Twenty-One Is Like A Rollercoaster

Friday, 12. February 2010

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Blackjack is a casino game that reminds me a little of a coaster. It’s a casino game that begins slow but gradually gets faster. As you grow your money, you feel like you’re reaching the top of the rollercoaster and then when you don’t expect it, the bottom falls out.

Chemin de Fer is very much like a coaster the commonalities are terrifying. As with the favorite fairground ride, your black jack game will reach the top and everything will be going well for a time before it bottoms out one more time. You’ve got to be a black jack player that can adjust favorably to the ups and downs of the game because the game of chemin de fer is full of them.

If you prefer the small rollercoaster, one that doesn’t go too high or quickly, then gamble small. If you discover the only way you can appreciate the adventure is with a larger bet, then hop on board for the adventure of your life on the colossal rollercoaster. The whale will like the sights from the monster rollercoaster because he/she isn’t pondering the drop as they dash head first to the top of the casino game.

A win objective and a loss limit works well in pontoon, but very few gamblers adhere to it. In pontoon, if you "get on the rollercoaster" as it’s going up, that’s terrific, but when the cards "go south" and the rollercoaster begins to flip and turn, you had better get out in a hurry.

If you do not, you will not remember how much you relished the sights while your bankroll was "up". The only element you will recall is a lot of uncertainties, a thrilling ride and your head in the sky. As you’re reminiscing on "what might have beens" you won’t remember how "high up" you were but you will remember that destructive drop as clear as day.

Pontoon can be a very beatable game. It is a game of highs, a game of crashes and where it will stops is totally up to you and how well you are able to calculate whether to jump off the coaster or continue the ride.

The Beginnings of Black Jack

Monday, 1. February 2010

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The casino game of Blackjack was introduced to the United States of America in the 19th century but it wasn’t until the mid twentieth century that a strategy was created to defeat the house in black jack. This material is going to grab a swift look at the development of that strategy, Counting Cards.

When gambling was authorized in the state of Nevada in 1934, black jack sky-rocketed into recognition and was commonly played with one or 2 decks. Roger Baldwin published a dissertation in ‘56 which described how to lower the casino advantage founded on probability and stats which was very bewildering for players who were not math experts.

In 1962, Dr. Ed Thorp used an IBM 704 computer to advance the mathematical strategy in Baldwin’s dissertation and also created the first card counting techniques. Dr. Ed Thorp wrote a tome called "Beat the Dealer" which illustrated card counting strategies and the practices for reducing the house advantage.

This created a large increase in black jack competitors at the US casinos who were attempting to implement Dr. Thorp’s strategies, much to the anxiety of the casinos. The system was difficult to understand and hard to execute and therefore heightened the earnings for the betting houses as more and more people took to gambling on black jack.

However this huge growth in earnings was not to last as the players became more highly developed and more cultivated and the system was further refined. In the 1980’s a group of students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology made counting cards a part of the everyday vernacular. Since then the casinos have introduced countless measures to counteract card counters including but not limited to, more than one deck, shoes, shuffle machines, and rumour has itnow complex computer software to analyze actions and detect "cheaters". While not illegal being caught counting cards will get you barred from all casinos in vegas.