Cosplay asked:


Plan on getting into Blackjack, specifically at the Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, FL so if you know about that place and tips on it, I especially want to hear from you, and would like to learn some tips, hints, etc. to get a heads up on it. Always like to gain as much knowledge as possible before getting into something I like and/or am serious about.

I’m not going in desperately trying to earn money or spending my last dime on this effort. More of a hobby to get into really. I will only be bringing what I don’t mind losing but I do plan on winning. Could use some extra income. Are there any books I should read or sites I should go to first to play or learn from? Are there good days, bad days? I keep seeing tips on “Splitting” when have certain cards. What does that mean?
Any tips and info will be much appreciated. Thank you all for reading and answering. Good luck to all as I know we all could use some extra help. Take care.

E.W. asked:


I recently took up a large interest in poker (primarily Hold’em) and would love to find some real games that went around. I’ve plowed through three poker books (including Brunson’s Super System) and have been playing a ridiculous amount online.

I do have some problems with online poker. 1. Not only is it incredibly difficult to spot tells or betting patterns because people shuffle tables so often, but the games seem so non-personal that I get bored way more quickly. It’s not that I start to dislike poker (not at all), but rather that I want to interact with others when doing so.

I keep reading about “finding local games” and things of that sort, but I have no idea where to even begin finding these. I live in Florida (nowhere near a casino that I know of, and besides, casinos are ‘eh’ to me) so I don’t have Atlantic City or Vegas or anything like that. I would be far more into a home game or a regular game place.

Does anybody have any suggestions or do I have to hope to get lucky and meet someone who happens to run a weekly poker game?

Kotek asked:


I’m 17 and I was introduced to poker at the age of 15. During that summer I had lost $80 playing with my friends. I found it really fun and started to get into. I started watching poker on TV all the time and have started to get better. When I was 16 I decided that there wasn’t anything in this world that I would like to do more than play poker professionally. Today I go to school wearing poker shirts(please don’t laugh lol) and when people ask me why I wear them everyday I say, I love poker, I’m gonna go pro. Some say I’m dumb others believe in me but I know that I will be a pro no matter what anyone says. I plan to watch all the episodes of Poker After Dark (IMO best to learn from) and I will read poker books as well as practice online. I’m gonna play every bit of free time I get a chance and hopefully by 21 I will be ready to play at a casino.

Can someone give me tips on getting started at casinos. How do comp points work. If I play at $1/$2 for around 12 hours a day will I have enough comp points to pay for the hotel? If you have any advice please tell me. Thanks!

chanchaoyuan asked:


in oder to attract more VIP customers, casino signs contract with AGENT who is get paid by commission in four ways. One of them is called “rolling game”. Could you tell me what that is and how to calculate ? I need details. You are welcome to introduce me all the relevant websites or books on this topic.

kyle evans asked:


I know all about how every book says you should split your eights. And I know all the reasons why (you might get a 2 or 3 for a double down opportunity, having a 16 is terrible against any hand, having eights puts you in a much better spot, and all that stuff). But I tell ya, at the casino every time I watch somebody split their eights against a dealer ace, ten, or 9…..I almost always see them get fried.

I’m just a college student that likes to go throw down 40 or 50 dollars every here and there……so I find that too swingy for my bankroll. Against those types of hands I usually just hit it hoping for a small card.

I was just curious to hear other peoples’ opinions on splitting eights and how it has worked for them in the long run. I know it will save you money in the long run, but just at this point I prefer not to get frisky.
To Legfujoh: Ok I guess that I really like yahoo answers as somewhat of a forum where I feel like I’m opening up discussions and getting answers that change the way I think at the table. I usually know the answers….but I like generating discussion so I can learn more about Why I should do something and generate different opinions from different people. Like I said, this place is like a forum to me and I enjoy it.

Ranger4402 asked:


I am reading the book Casino Confidential. It was allegedly written by a pit boss under the pen name Anonymous.

He asserts there are 21 dealers who without cheating win a nice share of money from the players and there are dealers who lose a good share of house money to the players.

How is that possible without cheating the players of defrauding the casino? If a deck of cards is randomly shuffled then it makes no difference which casino dealer deals that deck or shoe. The cards will come out in the order they were shuffled. If the shuffle produces a hot deck for the players then that has nothing to do with who is dealing.

Doyle asked:


Hello,
I’m set on being a casino dealer as a small term goal. I’m already signed up for certification but I really want something to set me apart? DVD’s, books. ect. I’m no novice but I really want to hit the ground running and stand out in class…any recommendations? If possible how long before I nail my first job.

pachl@sbcglobal.net asked:


Recently, I started playing Texas Hold ‘em poker at a casino. (Players get two cards face down, then play with 5 common cards)

I would like someone to confirm (or disprove) to me that the cards I’m getting are just unbelievably bad. Tonight I played for about four hours at a table with eight players.

While other players were getting fabulous cards (one guy got a pair of sevens twice with another seven on the flop). Another woman got a flush and a full house consecutively on the flop.

Me? 2-6, 10-3, 5-6, 6-9…. and so on…. for four hours.

How can this possibly be natural, how can this possibly be statistically possible? It happened the previous time I played too. Interestingly, there were maybe only three hands all night which, if I had stayed in with my horrible cards, could have won. But of course I would have lost many times that amount in the interim.

I actually won a little tonight, but only because I just waited and waited and waited and waited.

So what’s the verdict? If you play for four hours at a typical rate of play in a casino, how many decent first cards could you expect? Also, any good books on poker?
To “Steve”: good answer.

What irritates me is that some players keep getting great hands, time after time after time, while I get cards so bad I dare not even play with them (with one exception last night, there was only one significant bluff).

Has anyone experienced getting wreched cards hour after hour? I’ve been playing in these games for a few weeks now, and some players seem to have just amazing luck. One guy got something like seven straights in 15 hands, many of them on the flop!

sandynlily asked:


I was playing a fre poker tourn at a local bar today, because its walking distance from my house. Now having developed amazing skills at the blackjack table in regards to keykcarding and shuffle tracking, I found myself watching the dealer shuffle as i always do when playing blackjack….Then amazing things started to happen.

I found that with 8-10 players at the table it was EXTREMELY easy, and common to be able to gain information about the flop before the cards were dealt to it….In a span of maybe 20 round I beleive about half of them I found information through the dealers sloppy shuffling resulting in….
-knowing 1 of the cards to be dealt during the flop
-knowing the value of a card somewhere on the table in somebody elses hand targeting 3-4 players, (this was the most common)
-In one case knowing 2! of the cards coming out on the flop before it came
-Knowing 1 or more cards were not going to be dealt

Taking advantage of the information was difficult because you still cant controll what hands you get, but one time I knew there was an ace of clubs in somebodies hand a few seats to my left, and when I ended up heads up with the guy immediately to my left and he raised with an ace on the board, I knew he was the guy, and I knew he had a pair of aces. I scared the crap out of him when i asked if he had the ace of clubs, and sure enough he did.

I think I may need to abandon the blackjack table for a bit and fool around with this. Whats the scoop on exploiting information like this at a poker table. Is anybody else familier with the profit yeilds of such exploitation of dealer errors?

Obviously I would have to have some basic poker playing skills to be at par with other regular players in he casino, so who can recomend a informative book on professional poker thats full of number crunched facts and not just some guys tactics he came up with playing poker in his basement for 30 years

Rrrow asked:


Anytime I read the back of one of those cards or papers, it seems so complicated. I’m sure I seem like a dummy to all the people who whiz right through it, but if a person has never played it before how are they to know? So, is there some kind of “Gambling for Dummies” out there? Lol! That would be great actually : ) I want to know the ins and out of Keno and how I should pick the numbers on Powerball and Megabucks. I’m assuming on some there are certain things you should know before you play and I sure do want to know before I do. Please help. Oh and I do already know about Video Poker and Casino Gambling such as Roulette or Blackjack. Thanks so much for your time!