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John Grochowski Gaming Guru - Page 142  A Shuffle Through the Gaming Mailbag27 February 2007
Question. What percentage of blackjack players do you think are counting cards? Half? I just wonder, when I see players splitting 6s against a 10. They can't be counting cards.
Answer. I doubt that half of blackjack players in casinos have studied a basic strategy chart, let alone count cards. I'd put the number of card counters at less than 1 percent of the blackjack-playing population. ... (read more)
Holding two pair in bonus poker deluxe20 February 2007
I was sitting at a video poker machine, just minding my own business and waiting for four of a kind to come, when the couple next to me started talking strategy.
She was playing Bonus Poker Deluxe and was dealt a pair of Jacks and a pair of 5s, along with a 3.
"What do you do with this?" she asked. ... (read more)
Playing a pair of 9s in blackjack13 February 2007
If you're a blackjack player, and have never looked at a basic strategy table, you should.
It's a tidy little grid, with possible player hands down the side, and possible dealer face-up cards across the top. Find the rectangle directly across from your hand, and directly down from the dealer's, and the ... (read more)
Batting 520 isn't good enough in sports betting6 February 2007
My friend Bob is a sports nut, and most of all he's a football nut.
He also likes to have a few dollars riding on the games. During the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, he's in his glory, checking out the point spread on this game and the over/under on that.
"I've never understood," he said. ... (read more)
A shuffle through the gaming mailbag: Guaranteed play video poker30 January 2007
Q. I was interested in Guaranteed Play Video Poker. You wrote that players are guaranteed a set number of hands, and said you got 100 hands for a $20 buy-in. How will casinos make up for that guarantee? Will they cut the pay tables way down?
Answer. For a game we probably won't see until late spring or early summer, Guaranteed Play seems to have struck a nerve. ... (read more)
Timing is everything23 January 2007
They say timing is everything, and in late December I had one of those happy accidents of timing.
I'd asked Anthony Curtis, who publishes the monthly Las Vegas Advisor and some of the best gambling books around in addition to being a blackjack tournament player of the first order, to guest on my weekly "Casino Answer Man" radio show (usually 7 p.m. ... (read more)
2006 Global Gaming Expo Report - Part 716 January 2007
When table games designers show their latest and greatest each year at the Global Gaming Expo, the games tend to fall into two categories: games based on blackjack, and games based on stud poker.
Ya Awada of Gaming Entertainment Inc. doesn't shy from either of those categories, with his 3-5-7 Poker and High-Tie Blackjack being among the games that have found casino niches. ... (read more)
2006 Global Gaming Expo report - part 69 January 2007
If any walk through a casino slot floor wasn't convincing enough, the annual Global Gaming Expo sends one message loud and clear: IGT is the king of video poker.
In my reports from G2E, I've written about Guaranteed Play Video Poker and a number of new Multi-Strike games, all distributed by IGT. ... (read more)
2006 Global Gaming Expo Report - Part 52 January 2007
When you're hot you're hot, and multi-level progressive slot machines are hot. Slots with mechanical reels, long in a cooling period, are hot again. And casinos expect server-based gaming will heat up fast.
Those are among the casino industry trends slot manufacturers worked to enhance with their new products introduced at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. ... (read more)
2006 Global Gaming Expo Report - Part 426 December 2006
Once a year, I travel 1,800 miles to run into some local guys.
Or so it seems. One of the pleasures of the annual Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas is seeing the guys from Leading Edge Design --- president and CEO Larry DeMar along with Steven DeMar and Steven Katz --- and seeing what new fun they've ... (read more)
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