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title: "Table games"
url: https://velagamingprime.com/archives/cat_table_games
description: "Entries filed under Table games: The baccarat scoring rule, explained slowly, Blackjack as an optimisation problem, Reading a craps layout."
published: 2026-08-19
updated: 2026-08-19
---

# Table games

Published 2026-08-19

3 entries filed under this category

## [The baccarat scoring rule, explained slowly](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2007/02/baccarat_scoring_rule.html)

Posted 14 February 2007 at 20:18

Baccarat looks opaque from the rail because its drawing rule is a table rather than a decision. Written out line by line, it is one of the simplest structures on any floor.

Posted in [Table games](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/cat_table_games.html) | [Permalink](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2007/02/baccarat_scoring_rule.html)

## [Blackjack as an optimisation problem](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2007/02/blackjack_as_optimisation.html)

Posted 3 February 2007 at 15:55

In the middle of the last century blackjack stopped being described as a game of judgement and started being described as a solved decision table. The shift is a nice illustration of what computation does to a problem.

Posted in [Table games](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/cat_table_games.html) | [Permalink](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2007/02/blackjack_as_optimisation.html)

## [Reading a craps layout](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2006/12/reading_a_craps_layout.html)

Posted 4 December 2006 at 13:22

The layout is dense, symmetrical and almost entirely legible once the arrangement of the printed regions is understood as a map of when each wager resolves.

Posted in [Table games](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/cat_table_games.html) | [Permalink](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2006/12/reading_a_craps_layout.html)