Comments on: Ultimate Texas Hold’em

By: EV

EV — Sun, 27 May 2012 15:06:07 +0000

What sort of a difference in the house edge is created when the dealer always pays the ante bet on a win, whether or not the dealer actually qualifies?

I’ve run into this twice now in the past couple weeks (once in Vegas, once in Missouri): the dealer doesn’t qualify, the ante bet gets paid. I try to take advantage of such situations.

Yeah, I’d rather play the live game – human dealers can make mistakes.

By: painlesswon

painlesswon — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:28:27 +0000

regarding the stats on “EV” of fold vs call or check vs raise, can someone explain what the numbers represent?
For example, If for a given hand, If the EV for checking is -.08 vs -.07 for raising, how dose this translate to the money bet. Do I loose on the average about 1% less money for that hand if I consistently raise instead of calling?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:16:23 +0000

Okay here is my first post… I have been playing this game now for about 3 to 4 weeks off and on and the first few times it was fun so I started learning more about the odds and how to play better and so on. Well I went last night and got my ass handed to me! The best hand I had the whole night was two pair! While the dealer had hand after hand of three of a kind and straights and so on… What the hell!!! I have practiced and practiced on this site and others and have a pretty good idea whats going on. I am not saying that I play a great game but I played the way this site suggests for best odds and in the end I started to pull back and not bet the pre-flop at all, I waited until I could see for sure what at least the flop had. Hell it got so bad last night that I was thinking a pair of twos was a good hand! lol
Last night was so bad that for the first time I really felt that the shuffle machine was fixed!

By: spikespead@aol.com

spikespead@aol.com — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:08:36 +0000

WTF sinners? LOL There are no sinners in Vegas everyone knows that. I am not sure Native Americans believe in original sin either but you would have to look that one up.

By: spikespead@aol.com

spikespead@aol.com — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:57:39 +0000

I do not keep wrong pays and is actually illegal to knowingly do it. I do not look down on you for doing it however I feel is it not the right thing for me to do. I prefer Video to dealers, Another reason it plays faster.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:36:00 +0000

Machines replace real people to save money, even if the dealers are perfect. People are sinners – asking for overtime pay, time off, sick leave, better schedules, etc.

By: vgMega

vgMega — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:22:24 +0000

“But to answer your question dealers are often clueless” This is the reason to play the live game over video. Dealer errors actually happen quite often and benefit the player. A misread hand can become a winner. This is the reason why Barona went with an iTable as opposed to a regular, to eliminate any dealer errors possibilities.

By: spikespead@aol.com

spikespead@aol.com — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:47:52 +0000

Why not is about as helpful. But to answer your question dealers are often clueless, not all but a lot of them are and I do not have to tip the hot ladies on the screen.

By: tmdeee

tmdeee — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:23:21 +0000

Yes, I prefer the real thing too, but the video version can be played with $1 “chips”. Good for practice or if you have a smaller bankroll.

BTW, as I reported earlier, there are two video UTH games downtown. Binions ($1-$25) DOES NOT pay on a straight on the blind bet.The other is at the Las Vegas Club ($1-$100), it DOES pay on a straight on the blind bet. The machines say $3 on them, the $3 means if you are playing that hand (and not folding or playing trips), it will cost a TOTAL of $3 min. Both machines have the 3-4-7-8 (3.5%) Trips.

By: whytee2

whytee2 — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:14:46 +0000

Sure, but .5% is .5%. It all adds up. I can’t think of another reason. The game is designed for people to not share information, but the video version allows that to occur. JMHO.