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John Robison Gaming Guru - Page 53  Ask the Slot Expert: The difference between house hold and house edge12 October 2016
Question: I have a question about casino hold as it relates to table games versus slot machines.
According to UNLV the average hold in Nevada for table games (21, baccarat, craps, roulette) is 11 to 19 percent.
The average statewide hold for slots is only five to seven percent.
Every article I've ever read advises me to play table games because of the low house edge compared to slots. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: A Spin Poker machine spun a card already dealt4 October 2016
Question: A question for you about Spin Poker machines and the way they display the cards on the video screen.
Do they display the real cards that are possible to draw when it is spinning or only something like a movie of random cards until the spinning reels lock and reveal the true hand you have been ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: A Spin Poker machine spun a card already dealt4 October 2016
Question: A question for you about Spin Poker machines and the way they display the cards on the video screen.
Do they display the real cards that are possible to draw when it is spinning or only something like a movie of random cards until the spinning reels lock and reveal the true hand you have been ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Where have all the slot floorpeople gone?28 September 2016
Question: I was a long-term player at Harrah’s in Atlantic City, mostly
every weekend for six years from 2001 to 2007. During this
time I was very friendly with much of the staff, including the VP. I was a Seven Star Player, which is their highest-rated player.
During those years, jackpots rang constantly
and about 30 employees did hand payouts for the
above $1,199 hits. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Completing flushes on multi-hand video poker21 September 2016
Question: I like to play Ten-Play video poker. It seems like I should get two or three flushes each time I hold a 4-card flush -- ten hands divided four suits is 2.5 hands. There are so many times that I get only one flush -- or none -- that I think my average is much lower.
Answer: It seems like you have a 1-in-4 chance of completing the flush, but that's not the case. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: The worst video poker instruction tape14 September 2016
You may have seen the recent announcement that the last company making VHS videocassette recorders discontinued making the units. I discovered the limited availability of new VHS VCRs last year when I needed to buy a new deck for converting old tapes to digital files.
I recently started converting some of ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Are slot paybacks higher in Las Vegas' locals casinos?7 September 2016
Question: Do the local casinos' slots in Las Vegas have better payback percentages than those in the casinos on the strip?
Answer: Yes. And no. How's that for a definitive answer?
According to the slot payback page at the American Casino Guide's website, the payback percentages reported for The ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: The video poker payback inversion31 August 2016
In 1789 in a letter to French scientist Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, Benjamin Franklin wrote, "...in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Had he lived in the 20th century, Franklin could have added a third certainty: long-term payback rises with denomination.
Actually, Franklin didn't coin the phrase and long-term payback doesn't always rise with denomination. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: A missed big payday on Triple Play Super Pay?24 August 2016
Question: Do slots spin the same no matter how many coins you put in? In other words, if you hit a jackpot on one coin, would that same spin have produced a jackpot if you had played three coins?
Answer: The random number generator (RNG) in a modern slot machine runs continuously. The program running ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Fault tolerance in slot clubs and slot machines17 August 2016
I had two potentially distressing events happen to me this past week while playing video poker. Both events show the high degree of fault tolerance built into slot machines and slot club systems.
The first event occurred at Red Rock Casino on Wednesday. I was just a few thousand points short of achieving President level in the Station Casinos Boarding Pass slot club. ... (read more)
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