http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com Casino City Times is The Source for the latest gaming news, gaming strategy and gambling tips from the industry's leading experts. en-us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60451.html Casino aficionados often envision trends in the outcomes of games. From general phenomena such as machines or tables being hot or cold to specifics like black numbers dominating roulette hits, craps throws landing especially frequently on fives and nines, or video poker hands building toward a jackpot. Unless the game is biased in some way – for... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60451.html http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60450.html You can win or lose in a casino no matter what or how you play. This, because volatility – a measure of actual bankroll swings during the course of the action – swamps the house’s inherent mathematical edge or advantage over the statistically small numbers of coups comprising not only most sessions at tables or machines but also entire casino... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60450.html http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60449.html Some solid citizens visit casinos intending to risk modest bankrolls in shots at a day’s pay. They figure their prospects are decent if they set conservative profit targets and quit as soon as they reach or surpass them. This notion is generally correct. But it’s not the whole story. Ideally, were bets to have no edge, the probability of... Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60449.html http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60448.html It’s easy to follow the action on plain-vanilla single-line three-, four-, or five-reel slot machines. When the reels – physical or virtual – stop, you glance along the horizontal line across the middle of the window looking for winning combinations; these are generally multiple instances of identical symbols, such as three aardvarks, four... Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60448.html http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60447.html Blackjack card counters can get an advantage over the casino by raising their bets when favorable ranks dominate what remains to be dealt from a deck or shoe. Given the rules dealers must follow and the options available to players, the house has a small edge when ranks are uniformly distributed. If cards taken out of action in earlier rounds... Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60447.html http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60446.html Lay bets are wagers having greater probability of winning than losing, but payoffs less than the amount at risk. Craps has two major classes of these propositions. One class, available to players who bet Don’t Pass or Don’t Come, comprises the Odds they can lay after the point is established. The Odds are auxiliary wagers giving neither bettors... Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60446.html http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60190.html Luck affects the outcome of any gamble. It may favor the well-prepared, but is still what gambling is about. At one extreme, you can count cards at blackjack and have an advantage over the house or flip coins for even money with a 50-50 shot and no edge, and lose your shirt on either. At the other end of the spectrum, you can buy a lottery ticket... Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60190.html http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60189.html Gambling at a slot machine is a venture into terra incognita. The only map you have is a list of amounts paid for the various winning combinations, as delineated on what’s traditionally called the belly glass. You get no clues about the associated chances. And, absent this probability information, you can’t determine the key statistical parameters... Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60189.html http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60188.html Many casino games are characterized by multiple moments of truth. Craps has one whenever the shooter throws the dice. At blackjack, they occur every time a card is turned over – yours or the dealer’s. When you take whatever action you do, you could bust, losing then and there. If not, you’ll finish with a total between 11 and 21 and nervously... Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60188.html http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60187.html The strongest playable blackjack hand is 20 versus eight-up. Ignoring rounds in which the dealer has a blackjack, your expectation by standing with this combination is to win an average of 79.1 cents per dollar bet. Many players would assume a 20 to be their best total but would suppose it would be most favorable against a six, the card on which... Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST http://Krigman.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/60187.html