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CondorHero

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Originally posted by: stan394
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doing those not hit when @@*%#++ and not double down when @*@*# will only slow you down from losing. you are still going to lose in the long run. i thought most people gamble for fun and expect to lose in the long run anyway. so does doing the same thing everytime the situation comes classified as fun?


most people don't gamble on the 'long run'. when they are up xxx amount then they generally quit.
 

pray4mojo

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Originally posted by: stan394
Originally posted by: pray4mojo
Originally posted by: stan394
Originally posted by: Doggiedog
When the dealer is showing a 6 and you have a 15, you don't hit and when you have a 14 and the dealer is showing a 10, you don't double down!

Can someone explain why? I thought this is called gambling. if everyone does the same thing everytime, is it still gambling? it's robots...

:confused:

I'm pretty certain that most people gamble to gain, not lose.

doing those not hit when @@*%#++ and not double down when @*@*# will only slow you down from losing. you are still going to lose in the long run. i thought most people gamble for fun and expect to lose in the long run anyway. so does doing the same thing everytime the situation comes classified as fun?

I guess I don't gamble for fun then. Although it's pretty fun to win some money.
 

amoeba

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Originally posted by: CondorHero
Originally posted by: stan394
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doing those not hit when @@*%#++ and not double down when @*@*# will only slow you down from losing. you are still going to lose in the long run. i thought most people gamble for fun and expect to lose in the long run anyway. so does doing the same thing everytime the situation comes classified as fun?


most people don't gamble on the 'long run'. when they are up xxx amount then they generally quit.



this is a big logical fallacy. they quit until the next time right? or do you mean they only play once in their lifetime.

 

Ns1

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if you wanna make money you should stop playing blackjack ;)
 

newbiepcuser

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Originally posted by: Kev
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Originally posted by: spacejamz
Originally posted by: Doggiedog
When the dealer is showing a 6 and you have a 15, you don't hit and when you have a 14 and the dealer is showing a 10, you don't double down!

I can't stand it when these dvmbasses try to play blackjack.

that's all fine and dandy except when you are playing on the $1 tables....some dude was getting all pissed when a friend of mine (female) wasn't hitting when she was 'supposed' to and staying when she 'should' have hit...

if you are gonna get all serious and sh!t, move up to the $5 tables....

$5 tables is serious? Bahahahahahahahahahaha. :p

i have never seen a 1 dollar table in my life


Slots of fun next to circus circus and downtown Vegas. Also the dinky hotels. Some of my buddies were pretty frugal back in the old day.
 

kranky

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Originally posted by: Amused
I never understood why people got pissed at bad players.

This "She took the dealer's bust card" nonsense is just that. For every time she takes the bust card, she could easily be taking the dealers win card as well, or not hitting, and leaving the dealer a bust card.

Bad players don't change anything at a table. Your odds on each hand remain the same, no matter how many times they hit, or not.

The difference is not your odds, but what you SEE. You SEE the times they take what would have been a dealer bust card and this flips you out.

Just know it's irrational. Mind your own hand.

That was my experience on my one trip to Las Vegas. The guy across the table bitched at me for doing something that I guess he felt screwed him up, and I ignored him. A few hands later he did the same thing. I asked him if he'd feel better if we weren't playing at the same table and he said yes, and I invited him to find another table. At that point the dealer suggested *I* find a different table, and that was the end of my gambling in Las Vegas. None of those people seemed to be having any fun at all. Just grim faces with occasional momentary explosions of glee or agony.
 

Noirish

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Originally posted by: Doggiedog
When the dealer is showing a 6 and you have a 15, you don't hit.

I don't see anything wrong w/ that.
Maybe you play by statistics, but sometimes luck prevails.
 

hans007

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i've played at 25 and 50 dollar tables, and well... i basically just play the rules. the jackasses at palms wont even "help" you out when you ask for what the rules are. so unfriendly

anyway, the palms sucks. high minimums. sure there are hot girls there, but the gambling is gambling and you get bad odds, bad blackjack 21 payout. all horrible.


and when a dealer is showing a 6 , they are so likely to get a 8-10 and then have to hit again, its totally in your favor to not hit. i mean

if the dealer is showing a 6 and you have a 13 you still shouldn't hit.