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John Grochowski Gaming Guru - Page 137  Timely Tax Advice for Gamblers5 February 2008
I think I've heard more tales of big wins from Jean Scott and her husband Brad than from anyone I know. Big tournament wins, big video poker hands, even a BIG stuffed gorilla they once won in a promotional drawing.
The latest big one came in late November, when Brad hit the button a quarter Hundred Play video poker machine, and up popped, in order, Ace-10-Jack-King-Queen of hearts. ... (read more)
A Shuffle Through the Gaming Mailbag29 January 2008
Q. What do you think about "free play" instead of cash back on your rewards cards? The casino where I go has started doing it that way. I have to play with my rewards. I can't just take the money home.
A. You've mentioned the primary drawback of free play, from a player's standpoint. From the casino's standpoint, that's the primary advantage. ... (read more)
G2E 2007, Part 8: Electronic Table Games22 January 2008
Time was that slots were slots and tables were tables and never the twain did meet.
There was a tiny bit of crossover in the handful of players who dabbled in video blackjack on single-player machines. But the key term there is "single-player." Table games are a social experience, one unavailable on ... (read more)
G2E 2007, part 7: What's new from Shufflemaster15 January 2008
For years, the two largest U.S. distributors of new table games have been Progressive Gaming Inc., with games such as Caribbean Stud Poker including progressive jackpots, and Shufflemaster Corp., with a collection of mostly poker-based games.
Earlier this year, Shufflemaster bought the table games portion of PGI's business, and that has brought new opportunity to the company. ... (read more)
G2E 2007, part 6: What's new in table games?8 January 2008
For me, no visit to the annual Global Gaming Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center is complete until I've had a chance to check out what's new at Ya Awada's Gaming Entertainment Inc. booth.
Awada, a former World Series of Poker no-limit seven-card stud champion, has a way with the tables, designing ... (read more)
G2E 2007, part 5: New slots from around the globe1 January 2008
Gaming is a worldwide industry these days, and so is providing the games people play in casinos. At November's Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, slot manufacturers from around the globe showed off their own innovations in the games we'll be playing in the coming year.
Before we move on to developments in ... (read more)
G2E 2007, Part 4: What's New at IGT?25 December 2007
Have you ever played video poker, drawn a hand like three 8s, a 5 and a 3, and thought, "Hey, that's four 8s --- 5 plus 3, right?"
I know I have, and apparently International Game Technology is thinking right along with players who harbor such wishful thinking.
The world's largest slot machine ... (read more)
G2E 2007, Part 3: What's New at AC Coin?18 December 2007
With games such as Monopoly Big Event from WMS Gaming and Wheel of Fortune Super Spin leading the way, "communal gaming" has moved alongside "time on device" among the hottest buzzwords in the slot machine industry.
At November's Global Gaming Expo, manufacturers from around the world jumped onto the ... (read more)
G2E 2007, Part 2: What's New from Bally?11 December 2007
In these days of bigger, better, brighter slot machines and increasing competition among manufacturers, it sometimes can be a kick just to see an executive having fun with his own product.
So it was as I stopped by the Bally Technologies booth at the 2007 Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, and had marketing ... (read more)
G2E 2007, Part 1: To Boldly Go Where No Slotmaker Has Gone Before4 December 2007
Slot machine technology is an expanding frontier. And WMS Gaming, with headquarters in Waukegan and a design lab in Chicago, has taken on a mission: To explore new technology. To create strange new game themes. To boldly go where no slotmaker has gone before.
Melodramatic? Certainly. But WMS has long been ... (read more)
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