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Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 486
What is your gambling flaw?15 January 2009 Nobody's perfect. You might be the best of the best in some field or other, yet you know that on some day or other you just aren't at your peak. Hopefully if you are a brain surgeon those non-peak times are outside of the operating room, but my guess is that even with Mrs...read morePoker's Place in Sports World Well Deserved14 January 2009 Is poker a game or a sport? Even television is confused. The World Series of Poker is a widely viewed component of ESPN programming, yet High Stakes Poker and the World Poker Tour can be seen on GSN, a.k.a. The Network for Games.
The definition of sports competition implies physical dexterity, which would exclude poker players...read more2008 Global Gaming Expo, part 613 January 2009 The computer age of slot machines has given game designers the opportunity to set their imaginations on the loose. But the bonus events and game features that designers dream up requires sufficient computing power to bring the ideas to game screens.
So it is at Aristocrat Technologies, which in 2007 introduced its new Gen7 game platform...read moreDo near misses occur more frequently when you're low on credits?12 January 2009
It happens often as all slot players know. The last spin of the reel and two solid sevens and a third just off the line. Another is the hit frequency increasing near the end of credits regardless of the machine.
If a slot win is truly determined by the RNG, how are the hit frequency and near hit manipulated? Is the RNG running within a program that determines the casino take percentage and the near hit and frequency of hits adjustments as credits run out? Doesn't this suggest that we truly are not random winners based on the RNG alone?
I think this is a fair question as nearly all slot players can attest to the frequency and near hit changes that take place in many types of machines as credits dwindle...read moreBlackjack is not slots11 January 2009 Blackjack has been the most popular table game since the early 1960s, when it became known that card counting could beat the game. Of the tens of millions of blackjack players since that time period only a few thousand ever got good enough to beat the casinos at blackjack but that didn't stop the casinos from panicking in the first blush of the card counting revolution.
The first step the casinos took was to change the game drastically...read more![]() The language of poker9 January 2009 Here we are in a major poker room watching a hot $50/$100 side game from a distance. Let's get up closer and hear what the players are saying as the hand unfolds.
Dealer; "Blinds please". The small and big blinds post their mandatory $25 and $50 bets and the cards are dealt...read moreFrank Scoblete, you're larger than life8 January 2009 Dear Mr. Scoblete,
I just completed reading your interesting (and very humorous) piece: "Stop Minding My Business."
I would humbly submit that you are perhaps misinterpreting the intentions of some readers. Because true leadership in any field of endeavor is so rare, we, as faithful followers of your observations, literally "hinge" on every word that you write...read moreSlot Floor Dynamics Require an Expert's Touch7 January 2009
Managing a casino's slot machine inventory is a little like running a major league baseball team: you can never stand still.
Just ask Philippe Khouri, vice president of operations at Harrah's Joliet Casino & Hotel...read more2008 Global Gaming Expo, part 56 January 2009 Multiple-game slot machines have been with us since 1992, when Bally Gaming introduced one of the casino industry's most important innovations: the Bally Game Maker.
At the touch of a button, players could change from game to game on a video screen, all while sitting at the same console...read moreOn slot volatility and hit frequency5 January 2009
John,
After reading these articles ("More Truth About Slots"), it reminds me of getting an answer from Casino Player magazine last September about whether to stay or stray from the machine. The answer was because of volatility I should stay...read more |
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