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Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 182

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Articles by Henry  Tamburin
Articles by Henry Tamburin

Be selective in blackjack games

24 March 2018
Back in the good ole days, there wasn’t a lot of rule variation from one blackjack table to another. Nowadays that’s changed. Not only will you often find a different mix of blackjack playing rules from one casino to another but quite often in the same casino you’ll find a myriad of different blackjack games.The problem is this: Some blackjack games are very good, while others are terrible...read more
 
Articles by John  Grochowski
Articles by John Grochowski

Baccarat card counting and craps 'put' bets

22 March 2018
QUESTION: Tell me something about the tie bet in baccarat. It seems to me that there must be some cards that make ties more likely, and that if you count cards there must be situations where the tie becomes a good bet.Do you have any tips on when to play the tie bet?ANSWER: Most casinos pay 8-1 on tie bets when the dealer and banker hands have the same value...read more
 
Articles by John  Robison
Articles by John Robison

Ask the Slot Expert: Why do some casinos have both Class II and Class III slot machines?

21 March 2018
Question: Why is it that some casinos have both class II and class III slots? Four Winds in Michigan is an example. They seem to have both types of slots. Do they do this because one type of machine has lower payouts? Answer: One class of machines does not necessarily pay back more or less than the other class...read more
 
Articles by Frank  Scoblete
Articles by Frank Scoblete

Betting a bushel

20 March 2018
FROM BARNEY: I have to disagree with you about betting. The more bets a player makes, the better the chance he or she will win one. That counts. If we follow your advice and only make one bet per game like at craps and roulette, what is the point? That makes the game dull...read more
 
Articles by John  Grochowski
Articles by John Grochowski

To Egypt and beyond

18 March 2018
Anyone who's spent much time playing video slots has encountered ancient Egyptian themes. When it comes to pyramids, the Sphinx, scarabs and asps, there seems to be a strong archeologist strain among slot players.Incredible Technologies is the latest slotmaker to delve into the ancient mysteries with its new game, Rays of Egypt.The sun god Ra comes to the fore in a 40-line video slot in Incredible's GoldLink game family...read more
 
Articles by Jerry  Stickman
Articles by Jerry Stickman

Best field bet

17 March 2018
One of the more popular bets at a craps table is the field bet. It is a onetime bet that wins if a 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 or 12 is thrown. That is the reason for its popularity – it pays on all but four numbers. Never mind that the numbers that cause you to lose this bet are those that appear most frequently.In most casinos, the field bet pays 2-to-1 when the 2 or 12 appears, and it pays even money for the other numbers...read more
 
Articles by John  Grochowski
Articles by John Grochowski

Blackjack dealer shows his hole card

15 March 2018
QUESTION: I was at a blackjack table and one dealer was exposing his hole card on every hand. When he rotated off our table, I was really tempted to follow him, but I resisted.I don't want to get into a whole thing about whether I should or shouldn't have told him he was tipping his card...read more
 
Articles by John  Robison
Articles by John Robison

Ask the Slot Expert: Are the machines in New York's racinos Class II?

14 March 2018
Announcement: I had the privelege of being the guest on Bob Dancer and Richard Munchkin's podcast Gambling with an Edge a few weeks ago. The podcast was recently posted. You can listen to it at https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/gambling-with-an-edge/podcast-guest-gaming-writer-john-robison/. Question: I listened to your recent podcast with Bob D...read more
 
Articles by Frank  Scoblete
Articles by Frank Scoblete

Money management at slots

13 March 2018
Many casino players believe that there are ways to manage one’s money to prevent the casino from having an edge on them. This is a totally wrong assumption. If the casino has an edge at a game, which it does at just about all games, no money management system is going to take that edge away.With the faraway exceptions of some mostly long-ago banking machines, the house edge on slot machines exists and is often the biggest of the house edges in the casinos, running upwards of 10%...read more
 
Articles by John  Grochowski
Articles by John Grochowski

Pop culture slots

11 March 2018
Pop culture themes on slot machines have been regularly attracting players since the rise of video slots in the late 1990s.There were a few licensed themes before that — Bally's Betty Boop and IGT's Wheel of Fortune three-reel games come to mind — but video really opens the door for designers to show off what movies, TV, board games and music themes bring to the slots.This year will be no different, with a number of pop culture themes on new slots...read more

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