It’s the stuff that gamblers’ dreams are made of. Blackjack player Don Johnson revealed in a magazine interview how he won $15 million from three Atlantic City’s casinos in about five months. Previously tightlipped about how he did it, Johnson said he played “fair and square” but he did have some favorable conditions when he […]
Year: 2014
Macau trumps Vegas with $270 minimum bet
Las Vegas has first class shopping, dining and nightlife. But for serious gamblers, Macau holds all the aces. The city’s $45 billion casino industry is now roughly seven times bigger than Vegas, and eye-popping growth has attracted the biggest players, including Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts. Gambling in the former Portuguese outpost has been […]
Blackjack Tournament Strategy
So you’ve got a good grasp of basic blackjack strategy-you’ve studies up on your odds and strategy charts, you understand the rules of blackjack like the back of your hand and you understand how blackjack tournaments work. Where do you go from here? If you want to increase your odds of winning in the next […]
MIT Blackjack Team
“The first year I played, we returned 154 percent to our investors. That’s after paying off expenses. You try and do that on Wall Street.” – Jeff Ma, member of the MIT Blackjack Team. How did a bunch of college kids from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University become the most feared blackjack […]
Randomization
There are exactly 52 factorial (expressed in shorthand as 52!) possible orderings of the cards in a 52 card deck. In other words there are 52 × 51 × 50 × 49 × ··· × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 possible combinations of card sequence. This is approximately 8×1067 possible orderings or specifically […]
World BlackJack Originalities by BLACKJACKASSUS
How many times have you played Basic Strategy and lost all your capital rapidly? How many times have you won and how many times have you lost while playing precisely the Basic Strategy? Basic Strategy plights that if you precily apply it during your game,you will lose in long-term only 1% of your money.But how […]
Device and method for continuously shuffling cards
part1 Shuffling cards The present invention provides an apparatus and method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into a second group of cards, wherein the second group of cards is randomly arranged or shuffled. The apparatus comprises a card receiver for receiving the first group of cards, a single stack of […]
Casino fined due to illegal blackjack play
When a person is banned from playing at a casino, the casino.. must protect the player. Most casinos across the country have a list and if you are included for some reason by the casino or if you place yourself on the list, the casino must make sure that you do not gamble. The […]
Rule change at two casinos in Las Vegas for Blackjack
An apparently tiny rule change at two casinos in Las Vegas will have pretty serious negative consequences for gamblers USPoker.com An apparently tiny rule change at two casinos in Las Vegas will have pretty serious negative consequences for gamblersreported that the Las Vegas Sands company just changed its payout rules for blackjack at the Venetian and […]