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China Sailor
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Having just left the Jupiters Gold Coast as a winner I have a few observations.
1. I have not seen a table use less than 4 decks in Blackjack in several years. (I do remember playing 2 decks at Circus in 1992).
2. In the old days the best odds were the slots. The casinos in Vegas used to guarentee a 98.5% return on the slots. Since the old machines used dials and coin weight to vary the odds you could watch a person lose money on a machine and then hit it for a win. Now the machines are electronic and linked to ensure that the odds are spread across the whole casino to eliminate the possiblilty of a 'hot' machine.
3. In the end, winners are benefiting from the bad luck (play) of the losers. In the long run the house always wins because the house always gets its cut.
As for Asians gambling more, I asked my Singapore GF about this and she said that most of the Chinese gamble because they figure that in the end all luck balances out.
Following this line of thought, if you lose you need to keep gambling because eventually you will score your losses back and once you hit it big you need to quit otherwise you will eventually lose everything.
The problem with this philosphy is that most people do not have enough money to keep gambling until the odds come back in their favor....
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:59 pm on Sep. 30, 2005
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CalEden
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Once upon a time, I decided I was going to double my bet at blackjack if I lost until I won. Well, I got a bad string of luck. I had about $500 US on the table and would need to put $1,000 down if I lost. Now this was some time ago. I had placed plenty of tip bets for the dealer. At the time this bet was a lot of money to me and I was very nervous. I had fifteen the dealer showing a face card. Before I could indicate hold the dealer tossed me a six card and turned a 10 card for herself. By the way the dealer was a nice Asian lady and those betting tips paid off. I learned a dear lesson, if your going to ride the odds you better have a large bank.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 10:28 pm on Sep. 30, 2005
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bimmher
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Quote: from DaffyDuck on 5:45 pm on Sep. 30, 2005
Quote: from bimmher on 11:15 pm on Sep. 29, 2005
Of course you know I mean Ducks  bimmher
Did someone say 'Duck'?
Quote: from manowar on 10:24 pm on Sep. 12, 2005
and asian men are addicted to gambling ? Another "Asianfile" idiot shooting off their mouth.
Unfortunately, in this case, it's you shooting off his mouth -- gambling does appear to be far more prevalent within certain asian cultures, than in the West. There may be a correlation why it has been outlawed in Thailand.
Quote: from bimmher on 3:41 am on Sep. 12, 2005
I wonder why Asians are such big gamblers?
Might have to do with certain cultural procilivities to 'instant gratification' - something that translates into business acumen (or lack thereof) - regardless, of it's a cultural thing (certainly not racial).
Hi Daffy,
Wondered were you have been? That is why I put in the duck comment to see if it would get you to post 
I actually posted that I may have come across the wrong way as manowar commented on. I then thought better of this and edited it out.
I agree with my first post so retracted my apology. If it sounded racist or anything like that (it was never ever to sound that way by the way) and any board members who know me, know that is not how I am.
Quote: from China Sailor on 7:28 pm on Sep. 30, 2005
Having just left the Jupiters Gold Coast as a winner I have a few observations.
1. I have not seen a table use less than 4 decks in Blackjack in several years. (I do remember playing 2 decks at Circus in 1992).
2. In the old days the best odds were the slots. The casinos in Vegas used to guarentee a 98.5% return on the slots. Since the old machines used dials and coin weight to vary the odds you could watch a person lose money on a machine and then hit it for a win. Now the machines are electronic and linked to ensure that the odds are spread across the whole casino to eliminate the possiblilty of a 'hot' machine.
3. In the end, winners are benefiting from the bad luck (play) of the losers. In the long run the house always wins because the house always gets its cut.
As for Asians gambling more, I asked my Singapore GF about this and she said that most of the Chinese gamble because they figure that in the end all luck balances out.
Following this line of thought, if you lose you need to keep gambling because eventually you will score your losses back and once you hit it big you need to quit otherwise you will eventually lose everything.
The problem with this philosphy is that most people do not have enough money to keep gambling until the odds come back in their favor....
China Sailor,
As I posted I found single and double deck games in Vegas that still paid 3-2 blackjack not that shitty 6-5 sucker rules.
There is a good story behind those old slot machines you talk about. They were mechanical and as such after you were done a wheel spun. This would determine the next hit that would come up. People would play them and after they had plulled the handle count about 20 seconds and then just at that time play again. Doing this they could figure out how long the wheel spun. Buy pulling the handle a second before or after the wheel had stopped they could shift what the next symbol would come up.
So if you pulled and the symbol you needed was not on the middle line but two up you could play twice more but time it and pull just short of when the wheel had stopped spinning that determined the random pull for the next time. By doing so you could move up or down by one what would hit until you hit a winning line.
Took the casino's (I think but I could be wrong) about 8 months to figure out what the hell was going on. That was the end of the mechanical slots and their faults.
They lost a lot of money in those months until they figured out what was going on.
By the way you can still win at slots if you know what you are doing and play the right game. You can make about 15-20 dollars an hour doing this.
Thanks for the comments about why Asians like to gamble and their idea about it. I can't say I agree their theory is correct but it does explain somewhat why they do what they do.
Thanks
bimmher
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Posted on: 10:33 pm on Sep. 30, 2005
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bimmher
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Quote: from CalEden on 3:56 am on Oct. 1, 2005
Once upon a time, I decided I was going to double my bet at blackjack if I lost until I won. Well, I got a bad string of luck. I had about $500 US on the table and would need to put $1,000 down if I lost. Now this was some time ago. I had placed plenty of tip bets for the dealer. At the time this bet was a lot of money to me and I was very nervous. I had fifteen the dealer showing a face card. Before I could indicate hold the dealer tossed me a six card and turned a 10 card for herself. By the way the dealer was a nice Asian lady and those betting tips paid off. I learned a dear lesson, if your going to ride the odds you better have a large bank.
You posted while I was writing 
You were lucky!!!
That is why they have a min and max bet amount. It just doesn't work under their rules. I know if you think I will just double my bet everytime until I win I shouldn't loose any money as I should win at some point.
Problem is you will run out of money or hit the max bet limit before this happens (well not always but you will some of the time).
It is set up to stop you from doing this. You can't have a large enough bank as the max bet stops you from running it out till you win back your winnings 
bimmher
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 10:50 pm on Sep. 30, 2005
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CalEden
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bimmher, I own a 1946 Jennings (US quarters) slot machine (Nevada Club Lake Tahoe & Reno). It has a gyro that spins after the reels stop. I will experiment to see if your technique works.
Cheers
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Posted on: 11:06 pm on Sep. 30, 2005
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manowar
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Quote: from DaffyDuck on 8:45 am on Sep. 30, 2005
Quote: from bimmher on 11:15 pm on Sep. 29, 2005
Of course you know I mean Ducks bimmher
Did someone say 'Duck'?
Quote: from manowar on 10:24 pm on Sep. 12, 2005
and asian men are addicted to gambling ? Another "Asianfile" idiot shooting off their mouth.
Unfortunately, in this case, it's you shooting off his mouth -- gambling does appear to be far more prevalent within certain asian cultures, than in the West. There may be a correlation why it has been outlawed in Thailand.
Quote: from bimmher on 3:41 am on Sep. 12, 2005
I wonder why Asians are such big gamblers?
Might have to do with certain cultural procilivities to 'instant gratification' - something that translates into business acumen (or lack thereof) - regardless, of it's a cultural thing (certainly not racial).
since you are so certian that asian men are more prone to gambling, may I ask you to supply some statistics to back up your claims ? How many % of asian men as gambler compared to how many % of caucasians, blacks, latinos, arabs, russians.........etc. Give us some hard data or I can make similar claims such as "Ducks like to f*** more than Chickens"..........55555555
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Posted on: 12:00 am on Oct. 1, 2005
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Brown Eye
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If you like gambling and casinos you will like the story of Norman Leigh, a british gambler that came up with a negative progression system named "Reverse Labourchere" to break the bank playing roulette. He put together a team of 13 people and went to France. After two weeks they were all deported and banned for life from playing in every casino in France because he did what he set out to do. This was in the sixties. He wrote a book titled THIRTEEN AGAINST THE BANK where he tells the experience in detail. Very interesting book if you like gambling.
http://www.highstakespublishing.co.uk/titles/thirteen_against_the_bank_29.php
B.E.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:52 pm on Oct. 1, 2005
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manowar
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Why are so many Brits addicted to gambling ? Is it in their religion ? or culture ?
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:50 pm on Oct. 1, 2005
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koolbreez
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A little statistic, the gaming corporation I work for has over 26 million unique gamblers in our data base, only 5.5 million of those are not caucasian, of those that chose to list their race on the tracking card applications.
When you take into consideration all the different choices there are on how you can gamble, the New York Stock Exchange generates the most money bet. If a stock price moves at all, someone wins, and someone loses on the move, with the house/broker taking their cut, just like a bookie...lol.
Our corporation only generated a paultry 9.2 billion in revenue last year, expected to top 14 billion in the coming year. We bought another corporation....hehe.
The purchase makes us the largest gaming corporation in the world, but we are just small potatoes when considering the money gambled on the stock exchange.
I would make an educated guess that when you take all the different ways there are to gamble into consideration, the caucasions are by far more prone to gamble percentage wise than any other race. Even though the little old white catholic lady playing bingo on wednesday night at the church wouldn't consider that gambling...lolol.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:50 pm on Oct. 1, 2005
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