Friday, January 14, 2011

Casino Night

My employer has started doing a Casino Night for the annual awards meeting. After the award presentations, the blackjack tables filled instantly and I wasn't interested in poker, so I was left with craps (put down the chips, roll dice, the stickman picks up your chips, repeat) and roulette (put down your chips, the croupier spins the wheel, the croupier picks up your chips, repeat). Since the winning strategy in both is "be the house", I'm not sure what the attraction is, but I expended a couple of blue chips before I handed the rest over to one of my coworkers.

Also had sushi, specifically makizushi, for the first time; now I see why the Japanese invaded China.
Posted by Laserlight at 11:46 PM
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Anonymous said...

Poker the strategy is also to be the house. And slots.

The only time the house gets stung (and its only a burst) is if someone gets a statistically unlikely string of victories in roulette or the like.

That usually results in getting asked to leave before it gets too big. Or an investigation since you could be cheating.

Poker though... there the house can win AND you can win. That's the only virtue it has (in terms of winning probabilities).

The nominal return on slots is about 0.93 (for every $1 put in, you get $0.93 back). I never knew the return on card games exactly.

January 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM

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