Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 130

Video Poker Pairs

QUESTION: In video poker, is one high pair more valuable than another? Are you better of with two Jacks, Queens, Kings or Aces? Are two Jacks with 9-5-3 better or worse than two Kings with 9-5-3?What if you have two high pairs, something like King-King, Queen-Queen and a 9? If two pairs just gets me my money back and a high pair also gets me my money back, I’ve been holding just one pair...read more

Beating the Slots

Today’s modern casino slot machines are all-electronic, offering a multitude of betting options and CD-quality sound along with fabulous designs. They come in countless variety of sizes, types, and shapes, including sit-down, stand-up, one-line, two-line, three-line, five-line, three-reel, four-reel, five-reel, and big-bertha types.If this is not enough for you, there are video slots that will take up to 25 coins and feature multi-win lines...read more

Comparison of Slots and Tables

Despite visible differences, slot machines are more similar to table games than most players realize,Both slots and tables give the house an edge by paying winners less than true odds. Both set odds of the game to drive random results toward an anticipated average, with winning and losing streaks as part of normal probability.Player can have trouble visualizing all that, or so my email tells me...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: What will Vegas's casinos be like in August?

Question: Hi, John, from casino-free New York. None are open and I feel the pain. Budget going farther though. Hopefully I will have my day of fun again soon. Answer: My non-advantage player friends agree with you -- their budgets are going farther...read more

The Ups and Downs

You are a $10 blackjack player and you buy in for $300 and go about your business trying to beat the house. You know the computer derived basic strategy and you use it exclusively. You do not have an edge over the game but it is a close contest with the casino – you might be facing about a one-half percent house advantage and that isn’t bad at all.Today things are going quite well...read more

Online Blackjack Strategy

QUESTION: I’ve been able to play blackjack for money online during the shutdown, and it’s been really helpful to have a basic strategy card right there while I play. No more mistakes! It’s helping me learn, too. On the hands that have always seemed like close calls to me, I’m remember the right play before I look a lot more often than I used to.Some of the plays still seem unnatural to me...read more

How to Pick the Right Video Poker Machine

While a vast majority of casino players enjoy playing slot machines, savvy players tend to choose video poker as their casino game.There are sound reasons for this.Slot players simply insert some money in the machine and push a button or pull a handle...read more

Slots and Tables

Slot machines have more similarities to table games than many players realize. Odds and the house edge work in much the same way: Games are designed so that random results and normal probability will work toward an expected house edge.Slots and tables have their differences, too...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Why do some ticket redemption machines always give me twenties?

Question: Why do the ticket redemption machines in some casinos always give you five $20 bills when it could have given you one $100 bill? Answer: That's one of my pet peeves about redeeming tickets at a machine. If I want $20 bills, I can break a $100 bill...read more

Do Something Else Too

Very few people who go to casinos do anything else other than gambling. True, some will enjoy the buffets, the dinners and some will go to the shows. But the purpose of a visit to a casino is to gamble because one can go to buffets, dinners and shows without ever travelling to a casino.I think the opposite...read more