Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 565

Playing it smart - You can beat the casino

Many gamblers want to believe there are ways to beat the house. Without relying on luck or the occult. With methods that win consistently. If not every game or session, then at least in a manner that ensures more earnings than losses over reasonable time periods...read more

Top 10 poker strategy guides

Narrowing done the top-ten poker strategy books was a difficult exercise. With nearly every great player writing some type of quick book, locating the difference makers proved to be the key. The books in this top-ten don't necessarily represent the best strategy guides available...read more

A "Sob" story

Hi, Frank, Last weekend I was at Turning Stone, playing a $5 table. No one was at the table. I was having some good rolls. When Mega Ploppy buys in for $5000 after I just sevened out. Frank, you could smell his breath across the table...read more

Test Your Blackjack and Poker Knowledge with This Quiz

Most experts agree that blackjack and live poker are the only two casino table games that can be beaten outright. So let's test your blackjack and poker knowledge to see if you have what it takes to win. Following are nine multiple choice strategy questions pertaining to blackjack, Texas Hold'em and Omaha Hi/Lo Split...read more

Is 6/5 Jacks better to play than slots?

An upstate New York Indian casino's video poker machines are 6/5 JB (nickels, dimes, quarters, or dollars). Are these machines still better to play than the traditional slots and the new video slots? Bob Dear Bob, 6/5 Jacks or Better is as low as you can go in Jacks or Better pay tables...read more

Football angle books; NFL fact book; prospectus arrive

For those who want a quick, logical, sometimes illogical way of handicapping football, there are always angle books -- also called trend compilations. These books are treasured by those who believe or hope past patterns continue and because they don't want to burden themselves with power rating analysis; offensive vs...read more

Playing in Vegas: The Top 13 Casino-Hotels

You fly over Las Vegas at night and you come from the deep, dark desert and suddenly a city of lights explodes on your consciousness. As you fly over the town to land, you can see the casinos - the red and white lights; you can see the Stratosphere Tower reaching to tickle the feet of God; the MGM Grand pulsing green and the Luxor's skylight cutting the heavens...read more

Surface Computing the Wave of the Future for Gaming

Harrah's Entertainment and International Game Technology (IGT), two gaming industry giants, are among the commercial enterprises Microsoft chairman Bill Gates chose as launch partners to experiment with his company's venture into surface computing, which was unveiled with much fanfare earlier this year. Microsoft Surface takes computers off of desks and puts them in desks...read more

A look at the Four Winds Casino

A week before the Four Winds casino's Aug. 2 opening, I asked general manager Matt Harkness where he expected the customers to come from. "We expect most will come within about a 50-mile radius" of the New Buffalo, Mich., site, he said, while also explaining he thinks the customer base will reach southwest Michigan, northwest Indiana and northeast Illinois. That's a pretty broad geographic area, but then Four Winds is designed to be something that market hasn't seen before...read more

Heard it on the river

Was it a coincidence that upon returning from HARRAH'S CAEASAR'S PALACE in Las Vegas the corporation's earnings took a big jump? I hit the slots pretty hard there, giving not receiving, but not enough to send Harrah's second-quarter profit on an 85% surge...read more