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STRATEGY |
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Wins and Woes
Mark Pilarski
Counting’s wins and woes
Dear Mark,
Can a casino shuffle-up early, even on a multi-deck game, before the cut card appears? Are they trying to stop card counters? I’ve had this done to me on different occasions and was wondering if it is legal. Pat P.
Ordinarily a dealer inserts the cut card anywhere from the halfway point to 75% from the top of the deck(s). Because counters gain their advantage the deeper they can penetrate into the deck(s), casinos will thwart a counter’s profit potential by inserting the cut card closer to the front.
Since counter profits dwindle when the cut card is inserted closer to the front, which by the way is legal, consistent winning for the card counter becomes much more difficult since counters can capitalize on higher plus and minus counts when they were allowed to access the deck deeper.
Casinos everywhere may also legally shuffle the deck(s) before the cut or burn card presents itself. If management suspects a player of card counting, they may “shuffle-up” on him without warning, even after just a few rounds have been dealt on a multi-deck game, or even after the first round on a single deck.
Premature shuffling destroys the advantageous situation counters typically enjoy. The successful card counter avoids the early shuffling countermeasure by camouflaging his play and remaining undetected by pit personal.
Dear Mark,
It has been well established, even by you in this column, that you can gain a mathematical edge counting cards in blackjack. Do you believe the same holds true for baccarat? Danny R.
Baccarat is a card game with one major similarity to blackjack, Danny. Once the cards are dealt, they are then placed in a discard rack and do not reappear until the shuffle. In theory, knowledge of the remaining cards can be used for an applicable counting system. Because counting does works in blackjack, some believe a card-counting system can/should work for baccarat, being that the effect of removing any given card from the game favors either the player or the house.
That said, personally I’m not willing to expend my already depleted brain cells and count down eight decks of randomly shuffled cards for a hypothetical, minuscule off-balance in my favor, especially when playing baccarat either drunk or stupid the house only holds a 1.17 or 1.36 percent house advantage on the bank or player bet.
Even two leading authorities on counting systems, Peter Griffin and Edward Thorp, believe baccarat is not a countable game. As a matter of fact, Griffin’s analysis showed that a card-counter could earn less than ten cents per day by using the strongest possible count system. Talk about minimum wage!
Likewise, I’ll band with Thorp and Griffin, even though I once learned a supposedly simple counting method that an old-time pit boss named Dennis taught me when I first learned to deal mini-baccarat. I’m sure it was for my amusement and not to protect the casino’s war chest, since we seldom saw a wager over five bucks, but he told me to count the 4s and 6s as they left the shoe. He said when 4s exit the deck, statistically the player should be betting on the banker, and when 6s come out, the player wager is the smarter bet.
Is this count method practical? Hell if I know, but one thing Denny was always good for was free after shift drinks at the casino bar.
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POKER |
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Sit and Go Introduction
Sit and Go tournaments, also known as SNG, are an extremely popular choice for the online poker society and for good reason. For beginners, SNG is a good choice since it offers players a chance to train in many areas of the game for a limited amount of money. It is fun, exciting and plays a lot like a final table of a tournament. If you’ve ever watched any poker shows on TV, you know what I mean.
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SPORTS |
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Sports Betting
Karl Yu
Worst Sports Bet Scandals: Part I
Sports and betting are two things that seem to go hand-in-hand. Bettors in the countries of England and the United States love football—albeit different versions—and wager huge amounts of money on it. Bettors in Canada always like to make a trip to their local corner grocery store so that they can bet on hockey through the many sports lotteries. When the NCAA college basketball tournament comes around people scramble to get their brackets filled out. If one is not a gambling addict, betting on a sporting event can be good fun.
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New Online Payment Method?
Steve Johnson, Gambling Newsletter
Online gamers were horrified when Ebay and online payment service PayPal threw their support in favor of Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s and stopped accepting payments from poker sites and online sportsbooks.
With the U.S. trying to crackdown on the online gaming industry and an outright ban a distinct possibility, it is becoming increasingly harder to play poker and place bets in the meantime and in between time.
Payment services like Neteller and FireOne have been quick to capitalize on jilted poker players and bettors alike.
FireOne has processed approximately $300 billion in transactions for online gamers, while Neteller processed $7.3 billion in 2005.
But both companies are about to get some big competition as search engine Google is looking to enter the payment service fight.
Despite all of Washington D.C.’s anti-gaming rhetoric, word has it that Google is looking to introduce its payment service, christened GBuy, and is already being tested by several retailers. Essentially a GBuy pop up like icon appears next to selected words or AdWords.
Officials at Google are saying that the new system is not like PayPal.
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See you in couple of weeks!
Steve Johnson, Editor
editor@gamblingnewsletter.com
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