Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 788

The no seven shooter

Dear Mark, In a your May 15, 2001 column in Casino Guide online, you wrote the longest roll without a seven being rolled was 3 hours, 6 minutes. I was at the Golden Phoenix in Reno, NV this weekend, and the roll lasted 3 hours, 10 minutes without a seven. Since I watched the first hour of the roll, I only scored $2200 off a $100 buy-in, playing only place and come bets with max odds. However, those who were betting the table max ($500 plus 3-4-5 odds) by the end of the third hour scored $3,500 on a couple points, totaling about $15,000 for the roll...read more

What Can Schwarzenegger Really Do?

Voters want Arnold Schwarzenegger to redo every deal Gov. Gray Davis made, including tribal casino compacts. It is easy to understand why - Davis was incompetent and corrupt. Even when Davis did not personally ask for money and negotiate sweetheart contracts, he surrounded himself with people who did so on his behalf. The Barry Keene scandal is typical...read more

There's More Than One Way to Skin a Blackjack Cat

A while back, I received an e-mail from a reader who said he wonders if he hasn't stumbled upon a way to beat casino blackjack without becoming a card counter. He says he's beaten the game over the course of several hundred hours this year simply by "loading up" on advantageous situations and asked me to evaluate his game plan. These advantageous situations he describes are one of the facets of "Hand Interaction", a technique which I've discussed in print a few times over the past couple of years. This fellow who has asked to remain nameless goes to the $10 tables, bets the minimum and plays all his hands according to perfect basic strategy...read more

Rhythmic Rolling and the Gambler's Jamboree

This is the last of my four-part series on craps and deals with some mathematical issues related to the subject of rhythmic rolling. This is a term that refers to controlled shooting, specifically, setting and delivering the dice in a manner that increases the frequency of a seven occurring on the comeout roll and reduces the frequency of a seven occurring the rest of the time...read more

Scobe's Quick Tips: #69 and #70 (Biased Roulette Wheels, Betting Systems)

Scobe's Quick Tip #69 In roulette, it is always better to bet with a trend than against a trend on the off chance that there is something wrong with the wheel. Such "biased-wheels" will tend to repeat certain numbers and avoid other numbers...read more

End of Year Tax Tip

Now that we're in the home stretch of the calendar year, many financial columns give last-minute, end-of-the-year tax tips to minimize your taxes. So I want to take this opportunity to give you a tip to minimize your taxes if you received a W-2G sometime during the year. The usual disclaimer: The rules for dealing with gambling winnings are not clear cut and I'm not a tax specialist...read more

Argument Over VLTs at Tracks Heats Up

This week the Michigan Legislature begins its final week of scheduled session for the 2003 calendar year. The Michigan Senate and House are tentatively slated to meet next week with its holiday recess scheduled to begin during the third week of December...read more

Heard it on the River

TUNICARESORTS…SPORTS CAPITAL OF THE MID-SOUTHHas a nice ring to it and may sound farfetched right now but the county is on the right road to positioning itself as a sporting destination. Some thing have to fall in place, like $100 million for the proposed TUNICA MOTORSPORTS track complex but let's look at our glass as half full right now with what we've got...read more

Locals Flair at Buffington Harbor

For a good number of years following the introduction of state-sanctioned casinos to the Chicago area more than a decade ago, the gambling options were one-dimensional. That is, it was a seller's market. High minimums at the table games, sub-par video poker product, and an emphasis on the "high rollers" reigned supreme...read more

A Comparison of Chicago-Area Casinos - Part 6: Video Poker

For most of the past few weeks, I've been reporting on a tour of Chicago-area casinos, giving my picks for the best hotels, dining, blackjack, other table games and slot machines. Before moving on to a series of columns on new developments in gaming from the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, let's wrap up the tour with a look at the area's best video poker...read more