OOOps! I went to a casino

Chips

admin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:33:00 +0000

COLOR	VALUE
White	$1.00
Pink	$2.50
Red.	$5.00
Green	$25.00
Black	$100.00
Purple	$500.00
Orange	$1,000.00
Brown	$5,000.00

Higher denominations exist, but colors and even the size and the shape of these chips may vary depends on set of blackjack rules . Chips that are valued at $5 are commonly referred to as "nickels," and $25 chips as "quarters." Also, $1 chips, depending on locale, may be coinage. For instance, in Nevada, tokens that look like silver dollars and often bear the casino logo or another picture serve as $1 chips.

A row of blackjack tables

admin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:33:00 +0000

We finally reach a row of blackjack tables, all at $25 and $50 minimums per hand. In the pit are a number of dourlooking men and women dressed in suits and conservative business attire. These are casino personnel mentioned in the last section called blackjack . It’s a good thing I’m wearing my Jets hat and fake prescription glasses, because I recognize one of them as a boss whom I had gotten heat from several months earlier when he was employed by another casino in town. Casino personnel move around a lot - that’s good and bad, depending on where the most advantageous games are located.

We come up behind one table in particular, a table with three players betting from two green to several black per hand. Chips in blackjack bonus offers have different value, depending on color - and do note that variations exist between houses, especially involving the higher denominations, as in black jack play online. Here’s the low-down on the value of casino checks and their colors, which apply at most but not all casinos:

Chip Values

Difference between your win goal and casino`s

admin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:09:15 +0000

The difference between the casino and the player is that the casino can easily have a much lower win goal because their doors are open 24/7/365. Their games make money all the time. Every hour, every day, every week, every month, every year, without ever needing a rest or a break. Human players can’t play like that single pay-line
. While the casino can easily offer a game where it can reasonably expect less than 1 percent profit, it will get this all the time, always, over the short term as well as the long haul. You, the player, can’t play like that. Therefore, whenever gamblers say to me that they expect a 2 percent return and consider this good, I politely tell them that’s great, and quietly chuckle. These “gamblers” are trying to play like the casino, trying to beat the casino at their own game of survival. Trying to “outlast” the overall game percentages. This will result in nothing more than the gambler’s eventual ruin.

Gamblers in general, and slot players in particular, must have win goals not only commensurate with their bankroll, session stakes, and so on, as listed earlier, but also with the realization that their exposure to the games will only be a very short slice of the game’s overall event reality. Therefore, such win goals cannot and should not be measured in percentages relative to the way the casinos figure their own odds and win goals. Rather, these win goals should be measured in terms of what the game can yield, especially if played correctly, and if selected in accordance with the various selection criteria I listed earlier. It is also important at this point to introduce a derivative of the wingoal criterion, called the win expectation.

The win goal is what you have set as your desired objective blackjack beats, realistically based on the various principles already amply demonstrated. The win expectation, however, is based within the reality of the game itself and, most specifically, in that very short-term slice of that one specific game’s event experience.

Indian reservation

admin — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:45:29 +0000

Indian reservation and riverboat casinos are difficult to summarize because they exist in so many places, and vary from locale to locale. For the most part, players are allowed to double down on any two cards and the dealer must stand on Soft 17. Multiple-deck games are far and away the standard, although here and there one may come across a hand-held game—albeit most likely of the 6:5 for blackjack variety.

Las vegas

admin — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:43:26 +0000

Downtown Las Vegas is known for its similarity to Northern Nevada, in that the dealer draws on Soft 17. However, unlike their northern counterparts, downtown players may double down on any two cards. Casinos on Fremont Street are smaller than most Strip casinos, but proportion-ately offer many more single- and double-deck games.

Although casinos exist all over the state of Nevada—in towns such as McDermitt, Wendover, Ely, and Mesquite, to name just a few—in the blackjack world “Northern Nevada” has become synonymous with Reno and Lake Tahoe. Casinos here are known for restricting the player from doubling down on any total other than 10 or 11, in addition to the dealer hitting Soft 17s. The double down restriction adds an additional -0.18 to -0.28 to the already-present -0.20 (for hitting Soft 17s), for a Basic Strategy starting disadvantage of about -0.38 to -0.48 off the top.

Atlantic City rules include doubling down on any two cards, doubling down after splitting, and the more traditional game wherein the dealer stands on all 17s. These rules are enforced by the Casino Control Commission—the authority having jurisdiction up and down the boardwalk and out on the shores of Brigantine Bay. The vast majority of AC casinos offer eight-deck games, although several houses have high-limit pits offering the six-deck variety. As of this writing, only one Atlantic City casino offers a six-deck game throughout.