GAMING GURUS: LATEST FROM OUR STRATEGY EXPERTS

Ask the Slot Expert(TM): More Wild Symbols Means More Excitement

John: Your info about reel strips was interesting, but you forgot one important point. Slot machine players want to get excited playing slots even if they do not win. It's hard to get excited playing a machine with just one wild symbol in each reel, regardless what the virtual reel comes up with. This is the reason why nearly everyone plays the triple double machines with a triple and double symbol on each reel...read more

Winning Can Make Slot Game a Favorite

Every slot player has a favorite game, one to seek out on each casino trip. Sometimes it's because the theme is particularly engaging, or because a bonus event is especially fun. But often, players like a game because they've won on it...read more

Top-10 things to remember while betting on the Preakness

Saturday's 137th running of the Preakness means different things for different people. For people looking for a big party, the Preakness is a place for people to drink heavily, hang out with Kegasus -- Lord of the Infield, listen to Maroon 5 and Whiz Khalifa and "get their Preak on" (I'm not kid...read more

WSOP prep: Tax implications of staking/profit-sharing agreements

The World Series of Poker is right around the corner, and thousands of poker players across the world will be making their annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas in pursuit of fortune, fame, and most importantly, a WSOP gold bracelet. This year, for the first time, a player from the Casino City Home Gam...read more

The Ultimate Gambling Math

There are always arguments between those who believe that math controls the long term outcome of casino games and those who believe something else controls the nature of these games. These "something else's" can be trends, psychic intuitions, psychokinesis, and fervent hope, among others. The fact is that no one has looked into the depths of gambling the way I am about to...read more

Should you toss a buck on longshots with high house advantage?

Some slot machines and bonus side bets at table games have extremely high payoffs with correspondingly low probabilities of success. In this sense, the jackpots are longshots. However, the wagers aren’t simply all-or-nothing affairs. Rather, they generally offer ranges of payoffs with chances of success that rise as the amounts in question fall...read more

Full Pay Bonus Poker Is Nearly As Good As Full Pay Jacks or Better

Casinos routinely change their inventory of slot machines. Usually this is done to add exciting new games or to eliminate games that aren't played enough. Video Poker games are also routinely changed. They are moved to different locations...read more

Spanish 21

The game of Spanish 21 was first introduced to Nevada casinos in 1995 by a casino management employee who was looking for a version of blackjack that might increase participation and spice things up with some new entertainment. He developed a variation of traditional 21 using what is called a Spanish deck, which has 48 cards in it...read more

Deal me in: Be “Put” off by this bet

Dear Mark: Some casinos offer a wager on the crap game called a “Put” bet; others do not. Should I be playing craps where they offer it, since it might be a bet that is favorable to the player? Rick K. A "Put" bet, Rick, is a seldom-played wager that you can make on the Pass line after a point is established...read more

Southland Park upgrades to the tune of $11 million

The Mississippi River Flood of a year ago devastated the gaming industry which shut down in Tunica but when that door closed another opened wider for Southland Park Gaming & Racing in West Memphis, AR., which escaped the water and suddenly was the only gaming spot available to ever-eager gambler...read more