What should you do when the dealer shows a 6 and you have a 12? Double down? Hit? Stay? Odds say to stay every time. Might win, might lose. Odds say you’ll win more than you lose. But what the hell, everyone knows the game is stacked to the house. The house always wins. You know that going into the casino. I will do whatever I’m feeling like. When you have that good, lucky feeling, you can do no wrong. Don’t let the “cheat sheet” card given to you by the casino that tells you the right way to play dictate your move. That doesn’t smell right does it? Hell I would double. Right now I would. Who knows what I’ll do tomorrow.
At casinos they teach you how to play craps. They tell you never bet the field. Would you have guessed that there’s a 44% the field hits? A one-time bet where you can double your money. Yeah, 44% isn’t in your favor, but when you’re looking for entertainment, your smile will be much wider when your field bet hits!
The only time I will ever play my odds to a fault is when playing poker. The casino doesn’t get the odds at a poker table. It get’s the rake. You are playing the odds against a fellow poker player, and if you play your cards right, you only put yourself in situations where your odds of winning are 90% and a lot of the times you are staring down at the nuts.
Look, I’m not making a career gambling here. I am looking for the thrill. The entertainment. The rush. I won’t get that rush when I play the way the dealer tells me. Math will have me a broke man at the end of the night. A couple of lucky rolls, a couple of lucky hits and doubles, and some basic A-B-C poker. Doesn’t happen every time, but just remember, according to your significant other, you always win.
Kevin
Kevin
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