I don't like gambling but I thought I'd try out a casino offer at Captain Cooks casino. All you do is deposit money claim your bonus and then play for a few hours.

I can play Black jack (minutes to learn.. about an hour to master.. lol).I know the house advantage is less than 1% so you can expect to win about half the bonus.

At CC's I got confused about the T&C.. this is what happened

1] deposited $200 then claimed my $50 bonus
2] emailed support to clear up what I had to do to win the bonus There was no reply
3] Three emails later and nothing. So I withdrew my $200.( I did try to withdraw the lot but it wouldn't let me )
4] What can I do with the bonus $50?? Well I played three hands of BJ with it and it went down to $48.. Np- It was dead money anyway!
5]Methinks - I'm bored of BJ I'll go all-in (yeah, yeah wrong terminology..)Any way I double up to nearly $98 in one hand.
6) Still can't touch it because you need to play 3000 hands..
7) On CC's they have an Autoplay feature.I.e you set it up with your strategy and it plays all your hands..
8) I set the autoplay going:3000 hands later I returned to find that my $98 had turned into $164
9) Somewhat bemused as I'd just bet a load of money that wasn't mine I tried to cashout the lot - bonus and all...
10) I just got an email- I opened it expecting to be banned (I could live with that as I officially hate BJ now) to find out they had just dumped $164 in my Neteller account.....

Maybe I should give up poker....

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See me playing $10/$20NL like it was play money

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...405&q=xxdemexx

Doberman: "but Sarge, isn't poker gambling and just luck?"
Sgt. Bilko:" not the way I play it"

niiiice... i seem to be on the other end of that kind of luck lately hehe...

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is there a minimum deposit there? i dont have 200 to put in now.

Just curious, is that autoplay thing fast? Like does it play the 3,000 hands in a minute, or does it take the normal amount of time?

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you can only set it for 500 hands... so you do have to return - this does add an extra dimension to the complexity of the game . It takes about 20 minutes to do 500 hands.

I don't know what the minmum deposit is . I guess about $50 .. check the T&C...

If you do sign up DON'T say I referred you....lol... It's probably an immediate ban if you do...

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See me playing $10/$20NL like it was play money

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...405&q=xxdemexx

Doberman: "but Sarge, isn't poker gambling and just luck?"
Sgt. Bilko:" not the way I play it"

Now, what are your secret settings?

IMHO, couldn't somebody just program a bot to play for them? I mean.. can't you 'beat' BJ...?

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If you want the complete strategy for BJ set go here:

http://wizardofodds.com/blackjack

The 'secret' settings I used on the autoplay can be accessed by the following sequence.

1] go into expert mode (button on left hand side)
2] open up autoplay
3] It will then ask you if you want to use the default strategy ... click on 'YES'.

BUT don't tell anyone. Most BJ players obviously haven't worked this one out.

Always use the minimum bet possible.

In multipack BJ you're loking at 0.6% house advantage..i.e you can't beat it in the long term.

I single pack BJ Given options like surrender sand doubling after a split and with card counting you can get an advantage of 0.3%.I don't think you'll find a net casino that allows this.

What you see above is variance.. I was lucky.. I had a 2 in 3 chance of busting out.. but as it wasn't my money I didn't care.

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See me playing $10/$20NL like it was play money

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...405&q=xxdemexx

Doberman: "but Sarge, isn't poker gambling and just luck?"
Sgt. Bilko:" not the way I play it"

Is it all 6 deck BJ at Captain Cook?

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Its a matching bonus of up to 50 dollars. From what I gather it seems you can deposit just the 50 and then it looks like you get another 20 dollar bonus just for using NETeller.