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WISE BETTOR GAMBLING BLOG

Hi, my name is Wise Bettor and this is my gambling blog. I've spent well over 20,000 hours in Las Vegas casinos during my adult life. That time includes me being a casino dealer, gambling instructor, professional gambler and I also ran a successful sports handicapping service in Las Vegas for years—a legit one.

Wise Bettor is free for you to read, listing, watch and enjoy. I hope you'll find my gambling blog useful. If you do, please tell others. There's one thing you can count on at Wise Bettor, I won't guide you wrong. Casino gambling is what I know. I will never tell you to do something just because it benefits an advertiser or myself. I see this on many "gambling" Web sites and it's just plain wrong. I've got the betting experience and I hope you'll have fun here.

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College Football Begins

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Tonight marks the start of the college football season. If you love college football, there’s one sight you are going to want to bookmark. It’s my website: College Football Reporter at CollegeFootballReporter.com. The website will have commentary from me and other college football enthusiasts. I invite you to read and share your thoughts. I love college football as well as the Pros.

How I Destroyed a Blackjack Table

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I know what you are thinking. You probably think this is an article about how I beat the house and cleaned up in Blackjack. You would be mistaken. This article is actually a secret personal story about an unbelievable turn of events I had as a dealer in Las Vegas. More specifically, it’s about how I completely destroyed all the players that came to my table for almost two hours and how I did it—perhaps.

Fortune Cookie Numbers

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Can a restaurant be lucky? More specifically, can the “lucky” numbers you get when you open a fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant actually put cash in your pocket? Before the other night, I would say probably not. However, I was told an interesting story and it made me wonder if there was some sort of aura surrounding a particular restaurant in Las Vegas.

Powerball Now at $40 Million

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Last night’s Powerball drawing failed to find a jackpot winner. However, two lucky players are going to pocket $800.000 each. According to sources, one lucky player in Oklahoma and one lucky player in Kentucky each won $800,000 with the Power Play option. Two other lucky players—in Missouri and Nebraska—scored $200,000 each.

Keno Tickets

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Let’s talk about the different Keno tickets. Most of them are simple, but one particularly can be a little complex for new Keno players. The Keno tickets we will discuss will be straight tickets, the 20 spot ticket, multi-game tickets, specialty tickets, and the way ticket. By the end of this article, you should be well versed in the art of playing Keno.

Keno Guide

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If you’ve never played a game of Keno before, this guide will get you caught up quickly. I’m not going to go into great specific detail—I’ll leave that for other articles. I happen to find Keno to be a very relaxing game. In a way it’s kind of like bingo, but with bigger payoff possibilities. Let’s get started.

Card Counting

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Start talking about counting cards and many people think of the movie Rain Man. In the movie Rain Man, Savant Raymond could tell the next card that was coming up in a game of blackjack. In reality, counting cards in a game of blackjack is not this precise. You’re really just trying to figure out what type of cards remain.Why would this matter?

Four and Ten Craps System

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There’s nothing I like more than a great craps game in a lively Las Vegas casino. Having been a former craps dealer in Las Vegas and a professional gambler, I have seen my fair share of craps action. For me gambling life started in downtown Las Vegas. If you hang around enough craps tables down there, you will always see someone with a pad of paper and a writing instrument marking down rolls of the dice. There’s no short supply of system players in the game of craps.

Caribbean Stud Poker Guide

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For those that have never played the game of Caribbean Stud Poker, this article will serve as a lightning fast guide. Caribbean Stud Poker is, in my opinion, a fun game to play especially in a real casino setting. For those that have played Five Card Stud Poker, Caribbean Stud Poker will be a breeze to learn. Instead of playing against other players, you’re playing against the dealer’s hand. The main decision in Caribbean Stud Poker is whether to stay in the hand.

There’s been a vision among Las Vegas casino executives for some time now—wireless gaming. The vision is quite large. One of ideas will allow gamblers to play on wireless hand-held computers almost anywhere on the property. I can’t think of anything better than lounging around the pool, and placing a horse racing bet or playing some video poker while I’m enjoying a nice dinner. Today, these things are just ideas. Tomorrow, you will be able to do them.

Errors in your favor evidently don’t just happen in Monopoly. The culprit was a defective slot machine—who knew slot machines could be so loose. The location was Caesars Indiana. And yes, the casino was not even aware of the bad slot machine until a player notified them. So what happened?

Blackjack Basics

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Blackjack is one of the most popular casino games in the United States. In this article, I want to give a quick rundown of the game for those that might be new. I will keep things very simple. In other articles, I will explore the game further. Are you ready for a lightning fast primer to the game of Blackjack? Let’s get started.

Caribbean Stud Poker Hand Guide

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For those that want to know how to play Caribbean Stud Poker, I have setup a website at CaribbeanStudPokerTips.com. The first post is complete. I put up a Caribbean Stud Poker hand guide. Over the coming days, I will be adding more articles to the website.

Here’s a link to the guide.

Caribbean Stud Poker Hand Guide

Black Double Down Theory

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There’s a common misconception, in my option, with doubling down in Blackjack. Many people feel that you should double down on 11 every single time. Is this really correct? How can any rule be applied 100% of the time? I don’t believe this rule for a minute. As a former Vegas dealer and gambler, I have seen countless people follow this rule into oblivion.

Craps : When the Dice are Cold

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The other night I tried Shizen for the first time. It’s a Japanese restaurant at the Rampart Casino. Being a Sushi lover, I try to go once weekly. At $100-$200 a dinner it can get pretty pricey. Ah, Sushi and Sapporo. Anyway, after enjoying a nice Sushi meal, I headed to the Craps table for a little action before heading out. The Rampart Casino is a smaller locals style casino in Las Vegas. It has a Mediterranean feel to it. There’s not too much in the way of action. The casino has a couple Craps tables, a handful of Blackjack tables and so forth.