Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 70

Roulette: Tradeoffs

CINDY: Roulette has been a casino game or a casino-like game for 400 years since Blaise Pascal invented it. We all know that Pascal was looking to discover a perpetual motion machine. He didn’t get to do that; no one has yet.ABBY: Maybe such spinning devices were used for centuries before Pascal...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Cashless but not crashless

I was at Suncoast the Tuesday after Christmas to earn the points I needed to requalify for Emerald status on a point multiplier day. Santa left a number of prezzies for me on the machines I played on Christmas Day. I was hoping for a repeat performance on Tuesday. I started out with a very nice ($273) bonus round on Magic of the Nile...read more

Pride Goes Before the Fall

Confidence is a good thing. If you are a basketball player going into a big game and you have to cover their best player, then you need to know you can (and will) be successful at it. Or hitting that great pitcher on the other team; you can do it! Running through those big burly guys on the other football team? “Run, Forest, run!”Go through any event in life where your effort makes a difference and your effort will make a difference...read more

Beating Craps

QUESTION: How does playing craps online affect the odds? With no live shooter, it seems like something should be different.ANSWER: The odds are exactly the same, assuming random results. There are still 36 possible combinations of two dice...read more

Craps Betting Sequence Questions

Hello Stickman.I saw an article you wrote about pass line and come bets.That is what I play and my method is $25 on the pass line, then $50 odds. Then I come bet twice with same $25/50, then I stop betting.Two questions:1. Should I do more come bets?2...read more

Craps: Tradeoffs

CINDY: Last week we looked at the tradeoffs you have when playing blackjack. This week we look at craps.ABBY: Craps and roulette are probably tied for second place in the table game rankings and have been so for decades ever since blackjack swept the field in the 1960s with the coming of the card counting revolution.CINDY: Craps was the World War II game that came up from the South and was originally called crabs...read more

Ask the Slot Expert: Bao Zhu Zhao Fu firecrackers -- the follow-up

Last week I wrote about Bao Zhu Zhao Fu (BZZF) and whether its strings of firecrackers really indicate how close you are to triggering a features. I said that based on the one time that I had played the game, I concluded that the firecracker indicator was real. I wasn't right...read more

Who or What Has the Power?

Casino players go to the casinos to win some money; in short, to win the casino’s money. They pit their strategies against the casino’s edges on all the games.And what do the casinos have? Well, their games are usually based on the random distribution of results...read more

New Slot Machines

Slot machine manufacturers strive to gain your attention and keep your play. Traditional reels augmented by ever-changing themes and bonuses are one way to go about that. Every now and then, game makers go for something completely different.Let's take a gander at a couple of new games on their way to casinos...read more

Video Poker Strategy Quiz 10-Q Suited or J-Q Unsuited?

This article contains a video poker strategy quiz. The game is full-pay (9/6 – 9-for-1 full house, 6-for-1 flush) jacks or better.The quiz assumes the maximum five credits is played. The maximum bet produces the highest long-term return because the royal flush pays 800-for-1 (4,000-for-5) rather than 250-for-1 if less than the maximum is bet.Look at the dealt hand below and decide which card or cards you would hold...read more