Ask Jack (Almost) Anything! Jack Ask Episode 2

[00:02] questions let's check out this week's questions and answers today on Jack

[00:16] Blackjack does it matter where you sit at the blackjack table I only sit on the sixth chair the last seat is it me or isn't this the best seat it enables you to control the table this may raise a few eyebrows but let me tell you that

[00:29] where you sit at the blackjack table will not affect your winnings or losses in blackjack in the long run it's true that you may occasionally take the that you may occasionally take the Dealer's bus card hit me hit me hit me

[00:41] bustard or sometimes you might save the table when you hit that soft 18 versus a dealer 10 but statistically it doesn't matter where you sit and the same is true when a bad player sits at third base I know a lot of people will swear

[00:54] that a bad player will negatively affect the table but this is just the result of confirmation bias if you're losing you're going to notice things that you case you're probably desperate for someone to blame so when you see a

[01:07] donkey hit a hard 13 with the dealer five up card and bust with a 10 you'll definitely get upset when the Dealer's next card is a six and they make a 21 edging out your hard 20 the confirmation bias happens a lot because many times

[01:19] to try to figure out what would have happened if the last player acted single scenario you'd see that the frequency of the deviations will help that but there's a huge percentage of

[01:33] the same and this phenomenon is supported by just about every Blackjack book I've ever read and can be demonstrated with simple simulators and people perceive at the tables but I'm telling you that those perceptions are

[01:49] inaccurate the next question is also from Reddit R craps how do you decide poster says he looks at the players at the table looks at The Smiling to strategies are there this is mostly a question of preference so it depends on

[02:04] the type of experience you enjoy obviously we can eliminate completely full tables I mean if they're completely full you can't play right and for Empty to shoot or if you don't like being the center of attention if you join an empty

[02:18] table all eyes will be on you so personally I like a table where I have a I don't like a lot of people on the other side of the table either if like tossing and ACD only hitting someone's flailing arm when they make a

[02:31] last minute bet but a table with maybe three or four empty spots is my sweet spot you don't have to worry about the dice coming to you every few Shooters so of everyone constantly watching you and when the shooter is on a hot streak it's

[02:44] fun to feed off the energy of a cheering crowd the next question is from Reddit as well R roulette looking for an app or website to calculate the payouts on asking if there's a tool where you can enter your roulette bets and see what

[02:58] the payouts are so so easy question I like these for you subscribers out there tool called the roulette bet analyzer that does exactly this just pick the wheel type and enter your bets as you would at the roulette table below the

[03:11] you're going to win for each result you'll also be able to see the expected loss per Spin and the percent coverage of the wheel there's a bunch of other metrics you can check but watch this video for more details and look at that

[03:23] someone even posted a response on Reddit that links to last video to further the second question what is the optimal coverage of matter what numbers you're betting on on the wheel but what the coverage

[03:39] percentage is so for any given bet amount there's not an optimal percent coverage of the wheel so long as you're not covering 36 or more numbers and I mathematically incorrect to bet on 36 or more numbers at a time and you think

[03:52] that this goes without saying but I've seen dozens of roulette systems where the author suggests betting on more than 35 numbers but a assuming that fisher Frank already knows this you can bet on fewer numbers if you want a larger

[04:04] payday and you can bet on more numbers if you want to win a smaller amount but frequently so if you want to post your own gambling question you can submit your question in the comments below or you could post it to my Discord FYI you

[04:16] question being answered if you post it to Discord so here's another question that's a comment on my last video are interblock and alpast Street systems free Wheels with random results or are

[04:29] they RNG and runoff a program are they considered slots so if there is a physical roulette wheel the randomness is going to be determined by physics not by an RNG there may be an RNG that determines the velocity or the

[04:42] revolutions per minute of the wheel but most of the randomness is going to be talking about an electronic table game with no physical wheel the RNG will number that you hit is going to be based on a random number between 1 and 37 for

[04:57] a single zero wheel and 1 and 38 on able zero wheel it's not going to be percentage and I can't speak about all electronic table games but for the ones in NADA you're dealing with an RNG that randomly picks the number that hits It's

[05:11] and then trying to figure out what results make you lose or win according to the desired hold percentage and that's true of most electronic table games in Nevada if you have a video poker machine it won't randomly decide

[05:23] flush the randomness of the results should always mimic the randomness of the real world tools used in the live table version of the game so with video poker that would be a 52 card deck 53 cards if you're playing with a joker

[05:37] based game for roulette every number will have a 1 in 37 or 1 in 38 chance of hitting on every spin depending on whether you're playing with single or d0 and with craps each result will have a 1 in 36 chance of being

[05:55] dalan be strategy is a good or bad so I tested the dam bear strategy a few weeks trying to win a small amount of your bank roll I tested it under the name 36 double d double D standing for dalan Bear's dozens with dalan bear you bet

[06:10] $100 on a single dozen or column when you lose you add another $100 to that bet and when you win you remove a $100 unit until you only have $100 left on it with a $4,000 bank roll you can win $11,000 around 70% of the time that's

[06:26] pretty decent and I made a video of my review of this system so check it out if you want to see it in action next question is from Reddit or roulette what exactly are those roulette games with cards so this guy went to a

[06:39] tribal Casino in California and saw the roulette tables with cards in California there are weird laws that prevent bets from being settled by the roll of dice or by a ball landing on a wheel these were laws that aimed to specifically ban

[06:52] roulette and craps and for some reason these laws extend into tribal Californian Native American casinos even though these Tri casinos are able to offer house Bank table Games and Slots but some sneaky lawyers figured out a

[07:04] way around these silly restrictions some of these tribal casinos have card-based equivalents of both craps and roulette so for roulette you spin a paddle based wheel like in Wheel of Fortune and when it stops the dealer pulls out a card

[07:17] with the winning number and lookie here the top response for this Reddit question refers to one of my videos about this very subject the next one is a good one from R Vegas on Reddit our show girls not

[07:30] allowed inside casinos or hotels you never see them inside casinos I'm walking back to my hotel between 1 and 2 and I always get chased by these show girls wanting pictures for money the minute I enter a casino they stop and go

[07:42] the other way are they banned just thought it was interesting so bless your heart so no those women dressed up in full show girl regalia are not real Vegas show Girls show girls are mostly A Relic from the past they used to be a

[07:56] wives and pretend they were being classy while ogling over ripe round American titties there is still a show called fantasy at the luxer which is a stage-based strip teas but I think show girls have mostly been gone since they

[08:09] shut down the Riviera those girls you see on the Strip are just buskers and picture with them so they can shake you down for tips and if you ever make the mistake of taking a picture with them they will get really aggressive with you

[08:22] usually what they want is not what you agree to they may tell you that a pick is just $20 then after you take the photo they'll say it's $20 per showgirl and per guy who was in the photo and as a general rule I don't interact with any

[08:36] buskers in the street it's almost always negative EV and don't forget to check out the Jack A's merch store I've got quite a awesome roulette Hawaiian shirt most of the merch is gambling related but

[08:49] there's also a lot of crypto products we have a few video game products if you're something in my store that's perfect for you so check it out the next question is good at roulette because you're good at math so this guy is watching two guys

[09:04] play roulette and they're doing very well for some reason he assumes they're helping them win at roulette so am I good at roulette because I'm good at good at roulette because I'm good at math the answer is no in fact nobody is

[09:16] good at roulette because they're good at math because nobody is good at roulette a complete novice will be just as good as a veteran so long as they don't bet on the five number bet and they don't bet on 36 or more numbers at a time

[09:28] everything on 3 there's a reason why you never hear about professional roulette players because there's no way to get an edge over the wheel and because there is no combination of negative expectation bets that will result in a positive

[09:40] expectation how are you going to get out of here we'll dig our way of here we'll dig our way out no no dig up stupid next question is from Reddit R roulette using the law of averages to

[09:55] your advantage so this guy is talking about the law of averages some people will refer to this as the law of large numbers he's saying in the long run you're going to get 50% black 50% Reds 50% odds 50% evens and if you see a

[10:08] streak of one or the other you can bet the opposite and you'll eventually make the law of large numbers and how people like this misinterpret it this law doesn't tell you that things will balance out because the pendulum swings

[10:22] balance out is because what you have observed in the past will eventually become irrelevant this is how things balance out the next question is also from Reddit R Blackjack they're asking about

[10:36] dealer assistance for card counters I heard in a video that the dealer can have the possibility of making card counters lives easier the poster is asking if the dealer can have any influence on the profitability of a card

[10:48] are a few things a dealer can do to improve your chances of winning or to number one thing they can do is deal deep into the deck or shoe besides pay 3 to two for blackjacks penetration is probably the next most important factor

[11:03] in profitability for blackjack card counters this is because the deeper you deal into a shoe the more likely you are to encounter a positive true Count and a positive true Count is what indicates that you have an edge over the house I

[11:15] need my own Queen R there's lots there's lots of them lots and lots of them I'm going to double them I'm going to double down queen queen

[11:29] can do things like remain silent when you deviate from basic strategy hit me you have 17 sir I like to live

[11:44] announce splitting tens when you do so with a large chunk of change on the table sometimes they'll ask you are you sure you don't want even money when you refuse it sometimes they'll ask you if you're sure you want to ensure your 14

[11:56] versus their Ace with a big bet anything they do to to tip off the Pit Boss that your playing time short so if they don't bring a lot of attention to you that's bring a lot of attention to you that's always a good

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[12:25] gamble responsibly never play six to5 blackjack and peace out donkeys