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John Robison Gaming Guru - Page 10  Ask the Slot Expert: Video poker machine that paid all winning hands22 January 2025
Question: Your article on "Only highest winner paid" reminded me of a game that once existed many years ago called Multi-Pay video poker that did pay on all winning combinations. I forget who made it but I'm pretty sure that it wasn't IGT.
Answer: Ah, yes. I remember playing that machine.
The ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Only highest winner paid15 January 2025
Have you seen the notice on a slot or video poker machine saying something like "Only highest winner paid?"
Even though I've seen this notice on many (all?) slot machines, I can't think of an instance in which it is relevant.
Well, let me take that back. I sat here for about five minutes trying to think ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: New Year's Eve on the Las Vegas Strip8 January 2025
All the years I lived in New Jersey, I never went to Times Square to watch the ball drop. It wasn't easy to get into the city from where I lived. Despite having a large number of people commuting into New York, my line did not have direct service into the city. It was not electrified, so we had to switch ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Revisiting my NSU EV tables1 January 2025
This week I want to republish two EV charts with additional columns. I added two additional columns for each hold option. The extra columns make it easier to see how the different ending hands add up to the EV for the hold option. The two extra columns are the probability of hitting the ending hand and how ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: A hand I used to misplay in NSU25 December 2024
As I wrote in my column two weeks ago, I don't like giving up a paying hand to take a chance on a better-paying hand. That column was about giving up three-of-a-kind to go for a straight flush when playing NSU.
There's another situation in which I don't really care for the proper play. In this case, ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Why does an outside straight flush beat a pair in NSU?18 December 2024
When playing NSU, I always have to be careful when deciding whether to hold a pair or a 3-card straight flush. The pair usually beats the partial straight flush, but not always. If the straight flush is inside or double inside, I hold the pair. But if the straight flush is outside, it beats the pair. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Giving up a sure thing playing NSU11 December 2024
I always thought it was strange that you almost always hold any four cards to a straight flush over 3-of-a-kind in NSU when you have one deuce. For example, when dealt 2♣
6♥ 6♦ 9♦ 10♦, you would hold
2♣ 6♦ 9♦ 10♦ and go for the gusto and the straight flush and not hold the sure 3-of-a-kind (2♣
6♥ 6♦). ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Project Moon. Project Meh?4 December 2024
On April 11, 1970, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert left the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center atop a Saturn V rocket to go to the moon. Their mission, Apollo 13, did not go as planned. Jim Lovell describes the problems the flight and ground crews had to solve in his book Lost Moon.
Ron Howard used the book as the basis for his film Apollo 13. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: 86ed at movie theater?27 November 2024
In my column two weeks ago, I thought about how something I did at a supermarket has gotten players into trouble at a casino when they did the same thing.
What was my transgression? I let my cousin use my frequent shopper card when she made a purchase. (Backstory: She doesn't shop at this chain, so she didn't have an account of her own. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Big disappointment on the Big 6 Wheel20 November 2024
Question: The Horseshoe casino in central Indiana has a big 6 wheel. It Will consistently land on in bed or low pay numbers. After over 2oo landing on multiplier, it always resulted in the lowest 20 x. Always.
Answer: I published this letter without editing it because it might be using slang that I'm not familiar with. ... (read more)
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