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WSOP Main Event heads-up match delivers giant contrast in styles and plenty of fireworks

LAS VEGAS — It took more than eight excruciating hours of heads-up play, but in the end, Qui Nguyen's aggression and relative inexperience finally outdid Gordon Vayo's patience and more accomplished resume to win the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event. The mano a mano portion of the 47th edition of poker's most prestigious event will long be remembered for a number of reasons, most notably for the length of time it took to complete; an array of inconceivable hands; and that it pitted against each other two men of completely different looks, personalities and styles...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Dealing with sticky buttons on video poker machines

Question: Can you shed some light on a sticky situation? During the non-winter months, when we go to Arizona and Nevada, if we want to play video poker we are stuck playing at the Potawatomi casinos (Milwaukee and Carter) and Mohican North Star in Wisconsin...read more

The world is not enough

There is a written acknowledgement concerning casino games (you can listen to it in the beginning of the movie Casino) and it is this: The longer you play, the better chance you will be losing. The reason this has been endlessly written is simple: the math of the games favors the casinos...read more

Beatable casino games and comps

QUESTION: Is blackjack the only common game that can be found in casinos that gives an opportunity for a long-term edge over the casino through strategy?ANSWER: I’ll give a qualified yes to that, with your “common” proviso eliminating the highest-paying video poker games and your “through strategy” requirement eliminating dice control at craps.Live poker also is a profit opportunity for good players, but it’s a different animal than games in table games pits because you’re playing against other players and not against the house...read more

Wake up, blackjack players!

It was a busy Saturday night in the casino. As I walked around the casino, I was appalled at what I saw. In one section of the casino, there were half a dozen blackjack tables in a “party pit” jam-packed with players.Most of the players were male, no doubt because most of the blackjack dealers were female wearing skimpy attire (get my drift)...read more

New poker games

Each year at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, new table games cluster around two areas. There are new poker-based games, and new blackjack variants.That’s only normal. Blackjack is the most popular casino table game, and the biggest growth in recent times has been in poker-based games such as Three Card Poker and Mississippi Stud.This year is no exception, and I sat in for a few hands of a number of new games at G2E...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Finding a Benjamin in a bill acceptor

Question: I entered the High Limit room to play some free play given to me by the casino. The machine I chose had a $100 bill in the money slot. Perhaps the previous person put his money in and the machine kicked it out as not acceptable...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Finding a Benjamin in a bill acceptor

Question: I entered the High Limit room to play some free play given to me by the casino. The machine I chose had a $100 bill in the money slot. Perhaps the previous person put his money in and the machine kicked it out as not acceptable...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Finding a Benjamin in a bill acceptor

Question: I entered the High Limit room to play some free play given to me by the casino. The machine I chose had a $100 bill in the money slot. Perhaps the previous person put his money in and the machine kicked it out as not acceptable...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Finding a Benjamin in a bill acceptor

Question: I entered the High Limit room to play some free play given to me by the casino. The machine I chose had a $100 bill in the money slot. Perhaps the previous person put his money in and the machine kicked it out as not acceptable...read more

Some things for you

In 1984 a huge thing happened in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. In fact, it was so huge that it helped propel the casino industry nationally. That was the first year that slot machines made more money for the casinos than table games. Until that time table games ruled...read more

Roulette streaks

QUESTION: The sign at a roulette table caught my eye. It said the last two numbers had been 6, the one before that was 5, and before that another 5 and a 4.So in the last five spins, the only numbers that had come up were 4, 5 and 6.It was too tempting to pass up...read more