Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 38

Dealers Need to Know This

CINDY: We tend to focus strictly on casino players when we write but there are other people we should be concerned about. Those would be the dealers.ABBY: Good dealers can make the game even more fun.CINDY: And bad dealers can ruin your playing experiences.ABBY: Good playing strategies are essential but there is an atmosphere at the tables when you play and that atmosphere can help or hurt your emotional experience...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Thoughts on Video Poker Analyzer

Question: An interesting article about the analyzer, and since it needs to be connected to the players card and the machines could only be of value to the casinos, not the players. Obviously the only help the players can get is by using software that lets them know if they make mistakes, but it is on pretend play, not real money play. I do have 2 observations. Why would a casino increase the benefits for a poor player? They are not in the habit of giving you anything without bragging about it...read more

What Do You Want?

What do you want to do with your casino playing? Here are some answers to that question:QUESTION:I want to make a living playing blackjack and roulette. What about that? My friends think I am crazy. But isn’t it possible?FRANK ANSWERS:Possible, maybe...read more

Hop Bets and the Facts

QUESTION: I used to play blackjack in the casino. I enjoyed it, but felt it lacked excitement. The players at the blackjack table tend to be either quiet or drunk. I recently tried playing craps. What a different game from blackjack! There are lots of different bets...read more

When It Goes Wrong

CINDY: We have written a lot of articles on the right ways to play various games in order to keep the house edge as low as you can get it. But there is one thing I don’t think we have stressed enough.ABBY: Uh, oh.CINDY: Seriously. Even with the best strategies...read more

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