Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 806

Ask Frank: The Craps Supersystem

Dear Frank, I just got done reading your book Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos. I like it a lot. I see you writing a lot of articles on craps that are also good, but I am wondering if the supersystem is the best still and the most logical to making money at the casino, because it seems to me that it is almost impossible to get hurt real bad just because of the 5 count and also if the roller does not roll your point on three consecutive rolls you take your odds off your come bets...read more

Video Keno, Progressive Slot Machines

My question is about video keno. Yes, I know it is the game with the worst odds for winning but I'm hooked. Are video keno machines also run by a RNG? Is there any truth that it doesn't matter what numbers you select, that if the machine is going to hit it doesn't matter what numbers you pick? One of the hosts at a local casino was telling us that, if a particular machine is paying out too often, after the casino closes at 5:00 a.m...read more

'Pick'Em Poker Guide' by Dancer, Iskoe's 'NFL Analysis,' 'Black Book' All Helpful

Bob Dancer and Liam Daily's long-awaited "A Winner's Guide to Pick'Em Poker" (55 pages, paperbound, $10); Andy Iskoe's "NFL Teams & Situations" (145 pages, spiralbound, $29.95) and Marc Lawrence's "Black Book (A Guide to Picking College and Pro Football Winners)" (107 pages, paperbound, $29.95) each have a special role in helping create smarter gamblers and each have arrived at Gambler's Book Shop in Las Vegas this week. The "Pick'Em Poker" book should get people in Atlantic City busy, since the game's theoretical return is 99.95 percent and there are more of this type of video machine there than in Nevada...read more

Making Cashless Slot Technology Work for You

Last week's column was devoted to the cashless slot machine technology to which casinos in gaming jurisdictions around the country are converting. In addition to being a cost-cutting strategy for the casinos, players can also use the revolutionary system to increase their chances of leaving a winner...read more

John Grochowski Reviews Owning Mahowny

When I popped a preview copy of Owning Mahowny into my VCR, my mission was to see whether the gambling, and the portrayal of a problem gambler's descent into bank embezzlement to the tune of $10 million, rang true. I knew it was based on a true story...read more

What Can Gamblers Learn from Superstitious Pigeons?

Superstition is the presumption of a cause-and-effect relation that can neither be conclusively proved nor refuted. Increased knowledge occasionally reveals a connection and shows such an inference to be valid. Often, however, superstitions are without merit and what appears to be causality is merely coincidence...read more

Stalking the willy craps vipers

Dear Mark, I have been told the Stratosphere, in Las Vegas, has a crapless craps game. So if the button is OFF and a 2, 3 or 12 are rolled, these numbers do not lose, but they are established as points. Is this correct? This seems too good to be true...read more

Scobe's Quick Tips: #47 and #48 (Craps: Any Seven and Big Red)

Scobe's Quick Tip #47 The worst bet on the craps table is the bet called Big Red or Any Seven. This is a one-roll bet that the next number will be a 7. There are six ways to win this bet and thirty ways to lose this bet. That means you face 5 to 1 odds...read more

RNG, Hit Frequency, Winning at Slots, Volatility Index

I am planning on giving a seminar on playing slots to a large group of home owners. I would like to purchase some pictures of certain basic machines to use as visual aids. Can you help me as to where I can acquire these pictures? I did try to download some with the computer, however they were too blurred...read more

Jest for Fun

Casinos are always coming up with new ways to make money. For instance, one casino introduced a new type of bar room. It has free beer and pay men's rooms. * * * * * There's a new slot machine out there called Butcher. It does a neat job of chopping up your bankroll...read more