The Emerald Queen Casino (a tribal casino) will shut down for 2 weeks by midnight tonight!!!

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/...241248196.html

The state governor has ordered all non-tribal card rooms to shut down by midnight tonight!!!

If they don't then they will be forced to shut down by the state and there may be legal ramifications!!!

In a nutshell, gambling is dead in Washington to include poker for at least 2 weeks!!!

Its gonna be longer than that, friend! I hope you can manage without playing any bacc for a couple months!

LOL, that's the irony.

I'll be winning (can't play)

"...gee, where'd all this money come from?!?!?..."

In a nutshell, this will ultimately hurt the casinos because there most likely won't be any gambling like it used to be before the shut down. Shutting down the casinos will probably cure most peoples' "gambling bug"!!!

There's already a baccarat thread. Can someone delete the new thread that just got created? Thanks.

Wonder how problem gamblers and people addicted to gambling are fairing because of all of the casino closures do to COVID-19!

Well..... how are you doing?

I'm fine and you?

Can someone update this thread. It only states that Fortune is closed in the original post, but now it's all casinos in WA. For some reason I don't have "permissions" to view this thread when I'm logged into twoplustwo:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...-post-1764536/

Probably they should be more interested to save their lives.

Nice poker house. Too bad it's illegal. I used to play in these when I used to live in North Carolina back in the day:

https://www.fayobserver.com/news/201...legal-gambling





Also, didn't know that Paris Hilton plays poker. LOOOL:



Has anyone played this game:

Probably getting their fix online.

How does one do that? It's banned!

wtf are you talking about?

Online gambling is banned in my state.

Yoooo... Off the chain!!!

I mean it's only day 2/night 2 (almost the start of day 3) and the new Emerald Queen Casino (EQC) is a zoo; a madhouse!!!

For starters, it's the 8th largest casino in the world and the 3rd largest casino in America with about 310,000 square feet of space.

They had the usual table game trolls (mostly baccarat trolls) in the "high limit" room. It's weird because there are high limit slots in that room as well. The Mega Meltdown slot was extra loose in the last 2 days. People winning $1,000 or more every time you turned around it seemed. The most I seen was $12,500 so far.

Looks like they forgot t set the shufflers tight as well on the table games. In bacc the cards were truly shuffled at random and people winning thousands to tens of thousands of dollars no problem.

Rumor has it that EQC actually lost money within the last 2 days (shocking)!

Speaking of the smaller cardroom within the area; they have no chance of surviving unless they're poker rooms (EQC doesn't have a poker room). Everything's brand new to include the chips/cheques. They're gnarly too!

Speaking of how random the card shufflers are currently; same guy within 20 minutes got 2 red aces for 100 to 1 in Ultimate Texas Hold 'Em. There were a lot of 10% winners as well on the Match the dealer Spanish 21 progressive jackpot bonus.

They also have the brand new retro style reel slots (not the comuterrized reels, but actual reels like they had back in the day).

Someone posted this on YouTube about the parking garage leak when it rains:

A free car washing, what a service!

From Wednesday night into Thursday morning there were 3 guys at 1 table. Each player played 3 spots for a total of 9 spots at $1,500 per hand for a total of $4,500 per hand

Long story short, they won every hand except for 10 hands the entire shoe of about 71 hands!!!

The pit had to call for 3 refills of purple chips. Was off the chain!!!! Each of them made about $30,000 profit!!!

71 rounds, 10 losses
$4500/round
profit $30k

10 losses = -45k
17 wins = $76,500

Therefore you're saying 44 hands were pushes. Nope, didn't happen.

When you're going to make **** up for attention, at least get the math right.

They didn't start from the 1st hand of the shoe. They started mid shoe

ummmm...

Yep.

I'm wondering whether those wonderful players sometimes lose as there's no mention about the sessions they ended up as losers.

Jion is the biggest bacc fish/fanboy there is. Its really something to behold.

Whatever you say, liar.

If an aunt claimed she is a long-term winner at baccarat and decided to teach you how she does it, how many simulated shoes would you need to feel confident the system was valid, and how many units would be reasonable for a given +EV system to return per shoe?

Lol, please detail the strategy.

It doesn't take any, since the rules of Baccarat define a -EV game. No betting system can change the EV of the game.

That doesn't preclude the possibility that someone can get lucky long term, and then survivorship bias makes them believe their system is a winner when it isn't. Many system books have been sold by survivors who played -EV games but were in the tiny majority at the far end of the variance curve.