Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 869

Take this Quiz to Better Understand What Draws You to the Casinos

You've seen those puzzles in children's and other magazines, where the objective is to identify "what's wrong with this picture?" They include things like square wheels on cars, dogs walking aardvarks on leashes across the street against the light, backwards lettering on signs, and baseball batters at the plate hitting tomatoes out of the park with badminton rackets...read more

The Craps to English Dictionary

Craps is another country, a kingdom with its own mores, legends, myths, rites, rituals, superstitions and government. It also has its own language, much of it easily misunderstood as sexual or scatological references...read more

Slot Payouts - Nevada and Connecticut - Report #3D

In the fourth and final part of this report, you will be advised of slot payout %·s in Nevada and the two casinos in Connecticut. This report is for one month only. Includes all machines: video poker, keno and slot versions. NEVADA: Note: following slot % payouts are by regions and denomination in descending order...read more

Barney Vinson's World

I know that many people in Las Vegas depend on tips for a living. My question is who do I tip in the casino? Anybody who wears a uniform works for tips. People in suits usually don't. How do I mark my keno ticket? Blank tickets and crayons are supplied by the casino...read more

Single-Deck Basic Strategy

Those whose casino memories stretch back far enough may recall a time when the standard "Las Vegas Strip" blackjack game was dealt from a single deck of cards, with the dealer standing on all 17s. That started to change in the 1960s as operators grew ever more fearful of card counters, and today most casino blackjack games use multiple decks. That affects all players, not just card counters...read more

Single-Deck Basic Strategy

Those whose casino memories stretch back far enough may recall a time when the standard "Las Vegas Strip" blackjack game was dealt from a single deck of cards, with the dealer standing on all 17s. That started to change in the 1960s as operators grew ever more fearful of card counters, and today most casino blackjack games use multiple decks...read more

What Is Handicapping?

What is handicapping? It's the most well-known method of gaining an advantage at sports betting. Bookmakers set lines on a sporting event depending on their assessment of the likelihood of a particular team or teams winning, minus the "vigorish", which is their profit...read more

Don't Choose the Balance between Chance and Payoff Blindly

Most boys and girls in India know the fable about the blind men and the elephant. In Western cultures, the story is familiar due largely to the poem by John Godfrey Saxe. Adults who love Dagwood Bumstead and Three Stooges slots, but snivel at the childishness of the elephant parable, may forget that one blind man stumbled into the side of the animal and thought it was like a wall, another grabbed a tusk and imagined the creature as similar to a spear, a third grasped the trunk and was sure the beast resembled a snake, and so on - leg-tree, ear-fan, tail-rope...read more

Downtown Vegas Does Have Its Privileges

Experienced Las Vegas travelers know that there is more to the "Gambling Capital of the World" than The Strip. Certainly if you're a first time visitor, the world-renown stretch of neon castles in the sky is a must. But if you make trips to Nevada a couple times a year and have grown weary of the pedestrian and traffic congestion on The Strip, not to mention the tourist attractions, there are other ways to go...read more

Multiple-Deck Basic Strategy

For players who really want to make a difference in their casino results, who want to maximize their chances to win while minimizing their expected losses, there is little they can do that compares with learning basic strategy in blackjack. The average blackjack player spots the house an edge of about 2 to 2.5 percent, leaving a game that's a little better than Caribbean Stud, Let It Ride or pai-gow poker, but not as good a bet as baccarat or the best bets in craps...read more