Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 351

Win the MVP of Craps Play

Saints quarterback Drew Brees attained history during Monday Night Football when he surpassed Johnny Unitas’ record for most consecutive games with a touchdown pass. Tom Brady, Aaron Rogers, and the Manning brothers are quarterbacks in the game that will, nonetheless, build a valuable mark in the NFL as well...read more

Deal Me In: Does superstition trump mathematics? For many, you betcha!

Dear Mark: My wife wears a Las Vegas sweater for luck whenever we go to the casino. I think it is all hogwash, besides, she loses more than she wins. So, let me ask the expert. How prevalent is this type of superstition in gambling? Frank P.The word "prevalent," Frank, would be an understatement as to superstition in a casino...read more

Hot new slots!

Each year at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, I roam from booth to booth to look at the major slot machine manufacturers and the coming attractions that will draw us to their games over the next year.There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of new games when all the “game-makers” are taken into account...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Are casinos and slots tighter today?

Hello John, I recently surfed on to your website. I’m a long time slot player and I guess wishing for the good old days again. I hope your expert advice might help. First let me give you a brief history. I live in NC and frequent Vegas a few times a year. I started going to Vegas with my father in the 1980s and have fond memories of that time...read more

Dice control versus card counting at blackjack

Most casino blackjack players know all about card counting from various (and mostly inaccurate) movies and from the boatload of books that have washed in and out of the public’s consciousness through the years. Of the approximately nine million blackjack players scratching the felt at casinos all over America and Canada, probably half have read something in magazines or online web sites such as Casino City Times or in books such as my "Beat Blackjack Now: The Easiest Way to Get the Edge!" Or they have seen a documentary or two on television.The fact that so few blackjack players employ card counting has more to do with the difficulty of keeping the count and betting into that count properly than it does with a belief in whether or not it works...read more

Mr. Lucky

Dear Jerry Stickman, I recently visited Mohegan Sun where I play a lot of video poker. While playing Double Double poker with 10 quarters in I hit four aces with a kicker while holding a single ace. What are the odds of that happening? Secondly...read more

Those great new video slots

The video age has been liberating for slot machine designers, and not just in ability to use animation and special effects to create entertaining bonus events. They can play with the configuration of the reels, and even change the number of reels from spin to spin.Take The Munsters Family Portrait, one of the spotlight games at Incredible Technologies’ booth at the annual Global Gaming Expo that ran Oct...read more

Why don't casino players avoid the high-edge games?

Everyone knows that casinos have a gambling edge or advantage over their patrons. On table games, this parameter is traditionally expressed as a percentage of the amount. On machines, this information is usually stated more benignly as the percentage returned to players...read more

The dumb and dumber of craps thinking

So many players and self-appointed "experts" are such non-cognoscenti when it comes to the game of craps that it is startling what they don't know; what they don't care to know; and what amazingly inept concepts they have about the game of craps and everything that surrounds it, especially betting, and, worse, how freely they share their knowledgelessness (I invented that word) with hapless readers who eat it up as if it were delicious pizza – pizza that costs a fortune.Add to the above what these self-proclaimed "experts" don't know about dice control and one ponders how the average reader of articles, books and craps/gambling Internet sites gets any useful information at all.Seriously, you have Internet websites that recommend mystic “feelings” to determine if a craps table is a good one or not – as if such mystic feelings can spot future winning trends...read more

Being The Batting Champ

The Batting ChampBeing born and raised in San Diego, I have always supported the athletes who represent my city, whether it’s athletes from high school, college or the pros. Gail Devers raced her way to gold at the 1992 Olympics games in Barcelona, Spain...read more