Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 505

Advice on dice sets

Hi Frank, My name is John and I saw your dice-sets video on You Tube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWw-0YfCBy8) and it has intrigued me and has caught my interest greatly for the past three months. I bought your and Dominator's book Golden Touch Dice Control Revolution! and must have read it forward and backward five times. I have been going to the casino regularly to play...read more

Help figuring a slot payout

John, I've looked everywhere and can not seem to find the answer to this question. I love to play the Orchid Mist and Chicken Pick'n slot machines made by Aristocrat. They are really the same game just with different graphics. I can't for the life of me figure out the pay out...read more

Deal Me In: Don't give in to peer pressure when it comes to those 'sucker' side bets

"I Told You So!" could cost you dearly Dear Mark: I enjoy playing the carnival game Let It Ride. I know, bad odds, but its fun. So I don't play the side bets, Bonus or 3-card bet because I feel these are sucker bets and the house has big enough odds against me without adding to it...read more

Deal Me In: Don't give in to peer pressure when it comes to those 'sucker' side bets

Dear Mark: I enjoy playing the carnival game Let It Ride. I know, bad odds, but it's fun. So I don't play the side bets, Bonus or three-card bet because I feel these are sucker bets and the house has big enough odds against me without adding to it...read more

Nearly Everyone Mishandles Their Soft Hands in Blackjack

So you think you play a pretty solid game of blackjack, eh? Well, if you're like 98% of the players I see in the casinos, you bungle your "soft" hands something awful. Soft hands are those containing an Ace. When you've got Ace/4, that's a "soft" 15 because you can't bust it with your next hit...read more

Snyder's Poker Tourney 2 unique, Kronzek aims at foiling cheats

Arnold Snyder, more famous for his Blackbelt in Blackjack and other books on that game, has switched gears in recent years and now approaches poker -- tournaments in particular -- as a beatable, profit-making game. His newest work, titled The Poker Tournament Formula 2: Advanced Strategies for Big Money Tournaments (485 pages, paperbound, $24.95) follows his successful first book on the subject, Poker Tournament Formula.Another important new arrival on bookshelves is Allan Zola Kronzek's 52 Ways to Cheat at Poker: How to Spot Them, Foil Them and Defend Yourself Against Them (192 pages, paperbound, $13).Snyder's approach to winning tournaments is to help the player "understand optimal playing strategies based on structure." The book is designed to show you how to "optimize your strategy for each specific tournament you enter" since he believes not all pro-level tournaments are created equal...read more

Success with Golden Touch Dice Control

Hi Frank, My name is C.G. and I just wanted to write and say a big thank you to Golden Touch Craps! My wife, J., and I just returned from our third Vegas trip ever. The first trip we didn't even know what a craps table looked like, but some friends showed us the basics and we played all weekend...read more

Boyd Gaming Takes Blue Chip to the Next Level

Less than three years after making a $170-million investment in a new gaming vessel for Blue Chip Casino Hotel, Boyd Gaming is in the home stretch of a $130 million expansion for the Michigan City, Indiana property. The ambitious project is headlined by a 22-story, 302-room hotel tower, a 20,000-square-foot convention and entertainment facility, spa and fitness center, and a new restaurant. "We're looking at December for the grand opening of this property, and I think we're on schedule for that," said Boyd Gaming's president and chief executive officer Keith Smith, who flew in from corporate headquarters in from Las Vegas for the topping off ceremony last month. The new hotel, combined with the 184 rooms available in the existing facility, will give Blue Chip the largest capacity of any hotel in the area. Equally significant is the fact the increase to 30,000 square feet of convention and entertainment space that will be the catalyst for larger business meetings, conventions, trade shows, exhibitions and special events. The entertainment center will include a 15,000 square foot ballroom, which will seat 1,300 people theatre-style. "I think the ballroom itself will give us the opportunity to do more entertainment-oriented events," said Paul J...read more

First craps experience

Readers have inundated my e-mail box with stories of their first casino trips, and what it was that kept them coming back. Last week, I shared a few of those tales. Let's go back to e-mail for a story from George in Pennsylvania, whose drive to Atlantic City with his wife, brother and sister-in-law was the sister-in-law's first craps experience. On the drive, we started to talk about craps — neither of the ladies had ever played and we heard the predictable "It's too confusing," "The cigars smell," etc...read more

Playing It Smart: How much money do you need to play video poker?

Sure. You can go to a casino flat broke, find a quarter on the floor, drop it into a slot machine, and enjoy a few hours of action on the way to a fortune. Back here on planet Earth, a 25-cent stake isn't apt to go very far. How much do you need to get a decent shot at staying in action and maybe emerging a winner? The answer depends on many factors...read more