dpbz

1. Casino Poker Cards How They Are Made Today
2. Casino Poker Cards How They Are Made Of Money
3. Casino Poker Cards How They Are Made Of People

• A Rare Look Inside a Casino Automatic Card Shuffler. Most automatic shuffling machines you see in casinos were made by Shufflemaster, a company now called SHFL Entertainment for reasons lost on us. In the SHFL offices, there’s a wooden prototype of their first automatic shuffler, from 1983, made mostly of wood.
• High quality poker cards custom designed for printing. Custom poker playing cards are the perfect choice for many industries including schools, corporate sectors for advertising and marketing purposes, the retail sector for designing their own poker cards and reselling them in.
• Apr 06, 2009  Kem – Kem, manufactured by the US Playing Card Company, are arguably the most popular plastic cards. They are made of cellulose acetate plastic and are a bit more expensive, averaging $22 per set. The Kem Arrow cards are said to be what most plastic poker cards are measured against.

Apr 09, 2016 The playing cards used in casinos today are manufactured to a much higher quality than standard decks sold to the general public. However, since they are used at a much higher rate than cards played at home, they are also discarded at a much greater rate. Aug 14, 2013 If you’ve played a card game in a Las Vegas casino, you’ve probably had your cards shuffled by an automatic card shuffler. These mysterious black boxes do their job, quietly and effectively, making sure the cards come out randomly, to protect both the casino and the player. Mostly the casino.

They take a rate(a portion of each pot)...Like at a 3/6 table they will rate $3 from every pot...progressively as the pot grows..for a max of $3 once the pot gets over $20..but different poker rooms have different rules as to how much the rack is and how it is progressively pulled out as the pot grows..

A $3 rake will be more common in Las Vegas; outside of competitive markets for poker (i.e. Vegas, California), the rake is usually at LEAST $4 (i.e. Missouri), but most places now in the Midwest are up to $5, with the highest being $6 in Detroit. That's the max rake, with 10% taken out if the pot is less than 40, 50 or 60 dollars respectively.
The other practice that gets me at some casinos is the rake before a flop. This is by law in West Virginia.. what I mean is, say a player raises to $10, and another player raises to $40, the initial raiser goes all in to $200, causing the other to fold. The pot has 3+1+10+40=$54 before seeing a flop.. in WV and Hollywood Casino in IN they rake $5 + $1 for the bad beat on that!!! And you didn't even see a flop.

On the flip side you need to keep those tables full...and you need 15 or so dealers to service 10 tables..that's why a lot of casinos pay prop players to play so games doesn't break down..

I have never heard of prop players in use in any Midwest casinos. I know the casinos in Tunica used to do that, but I think even that's been limited.

Most poker rooms lose money off poker tournaments that's why they are so fast..like $25 buy in $3 entry fee with 20 min rounds. and are over in about 2 hours or less..becasue the blinds get so high so fast...they are just there to draw players in..in hopes they stick around for the 'live' game after they get busted out OR take their winnings to the 'live' game..or to another table game or slots...

This is also no longer true in the Midwest. Casinos actually make a TON of money on tournaments now. Reason being, they bump the fees up to a ridiculous amount. Most tournaments here have a $10 fee for anything less than $100 buy-in, and up to $25 for more than that. Caesars properties has made an art of bilking the player for money in tournament fees. They have tournaments where players get paid less than 60% of what the true buy-in (fees + buy-ins) are.
Part of it is a public relations thing, but casinos around here can't open a poker room fast enough if they don't have one. Unfortunately, some 'markets' have one or two big dogs, and the smaller ones can't be profitable. The competition goes away for a while, then the big dogs get greedy. Players demand that the smaller casinos reopen their rooms, and the competition comes back, albeit not as good as before they left.

I'm not at all familiar with poker rooms or poker room operations but I have seen some ads for poker room prizes that start at a certain amount and climb. I assumed that starting amount was casino seed money and that the escalation was from a rake. As I understand it some of those bad beat jackpots grow to such figures that alot of players keep playing in the hopes that they will be there to qualify for a share of some jackpot distribution.

You're probably talking about Bad Beat jackpots. Because BOTH hands must have pocket pairs for quads, or use both cards for a SF, and the minimum hand is typically quads, the jackpot sometimes doesn't hit for months and can grow quite large.
Typically, the casino takes an extra $1 out of any pot over $20. Only hands where the pot is at least $20 qualify. At the end of the day, those dollars are added to the current jackpot prize.
That prize is typically divided as: Of the total prize posted, 50% goes to the 'loser' of the bad beat. 25% to the winner. 25% divided amongst the other players at the table. Some casinos divide the remainder amoung all players in the room. The four Caesars properties in AC are linked so that the remainder is divided amoung all players in all 4 rooms.
Note that the prize posted is only 80% of the total collected. 20% held in reserve to reseed the Bad Beat.
When a casino initially introduces the bad beat jackpot, they will fund it with about $20,000. While that's their own money, they are not really being generous. A small portion of the daily contribution is taken to repay the casino for the initial seed, until repaid. If the 20% in reserve be below that threshold, the casino will top it off, and again take a small portion.
Some casinos have a different type of jackpot. Mohegan Sun in CT does a High Hand every 4 hours. For 3 hours, they take $1 out of pots of over $20, and record and announce the highest qualifying hand. During the 4th hour, they empty the buckets, count the chips and award the prize. The qualifier announcements generally starts as 'quad __ with __ kicker.' Before it's done, the qualifier is usual 'SF __ high', and is often escalates to a Royal. Ties split the pot.
Last Christmas morning, with very few players in the room, and about 45 minutes to go, I qualified with quad sixes. Because there were so few players, I had high hopes. But with about 5 minutes remaining, I got beat. Sigh.
On the original subject, the casino takes, usually, 10% of the pot, for a maximum of, typically, $4. Some take $5. Some take as little as $3. If you read my review of Royal Caribbean Cruise, they take a maximum of $15. On the cruise, more than once we heard the phrase, 'Don't like it? Go to the casino next door.'

I've never played in one so I may be missing an obvious facet of playing Texas Hold'em, but where does the casino make money for hosting players for hours on end? Drink service? Entry fee? House commission?

In Ohio, we don't have casinos (yet, they are on the horizon). However, there is a law that allows card rooms to exist as clubs. In these cases, the 'house' charges a membership fee and then a 'daily use fee.' These are a bit higher on the front end, but then they don't rake the pot. (Most clubs are now taking a $1 or $2 out for a bad beat jackpot/jackpot hand scenario.) There were a couple clubs that did actually rake, instead of charging a fee, but that's illegal, and I think those operations get shut down by other card room owners trying to skim the competition.
It's a lot less seedy than it sounds. They are usually in strip malls near 'games of skill' slot parlors or internet cafes, although a few exist in nicer venues. These are legit games, and if you play a lot, it's much cheaper in the long run than having a rake taken out. There are three or four 'big' clubs that usually have at least 3 games going, then a bunch of medium sized clubs that have one or two sometimes going on. The places pop up for a while then disappear without any warning (except for the big ones; they have loyal followings and are usually the best run anyways).
The other caveat is that dealers are not considered employees, but rather volunteers. The players cannot pay them in actual money, so you buy 'chocolate chips' which are brown $1 chips to be cashed by employees only. Some clubs have put those on the table for the dealer to convert, while others require you buy them at the cage. The only club employees then are security and managers, limiting overhead.

On the original subject, the casino takes, usually, 10% of the pot, for a maximum of, typically, $4. Some take $5. Some take as little as $3. If you read my review of Royal Caribbean Cruise, they take a maximum of $15. On the cruise, more than once we heard the phrase, 'Don't like it? Go to the casino next door.'

I'm not a cruise person so I didn't read that particular article, sorry..
I'm guessing you had to file a police report after getting off the cruise if you were playing poker.. that's an open and shut case of RAPE!!

On the cruise, more than once we heard the phrase, 'Don't like it? Go to the casino next door.'

I should point out that the phrase was jokingly said by a player, not the staff.

I'm not a cruise person so I didn't read that particular article, sorry..

I understand completely. For what it's worth, I'm 52, and this was my first cruise. Before I sailed, I didn't think I was a cruise person either. Now I'm anxious to go again.
For what it's worth, I went into detail about the ship's casino in this post.

For what it's worth, I went into detail about the ship's casino in this post.

Actually in the meantime, I did find your review of the poker room on the cruise thread. I find it hysterical that they used an empty BJ table for poker. I'm guessing the rakes REALLY got screwed up on that table, as the dealer probably wasn't thinking that far ahead.
Depending on how it was dealt, I probably would have turned over an A-Face immediately, expecting to get paid 3:2.

I've never played in one so I may be missing an obvious facet of playing Texas Hold'em, but where does the casino make money for hosting players for hours on end? Drink service? Entry fee? House commission?

Out of 251 casinos in Nevada last year that made a minimum of $1 million in gaming revenue for the year all of them had slots, 155 had pit games, 99 had race and/or sports betting, and 94 had poker.
For smaller casinos poker only collects enough money from the rake to pay for the cost of the poker room and the dealers. The casino is hoping that these players will stick around and play more profitable games. Sometimes friends accompany the poker player and play slots or pit games. So it is basically a loss leader.

Casino Poker Cards How They Are Made Today

Poker brings in 1.6% of the total gaming revenue for NV, sports brings in 1.4%, and race book brings in 0.7%. So in general you can probably refer to them collectively as means to attract people into the casinos. There are some exceptions, casinos that do make a bigger profit on poker.

Ed. note: For those who might have missed it before, we're reprising Robert Woolley's series of articles for poker players who are new to live poker. The series is great for newcomers, and likely useful as well to those with experience playing in casinos and poker rooms.

* * * * *

In these last several 'Casino Poker for Beginners' articles, I've spilled all I know about poker chips and about the different kinds of buttons that show up on casino poker tables. Now it's time to discuss another piece of indispensable poker equipment — the cards.

I know what you're thinking: What can there possibly be to know about cards? 52 of 'em, right? Four suits of 13 each, and the ace of spades the prettiest card in the deck.

Well, yeah. But there's more — much more.

Poker Cards — Built to Bend

Let me start with one prominent feature of casino poker cards that differs from those typically used in home games. Most decks of cards are made of paper, often coated with a thin layer of plastic. But those used in poker rooms are of much higher quality, and they are also much more expensive. They are made of plastic.

In this regard, poker cards differ even from those used in other areas of the casino, such as at the blackjack tables. Cards there are cheap, meant to be used once, or perhaps a few times, then disposed of. But poker cards are meant to be used and reused as long as possible.

The reason for this difference lies primarily in the fact that players surreptitiously marking cards to gain an advantage is a constant problem in blackjack, and the easiest way to combat that is to replace the decks at such a high rate that a cheating player can't keep up.

But marking cards is generally much less of a problem in poker rooms, so the economics favor investing in durable cards that can be kept in play for months before needing to be replaced.

I'm explaining this because there is an important practical consequence that is not immediately obvious. The plastic poker room cards can be bent almost unmercifully, and still spring back to their original shape without suffering a crease. And that fact matters because it allows you to look at your cards in a way that would be problematic if they were made of paper.

Protect Your Hand from Prying Eyes

It is obviously important that your opponents not see your hole cards. If they do, they can play perfectly against you, and you are at their mercy.

But if you're using paper-based cards that crease easily when bent too far, you're pretty much forced to lift them off of the table in order to see what you have without damaging the cards.

In your home game, you may be able to trust your friends not to sneak peeks at your cards when you do this. But if you lift them completely off of the table in a casino, I can absolutely guarantee that it will cost you money, because the strangers sitting next to you can't be relied on to observe your home-game code of honor.

This doesn't mean that every opponent will look every time. But it only takes one other player seeing what you're holding one time in order for you to lose all the money you have on the table.

You probably learned the basic concept of 'defensive driving' at some point in your life: assume the worst of everybody who shares the road with you. With this mindset, you think ahead to what you'll do if the car in front of you suddenly brakes for a squirrel, or the one approaching the intersection from the right doesn't see his red light, or that semi passing you pulls back into your lane before he's fully clear.

Best starting poker hands. Passive players are the ones who often check without raising any bets during the betting rounds. The most important thing to know is that each style is effective in some situations and against some players while completely ineffective against others.At this point, you probably wonder — which playstyle is the best for you? Therefore, they can be tight/passive, loose/passive, tight/active, and loose/active.Each of these four types comes with certain advantages and disadvantages that you can learn along the way. Aggressive players will call and raise more often than they check, even if their cards are not that good to support their betting decisions.Once again, you can decide whether a player is passive or aggressive just by observing and creating patterns of your own. Styles Are The Combo of Betting and HandsPoker styles are actually a combination of how players bet and their actions related to their hands.

You have to approach casino poker with the same kind of cynicism. While you're being friendly and keeping the game fun for everybody, you need to remember that poker is war, and the other players are the enemy. They want to take your money, and some of them will take ethical shortcuts to do so. Your job is to thwart them on all fronts.

Please remember this simple precept: Never lift your cards off of the table. Nothing good can come from it, and lots of bad things can happen.

Have you ever heard a person described as one who keeps his cards 'close to the vest'? It means somebody who doesn't readily share his thoughts and plans. The expression derives from poker.

When cards were made of paper, without the benefit of even a thin coating of plastic, they were fragile, and couldn't tolerate much bending at all. That meant players had to lift them off of the table, giving others an opportunity to peek.

There's a famous shot of Paul Newman in The Sting playing high-stakes poker on a train — if you've seen it, you'll remember it — where he becomes the literal embodiment of this phrase, with his cards held right against his vest as he carefully looks down at them.

Your Peeking Technique

You can peek at your cards by lifting just one corner. I've seen lots of different techniques for doing this. The photo up top shows the one that has become habitual for me.

Casino Poker Cards How They Are Made Of Money

Notice how the cards are angled so that the corner with the identifying information is pointed at me. Both hands are cupped around this corner. I lift the corner with my right thumb. If I need to separate the two cards a little bit in order to see both of them, a small pinching movement between my right thumb and index finger does the job without breaking the visual 'seal' of my hands.

Cara daftar poker online qq download. With this method, any other player inclined to try to peek at my cards while I'm looking at them would have to crawl into my lap to do so.

And here (finally) is where it pays off to understand the literal plasticity of the cards — you can bend that corner back as far as you need to without worrying that you'll crease it and ruin the card. Of course, you can crease them if you really try, but it won't happen inadvertently. Take advantage of this fact. Bend that corner to identify your cards without making them vulnerable to snoops by lifting them off of the table.

There's much more to know about poker room cards, and I'm out of space. More about cards in my next article.

Photo: Nina Tovish. Robert Woolley lives in Asheville, NC. He spent several years in Las Vegas and chronicled his life in poker on the 'Poker Grump' blog.

Everybody needs an account at one of these online poker rooms! They're the biggest, the best, and we get you the best poker bonuses. Check out our online poker section for details on all the online poker rooms around.

Casino Poker Cards How They Are Made Of People

• Tags

  cash game strategylive casino pokerbeginner strategyrulesetiquettecardslive poker