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Donald Catlin Gaming Guru - Page 16  Remembering John Gwynn1 July 2001
Approximately a year ago I wrote a piece on this site entitled Remembering Peter Griffin. Little did I realize that a year later I would be writing a similar article about Peter's friend and colleague John Gwynn. John Gwynn died on June 5th of this year. I do not know the cause of his death but it seems to me it was sudden. ... (read more)
Calculating the House Edge in Let It Ride3 June 2001
In last month's article I showed you how to derive the optimum strategy for playing the casino game Let it Ride. We did this with surprisingly few calculations. As I promised in that article, this month I am going to show you how to compute the house edge given that the player uses the strategy we developed. ... (read more)
Let It Ride (Again)6 May 2001
Last April I published a column called Those 3-Card Straight Flushes in Let It Ride on this web site. In it I showed the reader how to do the calculations that determine the correct strategy for playing straight flush hands on the first (three-card) hand of the game. In this article I would like to ... (read more)
Insurance1 April 2001
.reg { text-indent: 2em; } .eq { font-size: smaller; text-align: center; } .no { font-size: smaller; text-align: right; } Any of you who play Blackjack know that there is a bet called Insurance in the game. By no means is this bet a 'Piece of the Rock'. For the few of you who are not familiar with Blackjack (if any) let me describe the bet to you. ... (read more)
Four Card Poker? I Don't Think So4 March 2001
.reg { text-indent: 2em; } .eq { font-size: smaller; text-align: center; } .no { font-size: smaller; text-align: right; } The 2000 World Gaming Congress and Expo was held in Las Vegas this past October and was bigger than ever. New games seem to be coming out of the woodwork. Continuing the ... (read more)
Did The Professor Screw Up?4 February 2001
Which professor? Yes, I'm afraid the question refers to me. Here's the story. In October I flew to Las Vegas to attend the World Gaming Congress & Expo. The show was bigger than ever and there were lots of new games on display. I'll be writing about some of them in future articles, I'm sure. ... (read more)
Shuffle Trackers: Try Goin' Crazy21 January 2001
.reg { text-indent: 2em; } .eq { font-size: smaller; text-align: center; } .no { font-size: smaller; text-align: right; } I recently received a request from a gaming developer, one of my customers, to do an additional analysis on one of the bets in one of his card games. Specifically, he was ... (read more)
Casino War3 December 2000
.reg { text-indent: 2em; } .eq { font-size: smaller; text-align: center; } .no { font-size: smaller; text-align: right; } No, it's not a fight between Steve Wynn and Donald Trump. It's a casino game that was developed a few years ago by Dave Sugar, then of the Hacienda, ... (read more)
Remembering Peter Griffin5 November 2000
The 11th International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking was held this past June at the MGM Hotel in Las Vegas. This is an event that is held every three years and is organized and run by Bill Eadington and Judy Cornelius, the Director and Codirector of the Institute for the Study of Gambling ... (read more)
Calculating a Hold Percentage1 October 2000
.reg { text-indent: 2em; } .eq { font-size: smaller; text-align: center; } .no { font-size: smaller; text-align: right; } Last month, after explaining hold percentages, I remarked that there is no theoretical hold percentage for a game. I then went on to show the reason -- the whim of the player can affect the hold percentage. ... (read more)
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