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Ask the Slot Expert: Casinos banish birthday promotions

It looks like Covid is responsible for the extinction of another long-running promotion. Covid has already caused locals casinos to reassess their buffets. For the two largest players, Station Casinos has closed all of their buffets and Boyd has closed all but one. The one buffet Boyd reopened makes sense...read more

The Headless Chicken

Yes, I have seen a chicken, my wonderful Flo, with its head suddenly cut off by my grandma (Nana)Rose in 1950 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Where the entrance to the Verrazano Bridge is at 92nd street was where my grandmother’s house used to be. She was an immigrant with strong Italian ways, one of which was the occasional killing of chickens.The Verrazano Bridge wasn’t even a thought in those days...read more

Top 10 poker bluffing strategies

Poker is a game of deception. Poker bluffing is one of the most essential skills a player can have. If you can successfully bluff your opponents, you will win more hands than if you simply played good poker. This article will discuss some of the best bluffing strategies you can use to win poker.Here is my list of top 10 bluffing strategies:10...read more

First Royals

If you play video poker often enough and long enough, even big hands like royal flushes run together.After millions of hands and dozens if not hundreds of royals, frequent players don't remember them all.But some hands are special. They are clear as day in memory even if they happened decades ago...read more

Video Poker Strategy Charts

Video poker players who want to obtain the best edge possible will practice the game at home on their computer or smartphone. This helps to train them to select the best possible hold for every hand.With practice many players play as high as 99 percent or more of their practice hands correctly...read more

Casino City’s Friday Five: Openings, sports betting and poker edition

By the end of 2024, Virginia will have a new casino in Danville and that process took a step in the right direction earlier this week when ground was broken on the property. This week, we also have a golf range opening as part of an iconic Las Vegas casino resort and an arcade coming to the Las Strip this fall...read more

Casino Friends

CINDY: There are some friends that we have gone to casinos with but these aren’t the friends we are writing about in this article.ABBY: No. We aren’t talking about friends from the neighborhood or former school chums that you get together with occasionally...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Video poker deja vu all over again

Question: Can you explain how continuous card shuffle machines work? I like playing 3-card poker. One casino has a shuffle machine and the other has a dealer shuffle the cards. I am wondering which has the best odds for the player? Answer: Continuous shuffle machines (CSM) don't actually shuffle the cards, at least not in the sense of having a little hamster inside who takes half the cards in each paw and does a Bridge Shuffle...read more

Don't Call Me Chicken!

Marty McFly (brilliantly played by Michael J. Fox) in the wonderful movie series “Back to the Future,” got to travel in time, both to the future and the past. He also got very (as in very, very, very) annoyed with anyone who would say or suggest he was a “chicken” of any kind.Calling McFly a chicken was an open and direct invitation for him to do something stupid...read more

Top 10 new online slots for August 2022

The World Series of Poker came and went during the summer months in Las Vegas and we saw Espen Jorstad take down the $10,000 Main Event title and haul in $10 million. While this tournament was happening, online providers and developers continued to announce new slot games for players.Here, we take a look at 10 new online slots since our last edition earlier this summer.10...read more