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John Robison Gaming Guru - Page 8  Ask the Slot Expert: Big, beautiful bill bilks bettors30 July 2025
It was all over the news in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, but it may not have been as big a story on your local news. A provision in the big, beautiful bill (BBB) could cause gamblers to play less in casinos.
Obscurely placed in Section 70114, the new law removes the ability for gamblers to deduct 100% of their losses from their winnings from their income taxes. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Notes from my gaming legal pad23 July 2025
The headline caught my attention: "Suit: Wheel of Fortune slot bonus wheel rigged".
My first thought: Well, duh! (My first thought, actually, referenced a certain literary detective residing at 221B Baker Street.)
Read these quotes from the article in the Las Vegas Review Journal and see if you can find ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Increase line bet or denomination?16 July 2025
Question: I enjoyed your article about your Mo' Mummy experience.
On all slots, I tend to play the 2@1 option when I can...mainly because when my win shows up, I can multiply it by 2 and feel like I won a lot more.
My question is do you think my odds are better playing this way?
(I seldom play Mo' ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Mo' Mummy, No Problems9 July 2025
I'm a sucker for Egyptian-themed slot machines. A few weeks ago, I wrote about finding a new variation on a mummy-themed slot machine called Mo' Mo' Mo' Mummy. I had played Mo' Mummy in the past. I liked the cute, little mummy character who would show up every once a while. He's much friendlier than the mummy Brendan Fraser encountered or the mummy played by Boris Karloff. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Scamming a slot club1 July 2025
I finally got around to watching some of the movies I have recorded on my DVR. One of the movies was Hard Eight from 1996. In the first part of the movie, Sydney Brown, an experienced gambler, asks John Finnegan, an inexperienced gambler who has lost all of his money, if he wants to borrow $50 from Sydney and use it to get the casino to give him a room and a meal. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Slot machines are cold, I need points, and I'm broke25 June 2025
It's near the end of the first half of the year and time to ensure that I have earned enough points, tier credits -- or whatever the casino calls its metric that determines whether you qualify for an upper level in its slot club -- for those clubs that run on a six-month cycle.
Even though I live by the ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Double-entry accounting helps me find my record-keeping error18 June 2025
Einstein purportedly said that compound interest was one of man's greatest inventions. Or maybe he said that it is the most powerful force in the universe. Or maybe he called it the eighth wonder of the world. There is some controversy about what he said about compound interest -- if anything at all! -- ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: Another first royal story11 June 2025
Question: I loved your column about first Royals.
My story is slightly different (and I actually do not remember the date) but it's kind of funny anyway.
It was at the Holy Cow casino (previously Foxy's Firehouse), right across from the Sahara. I was playing nickel VP.
When I hit the Royal, the coins started spitting out. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: My first royal4 June 2025
Question: I don’t have a question. I just want to exercise my bragging rights for a moment.
I’ve read your column and those of your contemporaries over the years and one phrase always stuck in my brain. "I remember my first Royal."
I have wanted mine for so long that it almost seemed impossible, until April 16, 2025 on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. ... (read more)
Ask the Slot Expert: My slot machine malfunctioned!28 May 2025
When Station Casinos sold the Palms casino, two of the restaurants from Palms moved to Red Rock. The pizza outlet in the food court greatly improved when Side Piece opened there. The coffee shop also underwent a name and menu change, going from The Grand Cafe to The Lucky Penny, which used to be at Palms. ... (read more)
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