QUESTION: I like playing blackjack on the video machines at the casino because I can take my time. However, I don't like losing all the time. Are my odds better at the table? Are the blackjack video machines just a random number generator programmed for, say, 90% payback? Or can they alter payout based on how the customer plays? — Raylon R.
ANSWER: All video blackjack machines use a random-number-generator software algorithm to determine the game's outcome. The RNG gives you a random shuffle, whereas your payback percentage is based on your overall play combined with the built-in rules of that particular machine.
Mar 28, 2015 I love playing poker at the closest casino but the blackjack sucks. I have been in the money for 3 straight tournaments. Just last night I finshed 5th out of 54 people and won a few hundred bucks. So afterwards my brother and I watched people get slaughtered playing blackjack while drinking a few tourney victory beers. I refuse to play blackjack there anymore and I haven't since January.
Video blackjack is typically a one-deck game, and the deck is shuffled after each hand rather than playing to a virtual cut card, finishing the hand and then reshuffling.
The advantage of a video blackjack machine versus a live table game is the low bankroll needed to play. Plenty of 25-cent video blackjack games exist on the casino floor, some that even pay the full amount for a blackjack.
What could be affecting your losing all the time, Raylon, are video blackjack machines that don't pay you the true value of a blackjack (3 for 2). Most machines pay even money on natural 21s. Because you can expect a blackjack every 21 hands in live play, the loss of that bonus will cost you an additional 2.3%. Considering that a live blackjack game has a house advantage of less than 0.5% for the knowledgeable player, this one rule change is quite costly.
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Also, some video blackjack machines round down on blackjack payoffs. If you happen to find a machine that pays the bonus for a blackjack, make wagers in even amounts so you can get the maximum value of a blackjack (a payoff of $3 for every $2 wagered). Otherwise, a dollar wagered will get you just a buck for your snapper. Always bet in two-unit increments.
Here are a few final tips to help turn your losing ways around.
■In addition to being less intimidating than a live game, video blackjack provides an opportunity for you to work on basic strategy. Basic strategy is nothing more than how you play your hand against the dealer's up card. If you play your hand correctly on a machine that pays in full for a blackjack, you can bring the house advantage to well under 1%.
■It is important to read and know all of the rules along with complementing playing strategies. For instance, I have seen a video blackjack game that stays on all 17s, which, by the way, decreases the house advantage by 0.22%. This same machine allows you to double after the split and split up to three hands and even allows you to surrender (usually on a single-deck game) half the bet after your first two cards. These are better playing conditions than most table blackjack games are offering these days.
■Finally, for the advanced player, most video blackjack machines operate using just one deck and shuffle after every round. If you happen upon one with multiple decks that shuffles when 50% of the cards have been used, it is possible to count cards.
Mark Pilarski is a contributing editor for numerous gambling publications. E-mail questions to pilarski@markpilarski.com.
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Shame on Michael... for actually thinking he could win in online computerized table games! ah hahahah ah hahahaha!! Silly Rabbiit! Trix are for kids!
Hrmmm WMW. You can. You really can. I've won many thousands from online computerised Blackjack, and I have cashed out successfully.
Sure. Some such games are corruptly rigged and I make no judgement about Bovada, but certainly not all are and none that I've encountered.
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Thank you. I just wish I had the pleasure to do it.
Regarding his point about that black people right to use the N word, I was recently at a park chatting with an elderly black woman. A group of 3 or 4 kids, including one black kid, who looked to be around 15-17 sat nearby and it was easy to overhear them say N... this and N... that. The woman I was speaking with was visibly very upset as she stomped off. She was practically in tears over it. I've never heard a black person over the age of 25 use that word except in a theatrical sense.
Thank you. I just wish I had the pleasure to do it.
Regarding his point about that black people right to use the N word, I was recently at a park chatting with an elderly black woman. A group of 3 or 4 kids, including one black kid, who looked to be around 15-17 sat nearby and it was easy to overhear them say N... this and N... that. The woman I was speaking with was visibly very upset as she stomped off. She was practically in tears over it. I've never heard a black person over the age of 25 use that word except in a theatrical sense.
You haven't been to the sportsbook at Binions, then.
My girlfriend tells me that her Spanish-speaking friends call her 'negrita' as a friendly nickname (she has darker skin). That would never fly in English which I believe would be roughly translated as 'little blacky'.
to make sure no monkey business is going on (no pun intended).
I may have laughed when reading this. Lol.
You haven't been to the sportsbook at Binions, then.
My girlfriend tells me that her Spanish-speaking friends call her 'negrita' as a friendly nickname (she has darker skin). That would never fly in English which I believe would be roughly translated as 'little blacky'.
Or the hooters sportsbook. Or the Westgate sportsbook. Or the boyd sportsbook. Or the palms sportsbook. Or the casino royale sportsbook. Or the Silverton sportsbook. Or the plaza sportsbook. Or the el Cortez sportsbook. Or the south point sportsbook. Or the m sportsbook. Or the
How do I know?
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