Stepping off the main casino floor, we find the poker room. Poker rooms are purposefully set apart from the main casino floor. In poker, the casino simply provides a dealer, a table, and a legal venue for players to take each other’s money. For this service, the casino takes either a percentage of each pot [...]
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On the main casino floor, me need to look at one more game baccarat. Let’s step into the subdued elegance of the baccarat pit. Notice the deeper pile carpets, the richly upholstered armchairs, and tuxedo-clad dealers. The game and environment are quiet and calm in the European tradition.
The game is easy enough to play and [...]
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Now on to the tables where most of the players seem to be concentrated. Blackjack is the most popular casino table game. Most tables feature the multi-deck shoe game with all player cards dealt face up. The game is simple enough to play: You win if your hand has a higher value than the dealer’s [...]
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Before you get too excited, let’s take a walk over to the other gaming and see what’s going on.
Forgetting to look for the sign identifying the blackjack pits, we notice some other gaming tables that are not immediately recognizable. Let’s take a closer look at these games, new to the casinos in the last decade [...]
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Walking away from the roulette wheels, Take the don’ts, pay the line, eight came easy. Coming out, same good shooter. Craps, eleven, horn bets, whirl bets, highs and lows, place your bets. Let’s go, throw an eleven, shooter.”
What’s all the shouting about? Amidst all the excitement, we see a cluster of players crowded around a [...]
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The first things we notice are the large electronic displays that show the last 21 numbers that have hit. The other things we notice are the players. They seem to be betting haphazardly; some are putting chips on the outside of the layout (”outside bets”), betting that a red or black number will hit, an [...]
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