Casino stories: real life and fantasy

Julia Yulina
"Podium of Destiny"

We sat down at the table.
“What would you like to drink?” asked the waitress, who seemed to have appeared from under the table.
“A glass of wine for the lady, and whiskey for me!” Ivan answered for both of us.
And off it went. I didn't notice how I drank one glass, then a second, then a third... It's good that these are special glasses, they don't pour too much into them... but they still pour... True, I didn't feel it right away...
Roulette turned out to be an incredibly exciting game of intuition.
At first I started to guess the colors - red and black. I hit the mark without fail. It didn't seem that difficult to me - the colors themselves appeared before my eyes as soon as the dealer threw the ball.
But you can't win much on red-black. So I switched to "dozens." To understand which of the three would fall out, I gave them their colors: purple, orange, and blue. That way I knew which sector the number would fall out of.
Sure, I made a couple of wrong bets while I was getting myself set up, but then the colors started showing up unmistakably.
Half an hour later I was already sitting with impressive stacks of chips. Ivan noticed my luck and started egging me on: he called for increasing the stakes. And I noticed that he himself began to bet on numbers from the same sector that I was betting on. So our chips gradually increased several times!
While we were playing, the casino manager changed the dealer at our table several times.
“They’re already nervous…” Ivan said, sipping his whiskey.
“Why?” I was surprised.
“Because you can’t win that much,” Ivan answered.
“It’s a casino, it’s a matter of luck!” I waved it off.
- Oh, no. Only the casino wins! - Ivan chuckled.
- How so?
– Everything in the casino is designed so that you don’t leave while you still have money.
There are no clocks here. There are no windows. They give free alcohol and do not give food. And the exits, by the way, are arranged in such a way that they are not visible. Here the cash window for receiving money is so small that it is barely noticeable. There is a special smell and music.
- Oh, really? How clever! - I winked, betting on the first third of the field. I moved all the chips there!
- What did you think! - Ivan laughed, repeating my gesture, placing all his chips except one.
“Are you sure you’ll get a number between 1 and 12?” Ivan asked.
- I don't know. I'm sure it will be purple. And purple means the first third of the field.
We froze in anticipation of the number on the scoreboard.
- Yessss! Eleven black! - she jumped up from the table and started jumping up and down. - Yessss, my croupier cupid!!! Well done!
The croupier seemed tense as he handed out mountains of chips to Ivan and me, meticulously calculating our winnings.
The waitress appeared behind us again with glasses of wine. Was it just me or were they bigger?
- Well, Aliska, well, well! - Ivan assumed a languid pose and laughed like Santa Claus.
- A deal is a deal! - Ivan moved the stack of money towards me again.
- I can't! Please, don't, let's keep everything! - I moved the money to him once again.
- Okay, I give in. Take at least some! - Ivan suggested.
I took a few bills from one pack, by eye. Ivan took out some more and put them to me.
“Will you need a bag?” the cashier asked kindly in Russian, waiting for our debate to end.
- Yes, please be so kind! - Ivan answered...
“Where will you spend your ‘huge’ winnings?” he asked over our traditional breakfast on the yacht’s deck.
“I don’t know yet. I want to use them wisely…” I said.
- Smart? You're in your early twenties, time to do stupid things!

Bigbrother64

(spelling preserved)

You can believe me or not, but here is information on roulette, where I will not invent, but the source is more reliable than a bank in Switzerland, so - the video is delayed, each time it is different, fluctuates from 7 to 10 seconds, during this time the system counts all the players' bets, but it does not count individually, but by the provider through which the players are connected, that is, the total winnings, if anyone has an old smartphone, you can experiment, sometimes minus amounts in white appear on the table in numbers, after bets, this is how much the player loses by placing this spin, that is, a bet from 16 to 29 on the clock hand for 50 rubles, and also a closed tier of 300 rubles, then for a second the value on the closed numbers appeared minus 850 and 23 fell out, the system is configured for RTP 76% but not the player but the casino through which they entered, there are cases when the system does not have time to process all the bets, having calculated the total return for spin is already ready to pay the amount that it calculated, but the player managed to deliver to the number and it fell out, and the system ignores the bet, I write to support what the hell, and they say you didn't win, there is no game strategy, withdraw 500 rubles and leave as an option, only if you first play, for example, in joy, then go through ttr, and so on, the system ignores the winnings and up to 40 dollars, you can check simply, if there is an opportunity to play cooperative om, for example, 10 people through one casino, everyone bets on repeat columns or dozens, after 3-5 spins there will be a plus, but then it cuts off spins by about 10, roulette is the most crappy device with a low return, once on the advice of a person I played from two casinos, I played 200 dollars on even odd, well, what do you think, I bet the same after 7-12 spins it started to throw zero, and with repeats, someone realizes this and starts to load spire, the system immediately reacts starting to repeat numbers far from zero, like this and about magnets, after 300 spins, due to the peculiarity of the roulette, strong static appears, and this prevents them from gently falling into the number, a hard fall begins, so they take a break, and the easiest way to raise to 1000 rubles with a bank of at least 20,000 is to bet 50 rubles on red or black plus small large numbers, but in case of loss, bet on repeating the color or numbers, the lost bet plus 50 rubles, at a distance of up to 40 spins there will be a plus, since they analyze all bets and do not play specifically against 1 person .

1) mobile internet can have serious delays in any direction and this is no secret

2) "minus the sum of white in numbers" = a riddle, I've never seen why a server would force client applications to draw their calculations?

3) Even the directors of gaming halls can't calculate RTP ))) it is calculated on millions of spins and is purely informational, does not affect any short period of the game

4) "the system ignores winnings up to $40" = yes, Evolution has a threshold of goodwill and it corresponds to the deposit amount and the betting level (width and strength)

5) "started throwing zero, and with repetitions, someone figures it out and starts loading the spiel, the system immediately reacts by starting to repeat numbers far from zero"

= so there are more than half of such people who in such a situation fell for the spiel )))) that's why the system started to screw them all over

6) risking a 20K bank for +1K is stupid )))) better try to execute 200 -> 1000

7) "since they analyze all bets and do not play specifically against 1 person." logically yes, there were no cases of Evolution showing different scoreboards to different people.... like in the video from 888 casino

DLK wrote: Harry Harrison's "World of Death"
Jason dinAlt had encountered all this a thousand times, and now he was moderately wary.

Now you can understand where my nickname came from

A. Nikolaev

The player makes a deposit of 2 thousand euros, goes to blackjack at high limits and bets 500 euros per hand, wins 5 thousand euros - he withdraws without documents. Then a second player appears. Both are from Croatia, also using this scheme he won several thousand euros and withdrew successfully.
It seems like nothing out of the ordinary, but the question immediately arose: if people are running such a scheme, then it is probably a positive one and it is very strange that it is under one affiliate.
In short, it turned out that the affiliate gives CASHBACK to players who register through it + players also have 15% cashback. Even with 15% cashback and such rates - it turns out to be a PLUS game in the casino, let me remind you that the return is 99%.
As a result, rules were added for affiliates - that any cashbacks or similar are strictly prohibited and cashbacks will probably only be made on slots...
Actually, this is where all the rules that ruin the lives of ordinary players come from. The whole trick here is that de jure - the affiliate and the players are right and did not violate anything, although I think they act in collusion with the affiliate and are just front men or accomplices.
Once again. A deposit of 5-10 bets is made, they play at the maximum possible bet (we have 500 euros in BZ). They have a good advantage over the casino due to cashback + affiliate.
ps The damage amounted to 15 thousand euros, but the point is that players with such a strategy have an advantage and can ruin stupid casinos with such a scheme.

Sergey Rybachenko (aka Gipsy74)

Yesterday a friend of mine asked me: on a 6K6 board, AK and K3 split the pot? He was very surprised that they didn't. I go to Redstar, and he's sitting there playing 25-50 with a stack of 15 thousand on the table. The guy has been playing small limits all his life - luck smiled on him, he made 9k and immediately went to 25-50, although 9k is a huge amount for him. This will all end in 3 days, when he will be looking for 200 dollars to play 0.25-0.5.

For a long time, I couldn't understand how a good, profitable online player could lose all the time in a live game. Many people know Joyce. He played under different nicknames on Party, PokerStars, etc. The man, having borrowed 500 dollars for promotion, simply tore everyone apart online. In less than a year, he won a million. And I won't say that he was just lucky. No, he is really very strong in the online game. But in real life, all this time, he could not win even once. He just constantly lost large sums. His problem was discipline. Playing 5-6 tables online at the same time, he was used to having action all the time. It is not easy to switch from such a game to offline, where after folding your cards, you will have to wait 3 minutes for the next deal. So he tried to "play beautifully" every hand. In general, there are cases when the results of the game online and offline are radically different.

Of course. Oddly enough, but for me the opinion of a person I don't know and have never seen is very authoritative. This is a Pro from this forum. When I just started playing, I read all his articles here. I think that many do not even realize what a huge contribution this person made to development. I will not list everyone whose opinion is very important to me (I'm afraid to forget someone), but there are many such people.

It happens, and unfortunately quite often. Like most poker players, I am prone to tilt. I often play very poorly "on the putty", and at that moment I myself understand that I cannot play like that. I really lack discipline. I also hope to eradicate these shortcomings over time. I know very average players who manage to achieve good results due to a very professional approach. Sometimes I am simply amazed how a person, regardless of a series of bad beats, continues to play an absolutely even game, as he played before. However, I consider my strong point to be the ability to tilt opponents. Very often, when the game is not going well, I manage to throw my opponent off track with inadequate bluffs followed by showing cards, and he begins to play much worse.

I think I am naturally better at poker than the average player. I have a mathematical mind and I think I am a good psychologist. When I really need to win, I win. My problem is that I have no discipline at all. And when things are going well, I relax and start playing for fun (that is what happened last week when I lost a large amount). I am also prone to tilt. Overall, I think I could play very well, but I still lack a professional approach to the game.
Another thing is that a serious attitude to the game can replace some innate qualities. I have already given Harrington as an example. I do not think that he has any special poker talent, but his attitude to the game can only be envied. I know several people in Moscow who, it seems to me, also do not have any special data for playing poker. But these people will never approach roulette, for example. Their principle is that not a single penny should be bet with a negative mathematical expectation. I have seen them get a series of bad beats, but this did NOT affect their game IN ANY WAY. All the same even game with a positive MO. They do not win big money in a short period, which I or Joyce (Goodmove) manage to do. But they will never lose that much. Which is better? I do not know. But the fact is that they are much more professional than me. Their game is much more stable - a constant small plus. Players of my type experience very large fluctuations in bankroll.