Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 771

Tipping Casino Hosts, Best Casinos Downtown Las Vegas

Love your newsletter. I would just like to know what an appropriate tip would be to give a Senior Casino Host that has been kind enough to comp me a few days stay and some concert tickets. I know that you had a newsletter recently outlining some tipping suggestions, but I accidentally deleted it off my computer. Thank you, June Dear June, Thanks for the kind words about the newsletter...read more

Two Pair or not Two Pair

One of the most confusing hands in Video Poker has got to be the Two Pair. It wasn't always this way. Back in the days of just Jacks or Better, I think most people quickly recognized the benefits of keeping the two pair even when one of the pair was a pair of Jacks or Better...read more

Gaming Control Board Bids Farewell to Three Dedicated Public Servants

On Tuesday, March 9th, the Michigan Gaming Control Board adopted resolutions recognizing and acknowledging the contributions of two of its former members (Roman Gribbs and Rich Davis) and Assistant Attorney General Eric Eggan who had been in charge of the casino control division since the Board's inception in 1996...read more

Bits and Pieces from Indian Country - January 2004

Gaming and politics are natural bedfellows. Gaming is a highly regulated industry; the enabling legislation and the taxation originate with politicians in their capacity as legislators. Indian gaming can be even more political that the rest of the industry...read more

Quicktakes - The month's trends in a glance - January 2004

The first month of 2004 is over; there is no new war on the horizon, but there is a presidential campaign, which to some might be the same as a war. The campaign will dominate the media if not the economy. The incumbent president is certainly motivated to continue the economic improvement, and that should be good for business in general...read more

World Poker Tour DVD Great Learning Tool; Triple Crown Handicapper Helpful

Besides providing some exciting poker viewing, The World Poker Tour (Season One Collection) ($99.99 for eight DVSs/13 episodes) is one of the best teaching tools ever for the person who dreams of making it big on the poker tournament circuit...read more

More Best Blackjack Deals in the Chicago Area

Serious blackjack players should always "scout" the games before they step up to a table and risk their money. House rules can vary greatly from casino to casino. Because blackjack is a game in which good players can significantly tilt the advantage closer in their favor (depending on the rules), deciding where to gamble does make a difference. Today I continue a series on the blackjack games available to players in the Chicago area...read more

New Year's Resolutions Revisited

When I gave my annual New Year's resolutions for gamblers a while back, I mentioned that an old friend of mine was teasing me, giving me the business about playing Scrooge by urging caution with money just a day after Christmas. But I heard from a couple of readers who didn't think the advice was Scroogelike at all...read more

Prize the Power of the Push at Blackjack

Good intuition can serve well in real life. And it can often be helpful in the surreal world of the casino. Often, not always. The sand in the gambling gears results partly from punting palaces being places where people are prodded, subtly in some cases and blatantly in others, to trust what they want to be true and not what they see or know is...read more

Home Sweet Home

I was an official resident of Las Vegas. Three weeks after hitting town, I landed a job shilling at the Pioneer Club and now I was moving into a studio apartment in the sticks with another shill from work named Diane. The apartment was a real dump, everything piled in one big room, along with a tiny bathroom we shared with the people next door. There was something else about the place that turned me off...read more