Posts Tagged ‘strategy’
Posted by Nicolae on November 1st, 2008 under Bridge
Tags: auction, bidding, Bridge, card, chance, contract, game, links, partnerships, play, players, references, Rules, skills, strategy, trick-taking, Video •
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Players: 4
Age range: recommended for 12 and up
Setup time < 2 minutes
Playing time: WBF tournament games = 7.5 minutes per deal
Rules complexity; Medium
Strategy depth: High
Random chance: Low - high depending on variant played
Skills required: Memory, Tactics
Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill, and partly of chance, for four [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 26th, 2008 under Gambling variants
Tags: card, casino, casino war, deal, games, going to war, house advantage, House Edge, links, Poker, ranks, references, strategy, ties, Video, War •
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Casino war is a casino card game based on the children’s game of War. The game is arguably one of the most easily understood casino card games, but it also has a relatively large house edge compared to other games.The game is normally played with six standard 52 card decks. The cards [...]
Posted by Nicolae on September 23rd, 2008 under Bingo, Blackjack, Blogs, Bonuses, Business, Casinos, Celebrities, Companies, Gambling Media, Gambling addiction, Gambling industry, Las Vegas, Legislation, News, Online Gambling, Poker, Politics, Sports Betting, Studies, Reports & Survey, Top Gambling News, UIGEA, United States, online poker
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Get real on web gambling
Kansas City Star, MO
Rick’s Gambling & Tourism column in today’s Star Business Weekly looks at the US’s untenable position in the worldwide on-line gambling industry. …
State cracks down on Net gambling
Kentucky.com, KY
By Jack Brammer FRANKFORT — Kentucky is commandeering 141 domain names of Internet gambling sites in [...]
Posted by Nicolae on September 11th, 2008 under Gamblers, Society, Software, online poker
Tags: Bayes theorem, combinatorial game theory, computer, game, Monte Carlo simulation, multi-player, Nash equilibrium, Neural networks, online poker, players, Poker, pokerbots, ring, rooms, strategy, WinHoldEm •
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The game of poker (or at least most of the variants) is considered to be computationally intractable. However, methods are being developed to at least approximate perfect strategy from the combinatorial game theory perspective in the heads-up (two player) game, and increasingly good systems are being created for the multi-player or [...]
Posted by Nicolae on August 27th, 2008 under Blackjack, Casinos, Celebrities, Gamblers
Tags: Al Francesco, betting, Blackjack, Blackjack Hall of Fame, Breaking Vegas, card tracking, card-counting, casino games, gamblers, investigators, Johnny Chang, Ken Uston, links, media, methods, Million Dollar Blackjack, MIT Blackjack Team, odds, operation, plan, statistical advantage, story, Strategic Investments, strategy, students, team manager •
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The MIT Blackjack Team, as the name suggests, was a group of students and ex-students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who attempted to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide. The team and its successors operated from 1979 through the beginning of the 21st century.
The plan and operation
Blackjack gives the house a low statistical [...]
Posted by Nicolae on August 15th, 2008 under Card counting, strategies
Tags: advantage, Blackjack, card game, card-counting, high cards, low cards, myth, players, probability, strategy •
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Card counting is a card game strategy used to determine when a player has a probability advantage. The term is used almost exclusively to refer to the tracking of the ratio of high cards to low cards in blackjack, although theoretically card counting can be used in some other card games.
How card [...]
Posted by Nicolae on July 10th, 2008 under Blackjack, Blackjack Guide, games
Tags: Arnold Snyder, basic strategy, Blackjack, casino games, dealer, doubles, drawing, early surrender, gaining, hole-card, methods, next card, normal surrender, players, resplitting aces, Rules, shuffle tracking, strategy, tables, techniques •
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Basic strategy
As in all casino games, the house has a statistical advantage over the players that will play itself out in the long run. But because blackjack, unlike other games, has an element of player choice, players can actually reduce the casino advantage to a small percentage by playing what is known [...]
Posted by Nicolae on July 9th, 2008 under Poker, Texas hold 'em
Tags: notation, Pocket Aces, pocket jacks, pocket pair, pocket sevens, queen-nine offsuit, starting hand, strategy, suited connectors, suited hands, terminology, texas hold 'em, wired pair •
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Starting hand terminology and notation
There are (52 × 51)/2 = 1,326 distinct possible combinations of two hole cards from a standard 52-card deck. However, since suits are only relevant for flushes, many of these hands are indistinguishable from the point of view of pre-flop strategy. In fact, considering suits to be equivalent [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 28th, 2008 under Sheepshead, games
Tags: blind, Called ace, card game, Card Order, Card Point Values, Continuing the hand, Count the cards, deal, family of games, first card, Following Suit, how to play, leasters, partner, Playing the Cards, preparation, Schaffen, Schafkopf, score, Sheepshead, Skat, strategy, variations •
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Eichel (acorn)
Grün (green)
Rot (red)
Schellen (bells)
Club
Spade
Heart
Diamond
Sheepshead is a card game related to the Skat family of games, originating in Central Europe in the late 1700’s under the German name Schafkopf. Although Schafkopf literally means “sheepshead”, the term is actually derived from Middle High German and referred to playing cards on an overturned [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 16th, 2008 under Mahjong, games
Tags: bulletin boards, China, games, links, mah-jong, mah-jongg, Màhjeuk, Màhjeung; 麻雀; Máquè, Mahjong, mahjongg, Májiàng, organizations, players, print matter, references, Rules, skills, strategy, websites, 麻将, 麻將 •
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Mahjong
Players
4
Age range
> Any
Setup time
2-5 minutes
Playing time
0-3 hours
Rules complexity
High
Strategy depth
Medium
Random chance
Yes
Skills required
Tactics, observation, memory
Mahjong (Traditional Chinese: 麻將; Simplified Chinese: 麻将; pinyin: Májiàng; Cantonese: Màhjeung; or Chinese: 麻雀; pinyin: Máquè; Cantonese: Màhjeuk; other common English spellings include mahjongg, majiang, and hyphenated forms such as mah-jong or mah-jongg) is a game for four [...]