Originally Posted by
kewlJ
Originally Posted by
AxelWolf
Yes, I played some bigger denomination stuff including Sports, blackjack (other table games), video poker Etc for small edges of .5-2% but. I always find myself much more interested in and attracted to higher percentage plays, who doesn't love short-term results with big percentages where you're almost guaranteed to win?. Of course, it always comes down to the type of volume I can get in and how quickly. I have no issue playing something with a 1% edge if I know I can get out 1000+ plays per hour.
I am intrigued by your playing blackjack online.
When I first started my bonus play last September, I looked at and even played a little bit of blackjack as a means to work through bonuses. Thought process was that .5% house advantage in a standard type blackjack game is far better than the 4.5% sportsbetting (vig) house advantage. But then I quickly discovered that some places blackjack and casino play doesn't count towards rollover and others it counts like 5%. So if play only counts 5% toward rollover, that is like playing at a 10% (20x) house advantage, making it twice as bad as reg sportsbetting vig.
Additionally at several places I did just a little bit of blackjack play, I felt like it wasn't an honest game.
Felt honest enough betting $5, $10 even $15 a hand, but any more than that, just seemed like dealer seemed to get more than 1 in 20 BJs and player far fewer. I didn't play enough to have a large enough sample size to make any kind of accusation, but I think with the 10s millions of rounds of blackjack I have played in my life, I have a good "gut" feeling when something doesn't feel right.
Anyway with blackjack only counting 5% towards rollover, there was no reason for me to even look at it any further.
So you feel comfortable that you are getting a fair game at blackjack and other online casino games?
That's a complicated question. First off we have to separate live play from digital Play. Let's take Digital Blackjack Play, my short answer is, NO IT IS GAFFED. One of my nicer casino run-ups was on full pay Deuces Wild sometime in the late 90s and what took me down was a .5 advantage betting black on blackjack. My standard deviation was way off the charts, Lesson learned. Oh, I did very well on the blackjack betting small, it wasn't until I started betting large that it went into take-down mode.
Fast forward, I wrote about this over on Wizard of Vegas. This was around 2009-20011, I noticed that betting small (a few dollars)on Bovada almost guaranteed you a few hundred dollar win. I had experienced this multiple times. However, anytime I went from white to Green, I got slammed. I kept trying to tell myself it was nothing but confirmation bias, however it just seemed too hinky.
I Hazard to guess, I had some of my longest-losing hands in-a row-streaks in this situation. I was chasing a Blackjack promotion that seemed good on paper. There were other promotions on Bovada that were fairly good. I brought somebody in on the deal.
I didn't tell him exactly what I thought about the Blackjack, I just asked them to play Blackjack in between the promotions and to take note. They came to the exact same conclusion I did. As it turns out I was discussing online blackjack with Romes and he told me a similar story about Bovada. There's way more to it than that, but that's the basics.
FYI there are quite a few complaints about Bovada's Blackjack being gaffed that Mike wanted some testing done. I was willing to do that, however, he wanted me to bet small and keep track of certain things. I told him I would. but I didn't think that was the proper test and I was confident I was going to win. Sure enough, I did, and everything seems legit(well. I knew it wasn't).
The only way someone could do a proper test was to make small bets and then jump up to large bets and keep track of how many large ones you lost.
Bovada has been caught red-handed using bunk slots with impossible-to-hit Progressive jackpots. I remember calling someone out on The Wizard of Vegas for claiming he hit one of their Progressive jackpots, because if he was correct that fucked up my tracking since I was certain there was something hinky going on and I was sure that shit never hit. It turns out he was
in fact lying since a collective effort was made to collaborate their jackpot cycle was gaffed(there is more to it).
I would say a large majority are gaffed in some way or the other when it comes to digital blackjack. So why in God's name would I ever play digital Blackjack online? One just needs to make sure whatever bonus or promotion being offered has a higher return than they could possibly gaff the Blackjack for without being significantly obvious.
I think it's much less likely they are gaffing the live play, but I wouldn't be willing to play for anything serious unless I had a significant advantage. There's some pretty good evidence they have been caught cheating from time to time.
And remember, if something's gaffed, that means it's not random therefore there may be ways to take advantage of that if you pay attention.
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