Does anyone remember blackjack @ ace club?

Note: This casino was closed YEARS ago, I'm just curious as to whether or not anyone else caught onto one specific thing.

What was the strategy for this play? I'd imagine you'd surrender almost all the time.

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Ah...the joy of flawed online casinos. It brings back the fond memories of the On Fire blackjack bonus. If you won three times in a row, BJ started paying 2:1 until you lost. (See

But flat-betting was not required: many casinos used a $1-$100 range, and some casinos actually allowed you to bet in a $0.10 - $100 range. Some minor strategy variations were in order (less splitting and especially less doubling) to increase the chances of winning the hand as opposed to maximizing the EV.

It translated to about 5% advantage on a slow $100 table. The casinos had a fairly interesting deposit bonus as well, adding another 1% or so.

Unfortunately this particular range of casinos compensated by being somewhat "relaxed" when it came out to paying their winnings. Then again, refusing to pay out winning players works much better if you do not also offer a poker room on a large network.

Those were the days....

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Can't say I'm surprised about them refusing to pay. Many of the lesser casinos were very thinly capitalized. Someone taking out 60K out of your casino is a major financial event if you can't even afford decent software :)

The major casinos were raking it in like bandits, but fringe casinos were very marginal. Basically the casino software vendors were looking for suckers to start Yet Another Internet Casino and rake them. Some software vendors had at least 100 casinos under them.

About your new venture: it sounds suspiciously like Work :)

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Well, the thing is, that casino was actually affiliated with partypoker (I think). But like you said.. it could've just been a skin of partypoker's thing (a defective one at that...)

Was it the Planet-something and/or Star-something casinos? I remember those as Party-affiliated. Crappy software, but a very cheap $100 bonus.

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Unfortunately the same bug wasn't available in partypoker's main software blackjack game. Otherwise i would've racked up 10s of millions of $ and dumped chips like crazy to everybody (so they can't figure out who my associates are).

Clever...I would probably go slow. Squirrel off a few thousand every day, use many poker associates. It may well be that if you win a few thousand with BJ and blow it all off on the same day, detection software wouldn't trip.

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At a small $25 bet I already need to rathole $100 / hour. I dunno how the hell I'd rathole $800 / hour if I'm doing a $200 bet. That's 32(!) green checks every hour. Black checks and up are all accounted for, so ratholing those is a crappy idea.

If you bet 8 greens, do they actually give you 8 greens every time when you win? Or 2 blacks? BTW: $100 / hour comes to $16K tax free for a normal working month, which is quite a decent wage.

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Reading all this, I've started to miss my casinowhoring days of yore. The free flow of ideas, tips and tricks, the whole swirl of applied statistics, psychology and moneymaking. I used my casino profits to buy a company: it is a steady source of substantial low-risk cash flow but much less adventure :(

I understand your ratholing problem now: taking off triple profits in green will definitely not be easy. Betting $175 (your lucky number) will definitely help. Maybe you can lessen it a bit by visiting different casinos at start:
- don't come back (for a while) if you win big
- rathole the medium profits and return regularly
- don't rathole too much where you lose big and play there much more often

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