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caspermatic · 01-19-2012, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by dgiharris

Is it odd being asian (or whatever minority) standing at a craps table full of white people screaming yowell eleven or whatever they do?

Seems like it might be

Jake Gomez · 01-19-2012, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by dgiharris

Is it odd being asian (or whatever minority) standing at a craps table full of white people screaming yowell eleven or whatever they do?

I once saw Bill Cosby's show in LV . Here is one of his comments about playing craps.
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Get a pair of dice and bring them to your room.

Make sure you lock the door so no one will bother you.

Put the dice on the dresser.

Yell as loud as you can "YOWELL ELEVEN".

Let us know if the dice move.

If they don't move yell louder.

bef99hwk · 01-20-2012, 02:29 PM

Anyone have some of the best links to learn to set hands and such? Also, some helpful tips on whether or not you should be the banker? Briefly skimmed an article and it said the more you are the banker, the better...but obviously a noob at this game and need further study.

govman6767 · 02-02-2012, 12:13 PM

Hit my first Royal for 150-1 quick 750

no one was playing Envy

I was not pissed but I had the royal in diamonds and my 6th Card was A of clubs...if my last card was a King of clubs instead of the 5 of spades I would have hit the 2000 to 1 with a royal and an AK suited

offTopic · 02-05-2012, 02:27 AM

Doesn't it need to be KQs?

GBV · 02-05-2012, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Double Down

2. Colluding with other players - If you and other players at the table showed each other your hands, you would know which 11 cards were remaining and would be able to narrow down possible holdings that the dealer could have. However, to be able to show each other your cards, figure out the 11 missing, and then reset hands accordingly within the context of the speed of the game would be pretty damn tough without some serious team practice. Also, a lot of card rooms don't allow you to show each other your cards for this very reason.

There may be a simpler and still effective method of team play where you and your friends just try to account for the aces and joker amongst your hands. You also might not need a whole table full of teammates to do this. However, I don't know how much research has been done on this and I have no clue as to quantify how big of an edge you'd have and how big of a factor the difficulty in actually consistently pulling this off would be. This is more of a thing that, in theory, should create an edge in Pai Gow Poker.

Try playing PGP against yourself where you know the 7 cards you are facing. It is surprising how rare it is you get to make a strategy change where you gain an extra unit. Most of the time your decision is exactly the same as it would have been with no information about the dealer hand. Even when you know you are beaten or the best you can do is tie, there is no way to improve.

That's with perfect info. When you add an additional 4 cards into the mix you can see there's no edge here.

FromACtoLV · 02-05-2012, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by offTopic

Doesn't it need to be KQs?

Yes, the royal match is KQ suited, not AK suited.

FromACtoLV · 02-11-2012, 02:33 AM

I witnessed the strangest hand I have ever seen in Pai Gow yesterday.

The dealer flips over their hand and has 3-2 for low and 7-8-9-10-J for high.

The guy sitting next to me screams "Holy S***, I WON!"

The dealer flips over the players hand and he has a flush for high and his low is 4-2.