Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 915

A Recipe for Successful Casino Gambling

Sometimes you can open a cookbook, follow the instructions for a recipe to the letter, and still have things turn out less than perfect. In order to achieve the desired result, everything has to go just right. The same holds true for casino gambling...read more

Win More at Three Card Poker

Ever since Three Card Poker started to make its way into casinos in the mid-1990s, there has been universal agreement on the best strategy to attack play against the dealer. The late Lenny Frome, who did the initial mathematical work on the game, said that the best play was to stay in the hand with a Queen or better, and to fold lower-ranking hands...read more

Gambling Is a Sometimes Thing, and Therein Lies the Rub

"What troubles me," wrote Michael Dertouzos of MIT in the Sept/Oct 2000 Technology Review "is the arrogant notion that human logic can anticipate the effects of intended and unintended acts, and the more arrogant notion that human reasoning can determine the course of the universe." Professor Dertouzos wasn't talking about anything as banal as keeping three connected clubs or a pair of jacks at video poker, or standing or hitting on 12 versus 2-up at blackjack...read more

The Oracle at Odds - Part 11

This is the age of lists -- the top 100 movies of all time, the top 100 books of the 20th Century, the top 100 colleges for academic excellence or bargains or partying, and the top 100 women former President Bill Clinton scored with; plus all those weekly top 10 this list, and top 10 that list and top 10 those other things list...read more

Slotpourri

In the year 4000, archeologists were poking around in the dust of what once was Las Vegas, trying to determine the decline and fall of American civilization. All they could find were poker chips. * * * * * Keep your bets low, and you'll avoid the mourning after...read more

The Oracle at Odds - Part 10

This is the age of lists -- the top 100 movies of all time, the top 100 books of the 20th Century, the top 100 colleges for academic excellence or bargains or partying, and the top 100 women former President Bill Clinton scored with; plus all those weekly top 10 this list, and top 10 that list and top 10 those other things list...read more

New Slots in Tahoe

Walking through the casinos in Tahoe, I noticed that tucked among some of the newer multi-line slots that have 15-25 pay lines, there were a couple of good 9-lines... and reports from Generation-X to the old say that they are fun and pay fairly well...read more

Ask The Slot Expert

Dear John, We are planning to go to Las Vegas sometime this year and wondered if you could advise us as to which casino would be a good place to start in playing the slots? We have played the Lock and Roll slots here in North Carolina (that is the only type they have here in Cherokee)...read more

As Detroit Squanders Opportunity, Windsor Solidifies Its Share of the Casino Market

Maybe Paula Blanchard was right. Several years ago, as a member of the Michigan Gaming Control Board, Ms. Blanchard expressed concern about having "temporary" casinos open in the City. Her primary objection was that such "temporaries" would lead to delays in getting the permanent casinos open...read more

An Expert's Overview of Progressive Slots

Today I continue my series on progressive slot machines and how to better understand them by consulting one of the experts in the gaming industry. John Clausen is vice-president of slot operations at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Ind., which also happens to be the home of a bank of progressive slot machines which has been making quite a bit of news in local gaming circles of late...read more