Red Rock Casino Blackjack Rules
The poker room in Las Vegas that everyone is talking about is the room at Red Rock, clearly the best and brightest of the new Off-the-Strip rooms. Red Rock is, in fact, on a par with some of the best of the big rooms on Las Vegas Boulevard. It is worth the trip out Charleston Blvd. To see what is arguably the best of the 'outer ring' casinos.
Super 4 is a progressive blackjack side bet based on the four cards consisting of the player's and dealer's initial two cards. There are at least four known versions. In both, the player wins on a dealer blackjack. Blackjack Blackjack is the first game that casinos started to alter the rules for. The casinos started by changing the payout for a natural blackjack from 3:2 to 6:5. The house edge is 3 times as large when the casino only pays 6:5 when a player is dealt a natural blackjack. $10 wager pays $15 for 3:2 blackjack; $10 wager pays $12 for 6:5 blackjack. Red rock casino had two jackpots over $200,000 today. One was a sequential royal for $278k and a keno slot jackpot for $200k. I hope it was Alan that hit the royal. Probably that Rick Harrison (pawn stars) though. He plays in the high limit room at Red Rock a lot.
Whether it’s thanks to his own roles in films like Armageddon and Pearl Harbor or because he once dated Jennifer Lopez, but most of us know who Ben Affleck is. What some will not know is that the world famous actor is also considered a true casino enthousiast. Ben Affleck even won the California State Poker Championship in 2004, earning himself the first prize of an impressive $356,400 and directly qualifying for that year’s World Poker Tour final tournament.
The Golden Globe winner was also one of many stars — along with celebs like Leonardo DiCaprio — who participated in Molly Bloom’s high-stake poker games in April 2013. But, things haven’t always run smoothly for the well-known actor. A year later, Ben Affleck was accused of card counting in blackjack, leading to some rather drastic measures by some of America’s most prestigious casinos. We’ll tell you more about Ben Affleck and gambling.
Ben Affleck no longer welcome at Hard Rock Casino
The Affleck incident took place in Las Vegas in 2014 at the Hard Rock Casino. Hard Rock International has venues in 74 countries, including 185 Hard Rock cafes, 25 Hard Rock hotels, and a dozen Hard Rock casinos. At the Vegas branch Ben Affleck was playing blackjack at the high-rollers table when at one point he was tapped on the shoulder by security guards and was asked to leave the game table. Affleck was said to be “too good” at playing blackjack, which in this case was not only thanks to his blackjack tactics. Being too good for blackjack referred to Ben Affleck counting cards. Yep, you got that right: Good Will Hunting/Changing Lanes/The Sum of All Fears-actor Ben Affleck counting cards. Who would’ve thought it?
Staff at Wynn and Encore casinos warned as well
Although Affleck and his then wife Jennifer Garner were allowed to stay in the casino, the California born film star was no longer allowed to take place at the blackjack tables. Later he was told by the casino management that he was never allowed to play blackjack again at the Hard Rock Casino branches as all casinos banned him for life. Personnel at the Wynn and Encore casinos also received warnings by email that Affleck was no longer allowed at their casinos. It might seem a bit odd if you think about it, but Ben Affleck is in fact the rather remarkable answer to the question: which celebrity is banned from playing blackjack at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino? Today, Affleck is allowed to enter Wynn and Encore branches.
Ben Affleck’s role in World Series of Poker
It has been known for quite some time now that the Hollywood star is not only a talented blackjack player, but that he’s pretty diverse in terms of casino skills. In 2010 he participated in the World Series of Poker tournament with his childhood friend Matt Damon and while both stars managed to make a good impression at the tournament, they didn’t make it to the finals. Ben Affleck was also repeatedly accused of having a severe gambling addiction, but according to the American actor, none of that is true and casino games are only a hobby.
Is card counting Illegal?
The stories of banned card counters in blackjack, like in this case, Ben Affleck, often raise the question whether card counting is actually illegal or not. The answer to this is that it is not officially illegal to count cards, but most casinos are likely to remove card counters from their establishments if caught. Casinos are free to expel players who they think break the house rules. In addition, casinos are allowed to deny visitors during future visits to their facility. So, if you’ve ever thought of taking card counting to the blackjack table, you might want to reconsider it. If even Ben Affleck gets banned for life, casino security agents won’t make an exception for others. Our advice? To stick to an effective and clean blackjack strategy.
You may also want to read: How to count cards in Blackjack
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ChumpChangeIf you're expecting a 105.22% payback and don't hit your sequential royal that pays 11% of the total payback, you're really playing a 94.25% machine. You'll need that sequential royal to break even.
This is exactly correct.. There is less than 1 in a million chance (per deal) of making a sequential royal - and 11% of your equity is tied up in this long-shot. If you don't make a reversible royal, then this is a dog of a VP game.
And if you do hit the $40,000 jackpot remember that it will be reported to the IRS and income tax will take a bite out of it. It's difficult to be an AP.
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Good news: The jackpot is almost twice as much.
Good news: Better base pay tables.
Bad news: Jackpot requires betting 10 coins (as opposed to 5 coins for the games by the Starbucks in the food court)All things considered, the returns are nearly the same:
Starbucks: 105.22%
Buffet: 105.26%
The expected win per hour (assuming 1,000 bets per hour) is also much better:
Starbucks: $14.33/hr.
Buffet: $23.63/hr.
If you're expecting a 105.22% payback and don't hit your sequential royal that pays 11% of the total payback, you're really playing a 94.25% machine. You'll need that sequential royal to break even.
This is not the way any decent career AP looks at expected value. The play has an hourly EV and a variance per hand. Over a very long time frame, the standard deviation of an AP's results is determined only by their accumulated variance. There are a number of tools available to calculate risk of ruin and bankroll requirements. If an AP has an appropriate bankroll such that the the RoR is low, then the only question is is the EV/hour worth it versus other opportunities. The Kelly criteria are another way of deciding the same question. If the max bet is 25 or 50 cents and Kelly says you could risk $2 per hand if that was an option, then your bankroll is adequate to play this game.
There is no basis for removing any of the winning hands from the EV without putting it in context of bankroll calculations. For every single-line VP game that I know of, the most likely result over a session of exactly one hand is a 100% loss. Extending the logic of the comment above, I need a paying hand to get any ROI and I am unlikely to get a paying hand. Therefore, I should eliminate all paying hands from my EV calculation and assign every VP game with a 0% ROI if I intend to only play one hand. This is absurd.
The real question is does the gambler have the bankroll and stomach to undertake the variance offered by the opportunity. I have a cell in my spreadsheet that tracks my estimated variance for VP play. I have an accumulated lifetime variance of 140B dollars2 just from video poker and more from other forms of gambling. If I estimate that the total is really 160B dollars2
, the square root of this is $400K. My lifetime standard deviation is roughly +/- $400K. If I added one SRF chase, it would be a drop in the ocean compared to my lifetime variance -- whether or not I hit the SRF.Even if you don't have great records, you can easily estimate how much variance you incur in a year doing what you already do. You can see how this play stacks up in comparison to your other gambling. Variance is simply additive. Over the long term, a million dollars2 variance from chasing a SRF progressive is the same as a a million dollars2
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of variance from blackjack. The variance of the game in the OP is about 18K.I returned to the Red Rock today to investigate Alan's game.
Good news: The jackpot is almost twice as much.
Good news: Better base pay tables.
Bad news: Jackpot requires betting 10 coins (as opposed to 5 coins for the games by the Starbucks in the food court)
All things considered, the returns are nearly the same:
Starbucks: 105.22%
Buffet: 105.26%
The expected win per hour (assuming 1,000 bets per hour) is also much better:
Starbucks: $14.33/hr.
Buffet: $23.63/hr.
ie: that the starbucks game is .25 and the buffet one is nickels.
and what are pay tables offered at the buffet ones?
This is not the way any decent career AP looks at expected value. The play has an hourly EV and a variance per hand. Over a very long time frame, the standard deviation of an AP's results is determined only by their accumulated variance. There are a number of tools available to calculate risk of ruin and bankroll requirements. If an AP has an appropriate bankroll such that the the RoR is low, then the only question is is the EV/hour worth it versus other opportunities. The Kelly criteria are another way of deciding the same question. If the max bet is 25 or 50 cents and Kelly says you could risk $2 per hand if that was an option, then your bankroll is adequate to play this game.
There is no basis for removing any of the winning hands from the EV without putting it in context of bankroll calculations. For every single-line VP game that I know of, the most likely result over a session of exactly one hand is a 100% loss. Extending the logic of the comment above, I need a paying hand to get any ROI and I am unlikely to get a paying hand. Therefore, I should eliminate all paying hands from my EV calculation and assign every VP game with a 0% ROI if I intend to only play one hand. This is absurd.
The real question is does the gambler have the bankroll and stomach to undertake the variance offered by the opportunity. I have a cell in my spreadsheet that tracks my estimated variance for VP play. I have an accumulated lifetime variance of 140B dollars2 just from video poker and more from other forms of gambling. If I estimate that the total is really 160B dollars2, the square root of this is $400K. My lifetime standard deviation is roughly +/- $400K. If I added one SRF chase, it would be a drop in the ocean compared to my lifetime variance -- whether or not I hit the SRF.
Even if you don't have great records, you can easily estimate how much variance you incur in a year doing what you already do. You can see how this play stacks up in comparison to your other gambling. Variance is simply additive. Over the long term, a million dollars2 variance from chasing a SRF progressive is the same as a a million dollars2 of variance from blackjack. The variance of the game in the OP is about 18K.
Would you say Powerball is a positive EV if you factor in the one in a billion chance of hitting the top prize?
The game in question will return 94% to the thousands of people who play it and 105% to the one person who basically gets hit by lightning. To say that the game has an Ev of $ten dollars or more an hour seems very wrong as every person who plays it, with one exception is playing a very poor game.
If a casino had a blackjack game where the dealer won all ties, but it offered a million-dollar prize if every player at the table got a suited BJ, and the dealer got a BJ in spades, would you call that game a +EV?
When you start including once in a lifetime events into a games ev, the formula seems flawed.DogHand
<snip>If a casino had a blackjack game where the dealer won all ties, but it offered a million-dollar prize if every player at the table got a suited BJ, and the dealer got a BJ in spades, would you call that game a +EV?<snip>
YES!..... If I could play heads-up ;-)
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you might want to clarify how come the buffet game is so much more per hr profit.
ie: that the starbucks game is .25 and the buffet one is nickels.
and what are pay tables offered at the buffet ones?
It's mainly because you can bet twice as much at the buffet games. The pay tables are stated in my article.
It's mainly because you can bet twice as much at the buffet games. The pay tables are stated in my article.
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Isn't the buffet 60% less than the Starbucks game? 10 nickels versus 5 quarters?
And again, there will be no escaping the Tax Man on a $40K or $80K jackpot. It is non-trivial to claim gambling losses to offset a big win, and with the standard deduction at about $20k it may be hard to avoid the tax man altogether. It may still be positive EV after taxes but these are factors worth mentioning.