Bodog to Deal Billionth Blackjack Hand

LONDON, January 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bodog, the first and biggest name in online gaming, announced today it is closing in on 1,000,000,000 blackjack hands in its online casino.

http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nach...blackjack-hand

thats aloot of hands. i hate online blackjack. think i blew like $50 on UB

now that seems rigged ONLINE BLACKJACK. puke

are they giving away anything real pimp for the billionth hand?

they should give away all the money they have stolen from their rigged BJ software.

do u think every site is rigged?

" To count down the final 21 million blackjack hands en route to the billionth, Bodog will give away $1,000 to every player who plays one of the millionth milestone hands. All cash prize winners will automatically be entered into the billionaire´s experience drawing.

In addition, the lucky billionth blackjack hand player will automatically win a second billionaire´s experience giveaway.

Much like Bodog´s founder Calvin Ayre, the lucky billionaire´s experience winners will live a life of luxury, excitement and prestige - but for a few days, of course. Winners will choose between an exciting trip to the 2011 Monaco Grand Prix or frolicking on a private island in Fiji."

Blackjack odds favor the house. In one thousand legitimate hands, odds say the house will come out ahead, most of the time they do. In one million hands, just that much more.There are billions of dollars to be made by running a legitimate site, that is not rigged. It's not worth risking the entire business to try and make a little more.

The notion to think that anyone would risk a billion dollar easy money empire, to try an cheat people is, I don't even have world's to describe how narrow minded that is.

That'd be like Donald Trump robbing a bank. It just doesn't make sense.

I never new this thread existed. I'm sorry I even tried to reply in my own words. This guy puts it so well, he almost makes me sound like a bumbling idiot.

Please, for anyone ignorant enough to think one of the main poker sites is rigged, please read here:

http://www.cardschat.com/f46/rigged-...s-lead-181855/ (http://www.cardschat.com/f46/rigged-megathread-all-rigged-roads-lead-181855/)

^ this.

Blackjack already has a house advantage, there's no need to rig it any further.

Blackjack is the only casino game with an house edge that you can actually beat. Still a roulette wheel is beatable but you need to find a somewhat biased wheel and study it for hours on end before being confident enough to place some bets.

Even if this were the case you'd need a lot more than a few hours to establish the pattern. Roulette isn't beatable long term.

Roulette is beatable on a warped wheel.

Roulette isn't beatable online, as the wheels all run silky smooth.

EDIT: Wow...that is way off topic though. Er....way to go Bodog for reaching 1,000,000,000 BJ hands?

I'm curious - exactly what flaws do people think roulette wheels can develop that can be exploited for profit?

I've worked with dozens of casino roulette croupiers and they all agree that people carefully studying their work looking for patterns and "flaws" is hilarious but that's about it. It poses no threat to the casino's bottom line because roulette isn't beatable. Even if such flaws did exist in a wheel and they were exploitable the casino wouldn't leave such a faulty piece of equipment in operation long enough for you to take advantage.

Sheesh - next people are going to be telling us about this awesome new thing called the Martingale system that's guaranteed to beat the casinos...

lol....I don't know about the Martingale system, but I just paid $19.99 for a system where you just keep doubling your bet each time and it's been paying off in spades for the past 3 days!! jk obv

Finding flaws in roulette wheels has been proven to work in controlled settings outside of casinos. I've read actual academic papers published on the subject. That said, the potential to exploit such a system on an actual casino is slim to none (you'd need to study the wheel in a controlled environment over an extended period of time to effectively exploit it).

The majority of people find a number of things laughable. However, that doesn't make the majority inherently correct.

So it might work in places where you can't exploit it for profit. That's brilliant! But it still doesn't make casino roulette beatable.

You might as well say you could crush the Big Game at the Bellagio as long as they'd let you mark all the cards first.

Ya but now there is this awesome new thing called the Martingale system that's guaranteed to beat the casinos..oh wait nvm

LOL +1

Even when you play perfect blackjack, the house still has an edge of about 52% vs your 48%. That also assumes a normal 6 deck shoe and no card counting. Card counting seriously increases that to your favour.

Now here's where the real difference between playing live vs online. Online the deck is believed to be reshuffled after every hand, not near the end of the shoe. Not only does that increase the odds to casino's favour, it also prohibits card counting or using any sort of progressive system.

Personally, I'd pass on playing blackjack online.

^^^^^^This cause the ONLY way to get the advantage over the house is to count cards. This don't work when an RNG is used instead of real decks.

All in all I got ahead playing Black Jack on Bodog an then quit. I also beat the lottery same way, quit while your ahead. This is the only way to beat the house but only works if you are lucky enough to get ahead and smart enough to quit.

does anyone know if their doing any promotion to who ever is dealt the 1billion hand like pokerstars did. Not a big fan of online blackjack..

See post #7 ITT.

There is no end of the shoe in live play either, at least not in Atlantic City, even 20 years ago. They had a 5 - 7 deck shoe (I'll assume 6), but they reshuffle at about 1/3rd through, 1/2 at the VERY latest. No way possible to count cards successfully.