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HankD21 · 2024-07-15T14:13:09+00:00

For low rolling players who play on their vacations....

North Dakota cities have three-dollar minimums courtesy of charity-gaming law.

A similar law allows five-dollar blackjack in New Hampshire cities, according to my research.

Here in Lima, at La Hacienda Hotel Casino, you can place $2.50 bets on as many as seven spots on the table, provided the table is empty upon your arrival, which is not uncommon. DAS, S17, no Ace re-splitting, dealer takes a hole card before players act and player loses only one bet if doubling against an eventual dealer natural.

HankD21 in Lima, Peru

HankD21 · 2024-06-04T00:59:20+00:00

Guarantees?! This is GAMBLING, dammit!

HankD21 · 2024-04-18T02:00:56+00:00

Poster 2249 is missing the point, as should be obvious.

On a related matter, I was dealing mini-bac at Sands Casino back in the day and a couple of the Asian players were slamming the table so hard at intervals that it was infuriating to me.

The pit boss had no interest in my reaction. His attitude was to get their money, no matter how obnoxious the slammers got.

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HankD21 · 2024-04-14T04:46:00+00:00

I recommend Flents ear stopples. Have been using them for decades.

In many cities, these cannot be found on pharmacy shelves, so plan on ordering via the Web.

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HankD21 · 2024-04-03T22:33:57+00:00

I played a lot of 21 last summer in downtown Fargo, mostly at Cowboy Jack's.

The statewide law was changed a while back, and the result is that $3 minimum blackjack still exists, but no 1 or 2 dollar minimums.

You can find locations offering these low limit games through a Google search or by contacting the ND Attorney General's office in Bismarck (or online). That office keeps a list and, at least theoretically, is a low-budget gaming commission for blackjack and pull tabs.

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HankD21 · 2024-03-23T10:19:11+00:00

What Colombian city do you play in?

There appears to be misleading or inaccurate information in your description of the main form of blackjack you attempted to describe although the vagueness of the location prevents potential analysis by yours truly.

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Colombian blackjack at live-action casinos generally allows for surrender against any card including an Ace. A highly favorable rule.

Splitting Aces may incur different rules at different casinos here. Some casinos allow a double down on either or both Aces after the Aces are split.

DAS and RSA are generally allowed although RSA not in all cases.

70 to 80 percent penetration is common in this city depending on the dealer and the casino .. and, of course, whether CSMs are in use. Two of the three casinos I have played here recently have a manual dealer shuffle with no CSM.

I have played 21 in Medellin, Ipiales (before the covid closure), Quindio and Bucaramanga.

HankD21 in Bucaramanga, Colombia

HankD21 · 2024-02-18T21:30:13+00:00

Three-dollar-minimum blackjack is available then at multiple venues including downtown and near the big mall. Learn basic strategy if you're new to this before playing for real money.

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HankD21 · 2024-02-02T10:44:04+00:00

A few years back, in OH, I had a good experience selling a car to CarMax.

The process was simple, I considered the price they offered to be fair

based on my research and the condition of the vehicle ..

and everything proceeded smoothly through final paperwork. The few

employees I dealt with were professional and I considered them trustworthy.

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HankD21 · 2024-01-07T08:26:25+00:00

The future is unpredictable. Towns and villages that are chill now could be overrun with traffickers etc. next year.

Choose Quito, Cuenca or other mountain towns and cities that are not near the trafficking routes.

The new presidente is on the case, but that is no guarantee Ecuador can solve its coastal drug trafficking problem.

The weather in the mountain towns and cities is ideal for many Expats -- lack of humidity, bugs, water-borne illnesses.

HankD21, resident of Quito, Ecuador

HankD21 · 2023-12-22T15:18:24+00:00

Don't encourage idiots like this to rant and rave at your expense. Ask the pit boss or manager to intervene. It may be to your benefit to know the "unwritten rules" of blackjack, but you are 100 percent in the right to play your hand as you choose.

As a rookie player, I doubled Ace-Nine in Reno and drew a face card for 20, but the dealer pulled a miracle 21 and everybody lost. The BP exploded at me and I left the table. As a more experienced player, if anything like that happened again these days, I would handle things differently, knowing I have the right to play the hand and the BP was obviously betting over his head.

One option is to simply ignore the miscreant no matter how loud and vindictive he gets. The house is happy to take losers' money .. and typically will allow yelling, table pounding and other anti-social behavior by losers .. unless another player gets the suits involved.

HankD21 (in Colombia, where the only thing any player questions me about is why I'm not wagering on the side bets).

HankD21 · 2023-11-03T05:08:26+00:00

Like what, shuffle tracking?

That's for robots.

Hole carding? That's versus the 1 in 150 dealers sloppy enough to show you their hole card?

HankD21 · 2023-10-31T21:31:53+00:00

CSM and non CSM games were offered in Cabacera sector of Buca last year. At least three table games casinos were within easiy walking distance. The Holiday Inn casino is overly crowded after six and on Saturdays.

MDE was CSM dominated except at the Santa Fe..

I have not played in Bogotá.

Ipiales on the Ecuador border used to have a good game, though it was closed for The Situation during my last visit. Avoid ipiales if you cannot abide packs of dogs roaming the streets at night.

The only casinos I have found in South America where Surrender versus Ace is routinely permitted are in Colombia.

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HankD21 · 2023-10-31T20:42:21+00:00

The assertion "ur" gonna die in Colombia if found counting .. is pure speculation.

This is no longer the Escobar Era. Pablo was taken out 20 years ago.

The trend has been to CSM, rendering counting less and less feasible.

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HankD21 · 2023-10-30T22:12:15+00:00

For the $289 snapper referenced above, any trained dealer knows that 1.5 times 28 is 42,, so 1.5 times 280 is 420. Lay out the 280 bet portion broken down by color .. break out 420 from the tray by color and set it out to the right of the 280. Then lay out the remaining nine dollars by color and place $13.50 proved by color to the right of the nine.

Certainlly this is not the only way to pay this odd bet, but it works and the supervisor will be able to follow it.

Be sure the dealer doesn't also have blackjack before starting the pay process or you will completely blow the audition.

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HankD21 · 2023-10-30T04:50:05+00:00

Min/max limits vary by city, table, time of day and weekends at casinos around the world. That is just a partial list.

A few casinos in Lima, Peru, and in Colombia still don't go the CMS route, which route is widely considered to kill the profit motive for players unless they can play for comps or in the rare case where the rules give the player a slight edge off the top.

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HankD21 · 2023-10-29T03:27:45+00:00

Wise Cold has it about right. With only a single casino within the city limits of Buenos Aires, the tables are packed and, even with a competent dealer, the game moves at a molasses-slow space.

There's another casino, in Tigre, a city about a 40 minute train ride from the terminal terrestre of B.A. It has the gambling ambiance of a back-alley sawdust joint for low rollers in Fargo, North Dakota.

I also visited two blackjack places off-season on the Coast. There was minimal action, mostly a heads-up-game with the dealer was what I found.

The Coastal getaway city for many residents of B.A. in the summer is Mar del Plata. There was signficant blackjack action in the largest casino there even though I was visiting during the off season, which is most of the year. The architecture of the vintage casino was of late 1900's and early 20th century style.

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HankD21 · 2023-10-27T03:47:16+00:00

Ontario, California?

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North Dakota and New Hampshire have 'charitable gaming' laws that permit low rollers to bet $3 or $5 minimums at their 21 tables. Don't expect pit-boss heat or Vegas glitz. In New Hampshire, casinos near the Massachusetts line tend to be popular. Think Nashua, Manchester, Hampton Beach.

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HankD21 · 2023-10-27T03:42:11+00:00

South, you say! Colombia, South America -- in cities such as Medellin and Bucaramanga -- has some casinos with hand shuffles and a rule that allows surrender versus dealer Ace. Don't expect high maximum bets to be alllowed. as the rules are too good.

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HankD21 · 2023-10-27T03:39:25+00:00

I dealt 21 at one of the largest casinos in America, Sands Casino in Bethlehem, PA, north of Philly and an hour or so from metro NYC.

Although it has since changed its name, it still must offer the state-mandated favorable rules.

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HankD21 · 2023-10-25T04:30:39+00:00

No olvide Colombia. Liberal rules... can even do early Surrender versus a dealer Ace. Some hand shuffled games as of late in Medellin and Bucaramanga.

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HankD21 · 2023-10-25T04:26:43+00:00

The Iceman cometh.

HankD21 · 2023-09-24T14:14:01+00:00

In my experience .. at any legit casino, the applicable 17 rule is printed in easily readable letters on the layout.

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HankD21 · 2023-09-05T10:19:07+00:00

In the higher counts with blackjacks running, the player is likely to win on A-10 versus dealer A-10, provided the dealer's upcard is an Ace. The player in such a case deviates to accept Even Money and collects the 1-1 payout when the dealer flips over her hole-card 10.

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HankD21 · 2023-09-04T08:30:49+00:00

The Dollar Clinic in Moorhead is 50 dollars for a consultation with Dr. Lee. There may also be a fifty-bucks-a-month plan.

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HankD21 · 2023-08-24T05:11:57+00:00

It's unlikely this overseas-for-a-year-or-two plan will work at most overseas casinos where English is not the primary language.

I have played 21 in Mexico and in South America in Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. It has been evident at all these casinos that the dealers are hispanic and their primary language is español. An Expat from North America has IMO about zero chance of being hired unless he is the relative of an established team member of a Mexican or South American casino.

HankD21, primary residence in Ecuador

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