Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 662

Elementary Card Counting Method Can Improve Your Game

Being labeled as a "card counter" gives a blackjack player a bad reputation among casino owners and operators. It has always struck me as odd that a person who plays the game with a high degree of skill is subject to being banned from putting that knowledge to work...read more

Hedges in Roulette Are Exceptions that Challenge the Rule.

Hedging bets in the casino, as in the real world, generally comes at a price. This, because the insurance or protection is an expense that rarely yields a return, and/or has a high cost premium. In casino gambling, the premium is typically a greater house advantage on the total at risk with the hedge than on the same amount bet entirely on the primary proposition...read more

Wrapping Up the G2E

Ever since the Global Gaming Expo in September, I've been relaying to you the games we can expect to see in the coming months on the slots and on the tables, noting trends toward multi-level progressive slots and using Hold'em as a base for new video poker and table games. It takes more than games to operate a casino, and the Future Watch survey of casino professionals taken at the expo tries to get a read on just where the industry is headed. One major trend over the last decade has been for casino operators to make the most out of revenue sources beyond the casino floor...read more

Contradictory information about slots

I have recently been reading about slot machines. I am seeing contradicting information. I have read that every spin on a slot machine is totally random and that it is theoretically possible to win a jackpot twice in a row or lose 1,000 times in a row...read more

Roulette: An Interesting Game

Roulette is a very popular game, particularly for inexperienced casino players. It has one of the highest house advantages of all the games in a casino. There is really no skill required before playing the game. The only choice the player has is what numbers to play and for how much...read more

Poker Can Be an Addiction or a Character Builder

I'm over 60 years old. Three years ago when I walked into a local poker room, I knew most of the players. Their average age was probably forty-something and three or four kinds of poker were being played throughout the room. Today when I walk into the room I don't recognize anybody...read more

Reviewing some fine points

Dear Mark, In Texas Hold'em, if two players have the exact same hand, is the pot divided evenly? What happens if there are leftover chips? Dale D. Because all five cards on the board (the flop, the turn and the river) in Texas Hold'em are communal, it is not uncommon for two or more players to end up with identical winning hands. When that happens, players with equal hands split the pot evenly among themselves...read more

Craps Primer

Ever walk into a casino and hear immediately a noise from way across the room? A lot of shouting and clapping and hootin' and hollerin'? Well, most likely, that's a craps game you hear. When an exciting game is going on, it attracts everyone's attention...read more

Lyle Berman Biography Examines Big Business, Start of WPT Concept

Who is Lyle Berman? What were his roots? How did he make his money and what made him discover how the game of poker could make millions for himself and others on an international level? Berman's biography, written with the assistance of Dr...read more

The Captain's 147-Number Roll

Hi, Frank, I just got through reading your article on "The Captain" and his 147 number hand on www.goldentouchcraps.com. That was really impressive. I am an aspiring craps player. I have just gotten into dice setting and rhythmic rolling and have found that it actually does swing the odds...read more