Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 645

How Craps Players Can Tame the Seven that Ends every Roll

Playing craps with Pass and Come or Place and Buy bets puts you in peril of losing money on the boxes when a seven eventually ends every roll. If the seven pops immediately or soon after you've loaded the bases, the bankroll damage for the sequence can be devastating...read more

Don't Surrender to the Temptations of Casino Surrender

I've heard that surrender is a good thing for blackjack players, even though you don't see it that often. Does the same thing go for Casino Surrender? I've seen it at three or four different casinos now, and I'm wondering if it's something I should be doing. Despite its name, Casino Surrender seems more akin to the "even money" form of insurance than to surrender...read more

Defending Harrah's

The recent topic about customer service at Harrah's now that it has taken over Caesers Entertainment generated more letters than any other topic besides the RNG. Here are some more letters about Harrah's and, finally, some writers have positive experiences to report. Hi, John, I wanted to weigh in on the discussion of Harrah's...read more

King of Vegas

How does that old song go? "There's no business like show business...like no business I know." Hey, I've always been a movie and TV fan. When I was a kid I wanted to be a movie star when I grew up. What a glamorous way to make a living. Plus I wouldn't have to ask my dad for money any more. Then it happened...read more

Should You Split This Pair?

Four of us were at the blackjack table. First base had a pair of deuces against the dealer's deuce up. He looked around the table with a quizzical expression on his face. "Split'em", advised the player at third base. "No, not against a deuce", commented another...read more

Keen eyes and a drop of the weird

Dear Mark, I was asked to leave a casino because a pit boss believed I was adding more chips to my bet on a roulette table after the dealer “supposedly” called no more bets. I told him I didn’t hear the dealer say it, and that I was just adding chips to my favorite number, which I believe he was upset at because it just happened to be a winner...read more

Blackjack and "Soft" Hands

Last week, we discussed refinements to the first three blackjack basic strategy rules. Those rules dealt with hard hands, that is, hands without an ace or hands with an ace that count as 1. The next two rules concern soft hands, or hands with an ace that counts as either a 1 or 11...read more

Dice Sets for the Field

Hi, Frank, I recently saw an interesting article about dark side shooting on the Golden Touch Craps (www.goldentouchcraps.com) website. Here's my question. Is there any dice set in your opinion (one commonly known or something you or others have created) that is useful for producing field numbers and is also useful for avoiding Big Red? The set I hear is good for producing field numbers is 6/5 - 5/6. E.Z. P.S...read more

Author Exposes Cheating In Live Games and On the Internet

Richard Marcus is no angel. He's been cheating in casinos and at poker tables for more than two decades. His first book, American Roulette, published three years ago, outlined how he scammed casinos at blackjack, craps, roulette and baccarat and was never detected...read more

Department of Interior Leadership Change Comes at a Critical Time

On Friday, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton submitted her resignation to President Bush after serving for five years. Ms. Norton is resigning at the end of this month. Deputy Interior Secretary Lynn Scarlett will assume leadership of the Department until President Bush appoints a successor...read more