money every time you pick up the dice…it just ain’t so.
Instead, the successful dice-influencer will mostly have winning sessions, and will mostly come away with a profit…but not all the time.
In fact some sessions can get downright ugly.
I had one of those ‘ugly’ sessions yesterday, although the word ugly doesn’t even come close to describing how badly I shot.
In actual fact my shooting itself wasn’t all that ugly, it’s just that I was just missing the right combination of a correct on-axis toss, landing zone accuracy, ideal throwing energy, and an acceptable amount of backwall rebounding and rollout.
Combined, they conspired to collectively frustrate all of my dice-influencing efforts to the point where I could throw perfect unintentional 7-Outs within one or two tosses of establishing my Rightside PL-Point. Hell, when I’m trying to intentionally 7-Out when I’m shooting from the Darkside, it still takes me an average of around 3.2 rolls to purposely do that. Yesterday it was taking an average of 2.6 rolls to accidentally do it.
Since my toss wasn’t looking that bad, and because I was only missing my intended landing zone by a small margin, and since my toss-energy and its resultant backwall rebounding wasn’t so wild as to be unmanageable; I decided to continue playing and persist in fixing what appeared to be a very minor set of problems.
Well, I’ll give myself partial credit for at least trying to fix the problem at the table; however I’m also going to deduct some major points because none of it worked well enough to bail out what turned out to be a major losing session.
While I did manage to get my toss back on-axis for the most part, and I did manage to dial down my throwing-energy to a satisfactory level, and my landing-zone targeting did improve; none of it was quite good enough to turn that session into a winning one nor did it come close to bailing out the losses that I incurred along the way.
Instead I took a major loss, but I also took away a lesson in terms of accepting the fact that every session won’t be a winning one (no matter how long of a win-streak you might have been on) and every time I pick up the dice it won’t always be a money-making hand (again, no matter how long it’s been between losses and regardless of what your average earnings-per-hand has been up until now).
Having your head handed to you on a platter once in a while certainly brings perspective to your game. It’s not a pleasant thing for sure; but having an occasional losing session puts all the winning ones into a much more appreciative light...but now that I'm back to truly appreciating the wins, I want to get right back to continuing the wins.
Any of you Southern guys got a good recipe for Freshly Severed Head?
Good Luck and Good Skill at the Tables…and in Life.
The Mad Professor
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