Recent content by CORed

Does the casino you were playing at deal 6/5 games? If so, two possibilities come to mind: The dealer was confused and thought that the "no even money" rule for 6/5 applied to 3/2 games. Management decided to apply the "No even money" rule to all games in the hope of preventing dealers...

As with any form of cover, be careful. To much cover and you won't look like an advantage gambler, because you won't be one.

The odds bet is the best bet on the craps table; it's worth nothing. The odds bet decreases the house edge expressed as a percentage of your total bet. It changes the house edge in dollars not at all, but does, of course, increase your variance. A ten dollar pass line bet has an expected loss of...

If I'm not mistaken, Five is worst for the dealer (in terms of bust percentage, anyway) in a S17 game, six is worst in H17. In an S17 game the dealer can make a pat hand with an ace in the hole.

Years ago, when a Blackhawk casino had a game with early surrender ($5 max multi-action), I had a dealer completely incredulous that I was surrendering a 17 vs. an ace. This is correct BS for early surrender (which is extremely rare as it gives a BS player an edge off the top with nearly any...

The thing that seems to fool a lot of players (it fooled me for a little while, the first time I played it) is that when you go to war, you put out another bet, and then the dealer "matches" it. But the dealer doesn't really match your bet. He takes chips out of his tray, and puts them on the...

I know without doing all the math that the house edge on all bets on the roulette table is 5.26% (double zero). Knowing this, I know that that is the house edge for any combination of bets, so it's not really necessary to do anything but multiply the total bets by 5.26% to know the expected...

Hey, give the poor guy a break. The Aggies suck so bad this year that they lost to the CU buffaloes. You can't get much lower than that.

It seems to happen to me every time I draw to an open-ended straight, but I'm sure it's just confirmation bias. I do actually catch the straight once in a while (probably pretty close to the expected frequency, if I kept records).

The reasons that fewer decks are better for a basic strategy player all relate to "effect of removal". Higher blackjack frequency: If you first card is an ace, you have removed a non-ten from the shoe. This increases the fraction of tens left in the shoe more with fewer decks. Same applies if...

I knew all hope was lost when "War" was made into a casino game. Making "Tic-tac-toe" a casino game just confirms it. I can now lose money at all the boring, pointless games I hated as child.

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Rather than come up with a name for it, I suggest walking up to the table, reading the sign or text on the layout that says it's 6:5 and saying to the dealer or pit boss, "Blackjack pays 6 to 5 huh? Do i get a reacharound while your f***ing me in the a**?"

I raise a 12 gage pointed at the back of your head.

Because not busting doesn't necessarily mean that you win. The biggest mistake in your calculations is that you seem to be assuming that not busting means an automatic win.