Beat the Casino

The casino has many promotions.

In the story above, I mention some of them, free play coupons, bonus play coupons, Stay and Play coupons, and Eat&Play coupons.

Also, the casino gives a casino plastic card where you get points by playing games table games, like blackjack or roulette.

Also, you earn points playing machine games like slots and video poker, high& low, and other stuff.

This chapter will tell you what those promotions are in great detail, how you can abuse them, where you can find them, and how they go together to get the highest average return on your money by playing time and keep dispersion, aka risk, low.

You receive Free Play coupons :

-when you enter Casino for the first and second time,

-for your phone number and

- for your birthday.

-On special occasions-aka  promotions

There are two different types of Casino promo lists. The first one is a promo list that has to be played on a machine and cannot be exchanged for money. And the other list is a cashout voucher that can be played on a machine or exchanged for cash.

I also call every promo list a free play coupon—for example, a voucher that costs 100 euros. You get 100 euros of free play coupons.

You can use this promotion anywhere in slots or any other game. Cause you will always earn money from those coupons. And you don't need to worry about the average return rate of your game. I will explain what the average return rate is in the following Section. But for now, let's say that it is a number that tells you how much money you get back on average if you spin 100€ on a machine.

What are bonus play coupons? The casino offers some promotions to get some extra in a free play coupon if you exchange cash for the promo list.

For example, if you pay 60 €. You will get back a free play coupon of 80 €.

Where is a profit here? You have to spin it once on a machine to get a cash-out voucher. And if you get back more than 60 €, what you paid for, you will have a profit. The average return rate here is significant.

If a machine has an average return rate of 75%, you will break zero. On average, if it is more, you will have profit. If it's less, you will have a loss. For example, slots have an average return rate of 60%. So you will lose around 5€ on average. If you play, for example, video poker, where you have a 97% return rate. You will be 15€ in profit.

Where can you play these coupons? I advise you to play these coupons, where the average return rate is 90 or higher, more about the average return rate in the math section. I recommend playing those coupons on high-low, video blackjack, video poker, and video roulette if it exists.

What are Eat&play promotions?. They are bonus play promotions, where you get the same amount of free play coupons as the amount you paid, but you also get lunch. For example, I get a VIP ticket for a VIP menu if I pay 30 euros for 30 euros of a promo ticket.

Where can you get those promotions?  If a casino has a restaurant nearby. And they offer it. You can get them. Usually, there is no limit on how many those promotions you can buy.

I advise you to use those promotions with the highest average return rate game possible video poker or blackjack. In that case, your cost per launch should be almost nothing. Maybe you will get paid to eat.

What is the Stay&play promotion? It's similar to an Eat&play promotion. You pay for a Free play ticket and get a room. In my example, I paid $150 for 150 € free play ticket and a hotel room for that night.

Usually, there is no limit to how many hotel rooms you can buy, but probably I can only buy one. I didn't ask. I advise you to play those promotions on the highest average rate game there is. That's video poker or video blackjack if the rules are great.

What is a casino card? Casinos have a card like a shopping card, Amazon shopping card, and such as such. Every shop has a card, and the casino also has a card where you collect points while playing table games or machines.

You can now exchange those points for money or drinks or other promo material, Like a towel, a bicycle, an iPhone, or an Apple Watch. Usually, for every five € you turn on a machine, you get one point. These numbers might depend on your casino. You can add profit from a casino card to the average return rate of a casino machine.

Still, you usually don't need to do that because of such small margins, except if you are going for the high promotions where video poker is higher than a 99% return rate. In that case, You need to calculate how much money you get for each point, how much you value the promotional material, you get from a casino like you can resell a bicycle or anything else like that.

Section three will explain to you all the mathematical terms you need to know and understand to beat Casino and know why bad days happen because they will, but great days will also occur.

I explain the term average return rate or average return percentage and Dispersion, aka risk. We will learn that every game in Casino is just a return percentage with variability.

What is the average return percentage, or what do I mean by that? That's the number that tells you how much you will get back if you spend one euro on a machine, meaning one euro multiplied by the average return rate percentage. That is how much you get back on average.

For example, let's play slots. You throw one euro in the machine. You may earn something, you may lose something, or you may lose one euro, you might win two.  If you play this game a million times or an uncountable amount of times, the average return value will end up in how much money you won versus how many you played with. 

Let's say you play video poker for 100 euros. You play 100 times with one euro or 10,000 times with one cent. And on average, you will get back 97 euros because 97% is the average return rate of a casino game. How can you calculate this number for each game? You should Google it. But I will provide all the calculations in the last chapter.

What is dispersion? I will tell you the mathematical definition:

Dispersion is the state of getting dispersed or spread. Statistical dispersion means the extent to which numerical data is likely to vary about an average value. In other words, dispersion helps to understand the distribution of the data.

You have around ten different return values in video poker. Some of them are 0 1 2 3 5 50 100 or 600 times what you originally throw-in. And distribution means that if you play this game 100 times. You will not get exactly 97% multiplied by the number of money you spent on the game, but it varies because of the distribution of those random occurrences.

When you play the game 100 times, the dispersion will have a better effect than if you play the game 1000 times, or a million times, Because dispersion is getting smaller.

Let's look at the graph, C is for 100 games, and A is for 10000 games. The distribution is getting closer to the average return value in the middle.

I provide all the calculations at the end.

What does all this mean in a casino environment? So, the average return rate means that the machine will, on average, return less money than you spent on it. Still, play it many times. That loss will be closer to the mathematical average lost calculated from the average return rate.

This means that if you play fewer games than infinite games, the return of money will vary. It will not be the exact as a mathematical average return of the game. So, if you are lucky at the start, be happy if you are unlucky at the beginning. Say to yourself, okay.

It would average to the average return, and stay come. Remember that at the end, if you play for an unlimited amount of time or a lot. The money that you will get back gets closer and closer to the calculated mathematical average return.

There are many casino games, but I will simplify them for you. We have table games like roulette, blackjack, baccarat, and many more. And we have casino machine games, such as slots, where the average return rate is 60%, which is really profitable for casinos. After that, we have video blackjack, video poker, video roulette, and high low. Those games are also played on a machine, but the outcome is dependent on the player's skill level. It's not random. And you can vary your average return rate by the strategy you're playing, all from 90% to 99.5%.

I will tell you what the game is, its rules, and how to play it.

You probably know how to play roulette. There are 18 Red spaces, 18 black spaces, and one green for zero. Those spaces are numbered from 0 to 36. You can bet that the ball lands on the red or black on green space. And you get paid back some amount of money depending on the bet. To simplify, in every scenario, when you bet, you will lose 2.5% on average. How can you calculate that? Let's say you bet on one on red. You have 18 options to get 2€, and 19 to get 0€. 16 divided by 37 multiplied by 2 is 97.5%. If roulette is on a machine, you can easily play the roulette because you can set up bets to always return 97.5% by placing 18 on black, 18 on red, and one on the green - zero. You will need just one spin, and you will turn in all the money around. That's amazing. However, there are not many video roulette on machines.

I will link the video explanation of roulette below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuePFYmplm0

Blackjack is based on Atlantic City and Las Vegas multiple deck casinos rules. Blackjack rules vary from casino to casino, which makes learning blackjack strategy more complicated. However, many correct moves are fundamental enough that they do not differ from casino to casino. Most large-scale casinos have very similar rules. The basic strategy is displayed below for these rules( 1 deck, S17, D10, DAS, Early Surrender, Peek). In resources, I link a site for calculating these basic strategy tables.

https://www.blackjackinfo.com/blackjack-basic-strategy-engine/

Blackjack is ideally played with one deck of 52 cards, four aces, four kings, four queens, four jacks, and four times one to 10. The goal of blackjack is to beat the dealer. Everyone starts with 2 cards. After that, the game follows these basic rules and terms:

• Blackjack - a two-card hand consisting of an ace and any 10 value card.

• Bust - to go over a hand total of 21

• Hard Hand - a hand that does not contain an ace, meaning it can only have one total value.

• Hit - to take another card.

• Hole Card - the dealer's face-down card.

• Insurance - a bet offered only when the dealer has an ace. Paid at odds of 2-1 if the dealer gets blackjack.

• Pair - a two-card hand containing equal value cards. Pairs may be split.

• Soft Hand - a hand containing an ace valued as 11, meaning another card may be taken.

• Split - the option to bet your original amount again and split two equal value cards into two separate hands.

• Stand - to not take any further cards - also known as 'sitting'.

• Surrender - the option to forfeit half of your bet if you think you cannot beat the dealer.

Basic Blackjack Rules:

• The goal of blackjack is to beat the dealer's Hand without going over 21.

• Face cards are worth 10. Aces are worth 1 or 11, whichever makes a better hand.

• Each player starts with two cards. One of the dealer's cards is hidden until the end.

• To 'Hit' is to ask for another card. To 'Stand' is to hold your total and end your turn.

• If you go over 21, you bust, and the dealer wins regardless of the dealer's Hand.

• If you are dealt 21 from the start (Ace & 10), you got a blackjack.

• Blackjack usually means you win 1.5 the amount of your bet. Depends on the casino.

• The dealer will hit until their cards total 17 or higher.

• Doubling is like a hit, only the bet is doubled, and you only get one more card.

• Split can be done when you have two of the same card - the pair is split into two hands.

• Splitting also doubles the bet because each new Hand is worth the original chance.

• You can only double/split on the first move or first move of a hand created by a split.

• You cannot play on two aces after they are split.

• You can double on a hand resulting from a split, tripling, or quadrupling, you bet.

There are a limited amount of options you have playing this game. And for each possible scenario, there is the best play you can make. And if you remember all those options which are around 100 to a bit less. You have an average return rate of something more than 99%.

People often ask how it is known that the strategy tables such as the ones above are correct. They are created and validated in two ways: The first method involves applying probability theory which uses extremely complicated mathematics. The second technique involves using computers to simulate thousands of blackjack deals that are played using different strategies to see which combination of moves give the best end results (the moves that cause one to lose money the slowest).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd5oc9hLrXg

The most important game in this course is video poker. Before explaining what video poker is, I advise you to buy this app for $1 on Apple Store. It contains some exercises to see if you know all the rules correctly. Basic, Normal, Advanced questions. After that, you have a calculator, which tells you what the best cards to hold are. You can play Video poker like on a machine. You have an option to change the rules of the game to match your paytable. What this means is, I will tell you shortly. You have all the video poker rules for an optimal strategy for 9-6 Jacks&Better variance (this one returns 99,5%), and at the end, you have video poker explained. This app helped me take more than 5000 euros from the casino, so I advise you to buy it. I don't have an affiliate link for it.

https://apps.apple.com/si/app/video-poker-trainer/id324646348

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz_XSM8d2RA&pp=sAQA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsuLLaoX3Ls&pp=sAQA

History of video poker:

In the early 1970s, when video poker was introduced and was still struggling for acceptance, the machines were usually referred to as "poker slots." And video poker has a lot in common with slot machines. They are easy to use, requiring no interaction with a dealer or with other players. Card combinations, like slot reels, are governed by a random-number generator.

But video poker adds something slot machines don't have -- an element of skill. Players have decisions to make that affect the outcome. And because cards are required to be dealt from a randomly shuffled deck the possible combinations are known, the frequency of the combinations can be calculated, and an optimal playing strategy can be devised.

The best video poker machines, played skillfully, offer odds that rival any table game. The basic game, Jacks or Better, in its full-pay version, returns 99.5 percent with optimal play over the long haul. Other machines, especially some versions of Deuces Wild, offer a positive expectation to the player -- that is, over the long haul, they'll return more than 100 percent with optimal play.

Why do casinos offer games that can be beaten? Because only a very small percentage of players know the basics of proper play. Enough mistakes are made that the casinos actually pay out 2 to 4 percent less than the expectation for skilled players. In competitive markets, casinos walk a tightrope between two choices -- offering a pay table so good that the best players can expect to make a profit in the long term, or offering lower pay tables and risk driving away the weaker players who are the casino's bread-and-butter customers.

Now I will try to explain video poker in as much detail as possible, keep up with me.

Rank of Poker Hands

Firstly we have to define the winning hands:

Royal flush: Ace-king-queen-jack-10 all of the same suit (hearts, clubs, spades, or diamonds).

Straight flush: Five consecutive cards of the same suit; for example, 2-3-4-5-6, all of clubs.

Four of a kind: Four cards of the same rank; for example, ace of hearts, ace of spades, ace of clubs, ace of diamonds.

Full house: Three cards of one rank, two cards of another rank; for example, 3 of diamonds, 3 of hearts, 3 of spades, 6 of hearts, 6 of spades.

Flush: Five cards of the same suit; for example, ace, 10, 7, 4, 3, all of diamonds.

Straight: Five consecutive cards of mixed suits; for example, 2 of diamonds, 3 of hearts, 4 of diamonds, 5 of clubs, 6 of spades.

Three of a kind: Three cards of the same rank; for example, 6 of hearts, 6 of clubs, 6 of diamonds.

Two pair: Two cards of one rank, two cards of another rank; for example, ace of spades, ace of hearts, 7 of clubs, 7 of diamonds.

Pair of jacks or better: Two jacks, queens, kings, or aces.

Now that you know how to win, let's take a look at the device that you'll be playing on.

The Video Poker Machine

Almost all video poker machines in use today are variations on five-card draw poker and Jacks or Better is the game by which most varieties are based.

There is no dealer's hand or no other player's hand to beat; payoffs are strictly according to a pay table posted on the machine. The lowest winning hand is a pair of jacks or better (a pair of queens, kings, or aces).

Each machine features a video screen on which the images of cards are dealt. Winnings are usually compiled as credits, which the player may cash out at any time, and the credits are also displayed on a meter on the video screen. On some machines the pay table will also be on the screen; on others, the pay table is painted on the machine's glass.

Below the screen is a console that includes a bill validator. Players slide in currency, and credits then appear on the screen. Usually, on the left are buttons marked "Cash Out" and "Bet One Credit"; in the center are five buttons, one corresponding to each card dealt, marked "Hold/Cancel"; to the right is one button marked "Deal/Draw" and one marked "Bet Max."

Play begins when the player pushes the buttons to bet and deal. Most machines accept up to five coins or credits at a time. If the player hits Bet Max, the machine will deduct five credits and deal the hand.

Once you've made your bet, five cards are dealt faceup on the screen. You have the option of holding or discarding any or all of the cards. To hold, push the Hold/Cancel button corresponding to the card you've chosen. You may hit the same button again to cancel the hold decision.

After you make all your hold decisions, you push the Deal/Draw button. All cards not held will then be discarded, and new cards will be turned up to take their places. These five cards are the final hand. The machine compares that hand to the pay table, and if the hand is a winner, the corresponding number of credits are added to the meter.

he Pay Table

The version of Jacks or Better regarded as full-pay, returning 99.5 percent with optimal play, is commonly referred to as a 9-6 machine, from the 9-for-1 payoff for a full house and 6-for-1 payoff on a flush. The full table for a 9-6 machine, with returns for one coin played, is as follows: Pair of jacks or better, 1; two pair, 2; three of a kind, 3; straight, 4; flush, 6; full house, 9; four of a kind, 25; straight flush, 50; and royal flush, 250.

With one exception, payoffs are proportional to the number of coins played; that is, three of a kind returns three coins with one coin played, six for two, nine for three, 12 for four, or 15 for five. The exception comes on a royal flush, which pays 250 coins for one, 500 for two, 750 for three, 1,000 for four, but on the fifth coin jumps to a return of 4,000 coins.

Casinos usually change the machines' payout percentages by lowering the payouts on the flush and full house. In many casinos throughout the United States, 8-5 machines, paying 8-for-1 on the full house and 5-for-1 on the flush, and 7-5 machines are offered instead of the 9-6 games. With optimal play, an 8-5 machine yields 97.9 percent; the 7-5 machine pays 96.2 percent.

The best Jacks or Better machines ever offered were 10-6 and 9-7 machines at a casino in Las Vegas. Both versions carried payout percentages of more than 100 percent for optimal play, a fact the casino proudly trumpeted with signs on every machine. Of course, the casino didn't lose money on these machines -- most video poker players aren't skilled enough to play at optimal level.

One caution: Even a skilled player on 100-percent-plus machines will have more losing sessions than winners. Those percentages assume that over the long haul the player will hit a normal share of royal flushes with full coins played. Royal flushes are expected about once every 40,000 hands -- about once every 80 hours of play. There are no guarantees, however. Without a normal number of royal flushes, or if fewer than the maximum number of coins are played, the payout percentages will be lower.

I know what you're thinking, "Tell me how to win!" Well, in the next section, you will find strategies take some of the chance out of your gambling.

Video Poker Strategy

Most video poker players can improve their chances by following the few simple rules for holding or discarding the first five cards that they have been dealt:

Always hold a royal flush, straight flush, four of a kind, full house, three of a kind, or two pair. However, with three of a kind, discard the remaining two cards for a chance at four of a kind while leaving full house opportunities open, and with two pair, discard the fifth card for a chance at a full house.

Break up a flush or a straight only when you have four cards to a royal flush. That is, if you have ace-king-queen-jack-9, all of clubs, discard the 9 to take a chance at the big payoff for the 10 of clubs. That still leaves open the possibility of a flush with any other club, a straight with any other 10, and a pair of jacks or better with any ace, king, queen, or jack.

Break up a pair of jacks or better if you have four cards to a royal flush or four cards to a lower straight flush.

Keep a low pair instead of a single high card (jack, queen, king, or ace).

Do not draw to a four-card inside straight -- one in which the missing card is in the middle rather than on either end -- unless it includes at least three high cards. A four-card open straight is one that has space open at either end to complete the hand; for example, a hand of 4-5-6-7 can use either a 3 at one end or an 8 at the other to complete the straight. An inside straight has space in the middle that must be filled to complete the hand; 4-6-7-8 needs a 5 to become a straight. Open straights give the player a better chance, with twice as many cards available to fill the straight.

Optimal Strategy

Once you're used to the quick strategy, you may want to move on to a version that is more complex but more accurate. Following is a strategy that is optimal for the common 8-5 and 7-5 Jacks or Better machines. It also varies only about a tenth of a percent from optimal on 9-6 Jacks or Better and for Bonus Poker machines.

Just as in the quick version, a few hands are never broken up. Obviously, if you're fortunate enough to be dealt a royal flush, you hold all five cards and wait for your payoff. (On payoffs this large, the machine will flash "Jackpot!" or "Winner!" In these cases, the winnings will be paid by an attendant rather than by the machine. Do not put more coins in the machine or attempt to play another hand before you are paid for the royal flush.)

Also, hold all five cards on a straight flush or a full house. Hold all four matching cards on four of a kind. Hold three of a kind while discarding the other two cards for a chance at either four of a kind or a full house. Hold both pairs in a two-pair hand, but discard the fifth card for a chance at a full house.

In the right circumstances, however, the player sometimes will break up a flush, a straight, or a pair of jacks or better. If you do not have one of the "always keep" hands, use the following list. Possible predraw hands are listed in order. Find the highest listing that fits your predraw hand, and discard any cards that do not fit the hand. For example, if your hand includes jack of spades, jack of diamonds, 10 of diamonds, 9 of diamonds, and 8 of diamonds, you have four cards to an open straight flush in diamonds, and you also have a pair of jacks or better. The four-card open straight flush is higher on the list than the pair of jacks or better, so you would discard the jack of spades and draw to the four-card straight flush. You are giving up the certain 1-for-1 payoff for a pair of jacks, but you have a chance at a straight flush with either a queen or 7 of diamonds, could draw a flush with any other diamond, or still could finish with a pair of jacks by drawing the jack of either clubs or hearts.

This strategy distinguishes between inside straights or straight flushes and open straights or straight flushes.

Remember, keep a royal flush, straight flush, four of a kind, full house, three of a kind, or two pair. Here is how other pre-draw hands rank:

1. Four-card royal flush. Note that you would break up a flush, a straight, or a high pair when you're missing only one card in a royal flush. But if you have a straight flush that runs from 9 through king of the same suit, take the straight flush payoff rather than chasing the royal.

2. Flush.

3. Straight.

4. Four-card open straight flush. The big difference in the payoff between a royal flush and a lower straight flush means that the only winning hand you break up to chase a straight flush is a pair of jacks or better, whereas you'd also break up a flush or a straight to chase the royal. There is no option to break up two pair.

5. Four-card inside straight flush.

6. Pair of jacks or better. Discard the remaining three cards. Sometimes players who are used to playing table poker want to keep a high-card "kicker" to the pair -- for example, holding an ace along with two queens. Don't hold a kicker in video poker; give yourself the maximum chance to draw a third high card, or even a full house or four of a kind.

7. Three-card royal flush.

8. Four-card flush.

9. Four-card open straight, two or three high cards. An example would be 9 of clubs, 9 of spades, 10 of clubs, jack of hearts, queen of diamonds. Throw away one of the 9s, and the remaining cards give you a chance at a straight with either an 8 or a king, and you also have a chance at either a pair of jacks or a pair of queens.

10. Low pair (two 10s or lower). Most new players keep a single jack or better rather than a low pair, and it's true that keeping that one high card will result in more frequent winning hands. But most of those will be 1-for-1 payoffs for a pair of jacks or better. Keeping the low pair will result in more two-pair, three-of-a-kind, full-house, even four-of-a-kind hands.

11. Four-card open straight, one high card.

12. Three-card inside straight flush with two high cards.

13. Three-card open straight flush with one high card.

14. Four-card open straight, no high cards.

15. Two-card royal flush, no Ace or 10. You won't hit the royal most of the time, but more possible straights can be formed with lower cards than with aces. And unlike other parts of a royal flush, the 10 leaves no potential high-pair payoff. So the two-card royal is a better play with cards in the middle than with aces or 10s.

16. Three-card double inside straight flush, two high cards. A double inside straight flush has both cards missing on the inside; for example, 8-jack-queen of clubs, where the 9 and 10 are needed.

17. Four high cards; ace, king, queen, and jack of mixed suits. The draw could match any of them for a pair of jacks or better or bring a 10 for a straight.

18. Three-card open straight flush, no high cards.

19. Two-card royal flush, including ace but no 10.

20. Four-card inside straight with three high cards. For example, king-queen-jack-9 of mixed suits; this is the lowest ranking inside straight we draw to. With any others that do not qualify elsewhere on the list, discard all five cards. With jack-10-8-7-3, you'd keep the jack (no. 26 on the list), but with 10-9-7-6-3, you'd draw five new cards.

21. Three high cards.

22. Three-card double inside straight flush, one high card.

23. Three-card inside straight flush, no high cards.

24. Two high cards.

25. Two-card royal, includes 10 but no ace. Note that we don't draw to two-card royals consisting of an ace and a 10. In that case, you would just keep the ace and discard the rest.

26. One high card.

27. Three-card double-inside straight flush, no high cards.

In any hand that does not fit one of the above categories, draw five new cards.

Last thing

Money Management

Two important points to remember: Don't overbet your bankroll, and if a machine is available at which you feel comfortable playing the maximum number of coins, do so. If you are sitting down to play with $20, you don't belong at a $1 machine that will take up to $5 at a time. It is better to play five quarters at a time than one dollar at a time. Though video poker machines pay back a high percentage of the money put into them, the payouts are volatile. It is not unusual to go five or ten or more consecutive hands with no payout. Don't play at a level at which you do not have the funds to ride out a streak.

There isn't any strategy to high-end law that would change the average return rate. However, you can lower the dispersion. What is the game actually about? You get a random number from 1 to 13, and you have to decide if the next one will be higher or lower. You can change the original number up to 3 times. For example, you start with seven. You can pick higher or lower or change the number seven. You can change it up to three times. So, the second time you get one and you pick higher, a chance to get a higher number is 12/13. I have to address that the payout will be lower than if you would pick higher for the number seven. The average return always stays at 93%.

What do you need to know about slots? You don't play it, except if the government says that casino has to have an average return rate above 90% on slots. Or, if you calculate that it's worth it for your promotions, I would advise not to.

This section will tell you how to play video poker, video roulette, and video blackjack. We'll go over the best strategies and how to execute them. I will repeat the essential elements from the previous section.

The following video poker strategy is for a full pay Jacks or Better video poker. It returns 99.5% If you play it optimally. The paytable is:

royal flush 800

Straight Flush 50

4 of a kind 25

full house 9

flush 6

straight 4

three of a kind 3

two pair 2

jacks or better 1

everything else 0

To use this strategy, look up all reasonable ways to play a hand, and choose the play that is highest on the list. If a play isn't on the list, then it should never be played. The numbers on the right represent the average return. These numbers can vary depending on the discards.

1. Dealt royal flush (800.0000)

2. Dealt straight flush (50.0000)

3. Dealt four of a kind (25.0000)

4. 4 to a royal flush (18.3617)

5. Dealt full house (9.0000)

6. Dealt flush (6.0000)

7. 3 of a kind (4.3025)

8. Dealt straight (4.0000)

9. 4 to a straight flush (3.5319)

10. Two pair (2.59574)

11. High pair (1.5365)

12. 3 to a royal flush (1.2868) A

13. 4 to a flush (1.2766)

14. Unsuited TJQK(0.8723)

15. Low pair (0.8237)

16. 4 to an outside straight with 0-2 high cards(0.6809)

17. 3 to a straight flush (type 1) (0.6207 to 0.6429) Straight Flush draw (type 1): Straight flush draw in which the number of high cards equals or exceeds the number of gaps.

18. Suited QJ (0.6004)B

19. 4 to an inside straight, 4 high cards (0.5957)

20. Suited KQ or KJ (0.5821)

21. Suited AK, AQ, or AJ (0.5678)

22. 4 to an inside straight, 3 high cards (0.5319)

23. 3 to a straight flush (type 2) (0.5227 to 0.5097)C: Straight Flush draw (type 2): One of the following straight flush draws. One gap and no high cards Two gaps and one high card

24. Unsuited JQK (0.5005)

25. Unsuited JQ (0.4980)

26. Suited TJ (0.4968) D

27. 2 unsuited high cards king highest (0.4862)

28. Suited TQ (0.4825) E

29. 2 unsuited high cards ace highest (0.4743)

30. J only (0.4713)

31. Suited TK (0.4682) F

32. Q only (0.4681)

33. K only (0.4649)

34. A only (0.4640)

35. 3 to a straight flush (type 3) (0.4431) Straight Flush draw (type 3): Straight flush draw with two gaps and no high cards.

36. Garbage, discard everything (0.3597)

Hands That Are Never Played

Ther some subset of these hands are better than the larger hand or discarding everything is better. In parenthesis, I put what you should do with these hands.

• Suited 10 and ace (keep the ace only)

• 3 unsuited high cards, ace highest (keep the lowest two high cards)

• 4 to an inside straight, 2 high cards (keep the two high cards)

• 4 to an inside straight, 1 high card (keep the single high card)

• 4 to an inside straight, 0 high cards (discard everything)

What is a blackjack strategy? What do you have to know? Look up all the rules that are:

double after split

is surrender allowed

Hit or stand on soft 17

Double all or just 10&11

number of decks

Make yourself a table and remember it.

https://www.blackjackinfo.com/blackjack-basic-strategy-engine/

The best is to use Blackjack Verite Drills. This app gives you random hands of a subset of hands you choose, and you try to get it right.

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For roulette, there isn't any specific strategy. You can play one on each of the numbers, or you can play 18 on the red, 18 on black, and one on the green. In this case, you will always get back 36. You will lose one. And that is the 97.5 return on your investment always and ever—zero risk involved.

This section will tell you what you will encounter the first time going to the Casino. I will tell you which bonuses you will most likely get, where to use them and how to use them. You will get the whole experience playing slots, blackjack, and video poker.

Now the story of how I got 3k in 8 hours.

One day, the casino offered a promotion, a bonus play promotion. It's for each different person that walks in. You know that person gets an offer to pay 1000 euros for 1300 euros of a promo ticket. If you spend 1300 euros on video poker, you will get back 1264 euros on average. My best friend and I invited our friends to the casino. We earned like 2k together. After that, we went on the street, picking up girls, to get them to go with us on a date to the casino to use those promotions or invite random people and pay them 50 euros for the promotion.

In the end, I used, I think, like 20 promotions, maybe a little bit less. I could do a lot more, I should do a lot more, but I was exhausted after eight hours of playing. But looking back, I should push it. Next time that we will have that promotion. My friend and I will try to reach 50k.

First time going to the casino. Are you scared? You will go to the cashier's room. You will give them your registration paper, and she will provide you with a 5€ free play coupon. I advise you to spend those on slots.

Next, you will get five euros of a promo ticket for getting a casino card. I should also advise you to play those five euros on slots. Remember your return.

Exchange your phone number for 5€, and every month you will get the best promotions texed to your phone.  Spend it on slots, keep track of your return. Look how much the return varies across those three promotions. This is the last time you played slots.

Buy something you enjoy with your earnings, an ice cream, a bear, or a meal.

In this section, I tell you more about bonus promotions, where to find them how to use them. I may repeat the critical information from the previous Lectures.

On the website, look for the promotions where if you pay X amount of money, you get X plus Y amount of money in free play Promo coupons. If you can't find them, go to the casino and look for the posters, they're usually very informal. The best option is to ask a cashier or receptor or a pit boss. What promotions are going on this month?

After that, just spent money and buy all the promotions you know are profitable for you. How do you do that? Calculate the break-even average return value for promotion. If the average return rate for video poker is higher than the break-even average return rate for promotion, buy the promotion. Play video poker. Have fun.

I will tell you again how I lived One month from Casino, travel Slovenia and earn 500 €.

I am going to tell you how to use eat&stay promotions. And I will also give you the option to get room service gifts. If there aren't offered as promotions, but you can get them by asking for them.

I searched for casinos and wrote down all the bonus play promotions and free play promotions they had.

I drew a map to set up a trip. I will drop a picture on the screen. After that, I just went for it. I packed my backpack and traveled through Slovenia for a month. I have shown you some of the pictures I took on my Instagram.

Eat&play promotions and Stay&play promotions. Some of the casinos offer a bonus if you pay 100 euros, get back 100 euros free-play and a  room, or pay  30 € you get back for 30€ free play and a meal. Usually, 10 euros costs 10 cents. Just map all the promotions from other casinos and make a trip when you leave a specific place and arrive and another.

Suppose you don't have those easy options. You have to play your table or machine games and get some points on the card. And after you get some ask pit boss or reception to get a free meal or a room.

That is my Thesis paper for Math Major.