Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 865

Craps A to Z - "K" Is for Knowledge

© 2002 by Larry Edell If you are a craps expert, you should know all the craps odds, and how much every bet pays off. You should know the difference between the place, buy and come odds, all the prop and hardway odds, and exactly how much to place behind a passline bet at a 2X, 5X or 10X odds casino...read more

Readers Write

Hello Frank: I have a couple of questions I would like your opinion on. I just got back from four days in Vegas (mostly playing craps) at Casino Royale on the strip. If you've never played there, they have $1 tables with 100x odds. Anyway, they also allow you to put bets, so essentially, I can go up on the numbers after the 5-Count without ever going through the come line...read more

Thank you, Barney Vinson

Every gaming writer has been confronted with the following problem at one time or another. A friend, a friend of a friend, a secretary at work, a relative, a friend of a relative, or a neighbor is about to embark on a Las Vegas vacation...read more

Football 2002

I'm always on the lookout for a property doing something innovative when it comes to wagering on sports. David Dandrea, sportsbook supervisor at the Rio has come up with an interesting parlay card. He has devised a total season parlay card over/under total wins proposition that enables tourists and locals to have action on NFL teams for the season...read more

Hot August Nights Coming Up!

Reno is getting ready for the biggest of the annual street events as Hot August Nights returns August 3 - 11. It's a major event for car lovers everywhere, as thousands of people and hundreds of cars converge on Reno with events ranging from cruises and car shows to sock hops...read more

How Often Should You Expect a Blackjack Dealer to Bust?

The balance between ecstasy and agony at blackjack often hinges on the frequency with which the dealer busts. In multideck games, dealers who must stand on any 17 or above should break an average of 28.2 percent of the time. Likelihood varies with upcard, the dealer being most liable to go blooie with six-up and least so with ace-up, as shown in the following list...read more

Craps from A to Z - "J" is for Junkets

Junkets, along with comps, provide a lot of FREE services to the crapshooter. For example, you can get RFB (Room, Food and Beverages) from both junkets and comps. Further, once you establish yourself as a steady gambler you will be invited back, and in doing so, the casino will offer you more FREE rooms, free food and free beverages in return for your continued gambling! But if junkets and comps are so similar, how do their differences apply to the average gambler? Let’s find out. Junkets first started on the East Coast as a means to lure seasoned gamblers away from Las Vegas and into Atlantic City...read more

Barney Vinson's World

Charlie Lewis of Massachusetts writes, "On our last visit to Las Vegas we stayed at the Frontier Hotel on the Strip. When we played blackjack, other players would get their first two cards and then say, 'Give me a monkey.' We were piling up the chips and winning great, but we never found out what a monkey was." A "monkey" is a slang expression for a ten or face card...read more

Did I Invent Online Gambling Advantage Play? No!

A couple of years ago, I noticed a little post to the rec.gambling.blackjack newsgroup by a gentleman who signed himself Evgeuni Jourine. It was an interesting little article about his experiences with online casinos, a form of gambling I had never tried owing to doubts about getting paid...read more

The Slot Expert's Guide to Winning at Slots and Video Poker

You can hear me give my slot and video poker tips live on The Good Times Show, hosted by Rudi Schiffer with Frank Scoblete, which is broadcast from Memphis on WMC 790AM Saturday morning from 09:30-12:00 CT. For the next few weeks, let's look at money management, what it is, what it isn't, and how it can improve your casino experiences...read more