Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 500

Deal Me In: Common sense is legal, but not encouraged in casinos

Dear Mark: Why is the betting the seven considered a "sucker bet" in craps? Jason F. Bet quality, Jason, reminds me of rating the value of baseball cards. Poor, being a Yankee Red Ruffing retrieved 40 years ago from spokes of your Schwinn Sting-ray, or a mint Mantle, still in the wrapper, gum included. In the casino, bet quality is rated in terms of the house edge...read more

Insure Your Blackjack for Less? It's a Legal Play!

What do you do when you're dealt a blackjack and the dealer's got an Ace showing? If you're in the vast majority of players, you'll take Even Money -- it's a sure thing. Trouble is, taking the sure thing here is the wrong play. Even though 19 out of 20 players may take Even Money in this situation, at least 2 or 3 of them know full well they're not supposed to do it...read more

Can you help me with the 3V set?

Dear Frank: I just ordered the following books: Dice Control for Casino Craps by Yuri, Wake Up Crap Shooters by Charles C Westcott, The Captain's Crap Revolution by Frank Scoblete and Golden Touch Dice Control Revolution! by Frank Scoblete and Dominator...read more

Grand Vic's New Double-Deck Blackjack Rivals Vegas

Average recreational gaming enthusiasts and gamblers on a budget are fortunate if they can find a $5 or even $10 blackjack game in the Chicago area. If they do, the tables use shoes containing six and sometimes eight decks of cards. The Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin, Illinois, however, is giving high rollers the opportunity to play a double-deck blackjack game...read more

Changes at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond

A few minutes before the official media tour of the new half-billion dollar barge at Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, I mentioned to a colleague that I'd taken a little private walk around the casino floor. "Is it all they say?" she asked. "Is it really like Vegas?" It really is, I told her...read more

Have the paybacks on full-pay video poker machines gone down?

Dear John, I think you work for the casinos. I have been playing video poker for the past 5-yrs, much of my play being in Las Vegas. I use Bob Dancer's theory of play and have been using his software for the all of the 5-yrs. I know how to select full pay machines and understand the odds...read more

What do you think of my throw?

Hi Frank: I've had a great deal of success playing craps since I timidly took it up a couple of years ago. My confidence has grown, I have read books, and I have practiced frequently. To my great joy, I have been pretty successful...read more

Changes at the Ameristar in East Chicago

That this is a time of change for casinos in northwest Indiana is hardly news in East Chicago. Horseshoe in Hammond soon has opened its huge new facility — nicknamed MOAB, for "mother of all boats" — that is sure to become a showpiece for gaming in the Midwest...read more

Deal Me In: The games they play to change your winning ways

Dear Mark: I play roulette when I feel lucky, which is hardly ever. However, I noticed that at one local casino where I play, if you watch real close, they change balls every time they spin the wheel. I also noticed they are different sized balls...read more

Fold That Poker Hand Instead of Betting It!

When making the transition from kitchen table poker to casino poker, you're no longer playing Acey/Deucey with your Aunt Gladys. That stranger across the table with the sunglasses and toothpick didn't sit down for coffee and cheesecake - he came to empty your pockets! So you'd better get familiar with some sound poker precepts, or he'll eat you alive. The precept of today's article is that you actually need a better hand to just call a bet than it takes to make a bet yourself...read more