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Blackjack Forum, published by Arnold Snyder, contains useful articles on video poker contributed by Dan Paymar plus occasional but extremely detailed examinations of video blackjack. Although this is primarily a newsletter for serious card counters in blackjack, there is enough information here to make it a good purchase for the video-poker and video-blackjack player. It was this publication's articles on video blackjack that put me on to the scent for my expose of Atlantic City machines. The writing in this publication is uniformly excellent. For subscription information write to: RGE, 414, Santa Clara Ave., Oakland, CA 94610
Chance and Circumstance, published by Paone Press, contains my ruminations on this gambling life. I first broke my findings on video-poker machines in this quarterly newsletter. It was here I delineated my theory of beating the casinos' slot machines by using the casinos' own computers to discover the exact locations of "loose" and "tight" slots. The thrust of this publication is gaming in general and my observations in particular. Occasionally, I'll have guest writers and the Captain is a regular contributor. Subscription is $50 for one year. Write Paone Press, Box 610, Lynbrook, NY 11563.
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The Gambler Strikes Back Part5
Manhattan—I prudently bypassed the two outlying casinos in the distant Marina, concentrating on the Boardwalk's ten casinos. I won at Park Place three times on the trip, compensating me for the two out-of-the-way casinos I bypassed. With less than an hour to make my bus, I won an extra twenty-five bucks at Caesars, and finally ducked into Park Place to win two green chips, which I put into my pocket and will use on my next trip to the seashore.
What was my final score card tally? I was in 14 casino forays and won 14 times.
So I did it again. But don't think I'm cocky and smugly self-assured over my sweep. Just the opposite. Each and every trip to a casino is a dramatic risk. Odds favor the casino, so if I'm not on guard constantly I know I'll go down the toilet. And as my old score cards reflected, there were days when I was wiped out, more days than I care to remember. My golden words of advice again: Hit and run. Nibble away. Never go for a big score in any one casino!
Frustrated, I noticed a couple of seats open at a $10-minimum table, so I thought what-the-hell, I only want to win a few bucks for a clean sweep score card, so I sat down and played a green chip on each of two spaces. To my delight, my first spot had a blackjack, and my second spot had a neat 19. With two great hands it didn't immediately dawn on me that the dealer had dealt his two cards face-up, showing a 19. He paid my blackjack, but only with even money. I told him I would, of course, stand on my 19, and then I bitterly learned the bitter truth about this particular table: It was a "Double-Exposure" blackjack table, with the words arcing —not very clearly—over the players' spots in the table middle. Except for those words, the layout was identical to all the other blackjack tables. Damn hard to notice, unless you're looking for it.
I learned that by "Double-Exposure" rules my 19 was loser against the dealer's 19! The only way I could win was to top the dealer's total, which meant / had to hit my 19/ Sheer madness, but what could I do? I closed my eyes and hit, drawing a King of spades for a total of 29, the highest amount I ever drew in a blackjack hand.
The blackjack I had only paid even money, to compensate for the dealer's open hand. Happily my blackjack win canceled my Kamikazi hit on my 19, and everything evened out. I grabbed my two chips and ran to the cashier's cage, and then out the door.
My advice: Look before you play, and stay far away from "Double-Exposure" blackjack.
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