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Posted By: joe brennan

Very true in all your statements. A professional Blackjack player cuts the casino odds to less than 1%, so this is your best chance at beating the casino if you play perfectly. Believe or not the next best game is Video Poker .If you find a machine paying 9-1 for full houses and play perfectly, the house odds are lesss than 2%.
Poker tables are the only place in the casino that you play against other players. The casino takes a rake from each hand, usually up to 4 %. They dont care how much you win, because they have their money regardless.
With the boom of this Poker Madness on TV, with tourneys and such, it has brought in a whole new breed of players. Watching these pros on TV is entirely different than a real money game. With their tourney life at stake these pros are more likely to bluff huge or fold middle hands when there is $100K's of difference between say 6th place and 4th. Not so in a money game where you can just reach in your pocket and pull out more money. Also, these new players have tunnel vision, they only see their hands and not the possiblities of others. They have no concept of odds of making their hands as they push large sums of money in the pot to draw at a gut shot straight and such. This gets back to my original statements of knowing all the possibilities at play and making sound decisions. Reading players is another topic. This cant be taught, only learned over time.
So for the seasoned pro, $2-5 No limits games can earn them $1000 a session twice a week without any problems. Hopefully, this TV boom will continue until I am on a Trpical Island sipping drinks with umbrellas in them. Out


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