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The rules in Nevada vary greatly depending upon your loca-tion. The best rules are in Las Vegas. The main difference be-tween downtown and Strip casinos is that the Strip casino dealer stands on any 17. The downtown dealer hits a soft 17 (a hand with an Ace counting as 11). Insurance is allowed in both loca-tions, and any pair may be split. Split Aces may receive only one additional card. You can also double down on any two-card hand.

In the Reno-Tahoe areas, the dealer hits soft 17, and you still may split any pair. Split Aces receive only one additional card each here, too. Insurance is allowed, but doubling is re-stricted to two-card hands of 10 or 11 only. For specific rules variations by casino, go back and review the table.

Atlantic City

I ran a headline in the July 1978 issue of the IBC Newsletter, "Resorts Casino in Atlantic City Is a Jungle." In 1978 Atlantic City was an extremely overcrowded location. Resorts International had a monopoly on the gaming there and made the most of it, witb the gambling "take" frequently exceeding one million dollars pe1 day! Prices were steep, table minimums kept high, and lines wev continual in the fight for the next open seat.

In the intervening years, Atlantic City has stayed in the head lines. There have been suits and countersuits between system players and the casinos. Allegations of casino mob ties, contrcpmmission improprieties, and community devastation have fre-xquently been in the press. In retrospect, the boon gaming was to ,bring to Atlantic City citizens never seemed to materialize.

And while there are currently many casinos open, the "captive market" population around the location results in a far less friendly gaming :environment than in Nevada. Couple that with problems of street crime and see that Atlantic City is still a big gaming question mark currently rated "Don't Bother" by many blackjack experts

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