Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 814

Do Your Choices Matter When Playing the Slots?

You can hear me give my slot and video poker tips live on The Good Times Show, hosted by Rudi Schiffer and Clyde Callicott with Frank Scoblete, which is broadcast from Memphis on WMC 790AM Saturday morning from 09:30-12:00 CT. One of the buzzwords in slot machine design today is player interaction...read more

Detroit and Windsor CMA Recognize Vital Role Played by Local Industry Leaders

n July 23, 2003 Casino Windsor's former top boss, Bobby Yee, will present the keynote speech at the Third Annual DetroitWindsor Casino Management Association Chapters Awards Dinner. At the event the CMA will recognize representatives from each of the four Detroit/Windsor area casinos for their efforts in advancing diversity initiatives at their respective casinos...read more

What If Illinois Race Tracks Get Slots?

After months of talk speculating about the possibility introducing slot machines to Illinois' horse racing tracks, steps toward making it a reality surfaced in Springfield earlier last month. A proposal was brought before the House Gaming Committee by racing industry leaders asking for 5,000 slot machines at Illinois' five race tracks. Although it's still a longshot, based upon Gov...read more

Blackjack Side Bets

Blackjack presents casino operators with something of a puzzle. It's the most popular casino table game, and has been since it overtook craps roughly 40 years ago. But it also has a low house edge, half a percent or so with a basic strategy that's not all that difficult to learn. They don't design games with house edges that narrow anymore...read more

Why It's Easy to Believe Rare Events Happen All the Time

Assume you go "with the dice" at craps. You start with a wager on the pass line, then likely add Odds and make Place, Buy, or Come bets after the come-out roll. Your worst nightmare is loading the layout, then watching the seven pop before you've collected anything...read more

Barney Vinson's World

May I have your attention, please? Welcome to our first annual Casino Awards Banquet. We are extremely happy to have the . . . could I get you to hold it down, guys? Frank, you want to take that lampshade off and have a seat? Thank you...read more

Reno - Hot Slots and Summer Fun!

Reno is still home to winner after winner, and I've been watching all kinds of happy people wandering around telling tales of jackpots. That is one of the reasons Reno is so much fun...and why people return time after time...read more

Four Card Poker Paradox

I'm sure you've all heard that old admonition "Be careful what you say, your words may come back to haunt you." Well, my words did come back to haunt me. Back in March of 2001 I wrote an article entitled Four Card Poker? I Don't Think So...read more

Ask Frank (Playing Winning Craps)

Dear Mr. Scoblete: In your book Forever Craps, you recommend to play one Don't Come bet per shooter without odds in order to reduce your exposure to the house. I usually play at casinos that count the spread and odds...read more

Ask The Slot Expert

I love slot machines, but only get to play about once a year. I don't know how to read them, determine pay outs, and don't know what you mean by "single multipliers" and other names I just read in your newsletter. I only get to spend about two hundred dollars when I go to Lousiana...read more