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by Answer Rabbit on April 16th, 2006

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I'm planning a trip to Vegas soon. Which card games have the best odds?

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  • by AznTTProdigy on April 17th, 2006

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    If you consider odds. Turn from the card games. They're a bit harder to learn for one. But blackjack provide ok odds if you can count your odds and cards well enough. But most definitely, craps provides the best odds of winning. Very promising actually.

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  • by mike blair on April 18th, 2006

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    If you want your best chance of winning money, play poker. In casino style poker, you aren't playing against the casino, so the game isn't rigged against you (meaning all the players theoretically have the same chance of winning). The casino makes it's revenue from poker by taking a rake (a small percentage of every pot) so no one at the table has an inherent advantage over another.

    That being said, I know poker can be a little intimidating to newcommers, so maybe you want to ease in with some pit games like 21 or Bacarrat. Here's the breakdown for the different games:

    In 21 (Blackjack), the house edge is considered to be 2%, but this number varies greatly depending on how you play the game, and under what conditions you play. If you play perfect basic strategy, and the casino offers rules that benefit the player, you can bring the house edge much lower (between .18 and .95 %). None of this takes into account card counting, which is profitable if you know how to do it (proper card counting actually swings the advantage to the player), but the casinos are watching for it, and they will ask you to leave if you do.

    Spanish 21, a variant of Blackjack, has a house edge, with perfect basic strategy, of .8%.

    Baccarat (my favorite) is a great game for beginners because you don't have to make any decisions. Players simply decide wheter to bet the bank or the player, and the dealer does the rest. The house hold for a "player" bet is 1.24%, and 1.06% for a "Bank" bet.

    Caribbean Stud (2.6%) Pai-Gow (2.85%) Let-It-Ride (2.8%) and Three Card Poker (3.37–4.28%) are the worst in the casino. They are made worse by the fact they they all usually offer some sort of side bet to qualify for a jackpot for making a big hand. The odds on these bets is always HEAVILY titled toward the house.

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