Q&A: can you play real poker at the casino?
Question by marketing101x: can you play real poker at the casino?
Can you play real poker with other people? And are the odds still in favor of the casino? if so how?
that still doesn’t answer the main question!
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Answer by Neil
Every game in a casino has the odds in favour of the casino. That is how they make money. You can put the odds in your favour by learning card counting, although card counting in your head is extremely difficult and card counting with equipment is illegal.
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Yes you can play poker in casinos.
The odds aren’t in favour of anyone, the casino will still make money as they have a system called raking which by playing at the casino, you agree to. I believe they take a small percentage of each pot. Therefore, they get money every hand, but you technically aren’t losing that money to them, that is just sort of rent for the table and dealer, if you will.
The actual gambling is just between you and the other players, and so the odds are in the favour of whoever knows their odds, and when to fold.
Most casinos have a separate room for poker. In Atlantic City or Las Vegas many casinos have large setups to facilitate play. Whether or not you’ll get to play depends on the type of poker you want to play and how much you’re interested in playing for. Small casinos may only have a few tables for small buy in stud or hold’em games, and one or two tables for high rollers. In smaller casinos it can be difficult to find enough people to play a game, but if you’re willing to spend enough you might talk to the host/hostess.
The odds will not be in the casino’s favor because you never play against the casino. The casino will provide a dealer, but dealer does not play as in Blackjack.
If you can’t find a game at a casino, you might check local events for poker tournaments.
yes you can but it depends on the casino what games they offer for example seven card stud or texas hold’em. The casino dosent take part in these games they are only between the gamblers at the table. The casino does make money because they provide the dealer who takes a cut out of each hand for dealing cards and inforcing the rules at the table. I would recommend giving it a shot but just remeber two things.
1) if you leave the table with your hand the cards are dead.
2) the other player’s know what they are doing and don’t fool around.
try playing poker at gaming sites like pogo.com before you go and good luck.
Poker is a game of skill so if you’re good you could have better odds than a casino. People make some big money playing poker. I would suggest playing online casinos such as web18casino or online18casino. they are trusted and have some of the best online casino sites i suggest full tilt or cherry red
If the casino has a poker room, (not all do), then yes, you can play poker at the casino.
The “odds” aren’t in favor of the casino, you aren’t playing against the casino, you are playing against other players. The casino makes their money by taking a little out of each cash game pot, or collecting tournament fees that aren’t part of the prize pool.
Of course you can. Most casinos have all kinds of poker available to you. Just give you local casino a call and find out what and when they are offering the specific poker you are looking for.
Most of the major casinos here in Las Vegas have poker rooms. I cannot attest for other casinos around the country (or world) though.
The casino makes money by taking a rake or charging entrance fees to tournaments. This means that on most hands in ring games they take a certain amount of money from the pot. In tournaments, the buy-in will be something like $ 50+$ 10 where you pay $ 60 to play, with $ 50 going into the pot and $ 10 going to the casino.
Even though you’re not techincally playing against the house, because of the rake, the average player has a negative expectation at the game of poker (in other words, the average player can expect to lose in the long run). For example, say every player at a 10 player table started with $ 1,000. Every pot was $ 100 and each player won one hand for 10 straight hands. If there was not rake, at the end of those 10 hands everyone would still have their same $ 1,000. But, in actual casino play, the casino might take $ 5 out of each of those 10 pots, meaning each player at the table would have $ 995 instead of $ 1,000. In the long run, the rake is going to slowly eat away at Mr Average’s stack until it’s whittled down to nothing. Mr Above Average might break even in the long run, while only the top 10% or players or so will actually come out ahead.
Depends on the casino – while many now have poker rooms, not all do. However, technically speaking, there are no house odds in poker since you don’t play against the casino – you play against other people. The casino takes a rake of a few dollars out of each pot and, as such, they really doesn’t care who wins a given hand…they get their cut either way.
Yes, Poker is played in the casino but between the players and not against the house. Hence there is no “house advantage” in poker. Rather than house advantage RAKE in poker. It is the money that the casino charges for each hand of poker. It is usually a percentage (5-10%) or flat fee that is taken from the pot after each round of betting.
Yes. There is a website http://www.worldcasinodirectory.com where you select a state or country, then click “poker rooms” and it will list all the casinos/racetracks that have live poker.
The casino’s edge is 100% because it takes a small percentage of each pot (known as rake), with a small maximum depending on the stakes (for instance, 10% up to $ 4 for no limit $ 1/$ 2 blinds). It’s a game where the odds favor both the casino AND a good player (unless everyone at the table is good). The rake is negligible compared to what a good player makes.