Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 361

Video slots are hot!

Video slots are the most popular, most played and most widely available games in modern casinos. They’re also the games with the most variation, full of little wrinkles that affect game play.One of those wrinkles introduced in recent years has been the use of stacked symbols...read more

Some fun quotes about gambling II

The Best of Golden Touch by Melissa A. KaplanSome Fun Quotes On Casino Gambling (II)"Never bet on anything that talks." – W.C Fields, comedian"Eat your betting money, but don't bet your eating money." – Horse racing proverb"One should always play fair when one has the winning cards." – Oscar Wilde, playwright"Horse sense is the good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people." – W...read more

Baseball Teaches Team Work at Casino Gambling

In America, the game of baseball is considered our national past time. When the resplendent sport first embraced our country, fathers would haul their sons to the ballpark. Kids clothed in their suspenders, with button-up collars, drinking Red Rock Cola at 5 cents a pop...read more

Deal Me In: Our old pal Hobson

Dear Mark: I was on vacation and hit a $1,500 jackpot at slots. They refused to pay me my winnings because I did not have proper identification on me. Actually, the day of I misplaced my wallet; still my wife verified who I was, showed them the registration to our car, along with other forms of similar ID, but still no jackpot...read more

Texas Hold'em A-Z: "V" Is for Victory

Whether you are victorious in a poker tournament or just the victor in the ring games, you have to look at each session as a contest to be won. Although your objective is to make money in a ring game or win the final table in a tournament, your main objective when you play poker is to always make the correct decisions...read more

Today's blackjack leaves something to be desired

In more years of playing than I care to count, I’ve seen any number of changes come to blackjack. The rise of automatic shufflers and continuous shufflers comes to mind, along with the horror of casinos that pay only 6-5 on blackjacks. (Note to readers: If blackjacks pay 6-5 instead of 3-2, do not play.)One sweeping change in recent years is the trend toward dealers hitting soft 17, even at multiple-deck games...read more

The 5-Count and the come out roll

Frank –I’ve got your book “Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos!” and I have used the 5-Count as a successful money management tool. My experience has been it allows my sessions to last longer and many times have me still at the table when the payoff numbers start to repeat – the “hot” roll.However I do have a question pertaining to the 5-Count.Let’s say a shooter establishes a point of 5 (1 count), then rolls an 11 (2 count), then rolls a 4 (3 count), then makes the point of 5 (4 count)...read more

The 5-Count and the pass line

Frank,I purchased your book "Casino Craps: Shoot to Win!" and have a question regarding the 5-Count when it comes to a pass line bet. Using the 5-Count, when would you place odds if you have just made a $10 pass line bet on the come-out roll? On page 55, it gives an example of placing a come bet.Thanks for your help.Patrick MillerDear Bob:Hi Patrick:Treat the pass line as you would a come bet...read more

The 5-Count: Yes? No? and hedge betting: Yes? No?

The 5-Count: Yes? No? Posted by Alex on the Golden Touch private members-only website.ALEX:I have now been using the 5-Count for over a year and it has saved me a bundle on random shooters. But I know that some authors and "experts" are constantly criticizing the 5-Count...read more

A shuffle through the gambling mailbag

QUESTION: I think I remember you writing that the odds were so high against getting a royal flush in Caribbean Stud Poker that you were unlikely to even see someone else at your table get one in your lifetime, let alone get one yourself.Yet, playing Ten Play video poker, I was DEALT a royal on the first five cards...read more