Creation

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Creation

           Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was the table game landscape in a casino.  The first two games to come along were Let It Ride and Caribbean Stud Poker.  Then there was a sizeable lull until Three Card Poker came along.  This was not just another successful game as it became the 800 pound gorilla.  With roughly 2000 tables in the world, nothing is really even close in terms of proprietary table games in terms of volume.  One would think that Three Card Poker would've opened up the casino to a whole new world of casino games.

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Follow The Leader

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Follow The Leader

           I'm not sure where the idea came from.  But, it would appear that lacking any real knowledge of casino table game strategy, someone came up with the idea of just following what the Dealer does.  In some games, it is not a horrible idea, but it is still not ideal.  In the game of Pai Gow Poker, playing the House Way will get you very close to the best possible payback.  Given what it would take to memorize the few exceptions to the House Way rules would likely cost you more in errors than it would save you in added payback, following the Dealer here is not a bad idea.

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Never Heard of You

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Never Heard of You

Two years ago, at the Global Gaming Expo, I was talking to someone at a table gaming booth.  I was reviewing their new offerings when the gentleman I was talking to looked at my badge and asked me what 'Gambatria' does.  Gambatria is the name of my company, and I'll refer you to my website of the same name (Gambatria.com) for an explanation of how the name came to be.  I told the guy that I'm a 'math guy' which is the colloquial industry term for I'm one of the guys that analyzes and/or invents games from the math side of things.  He told me he had never heard of me.  I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little hurt.

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