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Card Counting the 19 Bet Blackjack Side Bet
Last week I attended and presented at Raving’s Cutting Edge Table Games Conference at Paris Casino in Las Vegas. The turnout this year was strong and the number of vendors who showed off their games...
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Card Counting the 18 Bet Blackjack Side Bet
The winner of the “Best New Table Game” prize at this year’s Raving’s Cutting Edge Table Games Conference was Pick ‘Em Blackjack. This side bet consists of three wagers the player can make in addition...
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Card Counting the Shortie Blackjack Side Bet
Shortie (SBJ) is a blackjack side bet that is an extreme version of the “Under 13” bet (see this post). Quite simply, SBJ wins if the player’s first two cards total 9 or less (where Aces always count...
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Announcing my new book: “Advanced Advantage Play”
You may have wondered why I haven’t posted on APHeat! since December of last year. The answer is that I’ve been writing a book. In fact, I’ve been writing that book for the last three years — in the...
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Card Counting the 20 Pays Blackjack Side Bet
It’s been a long time since I’ve written an analysis of a game for this blog. I stopped writing in late December to focus on my book. But now that Advanced Advantage Play has been published, it’s time...
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Card Counting the Upcard Luck Blackjack Side Bet
You probably think I’m a bit manic publishing two blog articles on card counting blackjack side bets in one day. Truth is, that’s kind of right. It’s either math or some other obsession, so it might as...
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Beating the 21 + 3 Blackjack Side Bet: Some Really Cool Graphs
It continues to amaze me that my posts on the 21 + 3 blackjack side bet are among the most frequently viewed articles on this site. This post (Beating the 21+3 Blackjack Side Bet) tops the list....
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Popular Side Bets
I cannot possibly keep up with the proliferation of novelty games and side bets. Every time I turn around, there are a dozen new ideas for the next great casino game. It would be generous to say that...
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Card Counting the Lucky 8 Baccarat Side Bet
Lucky 8 (L8) is a baccarat side bet I first heard about on the Wizard of Vegas website in this thread. As the name implies, a Player/Banker final total of 8 is key to winning this bet. It should...
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A Baccarat Side Bet with a 10.32% Off-the-Top Player Edge
That’s right, I kid you not! For about a month, a Las Vegas casino offered a baccarat side bet with a misprinted pay table that gave the player a 10.32% edge over the casino. Just sit at the table,...
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First-Carding the Dragon Bonus Baccarat Side Bet
The Dragon Bonus (DB) baccarat side bet is by far the most popular baccarat side bet in the domestic market. Internationally, I have not seen it that much in my travels, but maybe I just haven’t been...
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How I Beat the Lucky Lucky Blackjack Side Bet, by Anonymous
[Note. I am posting this account of card counting the Lucky Lucky blackjack side bet with permission of the author, who wished to stay anonymous. For reference, here are my articles on card counting...
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Card Counting the Tie Max Baccarat Side Bets
It has been a long time since I analyzed card counting a side bet. A few days back I received an unexpected email from a game developer who asked me to consider two of his new baccarat side bets, Low …...
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Card Counting the Tiger 7, Ox 6 and Kill the Ox/Tiger Baccarat Side Bets
When the patent on EZ Baccarat and its Dragon 7 side bet expired in September, 2013 (see this post), there was a bit of a land rush. Bally (Shuffle Master) was the first to get in, creating “Fortune...
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Card Counting the Deuces Wild Blackjack Side Bet, 6 Decks
I recently learned about the Deuces Wild (DW) blackjack side bet from a thread started by a quizzical poster on the Wizard of Vegas message board. This side bet is trivial to describe. The outcome for...
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Card Counting the “Bonus” Side Bet in Over/Under
Over/Under (O/U) is a new table game that has recently been approved and is starting to get domestic placements. There has been considerable discussion on advantage play message boards about card...
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