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You should judge a casino
"the best" if its gaming rules maximize
a player's chance of winning. Consider this Starving
Player's Checklist: single versus double zeros on
a roulette table; blackjack dealt from a single deck
with liberal rules like doubling on anything, re-splitting
and surrender; a crap game with five or ten times
odds in lieu of two-times odds; 9/6 video poker machines;
a mini-baccarat table with low limits; casinos that
advertise 98.5% paybacks on their slot machines, and
then tell you which machines those are when you ask.
Besides, Jack, my New Years Resolution (authored by
my wife) was to avoid the buffet chow lines, but not
a decent-paying video poker machine.
Dear Mark,
I realize this question might be hard to answer in
this setting (your column), but what is the exact
pronunciation of Baccarat? Susan D.
My first inclination
was to suggest you to look it up in a dictionary,
but far to many players mispronounce baccarat. The
"t" in baccarat is silent and correctly
pronounced it's ba-ka-ra, not back-a-rat (a small
rodent found nibbling on buffet leftovers).
Dear Mark,
Deuces Wild is my favorite video poker game. The casino
where I normally play offers only a four coin return
for four-of-a-kind. You suggest finding a machine
that returns five coins for four-of-a-kind. How much
more of an edge am I giving the casino? Grant S.
Plenty! Try six percent.
With maximum coin play and perfect strategy, a five-coin
return for four-of-a-kind gives you a slight edge
against the house-a 100.76% return versus 94.34% if
the machine returns just four coins.
Dear Mark,
I was reading one of your columns in which you mentioned
'scared money'. I'm new to gambling and wondered what
this term means. A. A.
It's June 1 and your
rent is due. With insufficient capital to pay your
landlord, you decide to gamble, erroneously believing
you can chase down luck. That's scared money! Which
leads me to give any gambler this sagacious advice:
Only bet what you can afford to lose. Money for rent,
car payments or any of life's necessities has no place
in a casino.
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