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There's a new Blackjack game at my casino. It's buried in a multigame bank of machines that just arrived. The other half of the bank of machines is out of service because they didn't have a license according to the error screen. This version of video blackjack pays 2 for 1 on BJ's and 6 card 21 or less also automatically wins. Doubling is only allowed on 10 or 11, not soft numbers. Split only once, no doubling on splits. Only one card on split aces. There's a 5 coin betting limit, because there's plenty of video poker to choose from here. I thought I'd bet 2 coins or 4 coins in hopes of getting paid correctly for a BJ, but I was wrong. The guy next to me was playing Cleopatra Keno and the noise was just unnerving. So this BJ game seems like a real loser from the HA standpoint. But in the short term, I'm putting in $40 and betting $2; when I get to $46 I raise my bet to $4; when I get to $80, I change the denom from $1 to $2 and my credits change from 80 to 40 and I repeat. Now I could play until I get to 100 credits and then change the denom to $5 and start over at 40 credits again. But tonight I stayed at $2 denom and betting 4 credits and racked it up to 150 credits! I paused for a moment to think about whether I should cash-out, I didn't, and the machine took me down to $0 ASAP. I lowered my bets along the way, but the machine was on a revenge tour. I racked up nearly $40 in session points in 2 hours, but 50% of them disappeared by the time I got to the kiosk. It was $3 per point before the discount.
I took a walk, and got a soda and came back to a different machine. It ate my 2nd $40 pretty quick, within 90 session points, so I put in another $40. I had better luck this time and repeated what happened the first time and racked it up to $300, then cashed out for closing time. I'm sure I played over $14K worth of coin-in in less than 3 hours, and it was good enough to nearly double my coin-in for all time (bubble craps is such a slow game in comparison), and my tier advanced, but my tier points reset to zero twice a year and that means again in a few weeks. I get to keep my rewards points good for a Smashburger meal, and this game can get me there on each trip if they don't tighten it down like all new games get tightened down within a month.
If I can turn $40 into $750 soon, I could get a buy-in on a real $15 BJ table.

I came back the next day and lost 5x $40 buy-ins. The first two $40 buy-ins lasted me 2 hours and added up to 2,000 session points, 1,000 tier points, which I will need in the second half of this year to keep my tier 2nd from bottom. If I was winning like expected, I just need 80,000 session points, 40,000 tier points, to get to the 3rd from bottom tier. I almost thought that would be possible given my beginner's luck the previous night, but that's all it was. I'm quitting this game because of continued losses. If I can win on bubble craps enough to get a buy-in on a $15 table (craps or BJ), I'll have to get table points for my meals & tiers. I may sneak in a session or two on the VBJ game to get points twice a year for the tier.

I thought about playing video poker for a $20 meal, I'd have to coin in $12K to get $20, and coin-in $24K to get $20 of free play. At $1.25 per spin on a quarter machine, that'd be 9600 spins for a $20 meal and 19,200 spins for the $20 free play. I'd do so much better on video BJ to get points where I can get 2K to 4K of points ($20-$40 in food points or $10-$20 in free play) in 2-4 hours.

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Sick of the HA on PBs, Gone Molly!

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If you make $20 buy bets on the 5, you'll get paid $29 if it's vig on a win, $28 if it's just vig which you would get with a place bet anyway.
If you win 300 buy bets, you would have won $8700. If you won 300 place bets, you would have won $8400. If you had won 300 odds bets on the 5, you would have won $9,000. So from $9000, you would be down 15 x $20 bets on the buy bets, and 30 x $20 bets down on the place bets. If you were betting $6,000 (300 bets x $20) on the pass line too (with single odds), you'd be down 1.41% of that which is $84.60. So you'll save $515.40 if you bet odds on the 5 instead of place betting in this scenario, and it would be a lot less built-in loss to overcome with your good luck streaks.

If I want to expand this out to the 4, 10, $20 buy bets with vig on a win pay $39, and $20 place bets pay $36. 300 x $39 = $11,700 and 300 x $36 = $10,800 and 300 x $40 (odds payback) = $12,000. So you'll be down 15 x $20 bets for vig on a win but down 60 x $20 bets for the place bet.

If I want to expand this out to the 6, 8, nobody buys bets on the 6, 8 (but they could on bubble craps, but I won't), but since a $20 bet pays $23.33 on bubble craps as a place bet (7/6), 300 x $23.33 = $7,000. If it was odds that would pay $24, so 300 x $24 = $7,200. You'd be down 10 x $20 bets for making place bets instead of odds bets, and the HE on the $20 PL is still less than half of that $200 difference.

If I have 300 PL with single odds bets on the 4/10, another 300 PL with single odds bets on the 5/9, and another 300 PL bets with single odds on the 6/8, I'll have bet $18K on the PL & $18K on the Odds. My expected loss on the PL would be $253.80, multiply that by 30% for comps and there's $76.14 in comps, more like $30 on the bubble craps at 1 cent per $6, or $60 if the machine counted odds bets too.
If I wanted to play place bets for all those numbers (because I don't believe in vigs), I'd be down $1200 (on the 4/10) + $600 (on the 5/9) + $200 (on the 6/8) for a total of $2,000.
If I was doing buy bets on the 4,5,9,10 (like on bubble craps) I'd be down $300 (on the 4/10) + $300 (on the 5/9) + $200 (on the 6/8) for a total of $800.
If I was just doing buy bets on the 4, 10 (like at a table), I'd be down $300 (on the 4/10) + $600 (on the 5/9) + $200 (on the 6/8) for a total of $1,100.
Again, putting all your place bets onto the odds side erases ridiculous amounts of house edge.

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Ace 2 would much rather bet $10 on the PL with $50 odds on the 6/8. The total bet is $60, the total payout is $70, which is the same as a $60 PB 6 or 8. The HA on the PL would be 1.41% * $10 = 14.1 cents; the HA on the $60 PB 6 or 8 would be 1.51% * $60 = 90.6 cents or over 6.425X the HA of his PL bet. He can make six $10 PL bets for less HA than one $60 PB 6 or 8 bet.

If he bet $10 on the PL with $40 odds on the 5/9, the total bet would be $50 and the payout would be $70 (3X, 4X, 5X tables specialize in 7X PL bet payouts). A $50 PB 5/9 would pay $70. The HA for the PL is still 14.1 cents but the HA for the PB 5/9 is 4% * $50 = $2, or 14.18X the HA of his PL bet.

If he bet $10 on the PL with $30 odds on the 4/10, the total bet would be $40 and the payout would be $70. A $40 PB 4/10 would pay $72. A $40 Buy 4/10 would pay $78. Now you're being paid more than the PL with odds, but you're still missing PL come-out action which favors the 7-11 over the craps numbers at $10 a bet. The HA on the PL is still 14.1 cents but the HA for the PB 4/10 which pays $72 is 6.67% * $40 = $2.67 which is 18.93X the HA of the PL.

You have to unplug from Place Bets and Buy Bets to lower the HA to PL bets with full odds.

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