Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 49

More Questions Than Answers

More Questions Than AnswersOkay, I love to play in the casinos, I do. I’ve had many years where my wife, the Beautiful AP, and I spent over 130 days in casinos throughout the country. But I am not fully able to understand why people play the way they play...read more

Video Poker with Similar Returns

QUESTION: I'm pretty new to video poker, but I know to look for higher full house and flush paybacks. My son taught me that much in years of trying to get me to switch over from playing slots.Something has me a little confused. The casino where I was playing had 7-5 Jacks or Better, 7-5 Bonus Poker and 7-5 Bonus Poker Deluxe...read more

How Do You Play Video Poker?

Video poker is a popular casino game. Players pick video poker over slot machines because it generally has a higher return than slots. Also, player decisions can and do affect the outcome. The game also requires some thought to play. This makes it more interesting than slots...read more

Slot Tournaments, Other Tournaments and Hosts

CINDY: The casino has so many games that at times I can’t recall them all from memory. Along with the standard games such as blackjack, craps, roulette, Pai Gow Poker and mini-baccarat, and also the seemingly thousands of different slot machines, every week it seems new games make their appearance to live or die based on player preferences.ABBY: But one thing we haven’t covered are the tournaments that the casinos offer.CINDY: Tournaments are usually invitational...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Still banned for complaining

Question: I just saw that you had responded to me, I am the one who is banned by the casino. I just wanted to say, I am real, and this did happen. I agree, by using the word unbearable, it does sound like I was asking for a self ban...read more

Slow Down Your Play

Simon and Garfunkel sang it just right: “Slow down, you move too fast /You got to make the morning last.” (“The 59th Street Bridge Song”)When I am talking casino playing of any kind, be it slot play, video poker play, tables games of all types and bets of all kinds, I am not just talking about the morning but all day and all night and anytime you place bets at casino games...read more

Speed Counts!

Speed of play matters in casino games. More wagers per hour means more exposure to the house edge.In setting budgets, players need to keep in mind they make more bets per hour at sparsely populated tables than at crowded venues, that blackjack moves faster than roulette, craps moves faster than blackjack, baccarat moves faster than craps and slot machines move fastest of all.That's part of the reason slot machines are so profitable for casinos...read more

A Simpler Video Poker Strategy

From William:Dear Stickman,I enjoy your articles about video poker, but I have a question. I play video poker quite often. I try to follow the proper video poker strategy, but it can get quite complex. I notice there are different types of strategies available from different websites...read more

How Slot Machines Work

CINDY: Slot machines are the overall winner in the favorite casino game department. Maybe 66 to 90 percent of a given casino’s revenue comes from what used to be called “the one-armed bandits.”ABBY: I doubt that the casino industry would have exploded across the world as it has if it weren’t for those machines...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Why did I win $10,000 on this slot machine?

Last week I posted a puzzle from the New York Times. Here is that puzzle again. The answers are at that bottom of this column. A few months ago, The New York Times started running a new word game called Connections. The game consists of a grid of 16 words and you have to break them into groups of four words that are related in some way...read more