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Burning the Tables in Las Vegas Keys to Success in Blackjack and in Life Ian Andersen Foreword by Stanford Wong Huntington Press Publishing Las Vegas, Nevada Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................................1 1. Basic Strategy .................................................................5 2. How the Game Has Changed ....................................10 3. Choosing Your Count—The “KISS” Principle ........19 4. Psychological Profile of a Winning High-Stakes Player ......................................27 5. The High Roller ............................................................42 6. Your P&L Statement—Penetration and Longevity ..............................................................56 7. The Ultimate Gambit with Stanford Wong ............79 8. Crazy Surrender .........................................................105 9. For Green-Chip Players ............................................117 10. Blackjack Debates ......................................................135 11. Amazing and Amusing Incidents (All True) .........153 12. On Guises and Disguises ..........................................166 13. Psychological Aspects of the Game ........................178 Burning the taBles in las Vegas 14. Understanding Casino Thinking .............................198 15. Tips & Tipoffs .............................................................218 16. Managing Risk ...........................................................266 17. International Play ......................................................275 -
Optimal Betting in Casino Blackjack III: Table-Hopping
1 Optimal Betting in Casino Blackjack III: Table-Hopping N. RICHARD WERTHAMER New York, USA Abstract The casino blackjack technique usually called back-counting, or wonging, consists of beginning play (“entry”) at a table only after an indicator of favourability exceeds a certain threshold. The back-counter is also advised to leave the table at a threshold of unfavourability, most usually after entry (here termed “exit”) but sometimes also before entry (here termed “departure”). I have analysed these thresholds previously and obtained optimal entry and exit criteria based on maximising the total cash value of the table between successive shuffles, recognizing that only some of its rounds are actually played. Here I extend and complete that investigation to include the value from a second, freshly-shuffled table, played after either departure or exit, until the first table is reshuffled; this extension is here termed “table-hopping”. An optimal departure point arises in table-hopping that does not appear when considering only a single table. Optimal table-hopping offers an important incremental advantage to its practitioner, here quantified for several representative game conditions, sufficient to make attractive several well-camouflaged betting methods. Introduction A blackjack player welcomes any technique by which he can estimate his odds on the next hand, each time he places his bet. If the estimation is unfavourable, he then bets only a minimum amount; if favourable, he bets more than the minimum, depending on the degree of favourability. Such a technique, called “card-counting”, was first developed by Thorp (1962) and subsequently refined by others. In general, card counting involves observing every card as it is dealt. -
A History of the International Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking
A History of the International Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking William R. Eadington, Ph.D. David G. Schwartz, Ph.D. “The study of gambling is fascinating, perhaps because it is so easy to relate it to parallels in areas of our everyday lives. But the surface has only been scratched; many questions remain to be satisfactorily answered.” --Preface to Gambling and Society (1976), William R. Eadington, editor The above statement is a sound summary of why those who study gambling do what they do: gambling raises vital questions, many of which still lack definitive answers.And yet, the study of gambling is no longer the terra incognita it once was. The evolution of the International Conferences on Gambling and Risk-Taking is both a sign of the changes in the study of gambling over the past forty years and one of the driving forces behind that change. Started in 1974 as the National Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking, the conference began as a gathering of academics in a variety of disciplines from around the United States who were interested in the impact of gambling from several points of view, ranging from analyses of mathematical questions about gambling, to the fundamentals of pathological gambling, to understanding business dimensions of gaming enterprises, to broader inquiries into the impact of gambling on society. The First Conference was held at the Sahara Casino in Las Vegas in June of that year in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Western Economics Association.1 This wasn’t the first mainstream academic discussion of gambling (gambling has been the subject of academic study since at least the 16th-century career of Giralamo Cardano), but it was the first dedicated gathering that concentrated specifically on the topic.And, while those who studied gambling in the early 1970s and before were often scoffed at by academics with more traditional research foci, they were greeted with outright hostility by some in the gaming industry. -
(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,272,958 B2 Smith Et Al
US008272958B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,272,958 B2 Smith et al. (45) Date of Patent: Sep. 25, 2012 (54) AUTOMATED MULTIPLAYER GAME TABLE is: A 3. E. R. et al. WITH UNIQUE IMAGE FEED OF DEALER 4,643,421wk I A 2/1987 MeyeraSal et al. O O 4,658,247 A 4, 1987 Aubin (75) Inventors: Philip Stephen Smith, Las Vegas, NV 4,687,200 A 8, 1987 Shirai (US); Ezra Christopher MacKenna, 4,724,307 A 2f1988 Dutton et al. 4,738,451 A 4, 1988 Logg enderson,C NXSS (US); Daymon B.Rush, 4,926,3274,887,819 A 12/19895/1990 WalkerSidley Savage, Las Vegas, NV (US) 4,995,615 A 2/1991 Cheng 5,090,708 A 2f1992 Gerlitz et al. (73) Assignee: Shuffle Master, Inc., Las Vegas, NV 5, 120,057 A 6/1992 Kitaue (US) 5,125,671 A 6/1992 Ueda et al. 5,149,104 A 9, 1992 Edelstein (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this 3.32. A 88: An Jr. et al. patent is extended or adjusted under 35 5,221,083. A 6/1993 Dote ............................... 463,32 U.S.C. 154(b) by 2022 days. 5,288,078 A 2/1994 Capper et al. 5,317,505 A 5/1994 Karabed et al. (21) Appl. No.: 10/764,995 5,414,256 A 5/1995 Gurner et al. (Continued) (22) Filed: Jan. 26, 2004 FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS (65) Prior Publication Data WO WO 96/30856 10, 1996 US 2005/0164762 A1 Jul. -
PVP 1-14 Front Stuff
PROFESSIONAL VIDEO POKER 1 PROFESSIONAL VIDEO POKER STANFORD WONG Pi Yee Press PROFESSIONAL VIDEO POKER 2 PROFESSIONAL VIDEO POKER by Stanford Wong Pi Yee Press copyright © 1988, 1991, 1993, 2007 by Pi Yee Press All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechani- cal, including photocopying, recording, or by any informa- tion storage and retrieval system, without permission in writ- ing from the publisher. Inquiries should be addressed to Pi Yee Press, 4855 W. Nevso Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89103-3787. Telephone (702) 579-7711. ISBN 0-935926-15-1 Always printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 cover photo courtesy of Gamblers General Store, Las Vegas PROFESSIONAL VIDEO POKER 3 PREFACE Some of my Nevada friends support themselves primarily by playing video poker. They live in Las Vegas, but occasionally travel to Reno and Stateline and find profitable opportunities there. I worked with them to devise the strategies they are using. Presenting those strategies is the purpose of this publication. The material in this publication has had more than a year of testing in the casinos of Ne- vada. Some of this material has previously been pub- lished. Volume 6 of Stanford Wong’s Blackjack Newslet- ters, published in 1984, presents strategies for playing video poker. Those strategies were devised with accu- racy in mind. Speed also is important. You can make more money per hour with an approximate strategy if it allows you to play enough more hands per hour. -
The Ultimate Counting Method
THE ULTIMATE COUNTING METHOD The total efficacy of a Blackjack count depends on its correlation with (1) the true advantage or disadvantage of the remaining cards in the deck(s) for betting purposes and (2) the playing efficiency that it provides. Unfortunately, a count that does (1) well does not do (2) as well, and vice versa.. I had started out with the simple HI-LO count (23456+1, TJQKA-1) but wanted to look for something better. Counts are described by how many “levels” they comprise. A count that gives all cards either a 0, 1, or -1 value is a “level 1" count, while one that gives 0, 1, -1, 2, or - 2 values to cards is a “level 2" count, and so on. The higher the level, the greater the betting accuracy but the more difficult the counting effort becomes. Examining the count analyses for both betting and play efficiency in The Theory of Blackjack by Peter Griffin I saw that Stanford Wong’s moderately difficult “Halves” count has a betting accuracy correlation of 0.99. In whole numbers Halves counts aces and ten-cards as -2; 9 as -1; 2 and 7 as +1; 3, 4, and 6 as +2, and 5 as +5. It is more convenient, however, to divide all these numbers by two when counting, hence the name “Halves.” HI-LO’s betting correlation is 0.89 according to Griffin, so Halves is a somewhat better system for betting. Looking at the playing efficiency of Halves, which is 0.58 according to Wong, it isn’t quite as good as the HI-LO count (0.59 according to Griffin). -
Experiments in Dice Control Robert H
Pair-a-Dice Lost: Experiments in Dice Control Robert H. Scott III Donald R. Smith “We may throw the dice, but the Lord determines how they fall” (Bible.com). This paper presents our findings from experiments designed to test whether we could use a custom-made dice throwing machine applying common dice control methods to produce dice rolls that differ from random. In earlier research we used a popular method of dice control to calculate how much “control” a shooter needs to overcome the casino’s advantage (Smith and Scott, 2018). We found that a shooter only needs an 8.031% level of control (0% is random and 100% is perfect horizontal-axis control of both dice) to erase the casino’s advantage of 1.41% for a standard pass line bet.1 This finding supports a common claim among dice controllers that you do not need to throw the dice perfectly every time to win, simply throwing the dice with a little more control than a random throw is enough. The natural follow-up question is: Can a human being achieve the desired level of control under normal casino conditions? This question has not been answered elsewhere. Even documented evidence of extremely long craps hands is not as intuitively convincing as it may appear. We decided to run experiments to see if a dice throwing machine that generally mimics the biomechanical properties of expert craps players (e.g., back spin, on-axis throw, repeatable throwing angle etc.) could achieve at least a break-even level of control. Using our machine (named “Lucky Lil”) on a 6’ foot craps table we filmed dice throws using a Phantom® VEO4K 990s high-speed digital camera that captured video in 4K resolution. -
Are Casinos Cheating?
\\jciprod01\productn\H\HLS\10-1\HLS102.txt unknown Seq: 1 21-JAN-19 9:04 Casino Countermeasures: Are Casinos Cheating? Ashford Kneitel1 Abstract Since Nevada legalized gambling in 1931, casinos have proliferated into the vast majority of states. In 2015, commercial casinos earned over $40 billion. This is quite an impressive growth for an activity that was once relegated to the backrooms of saloons. Indeed, American casino companies are even expanding into other countries. Casino games have a predetermined set of rules that all players—and the casino itself—must abide by. Many jurisdictions have particularized statutes that allow for the prosecution of players that cheat at these games. Indeed, players have long been prosecuted for marking cards and sliding dice. And casino employees have long been prosecuted for cheating their employers using similar methods. But what happens when casinos cheat their players? To be sure, casinos are unlikely to engage in tradi- tional methods of cheating for fear of losing their licenses. Instead, this cheating takes the form of perfectly suitable—at least in the casinos’ eyes—game protection counter- measures. This Article argues that some of these countermeasures are analogous to traditional forms of cheating and should be treated as such by regulators and courts. In addition, many countermeasures are the product of a bygone era—and serve only to slow down games and reduce state and local tax revenues. Part II discusses the various ways that cheating occurs in casino games. These methods include traditional cheating techniques used by players and casino employees. An emphasis will be placed on how courts have adjudicated such matters. -
Blackjack Attack: Playing the Pros’ Way
Playing the Pros’ Way Don Schlesinger Huntington Press Las Vegas, Nevada Table of Contents List of Tables ix Foreword by Stanford Wong xiii Introduction by Arnold Snyder xv Publisher’s Introduction by Viktor Nacht xvii Acknowledgments xix Prefaces by Don Schlesinger xxiii 11 Back-Counting the Shoe Game 1 12 Betting Techniques and Win Rates 15 13 Evaluating the New Rules and Bonuses 29 14 Some Statistical Insights 43 15 The “Illustrious 18” 55 16 The “Floating Advantage” 67 17 Camouflage for the Basic Strategist and the Card Counter 91 18 Risk of Ruin 111 19 Before You Play, Know the SCORE! 151 viii Table of Contents 10 The “World’s Greatest Blackjack Simulation” 185 11 Team Play 287 12 More on Team Play: A Random Walk Down the Strip 303 13 New Answers to Old Questions 343 14 Some Final “Words of Wisdom” from Cyberspace 379 Appendix A: Complete Basic Strategy EVs for the 1-, 2-, 4-, 6-, and 8-Deck Games 387 Appendix B: Basic Strategy Charts for the 1-, 2-, and Multi-Deck Games 475 Appendix C: The Effect of Rules Variations on Basic Strategy Expectations 491 Appendix D: Effects of Removal for the 1-, 2-, 6-, and 8-Deck Games 495 Epilogue 523 Selected References 525 Index 529 List of Tables 1.1 Back-Counting with Spotters 13 2.1 Standard Deviation by Number of Decks 20 2.2 Probability of Being Ahead after n Hours of Play 21 2.3 Analysis of Win Rates and Standard Deviation for Various Blackjack Games 23 2.4 Optimal Number of Simultaneous Hands 26 2.5 Expectation as a Function of “Spread” 27 3.1 Summary of New Rules 39 4.1 Final-Hand Probabilities -
Sharp Sports Betting
SHARP SPORTS BETTING BY STANFORD WONG PI YEE PRESS copyright © 2001, 2006, 2009, 2011 by Pi Yee Press Inquiries should be addressed to Pi Yee Press, 4855 W. Nevso Dr., Las Vegas, NV 89103-3787. ISBN 978-0-935926-44-6 This book is dedicated to Bob Martin (1918-2001), Nevada’s first great linesmaker. The lines he crafted for the Churchill Downs sportsbook in the 1960s became known internationally as “the Las Vegas line.” ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stanford Wong has made a name for himself through books, newsletters, software, and the Internet. He loves to solve puzzles. Of course he has done his share of winning at gambling games. When he was in graduate school, playing blackjack was his major source of income, and he stayed in school long enough to earn a Ph.D. from Stanford. He published his first book, Professional Blackjack, in 1975 while a student at Stanford. Wong is a frequent contributor to the message boards on his website, BJ21.com, which is devoted to discussion of getting an edge at casino games. Table of Contents PREFACE LIST OF TABLES CHAPTER 1 HOW TO PLACE BETS Where to Bet Sports Which Sports? How to Bet Sports Multiple Max Bets Cashing Tickets Bobby Bryde on Lost Tickets Backed Off? The Rest of This Book CHAPTER 2 MONEY MANAGEMENT MinWin MinEdge The Argument for Flat Bets The Argument for Varying Bets Bankroll Size Simultaneous Bets Bankroll and MinEdge Determine MinWin Credit What Percent Winners? Estimating Your Edge The Big Concern Sample Problems Solutions to Sample Problems CHAPTER 3 BETTING SPORTS ON THE INTERNET Legality of -
Table-Games-Guide.Pdf
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Blackjack Secrets
BLACKJACK SECRETS THIS BOOK PURCHAS.EDFROM' GamL~le\s .Genr:.~~~L$tore Inc. 800 SUo ilJ;,i-\jf\J ~ I j-,cc r LAS VEG/\S, NV 89101 (702) 382-9903 1-800-322-CH1~ .. , .........".;. STANFORD WONG Pi Vee Press BLACKJACK SECRETS by Stanford Wong Pi Yee Press copyright © 1993 by Pi Yee Press All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be repro duced or utilized in any form or by any means, elec tronic or mechanical, including photocopying, record ing, or byany information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. In quiries should be addressed to Pi Yee Press, 7910 Ivan hoe #34, La Jolla, CA 92037-4511. ISBN 0-935926-20-8 Printed in the United States ofAmerica 345 6 7 8910 4 BLACKJACK SECRETS PREFACE Itisdefinitelypossibletowinatblaclgack-thathas been proven beyond any doubt. This book explains how to win at blackjack by counting cards. It contains a simple explanation of a powerful wimring system, the high-low. More importantly; this book explains how to winin a casino - how to win withoutgetting kicked out. This materialhasbeenthoroughlytestedincasinosthrough out the world. Part ofthe content ofthis book originallyappeared inProfessional Blackjack. The remainderofthis book is mostly rewrites ofarticles that first appeared in one or another of the newsletters: Stanford Wong's Blackjack Newsletter, Current Blackjack News, Blackjack World, . Nevada Blackjack, and Winning Gamer. (Ofthose, only Current Blackjack News is still published.) The format for much of that material is letters from readers and responses to thoseletters. Thanksto allthe readerswho sent letters to Pi Yee Press; without them, this book would not exist.