Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 557

Should I take a dice-setting course if I don't have a craps table at home?

What value is participating in a presetting dice-tossing class if you don't have a table at home to practice on? Wishing you and yours continue success, good health (always) and many more years of "pleasant dreams ..." Kindest regards, Marvin Retired dice dealer Dear Marvin: Good question...read more

The secrets of attitude

Pssst... Wanna know a secret? How about the secret of increasing your profits with a successful attitude? Many people have a strange attitude about gambling. They look at it as recreation, and go to their favorite resort planning to lose up to a certain amount of money, and then they stop, because that's all they brought. Wanna know the secrets that craps pros use to maintain a successful attitude? Let's find out now how they do it! A craps pro always has a specific plan when he gambles...read more

Some useful shirt-pocket truths

Dear Mark: What are your thoughts on a blackjack game where all the cards are dealt face up, including the dealer's cards? Why is the casino giving you such an advantage by exposing both of their cards? Alex M. Of all the possible blackjack rule variations, viewing both of the dealer's cards before you play your hand is the absolute best...read more

Omaha Hi/Lo Poker primer: Clearing up the confusion

Due to the No-Limit poker tournaments on television, Texas Hold'em is all the rage today, but another flop-style poker game is still widely played by many veterans of poker. Omaha Hi/Lo is more of an "action" game than Hold'em because the pot gets split between the best high and low hands...read more

Hong Kong Puts Race and Sports Books in Winner's Circle

Last month a blockbuster business deal was announced that has the potential to impact betting on horse races as much as a world-wide area of linked machines would impact betting on slots: Live simulcasting and legalization of co-mingled betting on races from the renowned 123-year-old Hong Kong Jockey Club. Thoroughbred horse racing is the number one spectator sport in the Hong Kong region...read more

A shuffle through the gaming mailbag

Q. I went to the new Four Winds casino in Michigan, and found a video poker game that was really strange, and I mean that in a good way. It was called MultiPay Poker, and sometimes it paid more than the pay table said it should. I'd get three of a kind, which the pay table said paid 15 coins, and sometimes I'd be paid 15, but every once in a while I'd get 20...read more

Playing it Smart - It helps to know what you're doing

Jill and Phil were discussing jacks-or-better video poker. They disagreed about starting hands of two pair when one is jacks or higher. Jill remarked that all the books tell you to hold both pairs and dump the unrelated card. Phil insisted that those books were written by casino stooges who wanted you to lose, or to win as little as possible, and you should hold only the high pair. Here's Phil's logic...read more

Where should I play slots in Las Vegas?

I am going to Las Vegas for the first time in November and I want to play the slots. I watched a Play To Win video that told me to pick a casino with the best payout percentage as recorded by that state's gaming commission. I cannot seem to find this information anywhere...read more

Craps Throw: Overhand or Underhand?

Dear Frank: I see that some people throw underhand and some overhand. Is the delivery the same or are there adjustments made for each? Ken Dear Ken: The overhand throw allows us to get a sufficient amount of back spin to be able to retard the forward movement of the dice enough to allow them to hit the back wall quite softly where they die...read more

When Social Engineering Is a Disaster

It's hurricane season again, bad news for the states bordering the Gulf of Mexico. It's shocking to see how little has been done to protect New Orleans. In fact, in the entire gulf coast region, probably the most significant steps taken to protect life and property have been with the gaming industry of Mississippi...read more