Jacks or Better Strategy
July 21, 2008
The following strategy is for full pay jacks or better video poker. “Full pay” designates the following paytable, per coin based on five coins bet, which returns 99.54% of money bet assuming optimal strategy. Full Pay Jacks or Better Hand Payoff Royal flush 800 Straight flush 50 Four of a kind 25 Full house 9 Flush 6 Straight 4 Three of a kind 3 Two pair 2 Jacks or better 1 To use this strategy look up all reasonable ways...
Ten Commandments of Gambling
July 21, 2008
Expect to lose. The odds almost always favor the casino. If you won’t be happy if you lose then you shouldn’t play at all.Don’t rely on hunches. Always make the mathematically best decision. I have met numerous other players who disagree with me on this one, and they are all wrong. On the players’ side is the unlimited use of ESP and other psychic powers. The casinos have the mathematical odds on their side....
Video Poker Return Tables
July 21, 2008
The following tables show the payoff, probability of forming on the second draw, contribution to the total return, and the overall total return of various forms of video poker. The payoff table is per coin based on maximum coins played. The total of the expected returns is the expected total return for the game, in other words what the game pays back on average per coin bet, assuming five coins played and perfect strategy. Table of contents Jacks or Better Deuces Wild Loose Deuces Bonus Deuces Joker...
Video Poker Strategy
July 10, 2008
Video poker made its entry to the casino in the seventies and is today one of the most popular forms of gambling. For the player who likes a game of skill, a low house edge, the possibility of large wins, and the anonymity of playing alone there is nothing else that can compare to video poker. The rules of video poker are simple; you play 1 to 5 coins, the machine give you five cards, you choose which to hold and...
Mini Baccarat Tips
July 10, 2008
HTML clipboardTrends and Streaks Every baccarat table will have scorecards and pencils for you to keep track of the outcome of every hand. Most players carefully analyze their scorecards and try to spot trends and streaks. A common streak play is to play the last winning hand. For example, if the bank just won, bet on the bank hand. If the players hand just won, make a bet on the player. This way you you are placing ...
Mini Baccarat Rules
July 10, 2008
HTML clipboardMini-baccarat is one of the easiest games to play with little or no skill. Mini-baccarat is played at a blackjack sized table using a fixed set of rules for both the player and dealer. Players simply wager on which of the two hands of cards adds up to or comes closest to 9. BetUS Casino is a top notch establishment that offers No Downloads to your computer! You will also get all kinds of bonuses for...
Easy Card Counting
July 8, 2008
Being labeled as a “card counter” gives a blackjack player a bad reputation among casino owners and operators. It has always struck me as odd that a person who plays the game with a high degree of skill is subject to being banned from putting that knowledge to work. I cannot think of another pursuit where similar discrimination is enforced. A card counter keeps mental track of the cards that have been dealt in order to assess the collective value of the cards remaining in an effort to...
Tipping Dealers
July 8, 2008
People who are new to the world of casino gambling may be unaware that you can express your appreciation to dealers for a job well done by tipping them. They cannot solicit tips, so it’s up to players to make the initiative. Dealers rely heavily on tips to beef up their weekly take-home pay. The reality of the situation is that dealers are in an abstract sense part of the entertainment and dining world’s service industry. This puts them in the same category, for example, as restaurant...
12 vs 2 Blackjack
July 8, 2008
One of the most painful hands in blackjack is when you get a 12 versus a dealer who is showing a two? Oh sure, there are plenty of hands out there that are worse mathematically, since by the book a 12 against a 2 balances out to a loss of just over $0.25 per dollar bet. Lots of player-dealer combinations are far more taxing. For instance, a 16 versus nine, 10, or ace is projected to cost above $0.50 on the dollar. And a 17, which many bettors erroneously think is a safe plateau, bears theoretical...
Baccarat Win Expectations
July 8, 2008
In baccarat, considering only rounds that don’t tie, the probabilities of winning are 49.3 percent for Player and 50.7 percent for Banker. This is sometimes expressed as “Player should (or is expected to) win 493 out of every thousand hands, and Banker should (or is expected to) win 507 out of a thousand.” But don’t expect what the math says you should. Pretend you sit through a thousand decisions, about four hours of minibaccarat, betting $10 per round on Player. Winning...
