Car giveaways are among the most popular promotions driving repeat traffic in local markets. Allowing players to earn tickets over a period of a month, with a sports car or truck prominently displayed inside the casino, results in excitement building to a climax as the date draws near.

Every once in a while I like to take a step back and see where I am. Such is the case with card counting blackjack, baccarat and their respective side bets. In this article I am going to give summary statistics for every game and side bet I have analyzed for card counting in this blog. I hope this will give some perspective on the overall landscape of vulnerabilities.

Once a year, in preparation for G2E (the Global Gaming Exposition), I take a walk through a host of Las Vegas casinos. I have two primary objectives for this walk. The first is to survey the changing landscape of proprietary table games and electronic versions.  The second is to consider security and advantage play issues for these variants.

When I heard Don Johnson (DJ) speak at the World Game Protection Conference in 2013, it became clear that DJ was an advantage player playing at the highest level. In performing his act of “social engineering,” DJ negotiated a number of perks that moved the game in his direction, until he had a substantial edge.

Recently I became aware of a very unusual baccarat promotion when details about it were posted on the Wizard of Vegas website (see this thread). What was especially odd was that the post was made by a well-known high-level advantage player (who goes by the moniker ssho88).

Over/Under (O/U) is a new table game that has recently been approved and is starting to get domestic placements.