Wow, I did not know it was a felony...kinda over the top. It won't be in Vegas, so I'm not worried...I do play several different games and just a refresher at the time of a questionable draw is what I would need (different games, different holds). I'll try the strategy card.
On Sunday, November 17, 2013 9:12 AM, Barry Glazer <b.glazer@att.net> wrote:
Of course, a non-electronic device, like a strategy card, appears to be universally acceptable, as well as legal - so if you're just looking for "basic" strategy for a variety of games, that might be the right approach. This would require you to own (or to be able to generate in your room via laptop or download) the strategy card for the game(s) you encounter and wish to play, but if you come upon a game that is not one you've learned, a strategy card would be useful if you wanted to take a crack at that game. Of course, other than looking at it for every decision, the player still needs to know when there IS a decision that requires consulting the card; it would really be for those situations where you say to yourself, "OK, these are the possible holds, but I can't remember which is best". A card won't tell you when you have a situation where it would help to look at the card.
One such example might be the player (such as myself) who plays only Jacks or Better. Such a player might or might not know that an "inside" straight is a possible hold in another game (I seem to recall, when I played a little bit of other games, that this is sometimes true), and therefore wouldn't know to consult the card to see if it is better or worse than the other options in the hand.
There is also, of course, a substantial difference between a VP strategy card (or a blackjack basic strategy card), and an electronic device that can provide EXACTLY correct strategy based on every detail of what is going on. With VP, that would include penalty card considerations, etc. In blackjack, both betting and playing strategy can be altered more accurately based on exactly which cards have been removed from the deck, as opposed to the way most counts estimate the high card / low card excess in the remaining deck -- if there were a way to enter all that data in real time at a real game, which there is not in blackjack. While you COULD theoretically enter every hand into a device for VP, it would sure slow you down and take most of the fun out of the game for most of us, if you had to do so for every single hand.
I don't know if there's ever been anyone barred for using a blackjack strategy card that includes play variations based on the count, but clearly that would be a red flag that the player IS counting cards, and that's good enough for most casinos to decide to bar that player (which is clearly NOT the same as prosecuting the player for a felony as is the casino's option if an electronic device is used). Casinos have apparently not yet learned how to identify the card counter who is not a threat -- i.e., who makes sufficient errors either in counting or in playing decisions to wipe out any advantage that accurate counting and precisely correct play would provide. Such "imperfect" players often are also ignorant of bankroll requirements and are good candidates to lose all their money to the casino, but are sometimes barred before they get a chance to do so :)
--BG
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1a. Re: Android Application
Be aware that at least in NV using an electronic device for casino game strategy in a casino is a felony.
Be aware that at least in NV using an electronic device for casino game strategy in a casino is a felony.
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