Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 326

Ask the Slot Expert: Stopping the spin does affect future results

Hello John, I don’t agree completely about your reply about stopping the wheels and having no effect on outcome, only speeding up play. Stopping the wheels to speed up play thus creating an outcome that otherwise would not have resulted in the next spin is affecting outcome. Every nanosecond is a different result from the RNG, right? If a machine is playing well, I’ll play it faster for a few spins in the hope that it might result in a better win or at least a winning combination that wouldn’t have appeared otherwise...read more

What is the point of slot play?

I have a neighbor who is a noted physicist, at least other physicists note him. He is a man who scorns casinos and is totally disdainful of casino players and slot players in particular. I am sure most of my readers know someone just like him.The other day I asked him why he was so “perturbed” (his word) about slot players...read more

Double Double toil and trouble

QUESTION: I play dollar Double Double Bonus Poker at a casino that has it two pretty interesting ways. It has 9/6 DDB with three progressives, on the royal, aces with kicker, and aces without kicker. It also has 9/5 DDB with just one progressive on the royal, but it has a $50,000 jackpot for a sequential royal...read more

Read the fine print

On a recent trip across the country I had a stop in Las Vegas for a plane change. I don’t know why, but when you have to make a plane change you always seem to land at one concourse and are required to go to another one on the other side of the airport...read more

A different view of craps edges

With its array of one-roll bets and wagers that take multiple rolls to decide, craps gives us an opportunity to look at the house edge in a couple of different ways. We can look at the edge per decision. That’s the common way of doing it, the way that tells us the house has a 1.41% edge on the pass line, 1.52% on place bets on 6 and 8 and a whopping 16.67% on any 7.The other way of looking at it is the house edge per roll...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Stopping the spin gives me better results

Either I am extremely lucky or others are extremely unlucky. I have watched several people sit down at particular machines I play and they play the max bet of $2.50 per spin. They spin and spin and rarely hit anything over $3.00 –- most hits are for $0.40 or $0.80. They get up and I sit down and place the same max bet; however, I stop the spin...read more

Slot watchers

I have been fat for 20 years now. Oh, yes, I work out every day and my heart rate is 55 beats a minute; but I am fat. I am 100 pounds over my fighting weight of 40 years ago!So I decided to go to Weight Watchers to lose several generations of body lard...read more

Reward of rewards cards and card counting, too!

QUESTION: You guys who always tell people to use their rewards cards when they play miss something. If I use a card, the casino has a record of everything I do in the casino. Wouldn’t they pass that record on to the IRS? It seems to me that if I use my card, I couldwind up with a tax bill.ANSWER: I receive this kind of question often, at least four or five times a year...read more

Playing in Video Poker Tournaments

Thousands of fans enjoy playing video poker. They appreciate the low house edge of most video poker games allowing them to play longer on their bankroll. They enjoy testing their skill in learning and playing proper game strategy. Most of all they enjoy hitting the big jackpots for a royal flush or specific four-of-a-kinds on certain games.Like most casino games video poker pits the player against the casino...read more

Some great gambling books

Over the years, I’ve read and reviewed many a blackjack book. Rarely have I recommended one simply because it’s so much fun to read.I’d doing it now with Glen Wiggy’s “1536 Free Waters and Other Blackjack Endeavors" ($18.95, iUniverse). Subtitled “Finding Profit and Humor in Card-Counting,” Wiggy’s work includes how to play, blackjack terminology, basic strategy and an explanation of how to count cards...read more