Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 44

Roulette versus Slots

QUESTION: I read the house has a 5.26 percent advantage on roulette, and I guess the house edge on slot machines has a wide range depending on what you're playing and where you're playing.What if I know the slot machine I'm playing also has a 5.26 percent house edge...read more

Last Video Poker Quiz of 2023

This article contains a video poker strategy quiz. The game is full-pay (9/6 – 9-for-1 full house, 6-for-1 flush) jacks or better.The quiz assumes the maximum five credits is played. The maximum bet produces the highest long-term return because the royal flush pays 800-for-1 (4,000-for-5) rather than 250-for-1 when less than the maximum is bet.Look at the dealt hand below and decide which card or cards you would hold...read more

My Casino Odyssey

The casino games have changed; very few games for the better and very many games for the worst.I have now been playing in casinos for almost 35 years. That’s a long time in my estimation. Some years I have stayed at casino hotels 130 days! So, I am experienced...read more

Make 2024 the Best Casino Year Yet!

CINDY: When we hear the word casino, the first thing we think about is gambling – playing games in the hope that we can win some money. That’s what I think as my first thought.ABBY: Me too. But?CINDY: But there is so much more to the casinos than just gambling...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: The Shape of Las Vegas Casinos to Come?

There was a period that lasted about five years in which one or two or three new casinos opened on the strip every year. It started in 1996 with The Stratosphere (The Strat) and Monte Carlo (Park MGM). New York-New York opened in 1997 and Bellagio in 1998...read more

Beating the Casinos

Players want to beat the casinos and casinos want to beat the players. Obviously.Players want their luck to run hot in their favor and for the casino’s luck to run cold – really, really cold. That is the nature of every player’s dreams. Lady Luck favors me and Dame Fortune turns her back on the casino.The casinos want one thing and one thing only – they want the math and probabilities of the games to be as they are and to work as they are supposed to work...read more

The New "Old" Days

A long time ago -- nearly 30 years, in fact -- I often crossed path with a video poker player named Paul. He'd attended a seminar I gave and always seemed happy to see me when we were at the same casino.I ran into Paul in October at an Illinois casino...read more

VP Quiz: Two-card Royal Flush or Two Possible Inside Straights?

Video Poker Strategy Quiz:This article contains a video poker strategy quiz. The game is full-pay (9/6 – 9-for-1 full house, 6-for-1 flush) jacks or better.The quiz assumes the maximum five credits is played. The maximum bet produces the highest long-term return because the royal flush pays 800-for-1 (4,000-for-5) rather than 250-for-1 when less than the maximum is bet.Look at the dealt hand below and decide which card or cards you would hold...read more

A Tip of the Hat!

CINDY: Everywhere you go today, it seems workers want tips. I go to the local coffee shop and ask for a container of coffee to go and there is a big jar on the counter with the label – handwritten mind you and almost unreadable – that says “TIPS.” You tip them even if you have to go to another area to do your own milk and sugar...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: More bad luck at a Town Pump casino

Question: I must say I got on and went in my search engine and typed in town pumps casinos stealing money from players and I got into reading your situation and I will never go back to any of the Town pump casinos ever I've never won a ticket there ever I literally just left there and played three different machines on a 50 cent BET and didn't even get it bonus round nothing so $200 that's crazy not even a 3 out of 5 numbers hit...read more