Tricks and Tips for those Games of Chance and Rare Skill – Poker, Blackjack, etc.

Recently, one of my more favorite casinos closed. It wasn’t a great casino, it was really a piece of crap. What it did have, however, was a 10 minute walk from my house, as well as the cheapest blackjack in the metro area. Combine that with stiff cheap drinks and you, my friend, have a [...]

The Red Seven count is probably the easiest counting system and the most efficient of the low-level counting systems. It works simply: Ace and 10 are valued at -1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 are valued at +1 the red 7s are valued at +1 This counting method results in what’s called an unbalanced count [...]

The gambling regulartors in teh state of Connecticut ordered Foxwoods casino to remove their internet gambling portal “PlayAway.” Foxwoods says they don’t believe any problems have been caused, as the bet is placed at Foxwoods and the users are allowed to check the results online. Since all gambling is actually done at Foxwoods, the Pequot [...]

We know that Las Vegas aggressively bars card counters. Atlantic City lost a lawsuit to the legendary Ken Uston and is required to not bar someone from counting. But let’s take a comparison of the two games: In Las Vegas, you can find pretty much any kind of game you want. Some single deck, 2 [...]

Some time ago I posted a small chart outlining the odds of a dealer making certain hands in a single-deck game. But it’s for a single-deck game. Where I usually play, most games are either 6 or 8 decks, so I should post the odds for those games: For the 6 deck game: Final:17 18 [...]

Maybe you remember some time ago I got my hands on a slot machine system from a man named Mr. McQueen. Well, I’ve tried it a couple of times, it’s still early in the testing stage, but so far it actually seems to work. I think a key thing to remember here is that it [...]

Besides the continuous shuffle machine, gambling companies are coming up with all sorts of new ways to screw with you at the blackjack table. And I’m not even including the blackjack variants like Extreme 21 or Easy as 1-2-3. I’m talking about the shuffle machines. And the card shoes. Vending Data Corporation has their miserable [...]

I ordered and had emailed to me Mr McQueen’s “system” which is merely an example of a larger meta-theme he proposes that by playing a set style repeatedly will somehow ‘trick’ ‘fool’ or whatever word you want to use to imply “override” the slot machine’s Random Number Generator. What makes this particularly scary is that [...]

I could give a primer on counting cards, or even simple, basic strategy. But I think the best place to start with a look into blackjack is to look at what traps to avoid: Not splitting 88 vs. 10. Two hands starting with 8 is substantially better than facing off against the dealer’s 10 with [...]

I think the one thing that keeps a lot of people from really sitting down at a poker table in a casino – those that are close enough to do it, of course – is the assumption that you’ll need a sizeable amount of money to come in and be willing to lose. That’s simply [...]