Tejal Mahimkar

A woman in her thirties at a desk by a window, a tablet propped upright in front of her and large in the frame, its screen showing a dealer table on gold baize with two long rows of face-up cards, the upper row marked "Andar" and the lower row marked "Bahar" in large letters, one card set apart on the right, a printed sheet with a pencilled tally beside her hand, soft daylight

Role: Tables desk

Tejal writes about the tables themselves. Her view is that most of what decides a real-cash Andar Bahar session is settled before the first card: which studio's table you sit at, what it pays on each side, and which side bets you leave alone.

Real-cash Andar Bahar

What she covers

Table by table. Classic, Super and Ultimate versions, live and software, and the return each one publishes in its rules.
The live screen. The stream, the countdown, the betting spots and the history strip, and how to place a stake on a phone without a thumb slip.
The arithmetic. Why the first-dealt side takes 51.5% of hands, how long a hand runs, and how rarely the long card-count bands come in.

How she works

She reads the rules panel of each table rather than reviews of it, and counts hands with a real deck when a figure needs checking. When the printed return of two tables differs, she prints both and says which costs the player more.

Pages by Tejal

Tejal Mahimkar writes under a pen name for the site's tables desk. She does not work for any studio or casino platform.