The Famous Card Counting Experiment
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The original A.C. Game was “POSITIVE OFF THE TOP”
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There was a House Disadvantage.
You could play Basic Strategy and bet what you could rationally risk.
The hordes of card counters congregated there and monopolized the tables would actually share the count out loud, etc. etc.
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There was a House Disadvantage.
You could play Basic Strategy and bet what you could rationally risk.
The hordes of card counters congregated there and monopolized the tables would actually share the count out loud, etc. etc.
Beat the Dealer was a windfall for the casinos. It turned BJ from an unpopular game to the most popular and profitable table game in the casinos, with hoards of ploppies descending on them thinking they could beat it.
I don't have a copy of BTD. How accurate is the BS in it? Even if it is accurate, what %age of players knew it cold in 1978? For that matter, what %age of ploppies know today's BS cold? Less than 1% in my opinion.
I don't have a copy of BTD. How accurate is the BS in it? Even if it is accurate, what %age of players knew it cold in 1978? For that matter, what %age of ploppies know today's BS cold? Less than 1% in my opinion.
Are you taking history lessons from a Monkey? Blackjack was an unpopular game? Relax, take a deep breath and compose your thoughts before you respond. I'm not sure where you learned what you are writing, but it is wrong. BJ was the most popular game in Vegas in the 1960s, and became semi-unpopular after casinos changed the rules after BTD came out. Before that, it was single deck, dealt to the last card, get a BJ after splitting and it paid 3-2, ect,ect.
“Beat the Dealer“ remained on the Best Seller list for more than a year.
The Ten Count was presented in 1962 in a fashion that was hard to employ.
The 1966 edition popularized Hi-Lo.
If you were in Las Vegas c. 1961 you would hardly see a blackjack table for the forest of Craps tables. Craps was popularized by returning World War II veterans in the late 1940’s. It quickly overcame the ever-popular Faro tables,
double-zero roulette wheels, and (3 dice) chuck-a-luck cages.
Like slot machines, “21” was mostly offered as a diversion for the wives of cigar-chomping Craps Shooters. Men rarely played “21” High Rollers played baccarat and craps.
The Ten Count was presented in 1962 in a fashion that was hard to employ.
The 1966 edition popularized Hi-Lo.
If you were in Las Vegas c. 1961 you would hardly see a blackjack table for the forest of Craps tables. Craps was popularized by returning World War II veterans in the late 1940’s. It quickly overcame the ever-popular Faro tables,
double-zero roulette wheels, and (3 dice) chuck-a-luck cages.
Like slot machines, “21” was mostly offered as a diversion for the wives of cigar-chomping Craps Shooters. Men rarely played “21” High Rollers played baccarat and craps.
Blackjack is also not a game that was played anywhere but a casino, while private craps and poker games were common and familiar to Americans, craps more so to the lower class.
Faro and Chuck-a-luck are two oldies, most of us have never seen those, although Sic Bo is pretty close to the latter. But wasn't roulette single-zero back then? I thought double-zero was a modern ripoff.
Faro and Chuck-a-luck are two oldies, most of us have never seen those, although Sic Bo is pretty close to the latter. But wasn't roulette single-zero back then? I thought double-zero was a modern ripoff.