Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 682

Economic Diversification Will be Key for Long Term Tribal Success

The recent explosion of Indian gaming in this country has helped many communities lift themselves out of poverty, with prospects for a bright future. However, with the increasing number of casinos, racinos, and the growth of Internet gambling all competing for the gaming dollar, tribes now need to focus on investment and growth of other business opportunities to ensure their long-term success...read more

Heard it on the River

The private reception for the exceptional show, BALAGAN, was a great coming out party in Tunica for GOLDSTRIKE under its new management but how do you follow up that wonderful soiree with impact? How about putting in what folks hereabouts like the most, more slots...read more

Get Ready for Next Wave of Improvements at the Majestic Star

Attracting a bigger share of the market isn't an easy feat to pull off, especially in a competitive nine-property gaming jurisdiction such as exists in the Greater Chicago land area, but that's exactly what the Majestic Star Casino in Gary has done over the last year and a half in the wake of an ongoing improvement and renovation project. Executives with the high-energy riverboat complex aren't resting on their laurels...read more

Can You Win in the Casino without Doing Your Homework First?

Everybody likes to win money at the casinos. Second best is being able to participate in the action for a satisfactorily long session on a stake that seemed sensible before leaving home. A distant third is not tapping a spouse, friend, or debit/credit kiosk in the lobby in a desperate effort to continue or recover...read more

Texas Hold'em and Penny Slots: Both Hot

Texas Hold'em and penny slot machines may seem like they're on the opposite ends of the casino spectrum, but they have a couple of things in common: Both are hot. Very hot. And a few short years ago, both were not. Very not. Until televised poker --- World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, Celebrity Poker Challenge and others --- turned no-limit Hold'em into a global cultural phenomenon, casinos seemed to be falling over themselves to see who could close their card rooms first...read more

Sideline fan wants some action

Dear Mark, I usually go to Vegas during the early spring, so I've never bet on football, but I will be there this year in mid-September. Unfortunately, I have no idea how the betting works, specifically teasers and parlays. Can you shed some light on this? Chris S. Of course, Chris, nice question...read more

Changing the Telnaes Map on a Machine

Hi, John: We only go to Vegas once every one to two years. We have a small bankroll, usually a few hundred bucks. We usually play slots, but on our last trip we started playing video poker and did reasonably well (that is, we didn't lose as much as usual!)...read more

Should I Quit While I'm Ahead?

Question. I had a typical day at the casino not long ago. I won a little money at the blackjack table, then I piddled it away a little at a time -- 20 bucks on a slot machine, another 20 at video poker, then I went back to blackjack and lost a little more...read more

Choosing a Casino

Many players think that one casino is the same as another when it comes to playing blackjack. This is not so. Generally speaking, there is some type of local government that regulates them all, however, in most cases the casino itself will set its own specific rules for the game...read more

Poker Strategy Doesn't Have One 'Sacred' Way to Play

The thing that makes poker infinitely deep and endlessly challenging is the psychological aspect of the game. If your blackjack dealer could choose whether to hit or stand on 16, for example, playing your own hand would be far more complicated...read more