Roulette, baccarat: No dress code required
Roulette and baccarat carry an aura of elegance. Movies typically portray players in designer clothes making massive bets.
Pennsylvania casinos have no formal dress requirement, so anyone feeling swanky can plunk down money on these games. Here’s what you should know before making a bet:
The table has 38 spaces, numbered one through 36 plus zero and double zero. One through 36 alternate red and black; the zeroes are green. the dealer rolls a ball around a continuously spinning wheel, and the ball falls into a numbered slot to determine a winner. the ball goes in the opposite direction of the wheel and must circle it at least four times before dropping.
You can bet on an exact number, a group of numbers, whether the winning number will be red or black, even or odd. You may place bets while the ball is spinning, until the dealer declares “no more bets.”
The house edge is 5.26 percent.
As with most games, the house makes its money by the difference between the payout for a winning bet and the odds of that bet winning. Say you bet $1 on no. 22 for 38 consecutive spins, and each number on the board comes up once. You would have bet a total of $38 and you would be left with $36 — the $35 you won when your number came up plus the $1 bet you got to keep on that spin.
If you were getting paid true odds, you’d still have the $38 you started with. the $2 difference is the house edge. the numbers won’t be spread so perfectly in the course of only 38 spins, but they will over a longer period. That’s how the casino makes money.
Most roulette tables post the results for the past several games, but don’t pay attention to them. each spin is independent, so the odds that the next spin will be red or black have nothing to do with what happened on the last 10, 20 or 100 spins.
Each roulette player uses different-colored chips. This prevents mixups about who made a winning bet. Players’ chips are not necessarily the same value. One player might buy in for $100 and receive 100 blue chips, each worth $1. Another might buy in for $1,000 and receive 200 brown chips, each worth $5. the dealer uses a token to mark the value of each color.
This is a version of James Bond’s game from the Sean Connery days, but without the tux and tiaras. “Mini-bac”is played at a blackjack-sized table instead of the big tables in the Bond movies.
The game reminiscent of blackjack, in that the winning hand is determined by the point value of the cards in it. the game has only two hands, “banker” and “player.” before the deal, bettors wager on banker, player or tie.
Player and banker get two cards each. there is no decision-making in whether either takes a third card. That is determined by the hands’ point value.
Face cards count zero and aces count one. Two through nine are face value. Busting is impossible. If a hand totals 10 or more, its value is the amount over 10. for example, a hand of 8-5 has a value of three.
A “natural” is a two-card total of eight or nine.
Winning bets on player pay 1-to-1. Winning bets on banker pay slightly less, since casinos charge a 4 percent or 5 percent commission or vigorish. when the hands tie, bets on banker or player push.
To make payouts easier to figure, the dealer uses markers indicating how much commission a bettor owes. the commission is collected at the end of a shoe or when the bettor leaves the table.
Wizardofodds.com puts the house edge at 1.06 percent on the banker bet, 1.24 percent on the player bet and 14.4 percent on the tie bet. With a house edge that high, don’t bother betting on tie.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
How do you pronounce the games featured this week?
According to dictionary.com, the game with the spinning wheel is rue-LET and the game from the old James Bond movies is bah-ka-RAH. Both words are of French origin. In general, the last letter of French words is not pronounced. so the “T” is roulette is sounded out and the “T” in baccarat is not.
Blackjack hits the new Ipad for 21
Blackjack has always been one of the most popular casino table games. Players often feel that they can get an edge on the house by card counting, working out what cards are left in the deck giving them an advantage in working out whether or not they are likely to bust out. there are many brilliant online casinos where you can test your skills at Blackjack and other table and slots games, including Baccarat, Roulette and the ever popular Cleopatra, Wolf run and the Rainbow Riches Slot.
If you’re the type of player who prefers purely silicon opposition then there’s a new title on Apple’s iPad that may just suit you. Blackjack for iPad is the new title from Mobilityware. Although this game lacks the things you’d find as standard in a casino, such as other players, this game is reportedly good for card counting practice as the game uses a casino style shoe arrangement with which to deal the cards from. as you’d expect this is the casino version of blackjack made a little fresher by the fact that you can tap on the screen to make your decisions, allowing for a fast, free flowing action game. This game sees you sitting down with a thousand dollar stake to play against the house. whilst that might not seem like too much it does give you a chance to really polish up your blackjack skills before going off to break the bank at Monte Carlo.
The great news for Casino fans, with the evolution of technology is that there are so many options available to play your favourite games. you can play our favourite Rainbow Riches on your mobile at Kerching Casino and some of their other great slots games.
The world is your oyster for games these days. I’m not sure if playing games on my phone or Ipad is quite stable enough just yet, I’m still more inclined to head to a casino or get my laptop out for a joust on the table and slots games.
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Why is it that casinos have cocktail waitresses but no such analogous position exists for men…?
Frankly, I don't see many men making a big deal about this, despite the fact that these cocktail waitresses make a serious living through the tips they get for serving cocktails to those losing wads of cash whilst playing Baccarat or Blackjack or even the older ladies who play nickel slots.
But here's a profession that's entirely reserved for ladies, a respectable profession where gratuities are impressive, yet I don't know of a men's group that makes a big deal about it. so, why the hell is it socially acceptable that jobs like this are reserved solely for ladies but if a job is solely reserved for men, then it becomes an issue of catastrophic proportions? There's nothing about serving cocktails to players that demands that the server be a lady, so again, why is it okay for traditional ladies' (lucrative) jobs to be left to women, while it's verboten to have jobs strictly for men?
Because men don't want to be served by men, only good looking women. I am not sure an older woman could get the job either.
Cause guys think its gay to get cocktails from other guys? I don't know, I'm a man and I don't care. Why must people piss and moan about crap like this
I don't respect it…. or anything to do with gambling, alcohol or indecency.
I don't know that it is actually "verboten" for men to serve cocktails in casinos; I've never asked a casino's hiring manager before. But I would guess that the majority of big-time gamblers, the ones who throw serious bucks into the casino's pockets, are older men. Older, drunk men. And the happier and more drunk they are, the more $$ they're going to toss away. And who makes old, drunk men happy? No, not the buff boy in satin. Women! Hot looking gals with great legs and short skirts. The hotter and more charming and giggly the gal, the more money he shells out for drinks and gambling. It may not be fair, but that's the way it is.
Because nobody wants to see a pussytail waiter.
Why is it that you never see women refs in the boxing ring, or male "roundcard" holders?
As sexist as it sounds, some jobs are just suited to one gender more than the other.
Think of what you;re saying, would you want to see a guy in a cocktail waitresses' uniform, or in a bunny uniform at the Playboy Club…
Come on!
Why is it that casinos have cocktail waitresses but no such analogous position exists for men…?
