Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 175

More casino playing laws

The law of money managementYou need to know how to manage your bankroll if you want to be successful at gambling. First, know what you can afford to wager during your visit to a gambling establishment.Know how important it is to separate your gambling funds from your other expenses like hotel, food, entertainment and transportation...read more

Where's my royal?

QUESTION: I play video poker once a week, a couple of hours at a time. I can be that specific because my wife and I go with friends every Thursday morning. It’s the eight of us, and we never miss a week. We have breakfast, go play, have lunch and come home.Last year was the first in a long time that I didn’t get a single royal flush...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: When casinos miss opportunities to encourage players to play

There's an expression in French, l'esprit de l'escalier, which roughly translates to "staircase wit." It refers to when you think of the perfect reply or course of action when it is too late. According to Wikipedia, the expression arose from an essay by French Philosopher Denis Diderot...read more

Head for the door

Picture our hero heading to Las Vegas from New York City ready to challenge Lady Luck in her very own kingdom.When he arrives he checks into a gorgeous hotel; goes to his gorgeous room, showers in a gorgeous shower and then takes a nap in the gorgeous bed and after hanging up his clothes in a gorgeous walk-in closet and checking out the gorgeous Strip far below him, he know with certainty that he’s there! He’s there in Las Vegas, one of his dream vacation cities...read more

Betting styles

Readers’ tales of big wins almost always come from slot players, with video poker players making up a substantial minority. Rarely do they come from table players.That’s normal given the nature of the games. A huge win on the slots can strike in a single spin...read more

The 6/8 progression

Jerry -I’ve been playing a slow negative progression only playing the 6 and 8 in craps and seem to be doing quite well with it.Basically, I am seeking a constant profit with each winning roll of the dice. My theory works like this:Level 1: 24 on 6 and 8, if lose move up to 60 each, if lose again move up to 180...read more

A rule for 6:5 blackjack games

QUESTION: Knowing that we must avoid 6:5 blackjack payoffs should be rule No. 1 for players, but let's assume we have a need to play (whatever the reason) and that's the only game in town, there is really no such thing as "even money" anymore, is there?As an example, we bet $10, have a blackjack and the dealer shows an ace...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: When casinos discourage players from playing

Not much changed the first two years I lived in Las Vegas. The video poker inventories at the casinos I play in stayed pretty much the same, as did their slot clubs. The floodgates opened this past year, however, and there were video poker changes (mostly downgrades but one upgrade!) or slot club changes or both at almost every one of my casinos...read more

Coming from behind

There have been great team and individual comebacks in sports and politics. Who can forget the Boston Red Sox versus the New York Yankees in 2004 when the Red Sox were behind three games to none? All the Yankees had to do was win one game. Instead the Red Sox won four games in a row, defeating the Yankees in the division series...read more

Happy New Year!

As 2018 morphs into 2019, I begin my 26th consecutive year of writing casinos columns on a weekly — and sometimes twice weekly — basis.It’s been a long, strange trip filled with change in games and technology.But there have been constants. For me, one is my annual tradition of New Year’s resolutions for gamblers.The tradition started because of a phone call I received within a few months of my first column...read more