Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 647

A Few Refinements to Generic Basic Strategy

Two weeks ago, I gave you a list of nine rules that I call "generic" basic strategy for playing blackjack. That generic basic strategy is certainly not perfect for every situation, but it will get you to within a one percent house advantage, which beats most other house edges. So, I thought that this week we would start discussing some refinements to those nine rules...read more

How Long is the Long Run?

Much of the criticism of Expert Strategy is based on the idea that the ‘long run’ in video poker would take either years of habitual play or several lifetimes for the more casual player. To be honest, I’ve never really seen a complete analysis of this concept...read more

Basic Craps is Common Sense

Let's go back to the beginning. Many of you have heard that craps is a great game (it is) because the house does not have a large edge at it. While some of the bets at craps are the best in the casino, most others range from awful to "awfuller" - and even worse than that...read more

Killer Sports Baseball Annual Record-Keeper, Betting Angles

One of the secrets smart baseball bettors understand is when a winning or losing streak has begun. By knowing when a team has peaked or flattened out they can intelligently shop for prices. However, tracking a streak correctly takes patience and the ability to interpret the pattern...read more

Are Casino Player's Clubs Our Friends or Foes?

Strategies and money management techniques for gamblers are almost universally reserved for slot machines, video poker and table games, but what about the other resource that casinos have to bolster their bottom lines that pose as much of a threat to a player's finances as betting? At issue here are player's clubs...read more

Variations on Craps: Are they Fixes for What Ain't Broke?

Many an invention is patented, then totally overlooked or noted and quickly dismissed. Innovations, especially improvements to existing items, that do take hold often share one or both of two characteristics. The first comprises features known to be needed or wanted that nobody knew how to implement effectively before, or that weren't even imagined to be desirable until they became available and everyone wondered how they could have done without them...read more

Blackjack Winning Strategy Home Study Course

Learning from books is a wonderful thing. I love books. I write books. And in my spare time, I spend quite a lot of time reading books. But sometimes there's nothing like a little hands-on experience. That goes double with learning to count cards at blackjack, where books can teach you the theory, but it takes practice to apply that theory in a casino environment...read more

More on tournament slot machines

Been to Monaco (Monte Carlo) and the French Riviera. Vegas surely has a way to spoil us. I have been to quite a few casinos in Europe and yet to find one that compares to the Vegas experience. Having said that, I did have a good time...read more

The Secrets of the Threes and Elevens

Pssst... Wanna know a secret? How about the secrets of the 3s and 11s? The 3s and 11s roll only twice in thirty-six rolls, or once in eighteen rolls. The payoff for the 11 (or 3) is 15-to-1, which means that if you bet $5 and the 11/3 hits on the next roll, you'll win $75...read more

Playing for Comps

My wife and I recently took an overnight at a casino near us and the experience, not the casino, brought back some fond memories of my favorite casino. That casino was the top floor of the old Playboy casino, later named the Atlantis, located in Atlantic City. The Playboy/Atlantis casino was patterned after European casinos in that it had three different levels with the stakes going higher as the level went up...read more