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Online Blackjack News - The facts you wanted to know about Blackjack
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No matter how well you play blackjack, the unfortunate fact of life is that it’s the house that always hits the jackpot and now it wins even more. Perhaps you were lucky enough to enjoy a night or two of a great blackjack game over the past decade, but on the third night you are bound to flop loosing it all. Statistics shows unrelenting figures pointing to the dramatic rise in customer loses. In 1993, gamblers left about $11 billion in U.S. casinos and ten years later the numbers projected a more impressive number of $27 billion.
While there is nothing new to the fact that odds always favor casinos, some casinos are altering the odds and payouts on table games such as blackjack, poker and roulette to further maximize them to their favor. Traditionally, in blackjack, the payouts are 3-to-2, meaning that the player wagering $20 would get $30.Today, some casinos are paying 6-to-5 curtailing the payout by 20%. Gamblers have to overcome additional barriers to keep track on played out cards, since casinos implement multiple decks complicating by far the card counting technique.
However, the most remarkable drift from standard casino practices occurred when casinos ceased to allow dealers to hold on “soft 17”, which is a 17-point hand that comprises an ace. By doing so, the house raises its odds by 0.2 %. Though it doesn’t look like much, at the end of the day, the blackjack table with $100,000 wagers rakes additional $200 to the houses ledger.
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| Source: Blackjack2002 News Staff
| Friday, 15 April 2005 |
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