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Shuffling Procedures
When I first visited Las Vegas, in 1968, there were single-deck games that were dealt down to the last card before the dealer would reshuffle. How times have changed! Now even double decks have shuffle cards inserted at a half-deck to a full deck from the bottom. Now six-deck shoes with their shuffle cards [...]

Thankfully, most casinos nowadays have adopted very similar rules. It is, therefore, a much easier job to determine the relative advantages of the assorted minor rule variations that still exist. Presently, the Vegas Club, located near the end of Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, boasts “The Most Liberal ‘21′ Rules in the World.”
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The blackjack game we have grown to enjoy today was called simply “21″ in North America until World War II began. John Scarne describes how the game became known as “Black Jack” in his New Complete Guide to Gambling (1961). According to Scarne, the horse-betting rooms around Evansville, Indiana, began offering payoffs of 3 to [...]

The dice used in Over & Under and craps and the little white balls on roulette wheels all behave in a random fashion every time they roll. The numbers that they generate are totally independent of each other. Contrary to what many players believe, they bear no relationship to those numbers that may have come [...]

Many casual players believe that, all other factors being equal, the odds of winning at a single-deck game are the same as in shoe games. They figure that, although more decks are used, the same relative number of cards is still involved; therefore, even for a card-counter, there is no advantage to playing in one [...]