Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 26

How Much Do You Need?

CINDY: You come to the casino for a session or two of play. You reach into your wallet or purse and pull out some money. Here are the questions we ask:ABBY: Is the money you are taking out especially money that has been saved for gambling purposes only? How much do you give for each game you play? How many games will you play that day or night? When will you call it a session and do something other than gambling?CINDY: To us these are reasonable questions.ABBY: In our opinion too many players go to the casinos with merely a fuzzy idea of how much they will spend and what games they might play or how long they will play them...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Son of slot jackpot denied playing with another's card

Question: The issue you overlooked is people often forget their cards in a machine and other people play the machine without a card. Are you going to deny them a jackpot in that instance? My understanding is that the rewards cards have no influence on the internal mechanics of the machine...read more

Wisdom II

The Captain had a lot of sayings. One of his favorites, one he adapted from someone, was “the contest was not between you and the casino but between you and yourself.”Over the years I realized this saying was absolutely true, at least for many casino players...read more

Advertising

You can’t watch a sporting event or single game on television or listen to such on the radio or on streaming services or even watch your favorite television show, even sweet little sit-coms about our wonderful and often dopey families, without seeing commercials for online, on land, and sea casinos.There are also plenty of commercials for land-based and even ocean-based casinos...read more

Casino Survey IV: Favorite Games

Casinos have a wide range of games designed to attract nearly every type of gambler. Since there is such a variety, I thought it might be interesting to survey casino goers to find out their favorite games and why they play them.This is the fourth article in a series of articles that explores this topic.Responses from a recent casino sampling.Debbi from Arkansas:“I love going to the casino and since this one is about an hour away from home, I like to come as often as I can...read more

Saying goodbye to a dear friend and happy-go-lucky casino player

CINDY: We’ve known Gloria since we were little girls. She was like an aunt to us although we were not related.ABBY: She recently died, over 90, and until a quick illness took her, she was as healthy as could be.CINDY: And she smoked too. I don’t know how many cigarettes in a day, I never counted, but it certainly was near a pack or so.ABBY: She was also a happy-go-lucky casino player, a slot maven if you will, who went down to Atlantic City every week, maybe not during Covid but you get the picture...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Slot jackpot denied playing with another's card

Question: California casino - I left my card with my niece and she had my ok to use it. She left the card in the machine after the free play was over but continued to play putting her own cash in. Then hit a jackpot of $1,800. Graton refused to pay...read more

Wisdom

My mentor, the Captain, had some sayings he’d like to repeat, partly to remind himself of their importance, partly to encourage others to think correctly. They certainly had a profound impact on me.One was “Winning is the most fun.”This is why he played...read more

Games We Don't Play (Much)

CINDY: There are some games that we just do not play.ABBY: Slots are not our favorites. It is just sitting in front of a machine programmed to take your money. Everything is random and there is no personality involved.CINDY: I’d say we play the slots about 5 percent of the time...read more

When to Quit Play

CINDY: Frank Scoblete posted an interesting article on the August 27th about the overused saying that players should quit when they are ahead.ABBY: We’ve all heard that one – over and over again.CINDY: Like a cold sooner or later you are going to have to accept the fact that sooner of later you will get the disease even if you don’t know it...read more