How to Gamble at Casinos

Transcript HI. I’m Shawn Tinling, president and founder of 21 Nights Entertainment. We’ve been in business since 2004. We serve the New York and the Las Vegas areas, as well as Los Angeles, Phoenix, also Boston, and Philadelphia. I got into business, basically by accident. I’ve been gambling for about 15 years or so, and …

Transcript We’re going to go into how to tip the dealer. Basically, I’m going to show you how to do it at a blackjack table. This applies at just about any other game that you can play, and I’ll go into that in a little bit of detail to. But basically, if you have your …

Transcript I wanted to go over the 22 inside method of craps. I won’t call it a system, because you know, that implies that it works all the time. Which you know, anybody that tries to sell you on a system is probably lying to you. But this is a method, it actually works pretty …

Transcript Hey, guys. I’d like to go over lay bets in craps. With the buy bit, we spoke in an earlier video, you have the opportunity to buy the more favorable true odds as opposed to place-bet odds. You can’t place against a number if you’re betting the don’t pass or you wanted to lay …

Transcript I just wanted to go over buy bets in craps. Basically we have a shooter here, we’re out on the nine, and he’s got a pass line bet in odds and he’s decided that he would like to place a bet on the four, but he’s not too happy with exactly what it would …

Transcript Hey guys. I just wanted to go over combination bets in craps. A combination bet, basically, players want to make a series of bets as opposed to just placing one number or another, and there are ways that we can do that with a little bit of craps lingo, so that dealers can make …

Transcript Hey, guys. I just wanted to go over the hard ways bets in craps. You come up to the table and see a whole bunch of different numbers and things going on in the center of the table. Now, that part of the table actually makes the game a little intimidating for newcomers. It’s …

Transcript I just wanted to go over the Come and Don’t Come bets in Craps. First, the come bet. Basically, what’s happening here, we have a Pass Line bet. We’ll say we’re out on a point of five. The shooter is about ready to shoot the dice across the table. The Come bet is basically …

Transcript Hi guys. I just wanted to go over Free Odds bet in craps. One of the great parts about craps is that is has this one bet, where is no house advantage whatsoever. If you’ve got a pass line bet of $10, depending on the casino, you can go put $20 as free odd …

Transcript Hi. I wanted to go over the Pass line and Don’t Pass line in craps. The Pass line is the most fundamental bet in the game, because without a Pass line, then the game doesn’t work. The way the Pass line works, when you place your bet, you’re betting that on the come out …

Transcript Hi, now I’d like to go over Place bets in craps. Right now, we have a shooter over here who’ll be represented by myself. He’s got $10 on the pass line and he rolled a four on the come out roll so now the four is his point. What place bets are, you have …

Transcript Hey guys, I just want to go over basic rules for craps. You can see I have a miniaturized table here. And the casino table is a little bit bigger than this, but the same basic rules apply. Check with your table in the casino. Normally the table minimums will be about $5 or …

Transcript Hi, everybody. I wanted to go into roulette etiquette. Basically, what happens at the table, a lot of times you’ll have about eight or nine people crowding the table and everybody wants to get their bets and everything like that. It kind of resembles a New York City subway, if you’ve ever been, where …

Transcript Hey, guys. I just wanted to talk to you guys about roulette strategy. There are plenty of ways that you can tackle this game and no way is more right than the other. I’ll just go into some methods. What a lot of players like to do, especially newer players, what they prefer to …

Transcript Hi, guys. I wanted to show you how to play roulette. It’s actually a pretty straightforward game. You have a table here; you’ve got numbers 1-36 and 0 and 00. You’ve got a wheel that matches all the numbers here on the board. First thing you need to do is come up and get …

Transcript As we’ve talked in other videos in this series, you can bank in Pai Gow tiles when you’re playing against other players. A lot of times in the East Coast casinos they actually don’t let you touch the tiles, because they’re really worried about game security. On the West Coast they’re a little bit …

Transcript Hey, guys. I just wanted to go into how to bank in Pai Gow. It’s one of the few casino games where you’re actually allowed to play against the player as opposed to playing against the house. How that works? Basically, according to house rules, you can just ask to bank. Depending on where …

Transcript Hey, guys. I wanted to go into how to set your tiles in Pai Gow. When the deal comes, you get four tiles. You’re going to be playing against the dealer. I’ll leave the bets off for sake of simplicity here. The dealer will be banking, so you’re playing against the dealer. We’ll just …

Transcript Hey guys. I wanted to go into a game that I was very excited about covering, because I couldn’t find any videos on it online when I was first learning. Hopefully I’ll be able to teach you all also. This is how to play Pai Gow Tiles. In this game, there are 32 dominos. …

Transcript Hey, guys. I’m going to teach you about Pai Gow. Originally, we were going to go into how to play the game, but to understand the game, it’s probably a good idea to understand the tiles and exactly how everything here works. Here we have a set of Chinese dominos, there are 32 of …

Transcript Hey guys, I just want to show you how to play Five Card Draw. It’s not poker game that you’re going to find in any casino. It’s more of a home game and an old bar/saloon type of thing. Basically, we’ve got four players here. Every player gets five cards face down. There’s never …

Transcript Hey guys. I just wanted to go into how to play Let it Ride. Basically it’s a game that’s played against the house and it’s popular in many casinos. You’ll see here we have three stacks and basically these represent individual bets. The player will get three cards face down, but I will put …

Transcript Hey guys, I just wanted to go into the habit of playing No Limit Hold ‘Em, just the base rules of the game. Here we got our players and we got our blinds posted 5 and 10. I’ve got the 2 cards face down, now in another video we talked about about limit hold …

Transcript Hey guys, I just wanted to go into how to play a Limit Hold ‘Em. Basically, we’ve got about three players here and we have lines posted of five and ten. Everybody’s gonna get their cards and here the big blind is ten so that’s what he’s gonna have to bet as a minimum. …

Transcript Hey guys, I just wanted to go over poker rankings with you. These rankings apply for just about any poker game you are going to play: hold em, or five card draw, seven card stud, or any of that. Basically, I got a deck here all rigged out to get the cards I want …

Transcript Hey, guys. I just want to go into a quick Texas Hold ’em poker strategy. This is very rough and basic, just enough to get you by if it’s your first time playing. Right now, we’ve hit the button set and blinds are already in place. And we’ll deal everything face-up just so everybody …

Transcript Texas Hold ‘Em is one of the most popular games in Poker today. It’s played in card rooms all over the world and home games all over also. I just want to go over the rules of Texas hold ’em with you. First you need a table. Get some players with you. The first …

Transcript Hey guys. I’m gonna do a video about how to pick a slot machine, if you must. Let’s see. The slot machines, when they’re on the floor, they come in a whole bunch of different denominations, they go from pennies, all the way up to 500 dollars a spin. It’s really up to you …

Transcript Hey guys. I just wanted to go over blackjack betting. A lot of times you have a lot of people who they have their methods or systems or whatever they want to call it on how to bet. There are a couple of right ways to do it. There are a couple of wrong …

Transcript I just wanted to go over some Blackjack myths, there are quite a few of them. You got the typical table setup here. The player here is not going to have to worry about this hand. A lot of times people at the table will get mad as people play in a way that …

Transcript Hey guys. I just wanted to go over some Blackjack tips for you. Basically, first up, most important, play your game. Sometimes you’ll have some tables where players are grumpy, they’ll be grouchy, or they want to talk about how you should play your hand and things like that. And here’s a perfect example, …

Transcript Hey guys. I wanted to go into some mistakes to avoid at the Blackjack table. There are a few. It’s not as daunting as you may think it is. It’s not really a whole lot of things that you need to avoid, but I just wanted to touch up on the basic ones. Here …

Transcript Now I’m going to go into how to choose a Blackjack table. A lot of times people will, you know, I play all the time, and people ask me, “Well, how do you choose?” Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t, depends on my mood, but I’ll go into all of that for you. Basically, …

Transcript I wanted to go really briefly into how to count cards. It’s a common misconception to a lot of new players that a card counter is required to count every single card that’s coming up. And that’s really not how it works, it’s a lot simpler than that. And basically I’ll go into the …

Transcript I wanted to go over the finer points of when to surrender in blackjack. A lot of casinos will have a rule where they do allow surrender. What would happen then, after your first two cards are dealt and after the dealer checks for a blackjack in which case I don’t, then the player …

Transcript Hey guys, I want to just go into the insurance bet in blackjack and when to buy it. Basically, here on the layout, you see insurance pays two to one. What it is, it is a side bet that the dealer has blackjack. You’ll get offered that only when the dealer is showing an …

Transcript Hey guys. In an earlier video we went over basic strategy and also like when and how to double down. In this video, we’re going to go over the ins and outs of splitting pairs. Here we’ve got five cases where you may or may not want to split your pairs. Right here, with …

Transcript In an earlier we went over some basic strategy for Blackjack. Now we’re gonna go into how and when to double down. We have three players here, each with $200. And we got one player here with an 11, one with a soft 17, and one with a pair of fives. Versus a dealer’s …

Transcript Hey, guys. As I explained in an earlier video, I went over the very basics on how to play blackjack when you sit down at the table; exactly how everything works as far as getting your money in, getting your hands, and hopefully getting paid. I just wanted to go into exactly the nitty-gritty …

Transcript First, you find yourself a table. You can ask . . . there’ll be a sign on the table telling you exactly what the minimum and maximum bets are. Usually, it starts about $10 or $15, but you can check with the table in particular that you are at. You place your bet, and …