Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 6

Today's Casinos

CINDY: Are the games better now than ever before? Or have they gotten worse?ABBY: In general, I think they are not as good as the past. The casinos are better, many of them actually gleam, but the games are certainly not what they were ever before...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Giving up a sure thing playing NSU

I always thought it was strange that you almost always hold any four cards to a straight flush over 3-of-a-kind in NSU when you have one deuce. For example, when dealt 2♣ 6♥ 6♦ 9♦ 10♦, you would hold 2♣ 6♦ 9♦ 10♦ and go for the gusto and the straight flush and not hold the sure 3-of-a-kind (2♣ 6♥ 6♦)...read more

What About Mini-Baccarat?

QUESTION from LARRY:I just realized that there is a game in the casino where the house edges are really low, in the one percent ranges on two of the three bets. The third bet at the game is not so hot and I would avoid that one.The game is mini-baccarat...read more

Love and Casinos

Frank: I introduced you to Roulette Ralph several years ago. He is a heavy thinker about casino games and, as his name suggests, he is an inveterate roulette player.He has a new idea that he has been toying with (mentioned as the title of this article) and I find it quite interesting...read more

Bad Advantage Play

In the world of casino playing, there are good players and there are bad players. The good players use the lowest house edge bets at the games they play and keep their betting in an easily handled way with no horrors of worrying about losing their houses, businesses, or families...read more

Should You Tip Your Dealer?

From Teri.Mr. Stickman,I am a neophyte when it comes to playing blackjack (or truth be told, any casino game). I really enjoy being able to sit and relax at a table in a nice comfortable chair while playing the game. I also enjoy the banter and camaraderie between the players...read more

The Best of Times

CINDY: We have been playing in the casinos for over thirty years.ABBY: Yikes!CINDY: Where’d the time go?ABBY: As you get older it seems to go faster.CINDY: Miles per hour, I guess. When you are one years old, time is slow. A year is your entire life...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Project Moon. Project Meh?

On April 11, 1970, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert left the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center atop a Saturn V rocket to go to the moon. Their mission, Apollo 13, did not go as planned. Jim Lovell describes the problems the flight and ground crews had to solve in his book Lost Moon. Ron Howard used the book as the basis for his film Apollo 13...read more

What Should I Do?

QUESTION from WILLIAM:I am getting bored, make that annoyed, make that really annoyed, with playing the same old games. Let me explain.I like blackjack, craps, and roulette in inverse order you might say. So that would be roulette, craps, and blackjack...read more

Baccarat versus Mini-Baccarat

Announcer: “It’s a battle to the death folks, veteran baccarat against the new competitor that has for the last 20 or so years been unbeatable and that would be mini-baccarat. Both are champions in their own classes. Who can win this epic contest? The fans….”Frank: Oh, the heck with the fans...read more