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John Robison Gaming Guru - Page 11  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)
Ask the Slot Expert: 86ed at supermarket?13 November 2024
I recently did something at the supermarket that has gotten players into trouble at casinos when they did something similar. I wondered whether I was going to suffer any consequences.
My cousin drove me to my colonoscopy. The Albertsons I shop at was on the way home. She asked if it was okay to stop. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: There is no magic in a slot machine6 November 2024
When I was about 10 or 11, my best friend and I were very interested in magic. There was a store that sold magic tricks a few towns away from where we lived.It wasn't quite as impressive as Iong's magic shop in Now You See Me 2, but it was definitely much closer than Macau. We got all of our tricks there. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Ranking video poker gimmicks30 October 2024
Nevada has a contentious ballot question this election. I can't escape the ads for and against the measure on TV. Each week I get a couple of mailers on either side in the mail.
The measure has two aspects. One is an open primary. The argument for the measure is that Independents cannot vote in a closed primary. ... (read more)
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