Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 35

Ask the Slot Expert: A video poker product whose time has passed

You may not recognize John Acres' name, but you know some of the slot technologies he helped develop like player tracking systems and progressives. I attended a seminar he gave about his player tracking system at the World Gaming Congress around 2000...read more

Be Contained and Refrain

Many times, successful casino play is not so much what you do as what you don’t do.You’ve just won three decisions in a row, what do you do now? Do you raise your bet to take advantage of your “good luck” or do you just make your normal-sized bet because the game you are playing, a random game, has a whole variety of streaks and none of them can be predicted.Play streaks and you lose; don’t play streaks and your money lasts longer...read more

Cruise Ship Playing

CINDY: One topic we really haven’t hit in the last two years or so is gambling on a cruise ship. I am not a big fan of cruising but I have brought myself to the casinos on the ships.ABBY: That is where we differ. I like a nice evening watching the ship moving out to the ocean and the casino open with the people ready to try their luck against Lady Luck.CINDY: First off, I think the slot machines are really tight...read more

Video Poker Strategy Quiz: Jacks or Better vs. Double Bonus Poker vs. Double-Double Bonus

This article contains a video poker strategy quiz. It is different from previous quizzes as it pits the same hand against three different games – 9/6 Jacks or Better, 9/7/5 Double Bonus Poker and 10/6/4 Double-Double Bonus Poker.The quiz assumes the maximum five credits is played...read more

A Question on This and That

CINDY: Okay, what do you think the right answer is to this and that?ABBY: You have to tell me what this and that is before I would know the right answer or the wrong answer.CINDY: You are shooting the dice and you have hit 3:3 which is a 6 obviously; you did it twice in succession...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Unbelievable slot drama

Last week I wrote about discovering that some slot channels on YouTube are not real. That is, instead of showing play with real money at risk in a casino, they show play on machines in someone's game room and no money is at risk. That high-value handpay you're envying may be as real as Harry the Lizard on Death in Paradise. One of the guys exposing the funny-money channels is EZ Life Slot Jackpots...read more

Quit Now!

When should I quit play? A session, a day, a trip?I have a simple solution for me. I quit when I feel tiredness coming on. Time to call it a session and if I have been at a casino-hotel for a week or so, time to call it a trip. I may be ahead; I may be behind but I feel some fatigue? I’m done.These are questions seemingly and eternally asked by most casino players since I started playing almost 40 years ago...read more

Third Base at Blackjack

QUESTION: I enjoyed playing blackjack at home as a kid. It is a simple game and it was fun playing with friends.I recently tried playing blackjack in the casino. It was not nearly as much fun as the nickel blackjack we played at home. The atmosphere is different...read more

Estimating Video Poker Returns

From Reggie:Hello Stickman,While I enjoy your articles and especially your video poker articles, I have an issue with something you say. You write the we should check the entire pay table and then get an app for our mobile phones or computers in order to know the return of video poker games...read more

UFOs and Casino Playing

CINDY: Okay, I know what you’ve been doing my dear sister.ABBY: And what is that?CINDY: You’ve been looking into the UFO world. As in unidentified flying objects.ABBY: Now also called UAP as in unidentified aerial phenomenon.CINDY: This ought to be a hoot...read more