Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 590

The secrets of preventing crapstress

Pssst... Wanna know a secret? How about the secrets of preventing crapstress? Crapstress is your stress level while playing craps in a casino. Many people's crapstress levels go way up when they play, even if they don't have a lot of money at risk...read more

Texas Hold'em is not a draw-out poker game

Once the flop hits the board in Hold'em, the leading hand holds up and wins the pot more often than in just about any other form of poker. So if you don't flop the best hand, you probably don't belong in the pot any more (with a few exceptions to be discussed later)...read more

Speed count revisited

Back in April of 2004 I wrote an article on this site entitled Blackjack Speed Count. The article gave a description of the properties of Speed Count including the edge a player using it could expect, as well as the fact that it is harder to detect than most other counts because a player will make increased wagers at times that other counts would not dictate...read more

Learn your table-game lessons: Part two: Three-Card Poker, Caribbean Stud, and Let It Ride

Three-Card Poker The player can bet on three propositions called Ante, Play and the independent Pair Plus. The dealer deals the player three cards and himself three cards. If a player has opted to place an Ante bet, when he looks at his three cards he must decide whether to stay in the game or fold...read more

Two 'must-have' baseball books for the 2007 season

Baseball bettors love to look ahead during the season as they wait for an angle (a certain pitching match-up for example) and often, they want to look back for historical verification of that angle. For those fans, here are two fresh-off-the-presses baseball tools for serious players who need their information fast and accurately...read more

Security measures protect both players and casino owners

The expansion of gaming both nationally and internationally has created opportunities for companies that specialize in protecting consumers and business owners from forgery and fraud. Casino business revolves around transactions involving not only currency but also paper and plastic instruments that have cash value...read more

Why the law of the maturity of chances seems to work but doesn't

Gamblers faring poorly sometimes turn to the thought – or the hope – that the more rounds they lose, the more they're due for a win. This idea gets an aura of authenticity with a technical name: the law of the maturity of chances. The principle is that whatever the probability of an event, the likelihood it'll occur repeatedly shrinks as the run stretches...read more

A Shuffle Through the Gaming Mailbag

Question. What percentage of blackjack players do you think are counting cards? Half? I just wonder, when I see players splitting 6s against a 10. They can't be counting cards. Answer. I doubt that half of blackjack players in casinos have studied a basic strategy chart, let alone count cards...read more

Are video poker machines rigged?

Hi, John, I sent you a quick question not too long ago . . . how many RNs required on a multiline slot? You had answered once before, the same number as the number of wheels/reels. BUT that actually conflicted (or at least I thought it did) with one of your previous articles when you suggested that playing more lines is just like playing more times ...read more

Moving Away from the Captain's Supersystem

Frank: I have been away from your column for several months -- too hard to think about craps when I am not visiting the casinos! I have to say I was taken aback by several references in recent columns that you are downplaying the Captain's Doey-Don't strategy...read more