Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 104

Refresher Blackjack

Blackjack Bob's phone call arrived almost as if on cue."Are you ready to get back to the battle yet?" he asked.I'd been out of action, taking care of personal business for nearly two months. I'd not played a hand of blackjack or video poker, rolled the dice or pushed a slot machine button...read more

Which Casino Game for You?

In 2019 (the last full year without the impact of COVID-19) Roughly 100 million adults visited U.S. casinos. That is a whole lot of people.While not all visitors actually participated in the games on the casino floors, a vast majority of them did...read more

Is Learning Easy?

CINDY: What is the toughest thing in starting a casino playing career? Maybe not the word “career,” I mean just learning the games and such.ABBY: I think you have to learn all about the game or games you wish to play or liked to play the first time you went and found the experience interesting...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Buffets? Just say no

Question: We never eat at buffets. Have you ever seen the way people pick over the food, get close to the food and cough, sneeze and wheeze in the line? No thanks. Answer: Close to the food? I've been to buffets where the sneeze guards made it nearly impossible to get to the victuals...read more

Building a Bigger Bankroll

It is no secret that many casino players wish they could play for bigger stakes. The $10 player might want to be a $25 player and the $25 player might want to be a $50 player and the $50 player might want to be a $100 player and so on up the line.The motivation for such a desire could be many fold; the desire to be treated as a high roller, the desire to get better comps, the desire of having a host that caters to you...read more

Losing Ain't Easy

QUESTION: I don’t mean to be offensive but you never write about losing. Meaning you being the person who is losing. You can’t possibly win every time you go to the casinos; so, what gives? I would think someone who has been writing about casino play for as long as you have would certainly have experienced losing sessions...read more

The Lottery

The Lottery is a very old form of gambling. Lotteries became the US government standard method of raising funds for public works and higher educational institutions like Yale and Harvard.Today, half of the states (including Washington DC, American Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico) have lotteries and over 50 countries around the world also have them...read more

Play It Right: Slots

CINDY: Without hiding anything my dear sister, how often do you play slots?ABBY: Maybe ten percent of my time in the casinos. I usually do so when I am somewhat tired and don’t want to stand at a craps table or be at a blackjack table with annoying players...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Four ways to determine the result of a spin on a slot machine

This week let's take a look at four ways the results of a spin on a slot machine can be determined. The first and oldest (and probably most prevalent) method is the Random Number Generator (RNG), the digital implementation of the method used in the mechanical and electro-mechanical slots that ruled the slot floor until the computer-controlled slots took over...read more

Strange Attractors

Chew on this: “In the mathematical field of dynamical systems, an attractor is a set of numerical values toward which a system tends to evolve, for a wide variety of starting conditions of the system. System values that get close enough to the attractor values remain close even if slightly disturbed.” …WikipediaClearly I have little knowledge of what this actually means except that things are attracted to each other in math and in actual areas of life such as economics and perhaps in casino gambling...read more