Recent content by CrazyEddie

I do. Smoking where others are forced to breathe your smoke is boorish behavior notwithstanding the fact that the casino allows smoking.

You'll often find me with one or two extra checks on top of my bet, and this is for a reason (and it's not to fool the Eye). I try to often bet odd amounts so's I get paid a 50¢ piece on every BJ. This way I have money to put in in my piggy bank for when I am busto. Sayonara all :cry: .

I decided to check out PH on a Tuesday morning around 1 AM. The first indication of trouble was that the valet claimed to be full (what BS). I told the valet I had come there to play, their self parking is literally 1/4 mile away, and I'd be happy to take my business elsewhere. So they parked...

Sometime in the past I had a winning streak at craps where I was insanely lucky over a period of a couple of years. While playing at casino P I saw a boxman who had recently moved there from casino T. I said hi, and he said, "You don't know me" which is the highest compliment I have ever...

Suppose for a minute I were to visit 6 different CET casinos carrying nothing but my TR card and a $5 bill. What strategy generates the most comp love for my $5? $5 through a $5 slot? Or $5 through a $0.25 machine (thereby possibly generating more than $5 in coin-in)? Or does it not matter?

In other words, taking or laying any amount of free odds doesn't affect your EV one way or the other, just your variance.

And they smoke.

1296 to 1, of course, is the odds against rolling a 2 or 12 twice in craps (but a parlayed bet, alas, pays only 899 or at best 960 to 1 in the U.S.) I have a distinctive appearance and therefore have no ability to use "cover" or "camouflage." I am impossible to miss. I tip dealers and, in...

Hey Chuck Norris. The mispay is a gambling debt not evidenced by a marker and is thus legally unenforceable. So why escalate the situation by threatening to pound the db. Just ignore him.

Now I am supposed to avoid odd bet sizes. What paranoid nonsense. If I want to bet $30 or $35 or $18 I will. Last I looked the casino books all bets from the table minimum to the table maximum.

I've misplaced my copy of Professional Blackjack, but the exact odds of 11 v A in both H17 and S17 are printed to 3 decimal places based on computer simulations of umpteen-thousand hands.

You mean there is no longer anybody sitting in those little booths reading newspapers? What are they going to do with the real estate?

Prof. Shackelford, the Wizard of Odds, has a page detailing composition-dependent basic strategy plays for S17. Unfortunately the good Prof. has not as yet seen fit to opine on H17 DD games. Unless you are at a $50+ table, good luck finding DD S17 in Las Vegas. Does anybody here know or can...

So wifey and I are playing for small stakes at a 5* Las Vegas casino where I am known and have been playing for years; I am playing basic strategy and am not doing anything that any reasonable casino would view as hinky. I have a brief run of cards for maybe $500. All of a sudden I get the...

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