Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 899

How to Use Expected Value to Weigh Craps Options

There's probably no scientific study of the matter. But the lion's share of the money wagered at craps is likely on Place bets. Certainly, after the come-out. For the uninitiated, these are bets on four, five, six, eight, nine, or 10. They win if the number hits and lose if the seven rears its ugly head...read more

Take Credit Where Credit is Given! - Part 2

HOW TO GET CREDIT Just call your favorite casino and ask them to send you a credit application. Most casinos in a given venue use similar forms. In Vegas, the forms tend to be modest. They'll ask for your name, address, phone, social security number and the bank account you'll use for your credit line...read more

Gain an Edge at Blackjack Using Hand Interaction

Okay, so you're not a finely honed professional card counter. However, you do have your basic strategy down pat and you wish there were some down-to-earth ways to eat into that last half percent advantage the house holds over you. Well, there are! One way is to learn to play the "Magnificent 7" hands more accurately than basic strategy by "tweaking" your play according to the cards on board...read more

Take Credit Where Credit is Given! - Part 1

They have the highest house edge of any machines in the casino. In fact, no one has ever come out ahead playing them -- ever. They loom in the hallways and lobbies -- brightly lit machines with no conscience, who neither ask for nor give quarter -- or quarters for that matter...read more

Backwards Kcajkcalb

Steve Bourie and I were sitting in the lounge of a casino gaming ship, waiting for our "comped" BLT sandwiches. Steve is the author of American Casino Guide, a neighbor, and a gambling buddy. We weren't happy. We had just completed a four-hour cruise, and both of had lost at the blackjack tables...read more

Ask The Slot Expert

In playing approximately twice a month for the last 6 years, I have averaged about 9 royals on draw poker and double joker and 8 five-of-a-kind joker wild jackpots during this time. These visits are to A.C. for one or two days. How am I doing as far as the number of jackpots received in that time period? They were all $1000...read more

The Sounds of Coins May Be Silenced

Casino owners and operators have wrestled in recent years with the dilemma of what to do with slot coins and tokens in this new age of computers and the technology that has rendered them virtually obsolete. Coins and tokens are a throwback to the "dinosaur" age of slots when the machines were mechanically driven...read more

Don't Make the Mistake of Actually Expecting the Expected

Gambling gurus glibly expound on expected incidents of events. They're using a narrowly defined statistical concept. It involves averages, not something you should literally expect to happen. As an example, say you flip a fair coin 10 times...read more

Good Video Poker and a Good Slot Club Go Hand in Hand

Top-of-the-line video poker pay tables bring returns in excess of 99 percent with expert play. Combine that with a slot club that has a strong cash-back program, and you have an irresistible combination. So when Bill Renk, the vice president for sales and marketing at Jumer's Casino Rock Island, told me he had the best deal around for video poker players, I just had to take a look...read more

Aces and Eights and Destiny

The problem with real life is that it is maddeningly and consistently inconsistent. Change is the norm; reversals of fortune routine, betrayal de rigueur. Just when you think you have a handle on something, it turns out that there are so many exceptions to the rule you were about to create that the rule seems wrong...read more