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Friday, January 21, 2005
Vigorish, or Vig
The Games to Play
In a casino, you should know which of the many games have the lowest Vigs. These are the games to play. Avoid the others. Period! Avoid them!
The problem is that people don’t avoid them. The games with the worst Vigs seem so simple, and you hear stories of big scores being made, so you decide to try. Eventually, the Vig will eat up your bankroll on internet casino games.
Examine the casino games:
The Big Wheel: Good luck! You’ll need it! The house has the best of it by almost 17%. This means that for every dollar bet, returns 83 cents. Try dropping a dollar on the ground and picking up 83 cents. Over a period of time, won’t your bankroll disappear? Of course it will.
Next time you are in Atlantic City, go to the big wheel, and count the number of spots. You will find fifty-four. The house pays 45-1 for the Jackpot Spot! Why don’t they pay 53-1? That’s the correct payoff. Well, the difference is Vigorish. Now count the $1 spots. A $1 bet pays even money for a winner. There should be twenty-seven ways to win that bet. How many ways are there?
Slots Machines: Notice the crowds at the slots machines. They’re trying to overcome a Vig of about 13%. That’s because the machines are set to return only 87 % of the take. That’s insane!
Anytime you gamble and aren’t permitted to manage your money, you are forfeiting one of the keys to winning. In most casino games, you are allowed (although certainly not encouraged by the house) to increase your bet when conditions are in you favor, and vice versa. You can’t do that with the Slots.
You say you don’t know how to play the other games? Then don’t play at all. You’re bound to go broke if you challenge the slots.
Roulette: The game of roulette has a Vigorish of 5.26% on the inside numbers and 7.31% on the five number grouping of 0-00-1-2-3. The outside bets in Atlantic City have only a 2.63% Vig because they take only half your bet if 0 or 00 shows when you bet High, Low, Black, Red, Odd or Even.
I believe that this game you a shot, despite the 5.26 Vig on the inside numbers, due to the multiple amount of plays that are available. The 2.63% Vig on the outside bets is also not too shabby.
Since you have to be a perfect Basic Strategy player to get the Vig in Blackjack down to 1.55%, then I’d push you toward Roulette because there are a lot of dorks at the blackjack tables who think basic strategy is a five-years-old’s first attempt to outwit his parents.
Roulette, you’ll find out, is not a bad as the stories you hear about it.
Craps: If you play only the Pass Line, and take free odds, the house advantage is a puny. 8% (eight-tenths of none percent). It’s not insignificant, because it still gradually erodes you bankroll. But, this is a good as it’s going to get in a casino for you without a lot of study and special knowledge. It gives you a decent prospect for staying alive. However, if you make the bets all over the table – craps, hard way bets, placing the 4 and 10, etc. The house Vig improves.
This is a good game to play. If you know!!
Blackjack: This is the game to play if you are perfect. As I said earlier, not pretty good, but perfect. The card counter can get as much as a 2% edge on the casino.
If you do not know and practice Basic Strategy on every hand, you could be giving up a 30% to 40% advantage to the casino. This is the game where the house cleans up on the novice player.
The expert Blackjack player? The house fears him.
If you’re not a card counter, but play Basic Strategy expertly and follow each an every move as taught in this book, you have reduced the Vig to only about 1.5%.
If you are not a perfect Blackjack player, don’t play at all. It is impossible to beat the house in the long run. It’s hard enough for the expert. You can’t have the edge if your knowledge of the same is limited?
Baccarat: A good game. The percentage against you is only 1.38% if you bet PLAYER and 1.17% against you if you bet BANK. That is without knowing anything about the game. It is impossible to make a mistake. The rules of drawing cards are predetermined. But (and this is s big but) you must learn how to manage your money. Money management is covered in later chapters.
Now you know what Vigorish is. Be prepared to deal with it. And stay away from games that have high Vigs.
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