Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 474

Leave the Credit Cards Home

It seems as if we are rapidly becoming a cashless society. Many businesses are encouraging or forcing their employees to use direct deposit for their paychecks and using credit cards has become a way of life. There are even commercials on television trying to convince you that it is faster to pay with a credit card than with cash...read more

Crazy gambling letters from nutty people #4

Dear Mr. Scoblete: Let me introduce myself to you by way of introduction. I am a gambling expert looking to have my new book which I am about to write published so the world can see what I have developed and discovered as I have developed a way to beat the game of roulette with a number charting system based on the concepts inherited in quantum physics which shows that a ball spinning will have a equal and opposite spin too which will come to rest at a point of design that can be predicted mostly accurately by analyzing the opposite spin and trajectory thereoff and concept of propulsion of a small round object which is what a roulette ball is as we all know concerning roulette...read more

Monopoly Slots Give Iconic Board Game a Run for the Money

If you're a fan of Monopoly-themed slot games, you're going to love the news released earlier this summer by WMS Gaming. The company which took Monopoly directly to "GO" on casino floors a decade ago announced it had extended through 2016 its long-term license agreement with Hasbro, Inc...read more

Everlasting slots

It happens when players walk down the aisles of casino slot floors every day. A hot new game catches your eye. You give it a try — and you like it. You like the game play, you like the bonus rounds, maybe you have a couple of pretty good wins...read more

What do slots do during their pauses?

Dear Mr. Robison, I would like to know what is happening to a slot machine when it does what we players call changing. When playing a machine that readily accepts the bet then on the next bet you may have to press the bet button two to three times before it is accepted...read more

A Royal Dilemma

            A choice that (unfortunately) one seldom has when playing 9/6 Jacks or better Video Poker is that of choosing between a three-card Royal Flush and a four-card Flush.  All Basic strategy tables for 9/6 Jacks list the three-card Royal as being better than the four-card Flush.  For the most part this is good advice.  However, there is one case where the opposite is true.  A hand that contains a suited Ace and ten along with another suited high card is a weak three-card Royal since it is a double inside situation and thus reduces the straight possibilities.  This in and of itself does not negate the Basic strategy rule; it depends upon the nature of the fifth card in the hand.  Let me illustrate with an example.             Suppose you are dealt AH, QH, TH, 9H, X.  If X is an unsuited low card, say a three of clubs, the correct play would still be to hold the AQT.  However if X is an unsuited King or Jack then this reduces the number of straight, 2 pair, and high pair hands on the draw and is enough to render the four-card Flush the better hand.  What if X is an unsuited ten?  Let's look at that situation in detail.             Suppose we are dealt the AH, QH, TH, 9H, TC.  Discarding the 9H and TC means that we have C(47, 2) or 1081 possible draws.  The following table shows the results. Result Freq. Pays Product Zip 756 0 0 High Pair 246 5 1230 2 Pair 21 10 210 3 Kind 7 15 105 Straight 15     20 300 Flush 35 30 1050 Full House 0 45 0 4 Kind 0 125 0 Str...read more

Don't split those fives!

Dear Frank: Today I tossed the dice twenty times without seeing the seven. I need to take a Golden Touch dice control lesson in June of 2010. I have a DVD of dice control from Golden Touch too. I was thinking of buying the DVD on blackjack, because I also practice speed counting...read more

Video poker tips

Over the past seven years I spend some of my time in casinos playing video poker (the rest, playing blackjack). Why video poker? Because I can get the edge in video poker and make money as I have done playing blackjack. Here's how I did it. There are three important steps to become a skilled video poker player...read more

Crazy gambling letters from nutty people #3

Dear "Sobe" Ha! Ha! Ha! How come on one of your books you wrote King Sobe? What are you a egomaniacal? When you wrote about gaming I thought you were writing about hunting and fishing and you were writing about games in a casino that no one platys except crazy lunatic moroons who want to get rid of all of there money and give it to the wealthy dealers and the one-bombed bandits...read more

Young Poker Pro Graham Has Much Knowledge to Share

Professional poker player Matt Graham is only 26, but his fierce devotion to the game has already reaped some handsome dividends. Graham has won tournament championships and the coveted gold bracelet that goes with them at the last two World Series of Poker competitions in Las Vegas...read more