I always thought this was a con.........

[Lincsbodger]

Joe-90 is right. The most profitable gambling games are easy to play and appear to offer good chances of winning but careful analysis will show that the owner of the game will, on average, make a steady profit.

Some can be beaten quite easily if they are played correctly.

David.

Well.

You can only beat roulette if you use sector targetting, which requires you to transmit secretly to an accomplice with a computer the exact time the ball leaves the dealers hand and which sector of the wheel it stops in. He can then start calculating orbit decays and tell you the sector the ball will stop in - beaing in mind you can bet while the ball is spining. Otherwise the casino has a 5% advantage on the players (because you cant bet on 0) on French wheels, and a 10% advantage on you on American wheels (cos they have 0 and 00 ).

Contract bridge and Blackjack can be beaten with a system called card counting, but you need a PHENOMENAL memory, basically you mentally have to keep track of all the cards you know are visible on the table, and thus can calculate the probability of improving your hand or winning with the next card. Takes a lot of practice and if the casino suspects you are cared counting they will throw you out.

Casinos have plenty more ways of cheating than players do...............

 

[joe-90]

Why is card counting breaking any rules? Everyone does it to some degree - that's what the game of cards is all about - what's gone and what hasn't.

 

[Lincsbodger]

Why is card counting breaking any rules? Everyone does it to some degree - that's what the game of cards is all about - what's gone and what hasn't.

Ah because your not supposed to win, joe. The degree of tracking you make when you card count is way beyond what most people do, and its fiendishly hard to do as well, and thus it gives you a winning advantage. It means you can calculate exact odds on winning or improving your hand on the next card and bet accordingly. It removes most of the randomness from the game and turns it into a mathematical exercise, which casinos dont like...........

 

[gregers]

Why is card counting breaking any rules? Everyone does it to some degree - that's what the game of cards is all about - what's gone and what hasn't.

Ah because your not supposed to win, joe. The degree of tracking you make when you card count is way beyond what most people do, and its fiendishly hard to do as well, and thus it gives you a winning advantage. It means you can calculate exact odds on winning or improving your hand on the next card and bet accordingly. It removes most of the randomness from the game and turns it into a mathematical exercise, which casinos dont like...........

its easy,RAINMAN DONE IT.

 

[Lincsbodger]

Why is card counting breaking any rules? Everyone does it to some degree - that's what the game of cards is all about - what's gone and what hasn't.

Ah because your not supposed to win, joe. The degree of tracking you make when you card count is way beyond what most people do, and its fiendishly hard to do as well, and thus it gives you a winning advantage. It means you can calculate exact odds on winning or improving your hand on the next card and bet accordingly. It removes most of the randomness from the game and turns it into a mathematical exercise, which casinos dont like...........

its easy,RAINMAN DONE IT.

yes but rainman was autistic, they have bizarre and abnormal abilities.

 

[Mickymoody]

Re Casinos, they are playing with megabucks, I never heard of a casino going bust.

But fairs, when the majority of the games are fixed, and have hawkers playing, posing as customers, that win, the games have been carefully developed to not let you win.

Even the thing where you hit a hammer to ring a bell is fixed. Hard man in front of his girl rolls up, they flick a switch, and he don't win, she has a go, switch is flicked, she wins and all his mates laugh at him.

 

[Lincsbodger]

Re Casinos, they are playing with megabucks, I never heard of a casino going bust.

Theres a song about it.

"The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo"

A song by Joseph Jagger, based on the true story of Charles Deville Wells (1841-1926), gambler and confidence trickster, one of the men who broke the bank at Monte Carlo. In July 1891, Wells had an 11 hour session during which he broke the bank twelve times. During this session he won 23 spins in a run of 30, and left with one million francs. He returned four months later and took another million francs off them in three days. During this session he bet and won on the number five, for five consecutive spins. Despite hiring private detectives the Casino never discovered Wells's system.

But fairs, when the majority of the games are fixed, and have hawkers playing, posing as customers, that win, the games have been carefully developed to not let you win.

Of course. Roulette has an in built advantage 4.7% to the bank on a french wheel with 0, and 9% for an american wheel with 0 and 00 in, because you cant bet on those numbers but the ball will stop on them