Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 589

Legal Poker Under Prohibition 2.0

Bill Frist, then Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate and now ex-would-be presidential candidate, designed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act ("Prohibition 2.0") to cover Internet poker. He defined "bet or wager" as including risking something of value on the outcome of a contest, sports event "or a game subject to chance." Is there any game, even chess, that is not "subject to chance?" But Frist, whose arrogance was matched only by his incompetence, actually created the greatest explosion of creativity in the poker industry that I have ever seen...read more

Heard it on the river

It's going to be a stretch for some gamblers…is a first place prize of $100,000 worth a shot for a $1,000 buy-in? I've plunked down up to $500 several times to get into blackjack tournaments and will have to reach down to get in the quarter million bucks tournament that will take place at the HORSESHOE on Saturday April 21...read more

Deal me in

Dear Mark: In any poker game, are additional cards like a kicker ever used after your five cards are ranked? For instance, two players share four cards on the board, and one of cards in their two-card hand is the same, both creating identical straights...read more

Learn your table-game lessons: Part three: Pai Gow Poker

Pai Gow Poker is played with a 52-card deck and one joker. The joker can only be used as an ace or to complete a straight, a flush or a straight flush. Each player must make two poker hands that rank higher than the dealer's two poker hands...read more

Some suggested reading to prep for '07 baseball

Are you looking for something to read to help you get a feel for off-season trades, free agent signings, coming off injuries and young guns on the mound at the plate for baseball 2007? Sure, you should be following spring training action to see which arms are back from rehab and such...read more

Poker deals charitable gambling a winning hand

Charitable organizations at one time turned to bingo and Las Vegas nights for fundraising events. Today they're capitalizing on the poker craze to help generate financial support for their programs. Texas Hold'em poker tournaments for charity are no penny ante fundraisers...read more

Roulette

Roulette has been with us for more than two centuries. Modern wheels, complete with red and black spaces, numbers 1 through 36 and zeroes, have been traced back to Paris in the 1790s. And for more than 200 years, the math has been well known...read more

Doubling in blackjack when basic strategy says "no"

Doubling down in blackjack is a powerful tool for players. Solid citizens can make second bets up to the amounts of their first, after seeing their initial two cards. The second bet is an option for use under favorable conditions. A limitation is that players get one and only one card, which isn't always to their liking...read more

Married poker and the eight commandments

Dear Mark: I love Three Card Poker. My husband says that the only bet I should make when playing the tables is on the Pairs Plus. Do you have any ideas on that? Also, I hear that Three Card Poker has the best odds behind craps. Is that true? Mary Jo H...read more

Responses to the tickling slots letter

You weren't serious about the "tickling" slot machines, were you? Wouldn't such "tickling machines" (machines that are linked so that playing both would generate wins) be illegal? From your February 19th article (in part): The bartender went into the backroom behind the bar and returned with the slot mechanic...read more