You can leave Vegas with a small fortune, but that's usually done by starting with a large one.

Also sign up for the players card, every time you lose $10k you get a free tuna sandwich.

I won $10,000 on a $10 sucker bet. It had never happened before in the casinos history. there's a picture on the wall with me and all the dealers/employees. The next time I came to that casino, that particular blackjack game was gone. As soon as someone actually wins a jackpot they change the game.

I went to Vegas in a $70,000 Lexus and came home in a $700,000 Greyhound bus...

a dumb bet is to step into a casino and believe you are going to walk out with more money than you came in with.

Fun video Shamus!! Keep em coming! I love the trivia section

The advice given here is spot on and will help to minimize losses and still have some fun.

My favorite Vegas documentary! 😀

as your walking into the casino...pull all your money out...fold it in half..put it back into wallet....there...you just doubled your money....walk away

They need to do a new documentary on Vegas gambling plenty of suckers would enjoy

Just remember that every time someone finds a way to beat the game, the casinos change the rules or procedures. Go back and look at the rules from 30-40 years ago. They're may be different and/or the procedures are different if people had found out how to beat those games. Remember the video says the casinos are never going to give you a percentage that's in your favor. Better odds just me and you'll lose your money a little more slowly. A great example is when the MIT teams found ways to beat the games, the casinos made drastic changes so that wouldn't happen again.

Pretty dope music throughout the documentary!

watching this in 2022 is a trip lol $4 bets on red and black when all the casinos in my area are $10-$15 minimums

I still have this on my old TiVo box

The only way to walk out of a casino with $1M...is to walk in with 2...

Really good video. All the various ways to gamble along with the odds is something I've never seen put together so well. And the competition at the end was great fun. What struck me was the souless professional saying that consistent winning is just a hard grind, taking all the fun out of it. Odd that playing the stock or currency market is all about work but gets more enjoyable the more you do it.

You're paying for the social experience, the rush, and the decor. This, "don't go, don't lose", mentality is true if you have no friends and are not interested in having any.

Thanks for posting this video. I used to love these shows on the Travel Channel. Now all they got is stupid ghost shit lol

"Winning is not an event, its a process"

I go to Vegas a lot. Beautiful town, lots of fun. Lots of free crap, lot of no gambling stuff to do. Don't take any money that you can't afford to lose, and you'll be fine.

Great video! I think the lesson here well learned is to *set a limit and stay within it* - not only don't gamble more than you can lose but calculate your hours and days on vacation to lose slowly (preparing for the probibility of losing). In other words, I wouldn't place too many high bets too quickly on your trip (to then potentially use up your bankroll too quickly!). I'm about to go to Vegas so I'm going to actually be a little "selfish" and write this comment (it's going to be long) for myself as well as you, the reader reading this :-) Other things not mentioned here in this video is basically the human or spiritual factor (for lack of better terms :-). One's goal (if they are not trying to seriously be a professional gambler) is to HAVE FUN (in the long AND short-run)! An idea of one person's fun might not equal somebody else's idea of fun. E.g., In Las Vegas, for instance, some people might prefer the flashiness and pumping hip-hop music one might find at The Linq casino And others (such as myself) might go for "older people music" (which I actually preferred when I was 19!) At a higher and casino like Bellagio or maybe The Wynn. Here are examples in my case of how I personally can make my trip more "profitable," while not relating always directly to money: - AVOID SMOKE ... I prefer to avoid being around players and areas that are too smoky, so one strategy would be to find casinos that are either non-smoking (virtually impossible in Vegas except for the airport :-) or have very good ventilation systems (so in Vegas, I stick to the bigger hotels on the strip rather than the smaller hotels let's say in downtown - even when/if the payouts of the slot machines are better downtown) - If playing table games, try to find a table where people are not smoking (obviously) but also having a good time (and emitting a wavelength that I want to be around). Therefore, I avoid quiet tables with people who have very serious faces (I'm in Vegas to have fun) Or are even grumpy. they talk about mathematics by the way in this video but I have noticed that I NEVER win when I'm feeling crappy (no matter how well I play) but when I hit well - especially at tables - it's when I'm feeling good and I'm around people where I'm having a fun time - so I think there is more to it ultimately than pure mathematics… That's from personal experience…Just sayin'… - I try to stick with the hotel-casinos that have higher-quality complimentary alcohol (the downside being again, these machines in these casinos may indeed have worse payouts). I would say with the ventilation systems along with the higher level of complimentary drinks, it might be logical to play the tables at those casinos - those games where the odds don't vary depending on technician programming (as they do with the slot machines). Indeed, blackjack at a fancy, well ventilated, less smoky strip casino with ( relatively) high-end Scotch being comped, the odds are exactly the same. One problem with higher-end casinos is that the minimums are generally going to be higher (if that messes with the strategy of not losing to quickly, it could be better to avoid the tables, regardless). - Discipline of walking away from a machine or table when you hit a nice win is more psychologically than mathematically logical. Again, if one has a goal to have fun, applying that discipline of walking away after a jackpot could add to the overall vacation experience (I always like that feeling of walking around the casino, etc. when I'm ahead (even if in three hours I will be behind). Indeed, it's nice to enjoy those three hours of being a winner = part of the fun!). This is one of the longest comments in KZfaq history so I think I'll cap It right there - good luck out there as a friend of mine who's a gambler in the UK says, "Either stay off it… Or be lucky!"

Playing $1 at a time, my dad hit 5 for 5 and 6 for 6 in Keno. Thats $2100 won from those 2 wins, definitely ahead on Keno

Makes me miss the 80's.

The big sucker bets at the blackjack tables now are the side bets. They're fun if you play a dollar every now and then to win 30 but if you try and ride it you're gonna lose anything you win playing normal blackjack. Another casino advantage thing we saw at a $10 blackjack table at the golden nugget was if the dealer draws a 22 they don't bust they roll 4 dice with a cat on ONE SIDE. If you get zero cats, it's a push. Any cats there's some odds but let's be real all it does is turn 22 into a push instead of a bust!

Well, even the Blackjack games are a sucker bet now, if the payouts are 6:5 for a natural. Many casinos got so brazen as to do this to shoe games, no even money, hitting soft 17...Stay away from those casinos!!!

Beating the casino is easy but not giving it back is very hard! ✌️

Fact is 2-spot Keno is the best overall bet of any game, casino or Lottery. You win $10 on 1:16.62 odds. That means you double your bet on $1 for 5 play cards($5) for odds of 33%. I often hit jackpot on 4-spot as well 1:325.

Huh... here's the thing about "dumb bets". I walked in to a casino with $100 (most I was willing to lose, left all other cash and cards). I was losing and was down to my last $30 or so. I decided to pass the time talking with a friend who was playing 3 Card Poker. I figured I might as well try it since I wanted to sit down. He knew the game and lost everything. I left with about $1,500. To this day, I still don't understand the rules to that game. Idk, I put money down, cards got moved around, and the dealer just kept giving me more money. Dumb bets and dumb luck is not common but can be awesome. Haha. I prefer bets among friends and family so I've only ever played slots on very rare occasions since.

Where are the "Guess what number I am thinking" and "Pick a hand" games from Vegas Vacation?!? Those are the sure-fire ways to win in Vegas.

I can sit and play Keno for $1 a game for 2 hours and get drunk on free cocktails for a total of about $50!!! WINNING

Ive been to a casino 5 times. 3 times ive won and walked out on top. 2 times ive lost and broken even to the casino. Its fun to do if you know how to play and only take what u can afford

I'm really not good at counting cards but when I work really hard at it, it does provide you an edge. It's the only game in the casino where the odds change as the game goes along. My last time working really hard at counting cards I made $350 on a $20 bet. The count in the shoe was like I'd never seen. The reason I made so much is because I bet more. If the shoe sucked, I would have lost. Luck is still hugely important.

The only timeinsurance isn't a sucker bet is if you are a card counter and you know that there are a lot of high cards in the shoe. Benedict is wise to take insurance

Seems this video is from 2002. For those that are curious. =)

How to make money at a casino: Option 1: Work at a casino Option 2: Own the casino Option 3: There is no third option

Playing in casino is for enjoyment only, not for profiting. This is gambling 101. Remember this before you remember all strategies.

Look at it as entertainment,,,,,play on a budget,,,,,. If you get lucky that's great,,,,,,,but most likely you wont. I go to vegas at least once a year,,,I love the place.

They forgot the most basic sucker bet of them all. Playing against the house to begin with. Good luck everybody!

Best machine I've ever played was a soda machine....put in a 5 and got a Coke and 3.50 out of it !!! EXCITEMENT !!!!

The hardest thing for me is trying to explain to a friend or lived one about probability! Its such an easy concept but people get so hung up on it. Like a certain number not coming up in a lottery for weeks. It will come up but not because it hasn't for a while.

I won $2300 in Keno in Reno fifty years ago,no I don,t have any left.

The pass line is the biggest sucker bet of all!

@ 02:53...I was expecting to see some old lady........and then his name took me farther over the edge off laughter.

Trust me..YOUR BIGGEST REGRET ENTERING A CASINO IS YOUR FIRST WIN GOING OUT!!

So this video is lit a casino promotion. The trick is they just tell you how you lose your money slower then before but the house advantage never droped below 50%.

Anthony Curtis I remember watching a lot of him on the travel channe back in the day !

Have fun and have a budget.

I like black jack a lot. I just don't know when to stop

I dont believe slot machines are random for a second.

It's well known that Craps and optimal strategy Blackjack are the least damaging to the player. You can't win in the long run at either, but you'll go broke more slowly. When I go to Vegas, I'm either in the poker room or the sports book. You're still up against it as the house takes its cut, but you're competing against other players, not the harsh negative expectation mathematics of the other games. Very difficult to make money here either, but at least you have a theoretical chance.

The only game that pays out 100% for me says ATM on top. Guaranteed win!

Andy picked the most volatile video poker variant.

Slot machines are different in the UK. They have a memory so people play after someone loses but house adv is 20 percent,

Asian love the tie. Could be 20k bet on the out come of a hand and they jump up and down for a $50 bet on tie

Richard Munchkin... sick name!

QUACK QUACK, I just saw the Duckman!

hahahaha Experts saying it's all Math and then he says some experts don't agree, then gets a casino manager and a dealer to say it's all luck.

Blackjack has about a 3%-5% house edge the way most people play it. Most dealers dont know proper stragedy. If you read playing blackjack as a business they tell you what basic stragedy is and how much making a mistake costs. Example not hitting 16vs7 cost you 12% of your bet not hitting 16 vs a 10 cost you 3% and if there are a lack of 5's it can be right to stand.

Richard Munchkin was a good looking kid until he got beat up because of his name and now it fits, the punched in Munchkin.

Thanks. got what I needed in the first 2 minutes. Bye bye everybody!!

The worst bet for me was wasting 43 minutes of my life watching this video

The house has an advantage on insurance cuz odds are there isn't a 10 not the other way around lol only a 3rd of the deck is made of 10s.

In roulette, Your goods are the best, however, an old carnival trick or people that have played childhood games, is completely predictable for the person controlling the ball release, almost to a near 100% ratio of hitting that 00. its the design of the game, however, if you used slow camera footage and controlled the speed and spin of a ball release or use a machine, the angle of momentum and where it hits is not random, the best people to train this, is people who do not have not be taught how to read the numbers, in which are spinning thus, the orientation will not be confused. 00 three times in a row!

Okay here is my way of gambling.... I go to the casino I go to video roulette (live feed of table) ((introvert)) then I pick odd/even/black/red/high or low and I put $40 on all of one of those green can't be left out (random amounts) 50% chance of Winning and my friend bets against me same bet (strict no pity rule where winners can't share). What are you thoughts?

On Keno, I once bet the minimum, got all the numbers and the bonus number, and my pay out was only 20.00$. Did I get ripped off or not?

Any game that isn't live poker at a poker table is a sucker bet.

Richard Munchkin looks like Patton Oswalt

The "experts" interviewed make some completely unwarranted assumptions about how software-based games (slots, video poker, etc) can work. There is no law, for example, that requires a video poker machine to make an honest shuffle of the cards based on a random number - it could easily be deigned to never give a royal flush, or maybe 1000x less often than one would expect. As long as the average rake is determined and disclosed to the gaming board, the software can do whatever it wants. There is also no rule requiring each spin or deal to be mathematically independent, and very likely isn't on a well engineered game that's been designed to trigger addictive gambling behavior.

Guy at 26:00 looks like he's wearing a mask over his real face

I once played keno, bet the minimum, got all the numbers and the bonus number, and I only received 20 bucks. I felt like I should have won much more than that. It was my first time in Reno and I think I got suckered.

to make a small fortune gambling you have to start with a large one

MY UNCLE won $2000 and decided to leave Las Vegas while he was ahead. But on his way out of town got caught by Whisky Pete's and lost it all. He had just enough money to make it home!

I think playing perfect blackjack (basic strategy) is something like a .5% house edge. The way to tip the edge in your favor is to count cards. With enough practice its “easy”. What makes it difficult is dodging the floor man.

When did this video come out lol 😂

1-Go to roulette table. 2-buy in for $20 3-get a free drink. 4-cash out..winner winner...You are now up 1 drink.

Abridged Version: They're ALL Sucker Bets.

The best game in a casino is actually Texas Hold Em in the poker room. NOT Ultimate Texas hold 'em against the dealer but true Texas hold 'em where you play other patrons & the house simply takes a rake from each pot. Damn shame they don't even mention the game. I suppose it's their least favorite as the money they make is probably way less than any games played directly against them. I know as a poker player they don't comp you on the same level as say a blackjack or craps player, cause they don't view you as a money maker for them. Play poker & then I'd recommend the 3 games mentioned in this documentary but poker is best, 0% house edge cause it's not played against the house.

The guy at 3:00 is named "Richard Munchkin"... hahahaha.

The first guy didn't outline any sucker bets. He just outlined what you shouldn't do when you go to a casino.

Ahhhh! The early 80's. Getting a VISA cash advance in the casino before ATMs. Only s $20 charge on $100. Yep! You had to make $20 to be even.

If I'm in Vegas for 2 days I usually play kraps twice

Don't pass is actually the best craps bets. Casino offers a bet with no house advantage, namely the odds wagers in craps for Pass, Don't Pass, Come and DC bets. Based Shackleford telling it like it is on the tie bet.

The max vs andy segment is the result of only one trial ( n =1) and is statistically meaningless. Strategy over the long term will lead to a positive advantage, and not just by a few bucks.

Black jack is 1/2 percent but if you are a card counter in even

Vegas is a sucker bet. Skip Sin City and head an hour north to St. George, UT and enjoy the beautiful scenery that this Earth has to offer.

Las Vegas sucker bets: every bet a customer can make in a casino.

i dont care what u say about math, some days are better than others.

Dont let any of this distract you from the fact that I once scored 4 touchdowns in a single game.

I've been gambling a long time I've won thousands and I've lost thousands it all boils down to being at the right place at the right time

Thanks for the advice I will start slow and before u know it be a gambling legend 👍

What stands out to me is that no matter what the house edge is and there can be skilled players vs dumb "lets have fun" players, the house always wins. Think of the cardinal rule, "The more they play, the more they lose." The house gets it all.

To play a game you have no edge, you should play the best strategy so you can entertain yourself for a longer time.

every casino game is a sucker bet

This is why I play poker on the rare occasion I'm in a casino, that way I only have to beat the other players not the house.

March forward today, Let It Ride is losing popularity in some regions. Gamblers and dealers are literally saying: Let It Die!

PLUS the casinos can come up with bullshit reasons not to even pay you on large jackpot payouts! Happened many times with Slot jackpots (casinos called it machine error, or something!!) , and ive heard of Keno payouts being denied over suspicion of player fixing! Buyer beware

Munchkin, never seen such a fitting name for a fellow

the only way to gamble is to use the casino comps to overcome the house edge thats it

As long there are pitbosses that think blackjack is pure luck, there will always be a select few who beat the game

Gosh watching all this is giving me the itch well got my online gaming if I need to do so lol.