Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 466

How do you buy a player's don't bet?

Hi Frank: I read about your "Taking over or buying player don't bets" but it wasn't clear to me. Could you give me a example how this works? Nikola Dear Nikola: If the don't player has a $50 bet on the don't pass or don't come and the number is a 6 or 8, many of them will want to take that number down because they think it is a close contest even though they have the edge on the bet at this point in the game...read more

How to Play Let It Ride

The Game Let It Ride was first introduced to the casinos in 1993. Shuffle Master Inc, the company that makes those automatic-shuffling machines, created it. The game is popular because it offers a potential for high payouts. Because the players are not playing against each other or trying to beat the dealer, camaraderie develops among the players creating a fun atmosphere...read more

'Stat Attack' -- fine time-saver to research college hoop angles

Wondering how a pro or college team did as a favorite, dog, as a 20-point favorite on a Wednesday? No worries. Stat Attack's software (it works on both Windows and Mac) should save you hours of time. The Stat Attack Pro Basketball database of games goes as far back as the 1990-91 season and allows researchers to do "team-specific" or even league-wide, conference-wide or divisional searches. How did the Lakers do as a small road favorite against Western Conference teams or how did Western Conference teams do as home dogs against the Eastern Conference? The program will tell you...read more

Crazy gambling letters from nutty people #6

Dear Frank: You are wrong about your thinking in the slot machine area about how to judge a hot or cold machine. There are such things as those of us who play the machines know without a doubt concerning these machines. A hot machine can be determined by watching when others play and if they haven't won that machine is going to get hot because what follows cold? Logically what follows cold is hot as anyone who has studied physicals knows...read more

The Lady Is a Champ at the Poker Tables

Mary Jo Belcore-Zogman, a businesswoman and homemaker from McHenry, Illinois, solidified her reputation as one of the best poker players in the Chicago area with her victory last month in the Tournament of Champions Invitational presented by Rockford Charitable Games Association. She outlasted a formidable field of 40 proven professionals, who boasted combined winnings of around $4 million and included two World Series of Poker gold bracelet champions from recent years. Belcore-Zogman, who is president of All Insurance Services in McHenry, played kitchen table poker games with her family while growing up, but it wasn't until she started watching the high profile tournaments on TV that she developed an interest to play competitively. Her husband, Dan Zogman, began taking the game seriously at the same time, and together they started learning what it takes to play winning poker. Dan's first big score came in 2007 when he won $227,811 in the Heartland Poker Tour tournament at Majestic Star casinos in Gary...read more

Sports betting in Delaware

This is prime time for my friend Bill. He's a football nut, and loves to have a little something going on the games. Office pools? Sure. Fantasy football? Four teams' worth. But what he really loves is sitting in a big Las Vegas sportsbook with TV feeds of a whole day's worth of games on the big screens...read more

Can one really win at the slots?

Hi, I am a fan of blackjack and have just read an interesting text on how slot machines are pre-programmed, and why one cannot make a profit out of playing them. If this is so, does that mean that all books, tapes, DVDs or whatever claiming to be able to win at slots are false? Can one in the long run win at slots or not? Thanks, Brian Dear Brian, To win at a gambling game in the long run, one needs to have the edge...read more

Controlled shooting success story

Dear Frank, Had two dinosaur rolls at Buffalo Bills in Primm of 32 minutes on Wednesday and 37 on Saturday. Started with the 3V, but ended up with the 2V on both days. Hitting lots of 3:2s and hardway numbers. After three hard 6s and two hard 4s in a row, I called a two-way 3:2 hopping for $30...read more

The Effect of Odds For a Controlled Shooter

Recently I wrote an article comparing a pass line bet with placing the 6 or 8 at various levels of dice control. The article compared three different levels of control and the resultant edge for each type of bet. The levels compared were for different sevens-to-rolls-rations (SRRs)...read more

'Blue Ribbon' hoops book mandatory reading for college bettors

Like the swallows returning annually to Capistrano, the lue Ribbon College Basketball Book has arrived on time for the 29th year in a row. The book serves to inform smart, researching bettors who the iron-men, sleepers and most-improved teams might be in the 2009-20l0 season. Now operating out of new digs in Chattanooga, TN, editor Chris Dortch and crew have produced this 387-page paperbound ($23), which does an unparalleled job of preparing bettors, fans, coaches, scouts and sports talk hosts for what to expect from Player of the Year to Newcomer of the Year to projected All-American teams...read more