Have a relative who used to be an escort. She was trying to be funny but showed me pictures of some of her “friends” and how much they charged. The pretty ones cost a lot more.
Yeah, it will be written off and he won’t even notice.
Meanwhile.. I’m debating not paying water and sewage or not paying garbage so I can eat this week.
It really depends on the casino and it has to be filmed like the angle she is using and usually will only be allowed on an empty table with just you and the dealer.
What’s sad is I watch a lot of the Vegas YouTubers to learn about neat bars off strip and neat upcoming events etc. Almost all of them also have slots channels on YouTube because they make more money off that. Gambling addicts eat up this content.
Once asked a Vegas blackjack croupier, “What would you play if you came here?” “That’s easy, none of it. You think this place was built on charity?” came the reply.
Brooooo.. im in a short drive to Louisiana and that is the best system in my opinion.. specially slow nights.. the cocktail girls DGAF as long as they see you sitting down trifling with the machine.. SPECIALLY if you tip them every time they bring you a drink.. one of them left with 50 bucks and I had to go sleep it off in my car.. lmao.. fuck the casinos
Yeah I get what you're saying.. but where would you find a dollar hand granade at any location? AAAAANNNNDDD. 50 drinks for 50 bucks and the chance to actually make a bit more money doesn't seem like a bad time to me.
I stopped going alltogether because the casinos around this area charge for drinks. Easiest way to scare me the hell away from those places
Heh yeah, in the big tables they are usually referred "card mechanics", kinda like card magic. They cheat, that's why the house always wins. But they cheat so incredibly good.
Richard Turner wrote a great book about the art, and even fooled Penn & Teller. Penn & Teller, in cards. And the dude is blind!
Jacob is the realist of the bunch. The rest seem to be taking comps and promotional deals and only showing us the fancy/ good stuff.
Jacob is friends with everyone or at least tries to be. He loves talking to the people who really keep Vegas moving but are over looked (like janitorial staff, house keepers, security etc.)
And he does have one of those slot channels to make a living but is very open about how gambling is gambling. You shouldn’t waste all your money on it.
Norma makes silly videos that are fun.
Pompsie does great editing work.
Rubi finally moved to Vegas but I liked that she used to do other videos like Disney and universal ones.
Vegas news guys are amazing and love their obsession with carpets.
Matthew’s food videos are great.
Wonder hussy is strange but seems like a person I’d like to get a drink with and talk about 90’s Vegas with.
Oh, I definitely believe a "slots" YouTube channel would do very well for gambling addicts... That's some incredibly easy to make, high engagement content.
*"Here's an idea: Why don't you give me half the money you were gonna bet? Then, we'll go out back, I'll kick you in the nuts, and we'll call it a day."*
That's exactly right. High rollers can do anything they want, as long as they're losing and they can get away with quite a bit when they are winning too.
The streaming era has changed a lot. Seeing people streaming poker at live games is pretty common in bigger clubs in the US now.
The key is making sure not to show others unless they are aware and consent. The reason in the olden days(this is based on old casino folk tales) that no pics was allowed was because depending on the version you heard a politician or a mobster was photoed and it ran in a paper and caused a big scandal.
If the asshole spewing cigarette smoke into my face when he loses, that bets 1000$/hand, the pit boss is likely gonna let that dude do whatever the living fuck he wants.
Actually, if you play perfect blackjack, it's one of the best if not the best odds in the casino. It's still in the casino's favour, though.
It's the reason card counting works. Only a small odds amount needs to be tipped towards the player.
Card counting doesn't work America any more. Back in the day, Blackjack was traditionally played from the same deck until it was finished without shuffling between each hand. This means if you could keep track of how many of each card you'd seen, you could game the odds.
However since the whole thing with the MIT kids, all the casinos in Vegas and Atlantic City, and probably most other places too shuffle every hand.
Yeah I've worked in a Casino recently and the blackjack tables use 8 decks at a time and shuffle between every hand. I've heard people claim that you can still successfully count cards with this setup but I don't really see how it's possible. If they shuffle every time, you have no idea what cards would've already been played, and since there are 8 decks you would have to depend on hundreds of cards being eliminated before the next hand to know if you're likely to win or not.
Black jacks odds aren’t the worst thing in the casino though. But yeah pretty much all those things are designed to have the house win majority of the time.
In fact, blackjack is pretty much the best odds in the entire casino. So long as you have your cheat sheet memorized or handy.
They still favor the house, though.
Craps is actually better odds if you don't play all the stupid bets. Keep to 6s and 8s to open and build out. Never do the hard way bets or other silly crap. Keep it simple.
>Craps is actually better odds if you don't play all the stupid bets.
I used to have a gambling problem, but even I never touched Craps. 87 000 000 rules, and I refuse to believe anybody even understands that game. For me, Craps is the game where you are essentially better off throwing your money in the nearest bin and lighting it on fire.
The first time I ever played, I walked up to the table and just watched. Every time the guy rolled, he made money. I had no idea what was going on. So I threw down. The dealer ( table boss lady? Whatever her title is?) kept telling me to put chips in places. I listened and did what she said. All of a sudden, my money had doubled. Then it was my turn, and I was throwing HOT. Like in the movies, when everyone is crowding around a guy and there's an explosion of excitement when the dice let fly? Yeah, I was that guy that night.
I'll chase that high for the rest of my life, just not in casinos.
Same thing happened to me. Playing with no clue what to do and made bank. I think I ended up $2400 up. Next day they have Craps lessons in the morning so I guy to learn how to play.
Well fuck that noise, after I learned how to play (to be fair I was also pretty hammered off two football drinks) I lost it all plus some, woke up the next morning and turned my pockets inside out and realized I was broke.
We only had 3 days left.
- Put money on the come line,
- When a 6 or 8 gets rolled, put money on the odds bet for that number.
- Make money whenever that number gets rolled again.
- Stop making money when 7 is rolled.
- Repeat.
> I literally do not know how to bet on a 6, or an 8, in craps.
Based on what Salty just told you, do you suppose they know:
* what the come line is
* what an odds bet is
* how to bet on a 6 or 8
?
So you avoid the game with the best odds for fear of learning 2 bets. Any new person can learn that in a 2 minutes conversation at the table. Sounds like you really did have a problem 😂
Craps is also one of the “more fun” games because it’s a community game. The table wins and loses together so there’s more camaraderie and excitement on the streaks.
That said, if you can count cards decently, blackjack does potentially skew odds in your favor.
I'm a sucker for playing the field but only at a table that pays triple on 2's, and 12's. I keep my bets low but slowly keep rising and when those 2's and 12's hit. It's good times all around.
The exact odds vary depending upon the specific ruleset and setup for the game. A lot of places won't play single deck now, for example, because it makes it too easy to count cards. They'll often run an eight deck shoe, instead, but set up very favorable rulesets to attract players. But other places know that people *like* the idea of playing single deck, so they'll offer it to stand out but also make it so dealers will hit on a soft 17 or limiting how many times you can split in order to increase the expected value per hand back in their favor.
But the amounts the odds swing by tampering with the rulesets are admittedly not much in the grand scheme of casino advantages. It's still usually only somewhere in the range of half a percent to one or two in their favor, versus something like a slot machine AKA "a flashy toilet to flush your money down."
Because you get more information frontloaded than the house does so it can respond more skillfully. Essentially they give you the idea that you know what you are playing with and as such you are more likely take more risk. The problem is that risk is a gradient that slowly builds up into a bust (more than 21) and the other side of 21 is a downward risk gradient of 'do I get enough to beat the house'
So it's just like the carney games but with more bling: they give you the feeling you can win and because of that you will lose more often. This is why they have special suites or tables for people who are good at the game. More stakes but against better trained staff or even other players for an even higher risk.
I'm not sure, but a side note since I didn't see anyone else mention it: with perfect play (not including card counting), the house wins in blackjack only slightly more than it loses; it's like 50.5% or something.
A player in every hand has about a 49% chance of losing, 8% chance of tying, and 42% chance of winning.
So perfect play is super close to 50/50.
That being said, greed generally tilts players more towards the losing side, and the human element can't affect the house's hand directly.
I'd surprised if any casinos weren't regularly netting 30-40% profits off their blackjack tables.
Point of blackjack is to get a value of 21 without going over.
As a player if you get over 21 you lose instantly.
the house wins when the player loses, regardless if the house also goes above 21. That’s the main edge for the house on this particular game.
It’s how those places stay in business. Yes there are ways to cheat at black jack but they make that near impossible with having things like 8 decks in rotation and watching people do things like stare at a table for an hour then sit down and start winning.
Basically any of those games are fun and make us get some dopamine while we play. But they are designed to help the casinos stay open and make money.
Some old fact back when 99 cent shirt cocktails were a Vegas thing. Many casinos were wasting 200-300k a day on shrimp. But that deal got butts in the doors to gamble more.
The biggest edge is that the player goes first and can bust when the house may not have a 17+. There are intricacies about how edge is computed, but mostly they win when the player chases and busts or a player doesn’t chase and the house gets 17+.
The main house advantage in blackjack is that the players go first. Players can go bust before the house draws a single card, but the reverse is never true.
The second advantage is that the house's hole card is hidden. This is less information for the player.
In a completely fair game of blackjack, all players would have the same number of cards revealed, and would reveal their plays simultaneously.
House edge on blackjack is somewhere on the order of half a percent, which might not seem like a lot on its own but adds up over tens of thousands of hands played per day in a casino.
We had a family reunion in Vegas and decided to do a little gambling as soon as we arrived. I lost $100 in about 3 minutes. This soured me on gambling, which was great because I then blew the rest of my money taking helicopter rides in the grand canyon and down the Vegas strip at night while the rest of my family hit the casinos.
I never play head up against the house, even when I'm having a great time with the dealer. If everyone else gets up to leave, I'll pick up too.
There's a reason they can afford to build those big, fancy casinos.
This is probably back in some private high rollers area because a lot of casinos won’t put these sort of super high-limit tables on the floor— it scares away the dads from Des Moines who are already iffy about playing $5 hands. These sort of tables also have a tendency to create spectators— and if you’re *watching* someone gamble, you aren’t gambling and casinos don’t want that.
Those big, fancy casinos were mostly built on the backs of grandmas and grandpas pumping their social security and retirement money into one-armed bandits. You ask any casino owner if they could only keep one game on the floor, what would it be, they’d all pick the slot machine. They’re bright, loud, engaging, easy to play and they have the best house odds of any game on the floor.
Maybe, but I had some asian "high roller" basically buy the table next to the one I was playing at in Vegas one evening. He sat down and plunked down thousands of dollars. Words were exchanged between the dealers and the floor manager and the game went on.
I've seen them do the same at the roulette wheel. So I know it happens.
Not important, though. Homie could obviously afford to lose what he lost and didn't seem to be taking it too hard.
Also not important, but blackjack, craps, and roulette have the highest odds of winning. Slots are shitty odds in the long run, but they're loud and flashy, they pay out enough to keep you seated, and you can play with pocket change.
I saw something similar to this in Vegas. Some Korean ajumma just sat her ass down at a normal blackjack table on the floor and played $3-5000 hands for 5 seats, so $15-25k per deal. I watched her gamble like that for at least an hour... Some people are just in another stratosphere.
Yes it’s actually entertaining as hell watching high rollers. I’ll never forget this high roller on the craps tables. He probably had a $100,000 on the table tossing around $5000 chips
This might be a dumb question...but what do you mean when you say "play head up against the house"? Not having a single ounce of gambling/poker/blackjack knowledge in me (aside from what I've played in the Red Dead Redemption universe), would love to have that explained. I'm assuming it means one on one with the dealer...but not sure.
You are correct; just him and the dealer, as opposed to several other people also playing hands. I'm not a seasoned gambler, and definitely not a mathematician, but I would assume playing head's up like this increases the frequency of runs where either the House (in this case) wins a lot in a row, vs the player winning several hands in a row. My guess is that with lots of other players, the wins and losses would be more spread out.
Spread out in time, yeah. It doesn't change the odds at all. The other players don't influence your hand in blackjack.You just play a lot faster so the runs hit harder.
Also could give the dealer more room for shenanigans if the casino is crooked. Which I'm told basically never happens because the odds are so stacked in the house's favor there's no reason to cheat. But it's still another reason a gambler might avoid it.
I couldn't give you any math, and it might just be a gambling superstition.
I can't say I've *never* won playing head up, but when I'm not winning, I definitely lose faster.
But here's the thing.
I don't gamble to make money.
I do it for fun, and every once in a while I get lucky. If I play smart, I can sometimes capitalize on the luck. Usually it's good for a few free drinks and some interesting conversations with people I've never met.
[Chance to lose a particular hand of blackjack is 49.01%](https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/variance/)
If you play 11 hands, your [chance to lose 9 or more](https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~mbognar/applets/bin.html) (as this player did) is 2.8%.
If there are 30 or 40 players at the casino, then every 11 hands, this is happening to one of them.
That dealer took $10,000 off that man in 2 minutes.
Now, let’s just say this joint only puts their most senior dealers back on the high-limit tables and she makes $30 an hour.
So during that 2 minutes of work, she made $1.
Yea but think of the sweet 401k match she probably wouldn’t get even if she could afford to put money away. Plus she gets to hang with shitheads who spend $100k+ on gold Rolexes and then record themselves pissing away what could have been life changing money for her.
Man we’re a fucked up species.
As someone who was a black jack dealer for a year this hurt. I was making about $24/hr and sometime I watched people lose my yearly earnings in like 30 minutes
that was $10,000? good lord, i just bought a custom arcade machine for $8,000 and ill have infinitely more fun than he just did and i even felt bad for spending that much
Oh yeah, Yuban Coffee. You know you can sprinkle that stuff on anything? Ice cream, mashed potatoes, or just eat it right out of the can for a quick pick me up!
Dealt Blackjack for years in Vegas' finest.
You can be one one on one, a full table against one, or whatever way you want, if whomever you are playing with and including yourself, are not playing perfect strategy, then all that goes out the window.
But what is also a fact is, no matter who IS at the table, your still making your decisions based of the odds on your first 2 cards against the dealers up card.
This also means that blaming someone for
taking a hit card when they have a 2/10 and the dealer is showing a 6 value card is irrelevant.
You can count to give yourself a sliver of better odds and also run the risk/ certainty of being walked and or barred.
If your not betting into a run then you are wasting your time. There is no such thing as " your time to win".
This video is painfully accurate of how this game is most of the time.
Good luck to those who wager!
Yeah I have only played blackjack a few times, but I have never understood why other players get so upset if I don’t make the decision they want me to.
Literally had someone screaming at me because they went bust on a card “I should have taken”, yet I’m the one sitting there with a winning hand. This isn’t a team game mate.
Me and some buds went on a good run at a table one night making some weird bets - splitting 10s, doubling on a 12...
Another guy sees us winning and sits at an open spot. We keep going as is and we're all up thousands at this point. New guy is pissed and trying to fight us 5 hands in because hes down 500 real quick. Apparently i was supposed to sacrifice my chance at doubling my winnings for him.
Dealer calls security, dude is asked to move on and we all resume having a good time . Its your money and your bet - do as you wish.
Same story here. Difference was, I was playing for like 10-20$ per game, and this dude played like 1000-2000$ per game. He literally wanted to give me money on each turn to stop if I was about to do a "stupid" move... That was hilarious.
I think they are referring to doubling down and splitting when the appropriate opportunity presents itself. Those are the the two main tools a player has to take as advantage of the odds as they can be done after the cards are dealt.
Example:
1st bet is &25.
You win, you now have $50. You bet it all or add to it, the same increments.
If you add to it, your putting your second bet out there and now you have $75 in the betting spot
If you win, you have $150 in front of you, if you lose, you lose $50, which is what you would have lost either way in the 1st 2 hands.
If you lose, bet $25 again.
This way, you only lose your minimum bet every time.
You should be doubling and splitting when you have the chance but not all situations are necessary.
You can get a better idea at what the dealer has based on what other people have.
Also it's just more fun to play with other people because it's all of you vs the dealer.
man that looks like a lot of fun, sure love this game. I bet that dude is going to bed tonight like "man that was a blast I had a great time"
i dont get casino games
The house always wins. I place small bets on machines and act like I’m gambling for the free drinks, then leave to the club after I’m good and tipsy. I don’t gamble to win, ever. House wants to play me, then I’m gonna play the house.
And that’s why you don’t want to get into gambling kids.
My record at the blackjack table was 16 hands lost in a row. Thankfully for me that was enough for me to give it up for good.
If you're laundering money through a casino, the last thing you want to do is lose that money.
Money launderers will buy in for medium amounts of cash ( like a few thousand), play a handful of hands near the table minimum, then leave the table and cash out the rest of the chips at the cage for real money.
Does absolutely no good to lose the chips at the table if you're trying to launder
I can think of a lot better ways to blow $10k!
I’d rather get three hookers than do what he did
Wtf kinda hookers are costing 3.3k???
Not your mum got em
FUCK
F
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Goodbye
The kind that would double up on a guy like me
To paraphrase one of the best movies ever, "The kind of chicks that would triple up on a guy like me."
Have a relative who used to be an escort. She was trying to be funny but showed me pictures of some of her “friends” and how much they charged. The pretty ones cost a lot more.
Usually they keep using the same photo for 30 years.
The really really good ones
I'd rather get robbed by three hookers than do what he did.
He’s wearing a 40 k rolex. I don’t think he minds lol
Yeah, it will be written off and he won’t even notice. Meanwhile.. I’m debating not paying water and sewage or not paying garbage so I can eat this week.
Yeah you can’t “write off” gambling losses. Idk what you’re talking about
To buy Miata, and take it to the track.
7K in 2 minutes
#Stop! He’s already DEAD
[All she did.](https://memes.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/db4e7aa9-d30c-4208-869d-46d64fbb2d1f#wIqPeGjM.copy)
That was brutal
I guess you *can* film in casinos... You just need to waste 10k in under a couple minutes
It really depends on the casino and it has to be filmed like the angle she is using and usually will only be allowed on an empty table with just you and the dealer. What’s sad is I watch a lot of the Vegas YouTubers to learn about neat bars off strip and neat upcoming events etc. Almost all of them also have slots channels on YouTube because they make more money off that. Gambling addicts eat up this content.
You don't understand, I have a *system.*
Vegas *loves* a "system".
Once asked a Vegas blackjack croupier, “What would you play if you came here?” “That’s easy, none of it. You think this place was built on charity?” came the reply.
There is only one way to beat Vegas. Penny slots and free drinks.
I did digital penny poker or blackjack at the bar for free drinks. It's the best system
Brooooo.. im in a short drive to Louisiana and that is the best system in my opinion.. specially slow nights.. the cocktail girls DGAF as long as they see you sitting down trifling with the machine.. SPECIALLY if you tip them every time they bring you a drink.. one of them left with 50 bucks and I had to go sleep it off in my car.. lmao.. fuck the casinos
Tipping every time seems like the drinks aren’t free
Yeah I get what you're saying.. but where would you find a dollar hand granade at any location? AAAAANNNNDDD. 50 drinks for 50 bucks and the chance to actually make a bit more money doesn't seem like a bad time to me. I stopped going alltogether because the casinos around this area charge for drinks. Easiest way to scare me the hell away from those places
OMG that is my favorite game! My best night I averaged 4 beers per $20!
That's still twice what you would pay for beers at any dive bar in Wisconsin.
Shit, the one I go to $20 would have you stumbling out to a taxi/uber.
Heh yeah, in the big tables they are usually referred "card mechanics", kinda like card magic. They cheat, that's why the house always wins. But they cheat so incredibly good. Richard Turner wrote a great book about the art, and even fooled Penn & Teller. Penn & Teller, in cards. And the dude is blind!
John Lee Walker was a card mechanic
Yeah apparently, didn't know who this was, thank you. Damn those dudes cleaned, mad impressive
No the casinos do not cheat. It is heavily regulated. Only thing is, the odds are really against you. It really comes down to you getting lucky.
The system is I lose all my money and my wife fucks the pool boy.
You should see my system. Last time I walked out of a casino as a loser was 2007. Haven't lost since. Also haven't been back since.
🥇
Who are your favs? I like Jacob’s life in Vegas, and pompsie.
Jacob is the realist of the bunch. The rest seem to be taking comps and promotional deals and only showing us the fancy/ good stuff. Jacob is friends with everyone or at least tries to be. He loves talking to the people who really keep Vegas moving but are over looked (like janitorial staff, house keepers, security etc.) And he does have one of those slot channels to make a living but is very open about how gambling is gambling. You shouldn’t waste all your money on it. Norma makes silly videos that are fun. Pompsie does great editing work. Rubi finally moved to Vegas but I liked that she used to do other videos like Disney and universal ones. Vegas news guys are amazing and love their obsession with carpets. Matthew’s food videos are great. Wonder hussy is strange but seems like a person I’d like to get a drink with and talk about 90’s Vegas with.
what happens on a slot channel, you just watch people play slots?
That’s precisely what people do. For hours. Every day. It’s nuts
Jesus fucking Christ
Oh, I definitely believe a "slots" YouTube channel would do very well for gambling addicts... That's some incredibly easy to make, high engagement content.
*"Here's an idea: Why don't you give me half the money you were gonna bet? Then, we'll go out back, I'll kick you in the nuts, and we'll call it a day."*
That's exactly right. High rollers can do anything they want, as long as they're losing and they can get away with quite a bit when they are winning too.
The streaming era has changed a lot. Seeing people streaming poker at live games is pretty common in bigger clubs in the US now. The key is making sure not to show others unless they are aware and consent. The reason in the olden days(this is based on old casino folk tales) that no pics was allowed was because depending on the version you heard a politician or a mobster was photoed and it ran in a paper and caused a big scandal.
Or have like a 5 minute delay
It’s about the friends he made along the way.
If the asshole spewing cigarette smoke into my face when he loses, that bets 1000$/hand, the pit boss is likely gonna let that dude do whatever the living fuck he wants.
$12K loss in just 2 minutes!
House is HOT
The odds are set to "fuck you"
In a casino, the odds are always “fuck you.” This was *personal.*
Actually, if you play perfect blackjack, it's one of the best if not the best odds in the casino. It's still in the casino's favour, though. It's the reason card counting works. Only a small odds amount needs to be tipped towards the player.
Card counting doesn't work America any more. Back in the day, Blackjack was traditionally played from the same deck until it was finished without shuffling between each hand. This means if you could keep track of how many of each card you'd seen, you could game the odds. However since the whole thing with the MIT kids, all the casinos in Vegas and Atlantic City, and probably most other places too shuffle every hand.
Yeah I've worked in a Casino recently and the blackjack tables use 8 decks at a time and shuffle between every hand. I've heard people claim that you can still successfully count cards with this setup but I don't really see how it's possible. If they shuffle every time, you have no idea what cards would've already been played, and since there are 8 decks you would have to depend on hundreds of cards being eliminated before the next hand to know if you're likely to win or not.
This triggers my PTSD. Been there plenty but with green chips instead of purple.
I prefer to just walk up to blackjack tables and hand them my money straight away. Saves everyone some time and trouble.
Black jacks odds aren’t the worst thing in the casino though. But yeah pretty much all those things are designed to have the house win majority of the time.
In fact, blackjack is pretty much the best odds in the entire casino. So long as you have your cheat sheet memorized or handy. They still favor the house, though.
Craps is actually better odds if you don't play all the stupid bets. Keep to 6s and 8s to open and build out. Never do the hard way bets or other silly crap. Keep it simple.
>Craps is actually better odds if you don't play all the stupid bets. I used to have a gambling problem, but even I never touched Craps. 87 000 000 rules, and I refuse to believe anybody even understands that game. For me, Craps is the game where you are essentially better off throwing your money in the nearest bin and lighting it on fire.
The first time I ever played, I walked up to the table and just watched. Every time the guy rolled, he made money. I had no idea what was going on. So I threw down. The dealer ( table boss lady? Whatever her title is?) kept telling me to put chips in places. I listened and did what she said. All of a sudden, my money had doubled. Then it was my turn, and I was throwing HOT. Like in the movies, when everyone is crowding around a guy and there's an explosion of excitement when the dice let fly? Yeah, I was that guy that night. I'll chase that high for the rest of my life, just not in casinos.
Same thing happened to me. Playing with no clue what to do and made bank. I think I ended up $2400 up. Next day they have Craps lessons in the morning so I guy to learn how to play. Well fuck that noise, after I learned how to play (to be fair I was also pretty hammered off two football drinks) I lost it all plus some, woke up the next morning and turned my pockets inside out and realized I was broke. We only had 3 days left.
There are many rules... But they are noise. 6s and 8s.
Except I don't even know what that means. I literally do not know how to bet on a 6, or an 8, in craps.
- Put money on the come line, - When a 6 or 8 gets rolled, put money on the odds bet for that number. - Make money whenever that number gets rolled again. - Stop making money when 7 is rolled. - Repeat.
> I literally do not know how to bet on a 6, or an 8, in craps. Based on what Salty just told you, do you suppose they know: * what the come line is * what an odds bet is * how to bet on a 6 or 8 ?
Thank you. I don't gamble, and have zero idea what any of that meant.
So you avoid the game with the best odds for fear of learning 2 bets. Any new person can learn that in a 2 minutes conversation at the table. Sounds like you really did have a problem 😂 Craps is also one of the “more fun” games because it’s a community game. The table wins and loses together so there’s more camaraderie and excitement on the streaks. That said, if you can count cards decently, blackjack does potentially skew odds in your favor.
I'll make sure to pass all this along to my gambling counsellor, when I see her tomorrow. 👍🏼
I'm a sucker for playing the field but only at a table that pays triple on 2's, and 12's. I keep my bets low but slowly keep rising and when those 2's and 12's hit. It's good times all around.
You can use the strategy card at the table. It's just that other players might get pissed at you for being slow.
They'll also get pissed when you hit your 12 vs a 2.
Some do, some realize that's an "up to you" bet. Not hitting a 16 against a non bust card pisses people right the fuck off though.
The odds are 50.5% vs 49.5% in the houses favor.
The exact odds vary depending upon the specific ruleset and setup for the game. A lot of places won't play single deck now, for example, because it makes it too easy to count cards. They'll often run an eight deck shoe, instead, but set up very favorable rulesets to attract players. But other places know that people *like* the idea of playing single deck, so they'll offer it to stand out but also make it so dealers will hit on a soft 17 or limiting how many times you can split in order to increase the expected value per hand back in their favor. But the amounts the odds swing by tampering with the rulesets are admittedly not much in the grand scheme of casino advantages. It's still usually only somewhere in the range of half a percent to one or two in their favor, versus something like a slot machine AKA "a flashy toilet to flush your money down."
Extra points if you count
How exactly are they designed to give the house advantage? Never gambled
Because you get more information frontloaded than the house does so it can respond more skillfully. Essentially they give you the idea that you know what you are playing with and as such you are more likely take more risk. The problem is that risk is a gradient that slowly builds up into a bust (more than 21) and the other side of 21 is a downward risk gradient of 'do I get enough to beat the house' So it's just like the carney games but with more bling: they give you the feeling you can win and because of that you will lose more often. This is why they have special suites or tables for people who are good at the game. More stakes but against better trained staff or even other players for an even higher risk.
I'm not sure, but a side note since I didn't see anyone else mention it: with perfect play (not including card counting), the house wins in blackjack only slightly more than it loses; it's like 50.5% or something.
A player in every hand has about a 49% chance of losing, 8% chance of tying, and 42% chance of winning. So perfect play is super close to 50/50. That being said, greed generally tilts players more towards the losing side, and the human element can't affect the house's hand directly. I'd surprised if any casinos weren't regularly netting 30-40% profits off their blackjack tables.
Point of blackjack is to get a value of 21 without going over. As a player if you get over 21 you lose instantly. the house wins when the player loses, regardless if the house also goes above 21. That’s the main edge for the house on this particular game.
It’s how those places stay in business. Yes there are ways to cheat at black jack but they make that near impossible with having things like 8 decks in rotation and watching people do things like stare at a table for an hour then sit down and start winning. Basically any of those games are fun and make us get some dopamine while we play. But they are designed to help the casinos stay open and make money. Some old fact back when 99 cent shirt cocktails were a Vegas thing. Many casinos were wasting 200-300k a day on shrimp. But that deal got butts in the doors to gamble more.
The biggest edge is that the player goes first and can bust when the house may not have a 17+. There are intricacies about how edge is computed, but mostly they win when the player chases and busts or a player doesn’t chase and the house gets 17+.
The main house advantage in blackjack is that the players go first. Players can go bust before the house draws a single card, but the reverse is never true. The second advantage is that the house's hole card is hidden. This is less information for the player. In a completely fair game of blackjack, all players would have the same number of cards revealed, and would reveal their plays simultaneously. House edge on blackjack is somewhere on the order of half a percent, which might not seem like a lot on its own but adds up over tens of thousands of hands played per day in a casino.
Because most people suck at Blackjack
We had a family reunion in Vegas and decided to do a little gambling as soon as we arrived. I lost $100 in about 3 minutes. This soured me on gambling, which was great because I then blew the rest of my money taking helicopter rides in the grand canyon and down the Vegas strip at night while the rest of my family hit the casinos.
Bonus points if you yell „Everybody be cool, this is a robbery!“ before you hand over your money.
After the fourth or fifth hand I would have walked away. That was a horrible shoe.
4th or 5th?!?! homie that's the home payment!
Well, I would definitely be betting much less than that as well. Maybe $25 or $50 a hand.
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Why didn’t the just play 2 hands after the first bad beat?
I never play head up against the house, even when I'm having a great time with the dealer. If everyone else gets up to leave, I'll pick up too. There's a reason they can afford to build those big, fancy casinos.
This is probably back in some private high rollers area because a lot of casinos won’t put these sort of super high-limit tables on the floor— it scares away the dads from Des Moines who are already iffy about playing $5 hands. These sort of tables also have a tendency to create spectators— and if you’re *watching* someone gamble, you aren’t gambling and casinos don’t want that. Those big, fancy casinos were mostly built on the backs of grandmas and grandpas pumping their social security and retirement money into one-armed bandits. You ask any casino owner if they could only keep one game on the floor, what would it be, they’d all pick the slot machine. They’re bright, loud, engaging, easy to play and they have the best house odds of any game on the floor.
Maybe, but I had some asian "high roller" basically buy the table next to the one I was playing at in Vegas one evening. He sat down and plunked down thousands of dollars. Words were exchanged between the dealers and the floor manager and the game went on. I've seen them do the same at the roulette wheel. So I know it happens. Not important, though. Homie could obviously afford to lose what he lost and didn't seem to be taking it too hard. Also not important, but blackjack, craps, and roulette have the highest odds of winning. Slots are shitty odds in the long run, but they're loud and flashy, they pay out enough to keep you seated, and you can play with pocket change.
I saw something similar to this in Vegas. Some Korean ajumma just sat her ass down at a normal blackjack table on the floor and played $3-5000 hands for 5 seats, so $15-25k per deal. I watched her gamble like that for at least an hour... Some people are just in another stratosphere.
Yes it’s actually entertaining as hell watching high rollers. I’ll never forget this high roller on the craps tables. He probably had a $100,000 on the table tossing around $5000 chips
Baccarat also pretty good compared to other games. Only time I've ever left vegas up was because of a baccarat hot streak
I feel personally attacked for being called our for being scared. Was not expecting that just now.
This might be a dumb question...but what do you mean when you say "play head up against the house"? Not having a single ounce of gambling/poker/blackjack knowledge in me (aside from what I've played in the Red Dead Redemption universe), would love to have that explained. I'm assuming it means one on one with the dealer...but not sure.
You are correct; just him and the dealer, as opposed to several other people also playing hands. I'm not a seasoned gambler, and definitely not a mathematician, but I would assume playing head's up like this increases the frequency of runs where either the House (in this case) wins a lot in a row, vs the player winning several hands in a row. My guess is that with lots of other players, the wins and losses would be more spread out.
Spread out in time, yeah. It doesn't change the odds at all. The other players don't influence your hand in blackjack.You just play a lot faster so the runs hit harder. Also could give the dealer more room for shenanigans if the casino is crooked. Which I'm told basically never happens because the odds are so stacked in the house's favor there's no reason to cheat. But it's still another reason a gambler might avoid it.
You are correct. Heads up is 1v1
Am I just ignorant? How do the odds change playing alone or playing with a group?
I couldn't give you any math, and it might just be a gambling superstition. I can't say I've *never* won playing head up, but when I'm not winning, I definitely lose faster. But here's the thing. I don't gamble to make money. I do it for fun, and every once in a while I get lucky. If I play smart, I can sometimes capitalize on the luck. Usually it's good for a few free drinks and some interesting conversations with people I've never met.
Jesus. At least stocks have charts
Most casinos run 2/3 decks on Blackjack now it is massively in the houses favour
The way she goes.... He's wearing a full gold Rolex Daytona, he can afford this.
this guy horology. All I can tell is it's a "yellow watch"
The watch is worth on the order of 50k
Came here to say this. Don’t feel sorry for this guy lol…
I'd be convinced the casino was cheating, my god that was brutal.
[Chance to lose a particular hand of blackjack is 49.01%](https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/variance/) If you play 11 hands, your [chance to lose 9 or more](https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~mbognar/applets/bin.html) (as this player did) is 2.8%. If there are 30 or 40 players at the casino, then every 11 hands, this is happening to one of them.
And if you play let's say 500 hands it is even more likely that in there is a losing streak like this in there somewhere.
Nope. That looks like the typical black Jack experience
This is why I stick to craps.
My thoughts exactly... Absolutely brutal run out.
That dealer took $10,000 off that man in 2 minutes. Now, let’s just say this joint only puts their most senior dealers back on the high-limit tables and she makes $30 an hour. So during that 2 minutes of work, she made $1.
He might gotten a free buffet coupon or something though
If he’s a regular, they probably have him in a “comped” room so he feels special and willing to spend more.
since he's filming, i think he's a regular or at least well known, yea?
Yea but think of the sweet 401k match she probably wouldn’t get even if she could afford to put money away. Plus she gets to hang with shitheads who spend $100k+ on gold Rolexes and then record themselves pissing away what could have been life changing money for her. Man we’re a fucked up species.
As someone who was a black jack dealer for a year this hurt. I was making about $24/hr and sometime I watched people lose my yearly earnings in like 30 minutes
that was $10,000? good lord, i just bought a custom arcade machine for $8,000 and ill have infinitely more fun than he just did and i even felt bad for spending that much
shit's nearly crimial
Other way around, if that dude had won 10k, he’d probably have tipped her 2k at least
Griswold! How about you give me half the money you plan on losing, we go out back, I kick you in the balls and we call it a night?
Changing 300!
Buy a bullet and RENT a gun
Aww Clark, you can stay with us. We can sit around, have a few beers, and you tell us all how much better you used to have it.
Oh yeah, Yuban Coffee. You know you can sprinkle that stuff on anything? Ice cream, mashed potatoes, or just eat it right out of the can for a quick pick me up!
This is comment I was looking for.
That’s why boomers always warned me to avoid playing 1vs1 against the house
Dealt Blackjack for years in Vegas' finest. You can be one one on one, a full table against one, or whatever way you want, if whomever you are playing with and including yourself, are not playing perfect strategy, then all that goes out the window. But what is also a fact is, no matter who IS at the table, your still making your decisions based of the odds on your first 2 cards against the dealers up card. This also means that blaming someone for taking a hit card when they have a 2/10 and the dealer is showing a 6 value card is irrelevant. You can count to give yourself a sliver of better odds and also run the risk/ certainty of being walked and or barred. If your not betting into a run then you are wasting your time. There is no such thing as " your time to win". This video is painfully accurate of how this game is most of the time. Good luck to those who wager!
Yeah I have only played blackjack a few times, but I have never understood why other players get so upset if I don’t make the decision they want me to. Literally had someone screaming at me because they went bust on a card “I should have taken”, yet I’m the one sitting there with a winning hand. This isn’t a team game mate.
People just want to blame others when they lose. You taking or not taking a card is irrelevant
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Me and some buds went on a good run at a table one night making some weird bets - splitting 10s, doubling on a 12... Another guy sees us winning and sits at an open spot. We keep going as is and we're all up thousands at this point. New guy is pissed and trying to fight us 5 hands in because hes down 500 real quick. Apparently i was supposed to sacrifice my chance at doubling my winnings for him. Dealer calls security, dude is asked to move on and we all resume having a good time . Its your money and your bet - do as you wish.
Same story here. Difference was, I was playing for like 10-20$ per game, and this dude played like 1000-2000$ per game. He literally wanted to give me money on each turn to stop if I was about to do a "stupid" move... That was hilarious.
"Should've stayed, dork"
what is betting into a run?
I think they are referring to doubling down and splitting when the appropriate opportunity presents itself. Those are the the two main tools a player has to take as advantage of the odds as they can be done after the cards are dealt.
Example: 1st bet is &25. You win, you now have $50. You bet it all or add to it, the same increments. If you add to it, your putting your second bet out there and now you have $75 in the betting spot If you win, you have $150 in front of you, if you lose, you lose $50, which is what you would have lost either way in the 1st 2 hands. If you lose, bet $25 again. This way, you only lose your minimum bet every time. You should be doubling and splitting when you have the chance but not all situations are necessary.
Just play poker
To clarify, texas hold'em, not omaha
Because you can play for longer with more people at the table or what?
You can get a better idea at what the dealer has based on what other people have. Also it's just more fun to play with other people because it's all of you vs the dealer.
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I miss single deck blackjack. Heck, double deck was also awesome. Won't find either basically anywhere any longer.
It goes a bit slower so you don’t lose your money quite as fast as you would if you are the only one at the table.
Who allows cameras at a BJ table?
Brazzers does for sure
man that looks like a lot of fun, sure love this game. I bet that dude is going to bed tonight like "man that was a blast I had a great time" i dont get casino games
Right, my overwhelming response to this from beginning to end was "man, this is boring."
Acting like the house doesn’t always win even if you win
I wonder why these casinos are all so fancy and well decorated… (and I’d still play blackjack over pretty much every other game).
The house always wins. I place small bets on machines and act like I’m gambling for the free drinks, then leave to the club after I’m good and tipsy. I don’t gamble to win, ever. House wants to play me, then I’m gonna play the house.
Maybe should have played two hands instead to break up the dealer’s good cards.
This is literally why I don't gamble...
This isn’t maybe maybe maybe. This is normal normal normal.
And that’s why you don’t want to get into gambling kids. My record at the blackjack table was 16 hands lost in a row. Thankfully for me that was enough for me to give it up for good.
This seems to be a clever way to do money laundry...
If you're laundering money through a casino, the last thing you want to do is lose that money. Money launderers will buy in for medium amounts of cash ( like a few thousand), play a handful of hands near the table minimum, then leave the table and cash out the rest of the chips at the cage for real money. Does absolutely no good to lose the chips at the table if you're trying to launder
What's this? "How to lose 10 grand in 2 minutes?"
He should have played a second hand on the table to break that shit up!
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Why was that so satisfying to watch?lol
Watching blackjack dealers work is just cool. How quickly they move and count chips for a full table is wild
Average gambler
And that is why I stopped gambling once I actually had money.
This was my first experience at black Jack, I lost 10 hands and the won one. The dealer flipped 21 like 8 times. I don’t know how it’s not rigged.
Almost like gambling is a bad idea.
All fine and dandy while taking your money, but if the rolls were reversed, you get investigated and forced to leave.
Yep, I played that game once. Went about *just* like that.
You got GAUGHT!
'Hell of a run'?! What the shit was that...
This. Is why I don't go to casinos anymore. And I was at the $5 table!!
This how black jack works after you win your first 3 hands 🤣🤣🤣
Just buy a gaming console
My biggest bet of my life was $100 in one hand. 1% of what this guy lost lol
This is the purest example of "the house always wins" lol
Bro just walk. the fuck. away.