Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 870

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...read more

Add Cooperation, Compromise to Detroit Political Vocabulary

Detroit's city government has offered up a good example of how quickly things can go from promising to sour. Only five and a half months ago the newly elected mayor was eager to get to work with the City Council. The youngest mayor in Detroit's history was known during his time as a state legislator as one who could bring people together to get things accomplished...read more

Winning hands in blackjack

When you play blackjack, your final hand can only be one of these possibilities -- a blackjack, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16 or less, or you could bust. When you bust, you know you automatically lose and when you get a blackjack hand, at worst you'll tie and at best you'll get paid a bonus of 1.5 times your bet...read more

Winning hands in blackjack

When you play blackjack, your final hand can only be one of these possibilities -- a blackjack, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16 or less, or you could bust. When you bust, you know you automatically lose and when you get a blackjack hand, at worst you'll tie and at best you'll get paid a bonus of 1.5 times your bet...read more

Intuition in Gambling Can Help, but also Trip You up

Among the key elements distinguishing adept from inept gamblers is an understanding of the chances associated with relevant phenomena. Proficiency, to a great extent, involves knowing how likely a situation is, and using this information wisely to optimize performance...read more

Fifty Play Wild Royal Dilemma

One of the great joys of playing Deuces Wild video poker is to be dealt a wild Royal Flush. The payoff is a cool 125 coins. Playing strategy can get complicated, however, depending upon the number of deuces you are dealt to the wild royal. To hold or not to hold? That is the question...read more

Oh, What A RUSH! The Psychology and Chemistry of Gambling!

When I was a long-distance runner, before my knees gave out and my belly grew to Brobdenagian proportions, I used to delight in tweaking the noses of my more restrained acquaintances by solemnly telling them that I was a drug addict. There would be an inevitable pause, a long silence, as the individual took in this remarkable statement made by one who looked so damned healthy - and then I would quip: "Yep, I'm addicted to my own endorphins." We'd have a hearty laugh and my acquaintance would go away shaking his head at my little joke...read more

Conservative Blackjack Play Cripples Your Winning Odds

Blackjack players come in all styles. The other day I played with a fellow who had a style similar to many you'd see at the $10 tables, except this was a $50 table. What's more, he was a full-fledged "black chip" player betting about $300 to $800 per hand! The surprising thing about Black Chip's game was that he played an awfully conservative strategy for a serious shooter...read more

By Any Other Name - Part 2

When you play craps, do you seek out tables that offer the most free odds? Are you paid odds-to-1 or odds-for-1 on the center-table propositions? At roulette, do you seek out wheels with just one zero? At baccarat, do you pay a full 5 percent commission on winning banker bets? As we saw recently with a look at Let It Ride and Three Card Poker, casino table offerings can be vastly different games when when the name's the same...read more

By Any Other Name - Part 2

When you play craps, do you seek out tables that offer the most free odds? Are you paid odds-to-1 or odds-for-1 on the center-table propositions? At roulette, do you seek out wheels with just one zero? At baccarat, do you pay a full 5 percent commission on winning banker bets? As we saw recently with a look at Let It Ride and Three Card Poker, casino table offerings can be vastly different games when when the name's the same...read more