Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 729

The Ultimate Blackjack Team?

If you can count cards and play with an edge at blackjack over the casino, why would you want to join a team? Here is why. The more hands you play as a card counter, the more likely you are to win. The results of two counters of equivalent skill each playing 5,000 hands are the same as one counter playing 10,000 hands...read more

Hedging in Roulette

Dear Frank, I have observed roulette on several occasions and never played. I have noticed that two areas of the board pay 2 to 1, those of course being the spots that allow the player to bet on columns and those that allow you to bet on the first, second, and third sets of 12 numbers. My local casino uses a roulette wheel that has only one zero space on it...read more

New Books Make Keno, Craps More Fun For Everyone

Two new books for casino players with some fresh information to generate new approaches to beating the games have arrived at Gambler's Book Shop. The first is Victor Royer's Powerful Profits from Keno (320 pages, paperbound, $12.95; the second is Larry Edell's 101 Ways to Win at Craps! (247 pages, plastic spiralbound, $19.95). Although new books on craps keno and craps are nothing new, each of these has new material for the 21st Century player...read more

$300K Blackjack Events Hit Tunica

Tunica Resorts becomes the blackjack capitol of America with two very large tournaments that offer $300,000 in prize money between them in the next couple of weeks. With the proximity of the tournaments at Grand and Gold Strike, they are expected to lure tour players from around the country to play in both. Play kicks off this weekend (Nov...read more

Pennsylvania's New Slot Law

"Politics is the art of the compromise" Anonymous Legalizing gambling is not the same as decriminalizing it. When a state's lawmakers decide to make gaming legal, they never repeal the state's criminal anti-gambling statutes. Instead, the legislature creates a licensing system for operators and suppliers...read more

Harrah's Party Pit Great But Not For Everybody

Harrah's East Chicago is putting the finishing touches on a multi-million dollar renovation of its casino in preparation for a gala grand re-opening later this month of a property that has been transformed into one of the most vibrant and exciting gaming environments in the Chicago area. Among the many developments on the spacious vessel is a "Party Pit", a concept that has been used at Harrah's property on the Las Vegas Strip and was also experimented with aboard the old Northern Star riverboat casino at Harrah's Joliet a number of years ago. The Party Pit is a new table games section on the second level...read more

Acing ACES Bonus Poker

My husband and I were playing those Game King machines with a bunch of different video poker games on them. He started playing 8-5 Bonus Poker, and I noticed that there was also 8-5 ACES Bonus Poker, which gives the same payoffs as Bonus Poker except that four aces in the right order pays 4,000 coins instead of 400. I asked my husband if we should play ACES instead and take a chance at the bonus, and he said he thought they fixed it so that the aces came up less often on that game. Is that how they work it? Do they give you the big bonus if you get lucky, but fix it so that you don't get lucky so often? Sally Given the same strategy, four aces or any other winning hand will occur with the same frequency, regardless of pay table...read more

KENO As seen by a Video Poker Expert

Although KENO is a simple game, with no strategy to learn, it is very much misunderstood. And no wonder! First of all, the mathematics is so complicated that the odds on even the simplest propositions cannot be arrived at mentally. In fact, most hand-held calculators are powerless to deal with it, either...read more

Honk If You Love Monopoly's Free Parking Video Slot

WMS Gaming's Monopoly franchise just keeps growing. Each game in the ongoing series features a clever twist on the themes and characters of the familiar Monopoly board game. To see if these slots still have what it takes, I checked out Free Parking...read more

You Can Prove Whatever You Want about Streaks and Trends

If you understand coin flipping, you have a good grasp on the essence of gambling, transcending the rules of individual games. Take the idea of streaks. Or -- if you prefer, trends, patterns, or charting -- which are ultimately variations on a common theme...read more