Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 369

Splitting 8s in blackjack

It was just past 9 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, one of my favorite times to play. Crowds were small, tables were wide open, and I settled in for a little $10-a-hand blackjack. It was a six-deck game, with the dealer standing on all 17s and doubling down after splitting pairs permitted...read more

Finding your Valentine's Day machine

My wife, the beautiful A.P., and I were married on Valentine's Day. She thought it was romantic; I thought it would be an easy date to remember. We were both quite happy with February 14; one of us for romance, one of us for practicality. We are Valentine's Day lovers. In truth, slot players are looking for their Valentine's Day machines -- what I call their "love machines." So what are such love machines? To discover what a "love machine" consists of, we must look at what true love consists of...read more

Ladies and Gentleman, Here They Are: The Beatles!

The music world was forever changed on February 9th, 1964, the day the Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. The young lads from Liverpool, England, rocked the house, performing early classics such as "I Saw Her Standing There," "I Want To Hold Your Hand," "All My Loving," and "She Loves You." Anyone who was alive during this time knew exactly what they were doing and where they were at on that day. Unfortunately, for me, I was conceived 16 years, one day late from the event, never witnessing the true birth of Beatlemania...read more

Frank Scoblete critiques a reader's craps strategy

Hi, Frank, I have been playing at craps using this method and it seems to reap good results in dollar winnings. I put $5 on the pass and don't pass line before the come out roll. After the come out roll, if the point is 4 or 10, I put odds on the don't pass...read more

Texas Hold'em A to Z: T is for Tilt

Poker is more than just a card game. Whenever you are dealing with people, you are also dealing with psychological factors. One pro player I know said that poker is a "people game" played with cards. Your emotions as a player can have a large impact on your results when you play poker...read more

A shuffle through the gaming mailbag

Q. I have a question about slots strategy. I went to the casino last night and got back a chunk of my recent losses. A little background: I'm very old-fashioned and only play the max (75 cents) on mechanical machines. There's too much going on with most video machines and I have no idea how I won or how I lost...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Do VLTs have RNGs?

John, I am a regular reader of Casino City Times and enjoy your slot expertise. Previously, you answered a perplexing question for me, and I thank you. I live on Long Island, close to Aqueduct (Resort World) and somewhere a seed was planted that the VLT machines there and in Yonkers do NOT have RNGs in them...read more

Players who bet more have a better chance of winning a mystery jackpot

Readers send systems to me fairly often. Blackjack systems, craps systems, roulette systems -- you name it. Players like looking for that magic combination that somehow will defy the math and make them winner. Not many are slot systems. That's natural enough, since slot players don't have the same opportunities to devise betting combinations as some table games offer...read more

Ten player "mythtakes" about slot play

Mythtake #1: I am due to win on this machine because it has been cold for some while. If a slot machine is programmed to be random, the chances of a machine heating up or cooling down are always the same. If the odds of hitting a given pay line are 50 to one, they are always 50 to one...read more

How do the casinos set the payoffs on their games?

Most casino aficionados have no idea how the bosses set the payoffs on the games. It’s a blend of science and art. The science is based on the math that links the probabilities associated with the results of a coup, the payoffs, and the edge or house advantage...read more