Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 807

Scobe's Quick Tips: #45 and #46

Scobe's Quick Tip #45 Never take insurance in blackjack with this exception: In single-deck games, if the dealer is showing an Ace, and you have no 10s in your hand and you notice that there are no 10s in the hand of the person next to you, then insure...read more

Heard it on the River

There is still a lot of local buzz on the purported sale of Horseshoe with the list of wooers on the rise. When we last reported to you, AMERISTAR was supposedly on top of that list but since then we've heard MGM might be in the mix and one or two others...read more

Biloxi, 5-Level Return Device, Revoked Chips

Hello John, I am a slot player and will be visiting Biloxi casinos in July. Can you tell me which casinos you have heard are the best for paying off? Also what have you heard concerning the payouts or any other useful info concerning the Beau Rivage? Thanks for your speedy response...read more

2003 Global Gaming Expo

Four weeks from now gaming industry personnel from around the globe will descend on Las Vegas, Nevada, for the third annual Global Gaming Expo (G2E). This year's event is scheduled for September 16-18, 2003 at the Las Vegas Convention Center...read more

Iskoe's College Football Study; New Caro and Capelletti Title Moving Well at GBC

Andy Iskoe's College Football book (142 pages, 8x11 plastic spiralbound, $29.95) and the new collaboration by Mike Caro and Mike Cappelletti titled Poker at the Millennium (Hold 'em and Omaha) (363 pages, paperbound, $19.95) have arrived at the Gambler's Book Shop (Gambler's Book Club). Iskoe lists more than 100 teams in his volume, which looks at how teams performed in more than two dozen categories for each of the last six years; for the last three years overall or the last six years overall...read more

Ready for EZ Pay? You Bet We Are!

I'll admit to giving cashless slot machine technology a lukewarm reception when it was first introduced to selected casinos in Las Vegas a couple of years ago. Silencing the sounds of coins cascading into trays and experiencing the joy of scooping them into buckets and marching to the cashier seemed to be one of the simpler pleasures of a casino outing...read more

Multi Strike Poker

It was a Friday morning in Joliet, and I'd been playing a little video poker aboard Empress II, waiting for the 11 a.m. opening of Empress I and its video poker room. Soon, if it hasn't already happened by the time you read this, Empress' new barge will open, ending such little scheduling inconveniences, but on this day, I found myself passing time with a little quarter Triple Play Poker...read more

Hope and Science in Dollar Stores, Used Car Lots, and Casinos

Everybody occasionally runs into something that seems too good to be true. Strange how often it's at 99-cent or dollar stores, used car lots, or casinos. Experience ought to prepare people to know better. But Alexander Pope had it nailed in 1733 when he wrote, in An Essay on Man, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" and also lamented, "His soul proud Science never taught to sway." Video poker variations with wild cards and machines offering "more ways to win" or secondary bonus rounds nurture such hope...read more

Craps A to Z Series - W is for Working

Have you ever wondered why some people call their bets on (working) or off (not working)? And what does that have to do with making more money? Let's find out! Usually, if you have a bet on the layout that is left over from the previous shooter, it is "off" until the next come out...read more

Using a nickel to protect a penny

Dear Mark, Using Atlantic City Blackjack rules with my computer, I ran an experiment and I played many hundred of hands. When I was dealt two hard tens and the dealer had either a five or six showing, instead of standing pat, I split the tens and doubled down...read more