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Baccarat is an easy game to learn and the house edge is under 1.5%. If you like blackjack, you will probably like baccarat
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Baccarat is a card game that is dealt from a shoe. The shoe holds eight decks of cards. In each game, the player and the banker are each dealt a hand of two cards.
You bet on either of the two hands to win which means coming closest to a value of nine, and not over. (more…)
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Texas Holdem is on of the most popular forms of Poker. There are several actions in a poker game. Knowing when to check, fold, call, or bet is the difference between wining at texas holdem poker or losing. A good player can win in a back room, or one of the best online casinos in the world.
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How to Play Roulette and Win
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get into a rhythm. They pick up the ball from the pocket where it last hit the same way each time. They then spin it the same way each time, with the same force. Thus, the ball will spin the same number of spins and should land the same number of pockets away from the last spin. This unconscious ability or trait to place the ball, not so much in a given section, but a given distance from the last hit is called dealer signing or a dealer signature.
Experts have lined up on either side of the dealer signature issue — some yea, some nay.
The Roulette dealer signature is an interesting concept. Of course, if one could follow a thousand dealers and record their spins over thousands of decisions, it might be possible to determine once and for all whether the signature idea is a myth or a reality.
Since we are looking for an unconscious ability that these dealers might have, we wouldn’t want them to know that we are studying them because that would affect their spins.
So the study of possible signatures would have to be done surreptitiously, without the dealer noticing, and there’s the rub. How could a researcher stand by a dealer’s table, follow the dealer from table to table, hour after hour, day after day, recording and analyzing his spins without the dealer becoming aware of such a person?
At first, the dealer might think that the wheel was being clocked, but it wouldn’t take long for him to suspect that it was his spins that were being clocked. Even if the dealer thought it was the machine being clocked, this still might cause him to alter his spin.
Now, wouldn’t a biased-wheel watcher also affect a dealer’s spin? (A biased wheel is one with a physical defect of some type that causes certain numbers to appear out of proportion to their probabilities.)
On a biased wheel, any number of dealers will spin the ball with any amount of force, causing the ball to make any number of revolutions around the wheel, and all this wouldn’t affect the bias one whit because that bias was in the wheel itself and had nothing to do with the spinning of the ball or the dealer.
But anything that is dealer-dependent and dependent on the dealer being unaware is immediately changed when the dealer becomes aware.
So I doubt if an actual practical test of dealer signatures is workable in the real world of casino play.
The other way to look at it is that dealer signatures must necessarily vary as the wheel speed slows down over time. The dealer might spin the ball the same way time and again but with each ball-spin, he is playing into a fractionally different wheel-spin. Thus, dealer signatures would move slowly around the wheel as the wheel itself slowed. When the wheel was respun and thus accelerated, you would see the same patterns as last time.
You would have to then analyze the pattern of the signature — an even more complicated task. Still, if dealer signatures exist, certainly they would be exploitable in long and short-term play, especially short-term play as the gradual slowing of the wheel’s spin would not affect the signature quite so drastically. If the dealer signature exists, then it will help us to win. If it doesn’t exist, it can’t hurt us — since it isn’t increasing the house edge against us. We merely face the same house edge we would have faced had we played any layout strategy. Still analyzing signatures is a technique of play that might be able to change the edge in our favor. It’s worth a try.
In any series of decisions, it is easy to find the “average” distance of a dealer’s spins from decision to decision. Just add up the distance of each spin and divide by the total number of spins. Unfortunately, this is not the same as finding a signature. What we want to know is if the dealer’s average is within the confines of, say, one-third of the wheel.
That is to say, will the dealer spin the ball in such a way that it tends to land within a nine to 12 pocket grouping consistently?
Looking at the double-zero roulette wheel, let us say that on spin number one the dealer picks the ball up from the 00 pocket and spins it so that it winds up in the 12 pocket, five pockets away. On his next spin, he picks the ball up from the 12 pocket and spins it so that it lands in the 6 pocket, five pockets away from the 12. Finally, on this third spin, he lands it in the 23 pocket — another five pockets away. The dealer’s signature here would be five.
Of course, three spins of the wheel is not enough to determine without a doubt that a dealer has a signature, but for purposes of a glaring example it is sufficient. Since the last number that hit was 23, we would now bet on 9 — five pockets away.
In the best of all possible worlds, the dealer would again spin the ball in such a way that it would land in our 9 — five pockets away.
In the real world, as opposed to the world of our roulette dreams, we would never see a perfect signature. What we would want to find is a dealer who places the ball more than a third of the time within a 12 pocket grouping an average distance away. Let us say that the dealer is able to hit a 12 number grouping, one-half of the time. In this way, we would bet those 12 numbers (12 units), lose half the time (-12 units), win half the time because one of our 12 numbers hit (which means we lose 11 units on the numbers that didn’t hit) but win 35 units on the number that did hit for a net win of 24 units (35-11 = 24).
Therefore, in two spins we are ahead 12 units or six units per spin. We would soon own the casino. Naturally, we would take any kind of win, even one unit per spin.
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How to Play Craps and Win More Often
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Craps is one of the best online casino games. It offers some of the best online gambling. Live craps and online craps are similar. Crapsis a game of numbers, eleven of them to be precise: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. These numbers can be wagered upon in different ways and, depending on the wager, you can face house edges that are reasonable, about 1.5 percent, or nuts, about 16.67 percent.
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In this article, I take a look at the numbers 2, 3 & 4 in a literal way and in a numerological way.
Since we have two six-sided dice in craps with each die having six numbers (or spots), starting with the one-spot and going to six spots, there are 36 possible combinations (6 X 6 = 36). The number 2 can only be made if each die lands on a one-spot. Thus, the probability of the 2 on any given roll is one in 36. The odds of this happening are therefore 35 to 1. That is, there are 35 non-twos to every one 2. (more…)
Basic Blackjack Strategy
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When you play online blackjack, you can play basic blackjack strategy which is the best blackjack play of every player hand against every dealer upcard, and is geared to winning you the most money.
Basic Blackjack Strategy
Or you can play a “kind of” basic blackjack strategy which is geared to winning the most hands.
Basic strategy is geared to maximizing wins and minimizing losses — of money, not hands. Sometimes utilizing basic strategy will actually lose you more hands!
Let me give you an example of what we mean and why people sometimes make the mistake of deviating from basic strategy because “it doesn’t seem to make any sense.” Take the hand of Ace-7, a soft 18, against a dealer’s upcard of 6. If you stand with the hand, you will win more decisions than if you double the hand. An 18 is a strong hand against a dealer’s 6, the reasoning goes. If you double down, you can only improve your hand by receiving an ace, 2, or 3; if you get a 10 it does not improve it and merely takes the dealer’s possible bust card, but receiving a 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 worsens the hand.
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So you have a soft 18 and you double down and you get a 4; you now find yourself in the unenviable position of sitting there with a 12 and twice as much money out!
But there’s no maybe when it comes to basic strategy as always doubling down is what basic strategy calls for in the above situation of soft 18 against a dealer’s 6.
If you double your soft 18 you will make the hand worse almost 50 percent of the time, and you will lose more of your decisions in this situation because of that.
Yet, by doubling the amount of money in action on soft 18 vs. a dealer’s 6 upcard, you will win 10 percent more money in the long run than had you stood on your 18.
You’ll win fewer hands, but you’ll win more money. Which is more important to you?
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Here’s another example of where “common sense” and “computer analysis” clash head on. You have a 16 and the dealer has a 7 upcard. If you stand on your 16 and the dealer has a 10 or ace in the hole, you lose. But the dealer will have a 10 or ace in the hole only about 40 percent of the time. That means about 60 percent of the time, the dealer is going to have a card that forces him or her to take a hit.
So why not stay on your 16, a definite loser for you the overwhelming majority of the time when you hit it, and let the dealer do his or her thing?
The reason is as easy as saving $7 for every $100 you bet in this situation! Your 16 against anything is a loser, no doubt; but your 16 against a dealer’s upcard of 7 will lose you $48 for every $100 bet in this situation if you stand, while it will only lose you $41 for every $100 bet in this situation if you hit. That’s a difference of $7. Yes, you are going to lose money on 16 vs. a dealer’s upcard of 7 no matter how you play the hand, but you will lose $7 less on the 7 if you hit.
Many players erroneously think that blackjack is close to a 50-50 game with the house. Nothing could be further from the truth. In blackjack, the player loses the majority of the hands that aren’t pushes! The statistics show that a player ties approximately 8 % of the time, wins approximately 44% of the time, and loses approximately 48% of the time.
Yet, in terms of money bet, or monetary expectation and house edge, a blackjack player playing perfect basic strategy faces around a one-half percent house edge — translated that means one losing bet per 200 decisions!
The reason for such a seeming anomaly (you lose the majority of your hands but only half of one bet deficit in 200 decisions) has to do with the options that players can utilize. These options, doubling down, pair splitting, hitting and standing when used according to basic strategy get more money on the table in situations that help the player’s overall monetary expectation.
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Poker and Bluffing
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The extensive television coverage the large poker no limit tournaments have lead to a lot of misconception about the frequency of bluffing in poker games. The rules of poker apply when playing online poker at pokerstars, or in Vegas, in a back room, or at the kitchen table.
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A Poker bluff is a bet or raise made with a hand that has no chance of winning.
The purpose is to win a poker pot when your hand is not strong enough to do so on it’s own. You are essentially representing a big hand when in reality you have nothing. Bluffing is a very valuable weapon to have in your poker arsenal but you should make sure you use it correctly and don’t over use it. (more…)
Elimination Blackjack Part 2
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This the second part of an article on Elimination Blackjack, a new blackjack tournament
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I had the chance to play in the first UBT matches at Lake Las Vegas. None of the blackjack players who played in this first UBT match had much experience playing the elimination format and it was a rude awakening. Whereas conservative betting might be appropriate for traditional blackjack tournaments
, you had to be much more aggressive in the elimination format or you would wind up on the sidelines right quick.
This is what happened in my first round. On hand number 7, which is the hand before elimination hand #8, I was in the middle of the pack with my chip count. But two poker players, who had the lowest chip totals, went all-in and lost. This left only four of us on the next hand (the first elimination hand). As I stared at the chip counts of my fellow competitors, I realized I was in bad shape. I had the lowest chip count and I was one of the first to bet. No surprise that I was eliminated on hand 8.
I fared a little better on my second preliminary round but also got eliminated (I believe it was hand 25 when I pushed and one of my competitors won his hand). On my third preliminary round I survived all three elimination hands and wound up playing against poker pro Annie Dukes on the last hand, which I won. I advanced to the semi-final round that I needed to win to make it to the televised Championship Round in Los Angles.
I survived the three elimination hands in this round and went down to the last hand against another blackjack player, Skip Samad. I needed to double down on my hard hand and win this last hand and hope that Skip lost his hand to have a shot at overtaking his chip total but it wasn’t to be ( I drew a picture card on the double down and busted).
I can say from my experience playing in the UBT that it’s no cakewalk. You have to mentally play your best game and be aware of your chip count compared to your fellow players’ chip counts and then pray that you are not one of the first players to bet in an elimination hand (betting after your opponents is much more favorable because you get to see how much they bet and how much unbet chips they have).
The skills you need to master to be successful in an elimination tournament are:
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- Keeping track of the chip count of other players. You won’t know how much to bet if you don’t know the bankrolls of your opponents.
- Knowing when it’s best to go for the high (betting enough so that if everyone wins, you have the highest chip count), or to go for the low (keeping the most unbet chips so that if everyone loses, you have the most chips).
- Knowing when to correlate (bet the same as your opponents bet), when to increase your bet, when to bet the opposite of your opponents, or to simply bet the minimum.
- Being able to mentally determine the outcome of a player’s bet (i.e., what his bankroll would be if he won, lost, or pushed his hand).
- Knowing how to lock out an opponent so no matter what the outcome of the hand, you will advance.
Knowing the importance of betting position (betting first in an elimination hand, or final hand, puts you at a distinct disadvantage compared to betting last). - Knowing when and how to deviate from the basic playing strategy.
In addition, if you decide to play in a UBT tournament with elimination hands, you need to master these additional skills:- How and when to use the secret bet and action card.
- The use of surrender as part of your overall playing strategy.
- How to be more aggressive in your betting if you are first to bet in an elimination hand.
Henry Tamburin is the publisher of Blackjack Insider at www.bjinsider.com
