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| How
Should You Size Your Bets for Caribbean Stud? |
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From
the perspective of profit motive, casino games
fall into two types. One group appeals to gamblers
who set target earnings, either dollar amounts
or fractional or integral multipliers of their
bankrolls, at which they're happy to quit. Examples
include blackjack, craps, baccarat, roulette,
and pai gow -- which mainly involve short-odds
wagers with payoffs comparable in magnitude to
what's bet. The second category attracts bettors
who won't be satisfied other than by a score big
enough to change their lifestyles. Illustrations
are slot machines and table games like Caribbean
Stud and Let It Ride, in which a small bet can
yield anything from a push or even money to a
gigantic jackpot. |
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Sizing
bets when the objective is to achieve some win
goal involves a trade-off. Bets that are small
relative to players' bankrolls reduce the chance
of normal downswings leading to wipeouts during
sessions of reasonable length. Conversely, large
bets raise the likelihood of reaching any particular
profit levels. Sizing bets when the purpose is
to keep pursuing the pot of platinum only involves
the first of these factors. The sole objective
is to survive for the time allocated to play,
on a bankroll that made sense on the way into
the casino and will still seem prudent if it's
gone by the end of the visit. |
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| Make
believe you enjoy playing Caribbean Stud. And
assume you'd like to get four hours of tries at
a hefty haul. You're undoubtedly not only going
to play the main game, but also make the $1 side
bet on the progressive jackpot. You'll surrender
your seat ahead of schedule under just three conditions:
a) you hit a royal flush paying 100-to-1 on your
hand and 100 percent of the jackpot; b) you hit
a straight flush returning 50-to-1 on your hand
and 10 percent of the jackpot; c) you go bust. |
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| The
number of rounds you can anticipate experiencing
in four hours depends on the speed of the dealer
and how many solid citizens join you at the table.
A good average is 60 rounds per hour, 240 rounds
in a four-hour session. Bet sizing for Caribbean
Stud then comes down to the question: what fraction
of your bankroll should you wager as ante on each
round to have a high degree of confidence you
won't go belly-up in 240 rounds if you don't hit
a royal or straight flush? To get an answer, picture
your bankroll as comprising two segments, one
for the ante and "bet" on the main game
and the other for the $1 jackpot try. |
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| Analysis
based on "risk of ruin" suggests what
to ante as a fraction of your main-game bankroll.
(You'll have to trust that I really did the math
on this.) You can be 85 percent sure of surviving
the normal downswings of a 240-round session,
with no royals or straight flushes, betting under
1.6 percent of your bankroll as the ante per round.
This would be a $5 outlay on a main-game bankroll
just over $300. To be 95 percent confident of
exhausting no poke before its time, the ante shouldn't
exceed 1.2 percent. This is $4.80, close enough
to $5, starting with $400. |
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| For
the side bet, based on chances of occurrence,
you can expect to hit either a flush, full house,
or four-of-a-kind once every 275 rounds. As a
ballpark estimate for 240 rounds, if you don't
hit a royal or straight flush, figure on putting
out $240 and getting back $75. So you need a stake
of $240 - $75 or $165 for the side bets. |
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| What's
the bottom line? Say you start with $500. You
set aside $165 for the side bet. You have $335
for the main game. At the 85 percent confidence
level, 1.6 percent of $335 means you can wager
$5 on the ante. What if, instead, you start with
$1,000? You'll still set aside $165 for the side
bets, leaving $835 for the main game. To be 85
percent sure this bankroll will last for four
hours, you should limit the ante to 1.6 percent
of $835 or $15

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