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John Grochowski Gaming Guru - Page 150  Improbable Things Happen in Casinos23 August 2005
Improbable things happen in casinos every day, just because there are so many trials.
Being dealt blackjacks on consecutive hands is a 440-1 shot, but it'll happen pretty often in a casino that deals tens of thousands of hands a day. Drawing a royal flush in video poker is about a 40,000-1 shot. But ... (read more)
Should I Bet the Caribbean Stud Progressive?21 August 2005
"Well, should I or shouldn't I?"
The voice belonged to Mark, who had attended a couple of seminars I'd given. I'd seen him in casinos a couple of times before. This time, he was sitting at a Caribbean Stud table as I was passing, checking out available games and table limits.
I stopped and asked what it was he should or shouldn't do.
... (read more)
Texas Hold'em and Penny Slots: Both Hot16 August 2005
Texas Hold'em and penny slot machines may seem like they're on the opposite ends of the casino spectrum, but they have a couple of things in common:
Both are hot. Very hot. And a few short years ago, both were not. Very not.
Until televised poker --- World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, Celebrity ... (read more)
Should I Quit While I'm Ahead?14 August 2005
Question. I had a typical day at the casino not long ago. I won a little money at the blackjack table, then I piddled it away a little at a time -- 20 bucks on a slot machine, another 20 at video poker, then I went back to blackjack and lost a little more. The bottom line is that instead of winning a ... (read more)
Bonus Hand Triple Play Poker9 August 2005
Each year at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, I check out new games by the dozens. And each year months pass before I actually see the games on casino floors.
So when I spotted a game called Bonus Hand Triple Play Poker during a stroll through Empress Joliet, the name seemed familiar, but I was a little shaky on the details.
... (read more)
Video Poker in Ontario, Detriot and Chicago2 August 2005
Experienced video poker players tend to be a selective lot, always looking for the best deal. So it was no great shock when after the Frank Scoblete Gamblers Jamboree at Casino Windsor in May, I received a handful of e-mails asking the same question:
"What are the video poker pay tables like at Windsor? ... (read more)
Video Poker Improvements at Resorts East Chicago30 July 2005
It seems Mark Kashuda and I are becoming video poker comrades in arms. He wants to offer games that will attract players. I'm only to happy to make suggestions.
Kashuda, who is now director of slot operations at Resorts East Chicago, asked me to look over his video poker floor. He'd made some upgrades ... (read more)
Choosing What You Play26 July 2005
Casino games come in all shapes and sizes, from craps'
rectangular layout to the horseshoe-shaped blackjack tables to traditional
upright slot machines to the Death Star towering over the floor on Star Wars
video slots.
The house edge comes in all shapes and sizes, too. A
blackjack player who knows ... (read more)
The "State of the States" in Gambling Survey22 July 2005
The annual "State of the States" survey from the American Gaming Association arrived in the mail recently, bringing the usual compendium of statistics and survey results on who gambles, where they play, how many jobs are created and how much tax revenue is produced by the gaming industry.
Most of the results will look familiar to anyone who has seen such surveys before. ... (read more)
Technology on the Slot Floor19 July 2005
That technology has advanced on the slot floor is obvious every time we watch the Wheel of Fortune spin, or drop our lines into the water in Reel 'Em In Cast for Cash, or save Nell in the Rocky and Bullwinkle slots.
None of that would have been possible a decade ago, when playing the slots meant watching ... (read more)
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