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Going to war against casino war25 June 2019
It’s probably the easiest card game the casino offers but it looks to me as if more and more players are gravitating to it for some reason. Casino War has the same underpinnings as War with some interesting variations, none of which will cause your brain to freeze any more than a brain usually freezes when in a casino. The game is usually played with six decks but you can find casinos that play with more or fewer decks as well. The ace is the highest card and all the other cards are ranked based on their faces so a king beats a queen and 3 beats a 2 and so on. As in the standard game of War, each player gets a card and the dealer gets a card. If the player’s card wins, he gets even money for his bet (a $10 bet wins $10). If the dealer wins, the player loses his bet. Should the dealer and the player have the same card, a tie, that can be war or surrender where the player can surrender his hand and get back half his bet or the player can say, “Bring it on, big boy, I never surrender!” OK, the player might not say it that exact way but you get the idea. Surrender is the poorer of the two options so never surrender. Make war not peace. Or as the Marines say, “Surrender hell!” Making war is as easy as, well, making war. The dealer will burn three cards (no, it doesn’t mean he puts a match to them, it means he discards them) and then deals the player another card after the player has doubled his bet. If the player wins or ties with that second card, the dealer will pay him for his second bet but the first bet will be considered a push. But here is the sneaky part; if the dealer beats the player, the player loses both his original bet and his second bet. Yuck! Some casinos offer a “Tie bet” that usually pays 10 to one. That bet, just like the Tie bet at baccarat, is a waste of money, coming in with double-digit house edges depending on the number of decks being used. Don’t make it. The house edge at Casino War hovers around three percent, depending on the number of decks. Although this edge is somewhat better than many other table games, Casino War is fast paced and that pace is highly dangerous, again similar to the speed of mini-baccarat. With many decisions, a small casino edge can become a deadly casino edge over the player. The War Room: If you decide to play Casino War, consider sitting out the hand after you lose one. Tell the dealer you worry about negative streaks or sit out a hand after you won a hand saying that negative results come after positive ones. By reducing the hit on your bankroll using this technique, Casino War will not be as dangerous. All the best in and out of the casinos. Visit Frank's website at www.frankscoblete.com. This article is provided by the Frank Scoblete Network. Melissa A. Kaplan is the network's managing editor. If you would like to use this article on your website, please contact Casino City Press, the exclusive web syndication outlet for the Frank Scoblete Network. To contact Frank, please e-mail him at fscobe@optonline.net. Recent Articles
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