Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 902

Lake Tahoe, a Colorful Place to Visit

Autumn is here. The Aspens' brilliant foliage leaves a blazing trail of color throughout the mountains. It is a wonderful fall this year, the weather has been relatively mild, and each day grows more colorful. People flock to the Lake at this time of year.....read more

Barney Vinson's World

Planning a trip to Las Vegas in the near future? Each month we'll spotlight a different casino so you'll get a better idea of what each one has to offer. This month, it's Treasure Island on the Vegas Strip, where you can feast, plunder, and valet park...read more

Bonus Slots Update: Big Buckaroos, The Big Win, Multi-Card Bingo, Neptune's Pearls, My Rich Uncle

We explore more bonus slots in the latest update: Post #10. Here we go... 1) Big Buckaroos: This 15 line game will accept up to 135 coins and has 2 bonus rounds. One bonus is the 'Clown Toss' where a clown climbs into one of 4 barrels that the player chooses and begins to provoke a bull into tossing the barrel out of the ring...read more

Ask The Slot Expert

Dear Sir: If slot machines are random devices, how does the casino guarentee its 90% payout/10% house take without adjusting the amount of payout with time, rendering it no longer a random device. Compounding this problem, how does the casino adjust for 2400 machines with different amounts of playing spins, come out with an average of 90% payout for the casino, especially if each machine has a different payout rate? Please advise how this is done, without correcting the randonness to effect its payout rate...read more

Rhonda Cohen is the Gaming Professional of the Year

The inaugural Global Gaming Expo put on by the gaming industry in Las Vegas this month took time to recognize one of Detroit's own casino leaders as the "Gaming Professional of the Year." Rhonda Cohen, General Manager of the Motor City Casino, received the prestigious award from the National Casino Management Association at the American Gaming Association's Communications Awards luncheon. The American Gaming Association (AGA) created the AGA Communications Awards to pay tribute to the financial and corporate communications accomplishments of gaming companies, including casinos, pari-mutuel facilities, state lotteries, as well as industry vendors and suppliers...read more

Why Blackjack Players Who Know What They Know Split Their 10s

Every so often, and I'm not sure but it may be correlated with the full moon, blackjack buffs who know what they know grab me to explain why they split 10s versus low dealer upcards. The "logic" generally boils down to three arguments: 1) Dealers will probably bust with low upcards, so they'll win twice as much...read more

Surprises Await Blue Chip Casino Visitors

One of the under-appreciated and often overlooked dividends made possible by the Riverboat Gambling Act of February 1990 was the refocus of the Illinois Travel & Tourism industry on the historic cities situated along the waterways of our fair state...read more

Slots Hit Multiple Jackpots Too

Casino players love to share their tales of riches. There are enough days that the house comes out on top that big wins are moments to savor. It seems I started something of an avalanche when I wrote several weeks ago of hitting two $1,200 video poker jackpots within five hands...read more

Fast Comps for Slow Paces - Part 1

At the casino in Las Vegas, there were six people ahead of me, all waiting to talk to the host. All wanted to know how much time they had played, how much their table-game play was rated, and what kind of comps they could get. The host was obliging...read more

In Nevada, It's Pay Your Markers or Go to Jail

The District Attorneys' offices in Nevada are threatening to charge gamblers who don't pay off their markers to local casinos with felonies. Law enforcement officials do not normally act as collection agencies...read more