Casino are amazing. Bright lights, Excitement, 24 hour entertainment, amazing sounds, great food and hospitality, but it is The Edge that goes unnoticed. The Edge is everywhere, it is the bright lights and it is the sounds all designed to encourage you forget you have a regular life, family and responsibilities, somewhere outside these windowless walls.
Walk onto any Casino floor and I guarantee the first sound you will notice will be coins dropping into the payout trays, and the Pokie features ringing as someone hits it big, all design to distract you away from the sad looking guy who just took his shot, and lost.
The most important Edge however is on the gaming floor. Blackjack, Pontoon, both play to 21 in the same way, but Pontoon players beware, there are no 10's in these decks. Math and logic used by most players are now wrong and your going to lose.
The most obvious Edge feature is the 0 and 00 on a roulette wheel. Any player betting black or red will only win 47% of the time.
The best example of an Edge I have seen was a legend created by casinos and passed on by superstitious players for a hundred years - never remove a winning bet. After each spin, the croupier caps the winning number with a marker and pays all winning bets, once this is done they announce "place your bets" and your bet remains in play with a 0.008% chance the same number will appear twice in a row, a probable donation to the house. This extra chip equates to between 0.03% and 1.4% Edge depending if the bet was straight up or corner or rows.
I remain optimistic nonetheless, I'm on my way to the dice tables and I've got a system.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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