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I'd say it's much harder to play "perfect" blackjack, since you basically have to memorize a bunch of stuff (not that hard but still effort), while playing "perfect" craps means doing the exact same thing every time.

Never played three card poker, but according to this, as long as you're doing "ante & play" (whatever that means) and not "pairplus", it's a worse bet than blackjack and pass line craps, but a better bet than double zero roulette.

It depends on the details of course, but I think in general blackjack odds are better than the pass line only, but once you start playing odds then I think craps is better.

Blackjack can be +EV if you're counting, and some video poker machines can be too if you play perfectly, though that's insanely boring.

Pai gow is my -EV table game of choice. Love that game. I probably haven't even played most of them though (including craps.)

I'm convinced that you could be +EV at progressive hold em, which I saw at NYNY but seems to be a very limited game.

Anyways last night at Easter my uncle who randomly dropped out a semester in college and crushed AC before his parents (my grandparents) found out taught me his count....I haven't played blackjack in a casino setting before just because I don't really care to learn all the rules but now I might have to just to try it out

Yeah, there are too many variables to make a definitive statement, but for any given set of blackjack rules, a straight craps pass line bet will generally be a worse bet, but adding a certain amount of odds behind it will make it better. There's no guarantee the craps table you're playing on will allow you to put down enough odds to achieve that, though, and the variance is way higher (i.e. you're gonna have much wider swings of being up and down on a craps table than you will just flat-betting on a blackjack table).

Yes, he is truly the wizard of all things odds-related. Embrace him.

Progressive Hold'em looks pretty much the same as Texas Hold'em Bonus to me, both of which have over a 10% house edge I believe. If the dealer is lax and doesn't stop you from looking at every other players cards and you have a full table then you might be able to make decisions that make the game +EV.

Still seems pretty lame to me to be looking at a card every time you get a soft hand or pair. But to each his own.

Oh, it certainly is, but it removes the part about learning how to play blackjack perfectly.

Whatever gameplan you go with, your first time at the table will fluster you quite a bit. It's a flourish of activities and shit being yelled all over the place. That's why you you should know what you want to do before you get there. Do your best to tune out everyone else.

For the first 15 minutes or so, you're just trying to establish your rhythm and more importantly, the relationship with the dealers. Make friends with them and they'll get you through the growing pains.

And if you are winning, tip them.

I never understood why this is the case. As long as your celebrating out loud and in people faces, it shouldn't matter.

This. The first time I played I didn't know what I was doing, but I was joking with the dealers. They helped me out immensely.