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Bob Zumbrunnen

06/15/04 1:12 PM

#40225 RE: excel #40185

I haven't seen it yet. Did it have anything to say about Let It Ride, 3-card poker, and Caribbean Stud? Those are my favorites. I use Blackjack to make money (slowly) if I'm at a table with others who consistently play by the rules.

I'm told by multiple people (and have seen it demonstrated by those same people) that Craps is where to make money. I've never played it and don't understand it, but Dave gave me a book to help me learn it, which I plan to read before my next Vegas trip.

My "strategy" for Caribbean Stud is to simply bet every hand because the dealer is no more likely to have a good hand than I am. It's worked for me. But is really expensive when it doesn't work. I love CS so much I wrote a program a few years back to simulate any number of hands of it and found that if you only played 25-50 hands, you'd lose big or win big, about half of each. But if I had it run 100+ hands, I consistently came out ahead.

For Let It Ride and 3-card, my only real strategy there is to pay attention to the trend. If I win 2 hands, I'm likely to win at least 3 of the next 5. I'm sure it flies in the face of any real logic, but those games, especially Let It Ride, consistently have losing and winning trends.

Drives others at the table nuts if I'm in a winning trend and betting large stacks of chips and letting them ride without even looking at the cards.