# Las Vegas form of Idiot's Delight Solitaire

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-form-of-idiots-delight-solitaire/201214>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 12, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-form-of-idiots-delight-solitaire/201214 "2003-09-12T15:19:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-form-of-idiots-delight-solitaire/201214/1 "2003-09-12T15:19:17Z")

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I play the game on the computer and have decided that the Las Vegas odds are way out of line or I am a really bad player. I don’t like the second alternative at all and favor the first.

In Las Vegas scoring you pay $1/card or $52 for the deck and get $5 for each card, starting with aces, that you put above the line. So far I must be at least $345,672 loser in two or three years of playing.

It looks to me like to make the game even the payoff should be $7 or $8 for each card above the line.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-form-of-idiots-delight-solitaire/201214/2 "2003-09-12T15:36:40Z")

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