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Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 375
Treat dealers like friends26 November 2011
Dear Frank:
This is not a question but rather a comment. I was reading on your site a comment by a fellow in Washington State, who said he was getting a lot of flak from the dealers in the Indian casinos there.
I go to Las Vegas from Phoenix at least once a month and sometimes more to play out on the Strip...read moreRolling like Frank25 November 2011
Frank,
I have to tell you I received a compliment tonight at Parx Casino. An Indian lady and her boyfriend were betting on my roll. I was right next to box and I rolled three points on 26 total rolls. I hit all the hardways, which they were betting...read moreA shuffle through the gaming mailbag24 November 2011
Q. I know that all the slots are computerized, but do they keep running when the machine is idle?
A. Yes, the random number generator runs continually, even when the machine is not being played.
That doesn't change the odds of the game, but it does have a couple of implications for players...read moreAsk the Slot Expert: Just one RNG?23 November 2011
We play at Turning Stone in Vernon, New York, an Indian casino. We like to play something called Easy Riches, which has 3 levels of progressive jackpots, depending on your bet amount. My question is, are all of the machines connected to the same RNG computer, so any machine could win any of the 3 jackpots or is the jackpot already programmed into a certain machine, so you would have had to be sitting at that machine to win that jackpot? You have probably had this question a million times :) So to sum it up is there one computer for all 12 machines or individual or both?
Turning Stone has Class II slot machines, so there is only one computer determining the outcomes on the slot machines...read moreCharting tells you the past, not the future22 November 2011 I'm a very patient person, and a very patient gambler in many respects.
I'm patient enough to practice blackjack and video poker strategies on the computer, and patient enough to stick to the strategies in the casino. I'm patient enough to wait for the count to turn favorable before raising my blackjack bets, regardless of whether I've been winning or losing...read moreThe short run is the long run21 November 2011 Now this might seem like a nutty idea but hear me out. Don't shake your head in disbelief or frown in disgust at my rationale for this column. Why? Because I am totally, completely, absolutely right in what I am about to tell you.
Too many gambling writers and Internet ploppies think there is something different in the short run as compared to the long run...read moreCardano Again20 November 2011 In November and December of 1999, I published
a couple of articles entitled Independence Day and Cardano Revisited. The
point of these two articles was to show how to solve a problem posed by the
Italian mathematician Cardano centuries ago using the notion of probabilistic
independence. I was reminded of these articles recently when I received a
letter from one of my readers, Lew Wedgewood, who said he had what he felt was
a simpler approach to Cardano’s problem than the one I had presented. He was
right. My original solution, however, was to point out what Cardano had done
wrong and how it could be corrected. Both of my 1999 articles are in the
archives and you might want to go back and read them before reading this
article. Just click on my name from the roster on the left and then click on
the phrase “More than 150 articles by Don Catlin.”
So, if you read my earlier articles you now
know that to address Cardano’s question you need to calculate the probability of
rolling at least one snake eyes in n rolls of a pair of dice. The sample space
here consists of n-tuples (i1 , i2 , … , in)
where each entry is an integer from 2 to 12 (the possible dice totals). Lew’s
solution to the problem was to define n events E1, E2, …,
En where the event Ei consists of n-tuples where the first i-1
entries are any non 2s, the ith entry is 2, and the rest are anything at all.
These events are pairwise disjoint sets. For if Ei and Ek
have a point in common then i = k. Otherwise, if k < i and there is a 2 in
the kth position, this contradicts the definition of Ei.
If at least one 2 occurs during our n rolls,
then at least one of E1 or E2 or … or En must
occur...read more![]() Read, Read, Read19 November 2011 If you buy a new car, you will want to read the owner's manual. If you are planning on putting in a garden, you will want to get a good book on gardening. If you're planning on going to a casino, it stands to reason you need to read a good book about gambling...read more![]() Texas Hold'em A to Z: O Is for Knowing Your Outs18 November 2011 In poker your outs are the unseen cards that will complete or improve your hand to make it the winning hand. Each additional card or "out" will improve your percentage of surviving the hand and coming out a winner. You can view outs as an indicator of success or failure when determining whether or not to continue with a hand.
Your skills at reading your opponents and reading the board are important when figuring your outs...read moreA shuffle through the gaming mailbag17 November 2011
Q. If a player betting two spots must double the minimum bet at blackjack, does that mean playing two spots instead of one is an advantage to the player? Since my wife and I always gamble together (and there's no her money/his money, it's all our money), should we always play two spots by sitting next to each other, without being forced into doubling bets, instead of me standing behind her with advice? (I won't comment on the value of the advice.)
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