Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 525

Playing It Smart: Can you learn more from the future than from the past?

The philosopher, George Santayana, famously said that those who cannot learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. More mundanely put, experience is the best teacher. Is it true? In "Fooled by Randomness" (Random House), Nassim Nicholas Taleb writes that history only seems deterministic -- effect following from cause -- when viewed backwards in time...read more

Which video poker machines are the best?

I would like to know what video poker machines are better to play. For example, some have wild cards, others pay only for 3-of-a-kind or better, etc. Lois Dear Lois, Asking this question is like asking which type of music is better...read more

Do you know of any strategies or concepts that center on the player and not the dice?

Dear Frank: Hi, my name is Shawn and I have been playing and studying craps for a few years now. I am an economics student and therefore have a love of charts and graphs. I am in the middle of coming up with a very different theory on craps...read more

Deal Me In: Is stretching your bankroll by betting one coin at a time a good idea?

Dear Mark: I am a senior citizen on a very limited budget, but I do enjoy my monthly bus trips to the casino. In the past, you have written that you should always play the maximum coin amount when playing slots, but if I do, especially on a quarter machine, I'm sitting, waiting and coinless long before the bus leaves...read more

The Horn Bet

A couple of weeks ago one of my colleagues asked me if I knew why the Horn bet in craps has such strange odds. I had to confess that since I never bet the Horn I didn't even know what the odds were. "17 to 4" he told me. "You're right," I said, "those are peculiar odds and yours is a reasonable question; I'll look into it." Let me give you a bit of background...read more

Betting The Don't

The game of craps can be very exciting. It can also be very frustrating. One of the great draws to this game is the variety of bets available. One can bet with the shooter, betting that he will make the point number before the 7 shows, or one can bet that the 7 will rear its ugly head before the shooter repeats the point number. Two of the very best bets on the table are the pass line / come bets (with the shooter), and the don't pass / don't come bets (against the shooter)...read more

How do you deal with the back wall in a controlled dice throw?

Mr. Scoblete, Let me start by saying thank you for all the effort you have put in to your dice control system. I have studied it and been practicing for about 4 months at 5-8 hours/week. I have just returned from Vegas and I noticed that even on my very good rolls after the dice hit the wall they would split and rotate more than once...read more

Poker tourneys, Cuba and the Mob; Lawrence's playbook sizzling sellers

Nothing like a nice "variety pack" of books to choose from, I always say. Getting attention this time around are poker, the Mafia and football betting.In order, the new arrivals are Winning Poker Tournaments (One Hand at a Time) by Eric (Rizen) Lynch, Jon (Apestyles) Van Fleet and Jon (Pearljammer) Turner (421 pages, paperbound, $29.95); Havana Nocturne (How the Mob Owned Cuba and Lost It to the Revolution) by T...read more

Misinformation about Slot Machines Abounds

The majority of people who play slots know very little about the operation of the machines, the computer programs that drive them, and the economics of the games. This fact is through no fault of their own, because casinos operators, quite frankly, are content to keep it that way...read more

Casino message boards

Just like any other topic under the sun nowadays, casino gambling is discussed endlessly on Internet message boards. Online, players gather to swap stories about wins, losses, restaurants, rooms and comps, report on their latest trips and trade strategy tips. I check in on a few message boards from time to time, many of which have no fee to join in the fun...read more