Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 123

Craps Betting Systems

Craps is a great casino game. It is a social game. Players cheer for other players to make their point (because it is also their point).Craps also has a seemingly unlimited number of possible bets. There are pass line bets, don’t pass bets, as well as come and don’t come bets...read more

Cutting Losses

QUESTION: I was faced with a Mississippi Stud hand that I had some doubts about.My first two cards were 7 and 9 of spades. I made a 1x bet because the strategy says to be equal to your ante if you have at least two points in the first two cards.The first common card turned up was an 8 of spades...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: The Cash Out-Fake-Out

Have you ever been fooled by the Cash Out-Fake Out? There's someone's playing a machine and, for whatever reason, you really wish they weren't. Maybe you want to play that machine. Maybe they have a behavior that annoys you. I can't think of anything a slot player has done that annoyed me, but there are some things video poker players have done that I have found irksome...read more

Interview with a Slot Machine

This web site tells you a lot about slot machines but it is almost always from the vantage point of the people who play the machines. I want to know what the machines think; so I decided to interview one. In this exclusive interview you’ll get insider information never-before revealed to the general public.Frank: Welcome to our exclusive interview Mr...read more

The Pass Line Rules

I've often had questions from new craps players wondering why don't pass bettors can take down their wagers after the comeout while pass players can. But I've never seen a player make an issue of it at a table.I received an email from Alan, a reader who says he has seen someone make a fuss of it.Let's let Alan tell his story, then also hear out Carol who says she saw someone try to have a little fun with masks until a rebuke by casino employees.ALAN: Craps table, there was a guy who was betting don't pass and don't come...read more

Final Progressions for 2020

[Many gambling pundits advocate betting progressions as a method to increase winnings – or conversely to reduce losses. This advice holds for the game of craps if the shooter is a controlled shooter. This means the shooter can reduce the occurrence of 7’s or increase the occurrence of other point numbers from random.Against a random shooter, there is no betting method that will improve the lot of the gambler at a craps table...read more

Changing a VP Game

QUESTION: I love video poker, but I'm torn. I play mostly Double Double Bonus because I like the four-Ace jackpots. I got four Aces and a 3 the first time I ever played, and that was $500 on a quarter machine. That's half a royal!I don't really like Jacks or Better because you can't win much if you don't get a royal...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: More on casino procedures and cash sanitization

Question: With regards to the question of whether cash is sanitized in casinos, or anywhere else for that matter, here is my thought process. Just imagine how many stripper’s butts (male and female) that bill has been in and that should have you running to the restroom to thoroughly wash your hands! Washing hands is always the first step to avoid infections of all types in and out of the casinos...read more

Dear Santa

Dear Santa:It’s me again. Many years ago when I was nine, which come to think of it was 64 years ago!, I wrote you and asked for a new baseball glove and to be able to run, hit and throw like Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees. You must have forgotten about me then so I forgot about you for all these years since then.But now I believe you exist and that with your work load I just slipped through the cracks of your memory...read more

Some New Table Game Options

I last checked in with Brent Weiss two years ago when he was having early success with his table game Classic 31.Weiss is president of Money$uit Industries LLC, and I contacted him again recently when I found a demo for his new bonus wager, Empty the Rack Blackjack...read more