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• Lightning Craps (31 May 2014)
• Is There a True Winning Betting System for Craps? (15 February 2014)
• More Lottery Nonsense (11 January 2014)
• Ships, Captain and Crew Part One (30 November 2013)
• All Tall and All Small at Craps (10 August 2013)
• Odds Once Again (27 July 2013)
• The Number of Craps Rolls (1 June 2013)
• Lottery Nonsense (16 February 2013)
• Riding the Waves of Winning (8 December 2012)
• Counting the Pass Line And Cows (22 September 2012)
• A Blackjack Question? (5 August 2012)
• Laying the Odds - Again (1 July 2012)
• Be Secure (3 June 2012)
• Three Card Flushes (6 May 2012)
• Tom and Ray's Proposition Bet (8 April 2012)
• Tossing Aces in 9/6 Jacks (11 March 2012)
• Lay Bets Revisited (5 February 2012)
• What About the Player? (1 January 2012)
• All Lay Bet Strategies Are Not Equal (4 December 2011)
• Cardano Again (20 November 2011)
• Ruin Again: Part 3 – Blackjack (2 October 2011)
• Ruin Again: Part 2 - Classic Random Walk (4 September 2011)
• Ruin Again: Part 1 - Feedback (7 August 2011)
• Pass Versus Place (3 July 2011)
• Blackjack Ruin Again (19 June 2011)
• An Optimal Craps Wager (1 May 2011)
• Taking Advantage of an Advantage: Part 3 – Kelly Betting (3 April 2011)
• Taking Advantage of an Advantage: Part 2 - How Not To (6 March 2011)
• Taking Advantage of an Advantage: Part 1: Introduction, References (6 February 2011)
• All Small - All Tall - All or Nothing (1 January 2011)
• Bowling (3 December 2010)
• Hand Wringing Hands in 9/6 Jacks (12 November 2010)
• Winning Craps (1 October 2010)
• Free Buy Bet (3 September 2010)
• $3 Craps versus $5 Craps (6 August 2010)
• Beat Blackjack Now (2 July 2010)
• Correction to Homework - Part 2 (20 June 2010)
• Homework - Part 2 (11 June 2010)
• Homework - Part 1 (2 May 2010)
• Another Lottery Question (3 April 2010)
• Penney's Game (6 March 2010)
• The Fire Bet (13 February 2010)
• Vegas Visit (2 January 2010)
• The End of a Story (5 December 2009)
• Weak Three-Card Straight Flushes in 9/6 Jacks (1 November 2009)
• A Royal Dilemma (4 October 2009)
• At Risk or In Play? (6 September 2009)
• Take Down the Eight on the Comeout? (14 August 2009)
• How Many Decks? (3 July 2009)
• Parrondo's Paradox (5 June 2009)
• Interpreting House Edge, Part II (2 May 2009)
• Interpreting House Edge, Part I (3 April 2009)
• Wild Six Card Draw Poker (6 March 2009)
• Three Card Poker Strategy (6 February 2009)
• Misreading the Law (of Averages) (2 January 2009)
• A Slick Proposition Bet (5 December 2008)
• 7 Point 7 (7 November 2008)
• Polya's Urn Scheme (3 October 2008)
• A ruin question (5 September 2008)
• Three from Four Poker Rankings (2 August 2008)
• The Horn Bet (5 July 2008)
• Deal or No Deal Revisited (1 June 2008)
• Soft Doubling - Part 2 (11 May 2008)
• Soft Doubling - Part 1 (4 April 2008)
• Questions from the mailbag (8 March 2008)
• A Blackjack Ruin Problem (1 February 2008)
• A Myth Comes to Life - Maybe (4 January 2008)
• Odds (8 December 2007)
• Mailbag (2 November 2007)
• Blackjack Variance (5 October 2007)
• Picking the Right Slot (2 September 2007)
• An Interesting Question about Toking (3 August 2007)
• New bet in Detroit (1 July 2007)
• Video Poker at the Palms (1 June 2007)
• Lay Bets (4 May 2007)
• Those Pesky Low Pairs in 9/6 Jacks (6 April 2007)
• Speed count revisited (2 March 2007)
• Frugal Video Poker (The Book) (2 February 2007)
• What Goes Around... (5 January 2007)
• Sample size (3 December 2006)
• Good Deal? (5 November 2006)
• Video Poker in Downtown Las Vegas (1 October 2006)
• The Liberty Bell and the Liberty Belle: An Interview with Marshall Fey (Part 2) (2 September 2006)
• The Liberty Bell and the Liberty Belle: An Interview with Marshall Fey - Part I (5 August 2006)
• Martha, Here's Craps - Part 2 (1 July 2006)
• Martha, Here's Craps - Part 1 (3 June 2006)
• Gambling Down Under (6 May 2006)
• Sixteen Versus Seven (1 April 2006)
• Playing for Comps (4 March 2006)
• Golden Touch Craps (4 February 2006)
• Is Craps the Best Game? (8 January 2006)
• Selling Dreams (3 December 2005)
• Length of a Craps Roll - Again! (4 November 2005)
• Money Management (1 October 2005)
• Slot Answers (3 September 2005)
• Table Comps at the Las Vegas Hilton (6 August 2005)
• Frequency Frustration (3 July 2005)
• Some Gambler's Ruin Questions - Part 2 (4 June 2005)
• Some Gambler's Ruin Questions (1 May 2005)
• Flush Meandering (15 April 2005)
• Three Card Poker Rankings (6 March 2005)
• Keno (13 February 2005)
• Combinations (2 January 2005)
• Mind Play? Maybe Not (4 December 2004)
• Royals and Flushes (8 November 2004)
• Zzyzx (4 October 2004)
• Playing the Soft Eighteen (4 September 2004)
• Grit Your Teeth and Go For It (1 August 2004)
• Know When to Fold'em (3 July 2004)
• The Five Count (6 June 2004)
• Why Dealer Qualification Works (2 May 2004)
• Blackjack Speed Count (4 April 2004)
• Those Frustrating Low Pairs (6 March 2004)
• Frugal Video Poker (2 February 2004)
• Lottery Nonsense (3 January 2004)
• Rhythmic Rolling and the Gambler's Jamboree (13 December 2003)
• Laying the Odds (2 November 2003)
• Taking Odds in Craps (4 October 2003)
• The Pass Line (1 September 2003)
• Blackjack Tournament Play: What's Luck Got to Do With It? (2 August 2003)
• Oops! (16 July 2003)
• Four Card Poker Paradox (5 July 2003)
• Million Dollar Video Poker (7 June 2003)
• Mensa Mystery (4 May 2003)
• Multiline Mathematics (6 April 2003)
• Mailbag (3 March 2003)
• City Picks, Euler, and the Ditsy Coat Check Girl (2 February 2003)
• Sharpshooter (5 January 2003)
• All Deck Orderings - How Long Does It Take? (4 November 2002)
• Where Are Those Straight Flushes? (6 October 2002)
• Dealing Out Advice (1 September 2002)
• Thank you, Barney Vinson (2 August 2002)
• Non-Random Randomness - Part 2: Innocent Until Proven Guilty (11 July 2002)
• Non-Random Randomness - Part 1 (1 June 2002)
• Non-Random Randomness - Part 1 (1 June 2002)
• Mohegan Sun (5 May 2002)
• Playing the Soft 18 (7 April 2002)
• Intuition Led Astray (3 March 2002)
• Video Poker Sure Isn't Poker (3 February 2002)
• Odds and Ends Plus G2E (3 January 2002)
• Progressive Blackjack à la Wildhorse (2 December 2001)
• Fundamentalism (20 September 2001)
• Sic Bo and Beyond (2 September 2001)
• Calculating Dice Sum Frequencies (17 August 2001)
• Remembering John Gwynn (1 July 2001)
• Calculating the House Edge in Let It Ride (3 June 2001)
• Let It Ride (Again) (6 May 2001)
• Insurance (1 April 2001)
• Four Card Poker? I Don't Think So (4 March 2001)
• Did The Professor Screw Up? (4 February 2001)
• Shuffle Trackers: Try Goin' Crazy (21 January 2001)
• Casino War (3 December 2000)
• Remembering Peter Griffin (5 November 2000)
• Calculating a Hold Percentage (1 October 2000)
• Hold Percentage, Can You Affect It? (2 September 2000)
• Odds and Ends (2 August 2000)
• JackBlack (9 July 2000)
• Hit & Win (3 June 2000)
• High Country Poker (6 May 2000)
• Those 3-Card Straight Flushes in Let It Ride (8 April 2000)
• Baccarat, Sort Of (11 March 2000)
• How Long is a Roll? - Part 2 (6 February 2000)
• How Long is a Craps Roll? (5 January 2000)
• Cardano Revisited (1 December 1999)
• Independence Day (3 November 1999)
• Double Bonus - Break Up Those Pairs? (2 October 1999)
• An Ear Full of Cider (16 September 1999)
• Oh, New York, Bring Back Those Big Dippers (1 August 1999)
• Right Question - Right Answer (Hopefully) (7 July 1999)
• Are Two Hands Better than One? (16 June 1999)
• Cardano's Gaff Lives On (26 May 1999)