Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 39

Ask the Slot Expert: Unbelievable slot drama

Last week I wrote about discovering that some slot channels on YouTube are not real. That is, instead of showing play with real money at risk in a casino, they show play on machines in someone's game room and no money is at risk. That high-value handpay you're envying may be as real as Harry the Lizard on Death in Paradise. One of the guys exposing the funny-money channels is EZ Life Slot Jackpots...read more

Quit Now!

When should I quit play? A session, a day, a trip?I have a simple solution for me. I quit when I feel tiredness coming on. Time to call it a session and if I have been at a casino-hotel for a week or so, time to call it a trip. I may be ahead; I may be behind but I feel some fatigue? I’m done.These are questions seemingly and eternally asked by most casino players since I started playing almost 40 years ago...read more

Third Base at Blackjack

QUESTION: I enjoyed playing blackjack at home as a kid. It is a simple game and it was fun playing with friends.I recently tried playing blackjack in the casino. It was not nearly as much fun as the nickel blackjack we played at home. The atmosphere is different...read more

Estimating Video Poker Returns

From Reggie:Hello Stickman,While I enjoy your articles and especially your video poker articles, I have an issue with something you say. You write the we should check the entire pay table and then get an app for our mobile phones or computers in order to know the return of video poker games...read more

UFOs and Casino Playing

CINDY: Okay, I know what you’ve been doing my dear sister.ABBY: And what is that?CINDY: You’ve been looking into the UFO world. As in unidentified flying objects.ABBY: Now also called UAP as in unidentified aerial phenomenon.CINDY: This ought to be a hoot...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Some YouTube slot channels are as real as the WWE

Question: So glad you called Vegas Matt and his team out. They disgust me. I feel they are not really playing in a casino a lot of the time. Reminds me of Mucho Deniro slots that got called out a few years ago. Answer: Mucho Deniro? Wasn't that Robert De Niro's Lucha Libre name? (Sorry...read more

Do Not Send a Check!

Some casino players will jokingly say, “Well, I might as well send the casino a check and not go because I can’t beat them.” Or “I should not play when I do go since I will lose my money anyway. Ha! ha!”Are these statements actually funny? Or sarcastic? Or true? Or something entirely else?How’s this as a statement of fact? “Sooner or later every casino player must lose.”Is that actually funny? Or sarcastic? Or true? Or something entirely else?First things first: Do not think of sending the casinos a check – that’s poor thinking...read more

Some Players Doom Themselves

The biggest problem that I have noticed about some or many or most casino players is the fact that they are their own worst enemies. How does that fact present itself you might ask?Simply put: the decisions that players make about how to play their favorite games, their betting levels, when they quit play for a session, and when they decide to figure out the proper strategies to use at games, goes awry without them actually realizing it...read more

Reading Video Poker Pay Tables

From Greg:Hello Stickman,You state in your article (re. Video poker) that you never play video poker unless there is a 98% return. Are there still machines out there that have this return? I usually play in Biloxi, (IP or Boomtown) or Vegas (MGM or Caesar’s’ properties) and cannot find them.I use the payout ratio of full house to flush to determine this outcome...read more

Drive Slowly When You Play

CINDY: Last week we looked at the horrible results when fast speeds overtake a casino game. The faster the game, the more decisions at a game, the more hands or bets you make, the better the casino has it over you. Fast dealers can hurt you too.ABBY: Games are not just their house edges; they are their speed of play as well...read more