Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 714

New Wrinkles on Video Poker

Along with looking at all the slot machines and new table games at the Global Gaming Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center, I set aside a little time each year to look at new video poker games. That's one of the fun parts of the convention, for when I play for fun and relaxation, video poker is right at the top of my list. Most of the new games, of course, were at the IGT booth...read more

Should You Bother to Learn the Optimum Strategy for Video Poker?

Many casino visitors think that, in games requiring decisions during the action, what the gurus call "optimum strategy" doesn't matter much. They're right in that someone can win with guesswork and lose with the laws of probability; further, while arithmetic occasionally yields conclusions contrary to those that sensible solid citizens would reach using their little grey cells, the two often coincide or differ only slightly...read more

Heard it on the River

You could sense an upset in the making as the underdog hung on tenaciously while the opposition circled, waiting for the kill that never came. After all, he was just a college kid from Wisconsin and they were three of the world's top poker professionals playing out of Las Vegas...read more

No W-2Gs for Table Players! Is That Fair?

We read your columns regularly, especially regarding video poker, which we love. In Jacks or Better, what to do when you have two face cards in the same suit and nothing else. Should you hold just one in hopes of getting a quad or hold both for a RF or SF? Thanks, Joe and Bobbi Dear Joe and Bobbi, Thanks for the kind words about my column. In Jacks or Better, you should hold a two-card royal over holding just one of the cards. Best of luck in and out of the casinos, John Hello, John, This question may be out of your area of expertise, but I will ask anyway...read more

Bad beats we've all known and loved

Dear Mark, Get this for a bad beat in a Texas Hold'em tournament I recently played in. With nine players remaining I'm dealt a pair of kings in the hole. The flop comes K-3-3. Naturally I go "all in." Across from me a player was holding 6-5 suited, then matches one of the threes...read more

GOLDEN TOUCH BLACKJACK CLASSES IN TUNICA FEBRUARY 26 AND 27

Title: GOLDEN TOUCH BLACKJACK CLASSES IN TUNICA FEBRUARY 26 AND 27 This simple to play yet powerful method gives players a verifiable, mathematical edge over the casinos. Four of the world's best known, best-selling gambling authors and experts have announced the creation of a new blackjack instructional course based on a revolutionary new method of advantage play...read more

Ask Frank: Will Your Books Be Revised?

Hi, Frank, I throughly enjoy your braps and blackjack books. Are any of your books going to be revised, such as Captains Craps Revolution or Beating the Craps out of the Casinos? Finally, do you know ANY Atlantic City or Connecticut casino that offers Red and Black Blackjack? Warm regards, Bill Dear Bill, Both of the books that you mentioned are being revised...read more

Jest for Fun

Joe: "Is your wife a good bridge player?" Tim: "No. She's awful! You can tell by the expression on her face how she's going to play." Joe: "Poker face?" Tim: "No, but I sometimes feel like it." * * * * * Disgruntled patron to slot host, "You told me when I arrived how loose your slots were. Now tell me once again...read more

Wisconsin Student Wins $1.51 Million in Binion World Poker Open

TUNICA RESORTS, MS (Jan. 28)--He took a week off from classes at the University of Wisconsin to take in some side action at the 6th Annual Jack Binion World Poker Open. He didn't know he would soon be swimming with some of the most aggressive poker sharks in the world last Thursday night. John Stoltzman, only 23 and set to graduate from Wisconsin with a degree in philosophy this spring, shocked the growing world of poker with a stunning victory in the WPO named after the legendary Binion. His victory in the Texas Hold 'Em championship event, for which a record 512 players competed, came over one of the best final tables in the six-year-old tournament held jointly at GoldStrike and Horseshoe casinos here in the Mississippi Delta...read more

The Problem with Craps

There's a serious problem with craps that is not found in blackjack or, to a lesser degree, in other casino card games such as Caribbean Stud and Let it Ride. Craps is stagnant. Blackjack is dynamic. Now you would think that with all the shouting, moaning, cheering, snapping, clapping and groaning going on at a craps table, and with the usually silent though crowded blackjack tables (except when liquored-up, backward baseball-cap wearing post-teen boys start yelling because they won a $5 bet) that craps would be the dynamic game and blackjack would be the stagnant game. Looks are deceiving, goes the cliché and that cliché happens to ring true in this case...read more