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Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 140
Manners at slot machines22 October 2019 Unlike games such as blackjack, where some players think they are obliged to tell you how to play your hands, even if these “experts” have no real idea of the correct basic strategy; or craps, where players dislike it when other players take care with their rolls; or roulette, where players bump your hand as you are trying to make your bets so they can make their bets; or baccarat, with its players who stare and fume if they are playing the opposite of the hands you are playing because you are winning your hands and they are losing their hands; the slot world does have its mores and manners.Here are some: Do not play more than one machine if the casino is crowded and people are waiting to play...read morePass and don't pass simultaneously20 October 2019 Craps players have tried betting combinations as long as the game has been around. The grand hope is that by using a multiple bets to cover weaknesses of others, players will hit on the magic winning formula.One combo that’s come to my attention recently via a reader e-mail involves pass, don’t pass, and laying the odds.Here’s how it goes: Bet pass and don’t pass at the same time...read moreCommon casino mistakes19 October 2019 ABBY: “Mistakes, I’ve made a few….”CINDY: Don’t sing the song, please, Mr. Sinatra, because we have all made mistakes in playing casino games. I wish we were all perfect, but then again, you can’t be perfect playing in the casino when the house has the edge on the bets...read moreNon-optimal bets at video poker17 October 2019 QUESTION: I read something you wrote about never betting four coins at a time on a video poker game with a five-coin max. That made sense. You don’t get the full royal flush payoff when you bet less than five, and when you bet four you’re risking the most money you can without the full royal.Can I add a corollary to that rule? Another thing you should never do is make that one last bet on a Triple Play or Five Play video poker machine when you don’t have enough credits to cover the maximum bet.On Triple Play, the max bet is 15 coins, five for each hand...read moreAsk the Slot Expert: Would I be denied a jackpot if I played using a friend's players card?16 October 2019
Question: Back in December I wrote you about a jackpot I won ($12,500) on Dancing Drums aboard a cruise ship and you published it.
Last week, I was on the same ship and when I walked into the casino, the host greeted me with
"Welcome back, Jackpot King!" After a few pleasantries, I asked if anyone had won a jackpot in the intervening nine months...read moreGame-within-game and progressive slot machines15 October 2019 Slot achines with games within games, usually called “bonus rounds,” are not paying back any more money than machines that are straight paying ones. Machines that give you bonus rounds when you hit certain symbols will have a slightly lower hit frequency during the regular rounds of play but that hit frequency zooms up during the bonus rounds, which makes these machines pay back somewhere within the normal averages for those denominations.As an example, take the Wheel of Fortune, an in-casino-progressive machine...read moreBaccarat problems13 October 2019 Baccarat is one of the easiest casino games. It’s a pure guessing game as to whether the banker or player hand will come closer to 9 or whether they will tie.Easy as it is, baccarat does have its quirks, as Jill found out when she decided to give it a try.Her basic question was what you should do when there is a $1 minimum per bet on the commission on winning banker bets...read moreDouble-Double Bonus Video Poker12 October 2019 I regularly receive questions concerning how to play certain video poker hands. A majority of these questions are for the game of Double-Double Bonus Poker. My next few articles will cover many of these questions. Along with answers to the specific hands in question, an explanation of why it is the best way to play the hand will be included.This article presents some basic information about the Double-Double Bonus poker version of the game.The pay table for a commonly available Double-Double Bonus game follows...read moreVideo poker and the RNG10 October 2019 QUESTION: I like Hundred Play Poker, but I like playing for cheap. Where I usually play, they have a machine where you can choose 1 cent, 5 cents or 25 cents, and I always choose 1 cent. At five coins per hand and 100 hands, that’s $5, just like a one-hand dollar machine, and you get to see all those hands.My wife and I were visiting her sister and brother-in-law, and we all went out to a casino together...read moreAsk the Slot Expert: Check rules for casino promotions before you play9 October 2019 I live about a mile away from a Starbucks, close enough that I almost always walk there. Having lived most of my life in New Jersey, I'm more of a Dunkin' Donuts person, but they're few and far between in Las Vegas, so I go to Starbucks more often now.
I walked down to Starbucks for breakfast last Saturday to complete a menu challenge to earn bonus stars...read more |
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