| There aren't that many $2 machines. Most video poker players will be on dollar games (average loss: $12.50 per hour) or quarter machines (average loss: $3.12 per hour). Average losses mount much faster on games with lower pay tables. The lowest pay tables are tough enough to make the worst bets list that will be coming in a couple of weeks. On either good games or bad, the house edge is only part of the story. On machine games, it's the speed that kills. Not knowing first-hand whether there was any other cause for the casino's behavior, I e-mailed David Moor once more. I wanted to be fair and give him a chance to explain the situation. The crux of the matter, to me, was this question: "Is it your contention that by e-mailing you in an attempt to collect, by posting on a bulletin board and by e-mailing media outlets, that Mr. Lyell somehow forfeits his winnings? Why? If you think he's a problem customer, I can understand your refusing future business from him, but how can you refuse to pay him money he's already won?" I'll bet you can guess the reponse. "John, "Please, don't send me emails any more and feel free to post whatever you wish anywhere you want." It's very difficult to know just whom you're dealing with on the Internet, where there are hundreds of virtual casinos based in Costa Rica and in the Caribbean. I, for one, would neither want to play nor invest with a company so determined to stonewall a player over $459. But then, I'm wary of most Internet gaming. Be careful out there. Don't overdo surrender. I've seen players surrender all "stiff" hands of hard 12 through 16 anytime the dealer had a 10 or Ace. That's going down without a fight too often. Such plays cost the player more money than if surrender wasn't offered at all. You may never encounter early surrender, but if you do, it's to your advantage to surrender more often. If early surrender is offered, we surrender vs. a dealer 10-value if we have hard 14, 15 or 16, a pair of 7s or a pair of 8s. We surrender vs. a dealer's Ace if we have hard 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 or 17, or pairs of 3s, 6s, 7s or 8s. INSURANCE: Players "insure" their bets by wagering half the initial amount that a dealer who has an Ace face up will have a 10-value down for a blackjack. Insurance pays 2-1, so that a player who loses the initial bet to a dealer blackjack will break even, and a player who has a blackjack against a dealer blackjack will win "even money," profiting by the amount of the original wager. Insurance is a bad bet, one that non-card counters should never take, not even if they have a blackjack. |
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