Giving players the games they want is part of the business for casino operators, and plenty of players have made clear they want craps. Through the 1940s and '50s it was the most popular casino table game in the United States before it was overtaken by blackjack in the 1960s.
But some jurisdictions don't permit dice games, with California being the leading example. What's an operator to do?
We all hope to hit it big at the casino. For most of us, winning a few thousand dollars would be the dream come true. Then there are those who lived the dream writ large. They won millions instead of thousands, and the payoffs were life changing. Making these victories even more special, they got snagged in single sessions, not over the course of multiple nights spent grinding it out.
We all need to get away. And if you’re like me, you want to go to one of the world’s top gambling cities, a place where legal gaming tops the menu. Casinos make great bases out of which to vacation. Of course, there is the clang of slot machines, the tumble of dice and the divvying of cards at the blackjack table.
Just as importantly, though, when you are in a great casino there is so much to do. The world’s best casinos function as self-contained hotspots.
Players know the feeling, regardless of whether they're playing online blackjack or in live casinos. From the first hand, they're engaged, interested, thinking strategy on every card. It's a fun game, especially, when winning streaks are coming often enough to keep bankrolls full.
But when players start to make mistakes, it's time to watch out. The "Fatigue Factor" can undermine even the best players.
Learning basic strategy at blackjack is one thing. Internalizing it so it becomes second nature can be quite another.
The problem is that some blackjack strategy plays seem to defy common sense regardless of whether you're playing online blackjack or in a live casino. As one player asked at a seminar I gave, "How can a play be so right when it feels so wrong?"
