Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 563

Using Team Play to Avoid Heat at the Craps Table

Hi, Frank: I was watching the program about Dom "the Dice Dominator" on the Biography Channel's "Breaking Vegas" series. It occurred to me that it is better for the shooter to just have a minimum bet on the pass line and not exhibit the behavior that will draw the heat. The betting is best done by their partner out of the way. Thanks, Mike Dear Mike: You're a smart player...read more

Bonehead play: help or hindrance?

Dear Mark: I don't play at the $25 blackjack tables in Atlantic City where players are apt to know basic blackjack because I use a progression and $25 is too high a starting point. At the $10 or $15 tables I find players use hunches and don't even play identical hands in the same manner...read more

Can You Explain the Logic of a Superstitious Gambler?

My friend won't admit it, but he's a superstitious poker player. Whenever I suggest that his poker decisions are guided by superstition, he cops the ultimate defense by proclaiming, "I'm only superstitious about things that can affect my luck – but that's all"...read more

Featured game - Triple Treasure by Cyberslotz

Cyberslotz's newest game Triple Treasure offers fun for all the senses with a chance to win a 15,000 pound top prize. This five-reel 25-line slot offers spins ranging from 1 pence to 10 pounds per pull. The jackpot is activated when a line shows five pirate ships...read more

Isoke's NFL teams and situations; new fantasy book supersources

Logical Approach, aka Andy Iskoe, has always been a super resource for football bettors, and the arrival of his NFL Teams & Situations book (141 pages, 8x11 plastic spiralbound, $29.95) proves it again. Also, there's another new kid on the block at Gambler's Book Shop -- Fantasy Football, The Next Level by David Dorey (300 pages, paperbound, $15.99), which fans should read immediately as participants in league play are in their final stages of research...read more

The Ten Commandments of Slot Machines, Part 1

When Moses went up the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights to receive the commandments of God, the recently freed Israelites took a leaf from the book of the vanquished Egyptians, built themselves a golden calf, and threw a wild party. Moses was in spiritual retreat communing with the Lord, while his people were in the 1,400 BC version of a Las Vegas night. But all parties must come to an end, and the Israelites soon learned that imitating the vanquished Egyptians was not the smartest use of their time, talent and gold...read more

Four Winds Casino Resort Worth of Hype

The pre-opening hype for the Four Winds Casino Resort in New Buffalo, Michigan promised that "the game is about to change". Now that the spectacular property has been up and running for two weeks, Midwest gamblers aren't arguing with that claim. Lakes Entertainment, Inc...read more

A Shuffle Through the Gaming Mailbag

Q. I found a craps book with a lot of tips that some of the others hadn't written about. Who would have known that you can win a bet on Big Red? I've done it a couple of times and made $100 and $20 just by timing and counting the number of 7s that have or haven't shown up...read more

More on slot machines that pay both ways

John, Just reading today's column on machines that pay both ways... Actually, Atronic has a series of games on which you can wager an extra stake to engage "two-way pays" — right-to-left as well as left-to-right. It jacks up the hit frequency and doubles the scatter-pays. As you note, the programmer has figured out all the math ahead of time, so you'll obviously get a lot of lower-level hits...read more

The St Petersburg game: you have an advantage at Russian Roulette

The 18th Century mathematician, Nicholas Bernoulli, wondered about guidelines for making risk-reward decisions. His first guess was that a good criterion would involve "expected value," a way of relating odds and payoffs, comparable to using "edge." To see how this applies, picture a $10 bet with a $30 payoff a chance for a fourfold increase from $10 to $40...read more