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Donald Catlin Gaming Guru - Page 17  Hold Percentage, Can You Affect It?2 September 2000
If you are a regular reader of this column, then you are familiar with the notion of house edge. This idea was introduced a year ago in my July 1999 article, Right Question - Right Answer (Hopefully). As we saw there, and have seen many times in subsequent articles, the house edge is a viable statistic for ranking a casino game. ... (read more)
Odds and Ends2 August 2000
This month I am going to take a break from the mathematics and just discuss some odds and ends that relate to previous articles and a couple of opinions on staying in Las Vegas. To begin with, after my article last August about the Quick Draw promotion offered in November of 1997 by the New York ... (read more)
JackBlack9 July 2000
TD { smaller; } Here, as promised last month, is an analysis of a new casino game called JackBlack. This was one of four new games presented by Prime Table Games at last Fall's World Gaming Congress convention in Las Vegas. Though not yet in the casinos, I believe it will make it to the casino floor successfully. To see why I think so requires a bit of history. ... (read more)
Hit & Win3 June 2000
Last month I wrote about the first of three new casino games that were displayed at the fall gaming conference and exposition in Las Vegas and that I found to be interesting games. This month I want to describe a game called Hit & Win. This game is the brainchild of Derek Webb of Prime Table ... (read more)
High Country Poker6 May 2000
.reg { text-indent: 2em; } .eq { font-size: smaller; text-align: center; } .no { font-size: smaller; text-align: right; } At the World Gaming Congress and Expo that was held in Las Vegas in September of 1999 there was, as usual, a plethora of new gambling machines as well as several new table ... (read more)
Those 3-Card Straight Flushes in Let It Ride8 April 2000
.reg { text-indent: 2em; } .eq { font-size: smaller; text-align: center; } .no { font-size: smaller; text-align: right; } TD { font-size: smaller; } The casino game Let It Ride by Shuffle Master Gaming, Inc. enjoys a house edge of between two and three percent against a knowledgeable player and much more than that against other players. ... (read more)
Baccarat, Sort Of11 March 2000
.reg { text-indent: 2em; } .eq { font-size: smaller; text-align: center; } .no { font-size: smaller; text-align: right; } I recently received a letter from one of the readers of The New Chance and Circumstance about a variation of Baccarat; I have since learned that the game is called Bahamian Baccarat. ... (read more)
How Long is a Roll? - Part 26 February 2000
.reg { text-indent: 2em; } .eq { font-size: smaller; text-align: center; } .no { font-size: smaller; text-align: right; } Last month we faced the question of determining the average number of rolls in a Craps hand. Recall that the answer was just over eight and a half rolls. This month I want ... (read more)
How Long is a Craps Roll?5 January 2000
.reg { text-indent: 2em; } .eq { font-size: smaller; text-align: center; } .no { font-size: smaller; text-align: right; } .hd { font-size: smaller; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; } In this article and next month's article I want to look at a question that gets kicked around the Craps table now and then. ... (read more)
Cardano Revisited1 December 1999
.reg { text-indent: 2em; } .eq { font-size: smaller; text-align: center; } .no { font-size: smaller; text-align: right; } In my June 1999 column, Cardano's Gaff Lives On, I looked at a letter sent in to Marilyn vos Savant's popular column, Ask Marilyn, which appears every Sunday in Parade ... (read more)
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