Bond, James Bond

Bond, James Bond

          The casino floor is the epitome of the expression “to each his own”.  When guys try to invent games, many think that they can get the casinos to remove all the other games and place just theirs.  This shouldn’t even remotely be the goal, because it isn’t going to happen.  You could give a game away for free and it still won’t happen.  I’ve never taken to Pai Gow Poker or to Baccarat.  I’ve played the former perhaps twice (for a total of 20 hands?) and the latter not at all.  I find the games very slow, and well, boring.  To me, they are the casino equivalent of watching paint dry.  But, these games are very popular overall.  People play hundreds of dollars on a single hand.

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The Commish

The Commish

          Despite being around casinos since I was about 14 years old, I have to admit that it was only the past decade or so that I learned anything about Pai Gow Poker and Baccarat.  All I knew about Baccarat was that James Bond seemed to like to play it and apparently you play it for a lot of money.  With 007 playing it, I always assumed it was a game a lot like blackjack which relied on a good deal of strategy and potentially card counting, which would be why the suave super spy loved it so much.  Little did I know that it is a game of essentially no strategy, albeit there are some similarities to blackjack.

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