Advantage game: can the casino end up in the red?

The dream of any gambling user is the following: to beat the casino and make gambling a source of constant income. Due to the fact that any gambling establishment has an advantage over visitors, this seems like an unrealistic fantasy. However, in the gambling business there is such a thing as an advantageous game, which allows you to significantly bring the dream of most gamers closer.

Advantageous game: simple about the complex

So, we will not consider various tricks and fraud. This is an obvious deception that will not allow you to beat the casino, but will only create additional problems for the club's client. To begin with, let's explain the concept that was discussed above.

Advantage game - these are absolutely legal ways to gain a mathematical advantage over the casino. To put it simply, we are talking about the level of return.

It is known that the casino always has an advantage over the player. In poker it can be minimal (0.1%), in European roulette it can be larger (2.7%), and when playing dice it can reach 15%. What does this mean? It is very simple: over a long period of time, playing, for example, roulette, you will lose 2.7 $ from every 100 dollars. This advantage is the profit of the entire establishment as a whole.

Advantage players use legal methods that allow them to equalize the odds when playing in a casino, and in some cases even achieve a small mathematical advantage! To do this, a combination of methods and opportunities are used:

card counting along with basic strategy (widely practiced in Blackjack);
casino bonus offers;
the croupier's poor work and his mistakes;
profitable use of promotions, cashbacks, etc.;
features of a particular establishment, etc.

That is, in fact, such a player does not break the law, but acts completely legally. Naturally, casino owners do not want to incur losses, so they do everything they can to prevent this state of affairs. Many professionals of the advantage game are known and they try to keep them out of the casino under various pretexts. Most often, the rules of the game do not allow a visitor to the club to get a mathematical advantage, then the advantage player wisely uses the bonus program and gets, if not an advantage, then an equal chance of winning.

How to beat the casino

Let's start with the fact that such tricks do not work when playing in online casinos. The operators of such establishments will find 1,001 reasons not to pay you your winnings (for example, you may be accused of violating Russian gambling laws). You can rather count on getting money in a regular land-based club. The reality is that there are not many legal casinos in Russia that you can visit. By and large, this is generally very difficult, since most often they are located very far from the player's place of residence. If you want to try to become an advantage player, then you will have to decide where you want to play: in the Russian Federation, Belarus or Europe.

An advantage player must have several important qualities:

stress resistance;
attentiveness and endurance;
charm and perseverance;
desire to learn;
calmness, etc.

You have to understand that losses, and very serious ones, are inevitable. This means that you should have a large reserve of free funds that you are ready to lose.

Also, we have to disappoint you a little. You will only be able to beat slot machines or roulette by chance. Of course, if the roulette is old and the ball constantly falls into the same cells, and the dealer is a bungler and always makes mistakes, then there is a chance to succeed. However, you should understand that this is unlikely. There is a chance to hit the jackpot when playing poker or Blackjack, but remember that card counters are not welcome in casinos, so you can be thrown out under any far-fetched pretext.

Winning at poker is not easy, as it is a complex intellectual game. The video poker varieties you thought of when you recalled primitive online casino machines have little in common with the “normal” game in which you can achieve success. In short, becoming a professional at playing cards is possible, but it will take a lot of time and lost money. The main thing to remember: advantage play is not cheating!