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Reason #4 why the Wizard likes Bodog:
One-stop shopping
Bodog offers the triple crown of gambling: casino, poker, and sports. Many other casinos have tacked on poker as an afterthought, and many poker rooms have tacked on a casino as an afterthought, and the lack of attention shows, sometimes painfully. And very few of these sites let you make sports wagers. But Bodog doesn't just offer all three, they do each one well, and everything's integrated. It's easy to play all three off one deposit, off just one account. Another nice thing about Bodog is that you don't need a separate account to play casino games with fake money. In fact you do not even need an account for that at all, you can just click over there and play. Finally, Bodog usernames are only six or seven characters long making them possible to remember. By contrast some competitors' usernames are extremely long and cumbersome. (Visit Bodog) One click and you're in:
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Despite having been to Europe three times, I still have never knowingly seen a game of Chemin de Fer. However I get asked about it a lot, especially by James Bond fans, so will finally address the game here. From my research it seems that Chemin de Fer is the same thing as baccarat except in procedure, and the player sometimes has free will in taking a third card. In particular if the player has a 5, and the banker does not have a natural, the player has the choice to take a third card of stand pat. The following table shows the possible outcomes by standing and hitting a five in an eight-deck game.
If the player hits a five the player bet has a 1.2506% advantage. If the player stands pay on a five the player bet has a 2.4713% disadvantage. If the player always were to stand on five the house advantage of each bet over all possible hands would be as follows.
So I hope I have made the case the player should hit on five. If the player were to do this the odds on the overall game would be the same as in baccarat. As always I am open to arguments if someone believes any analysis of mine to be in error. However I do not wish to hear anybody quoting the Chemin de Fer scene in the James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only. As the link will show that scene had at least two mistakes, and in my opinion makes almost no sense at all. 
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