Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 916

Are Dice Thrown Randomly?

Is it rational to say that dice are thrown randomly? Almost since craps has been invented, theorists have been arguing whether it is possible to shift the odds in your favour and achieve a huge percentage edge over the casinos. Can the crapshooter really do this? In the great, undecided dice control debate, much derision is heaped upon the proponents of dice control...read more

If Slots Return 93 Percent, Why Does Everyone Lose Everything?

Your favorite slots are most likely configured to pay back from 85 percent to over 99 percent of the money bet. The 'percent return' isn't a factor artificially adjusted by issuing win or lose edicts from time to time, or through some fickle facet of fate that enforces the law of averages...read more

The Oracle at Odds - Part 9

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

Nevada Legalizes Internet Gambling--Maybe

Many Nevada casinos have decided that Internet gaming is just not going to go away. As with Indian gaming, they have abandoned years of wishful thinking and arguing for prohibition, and have finally adopted the position that the industry should be regulated...read more

The Oracle at Odds - Part 8

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

Calculating Dice Sum Frequencies

.reg { text-indent: 2em; } .eq { font-size: smaller; text-align: center; } .no { font-size: smaller; text-align: right; }     There are many casino games that depend on summing the faces of dice; Craps and Sic Bo come to mind.  I imagine that there will be new games coming along that depend on dice sums as well.  Although most gamblers are aware of the frequencies for sums with two dice, the frequencies for more than two are probably not familiar numbers to them.  In this article I want to show you how, with just pencil and paper (and not a computer), to compute frequencies for dice sums...read more

What Price Entertainment?

I’ve noticed a growing trend.... now instead of finding happy gamblers playing the newer slots, I am instead finding clumps of gamblers piled into the remaining "old" slots.... standing room only for the video pokers.....read more

Ask The Slot Expert

Dear John, Is it possible to buy slots that have been retired from the casinos for your own home? How might someone go about finding those slots? Thanks, Beth Dear Beth: You absolutely can buy old slot machines for home use and, depending upon where you live, you can even buy new ones...read more

There's More to Winning More than Betting More

Everyone knows the more you bet, the more you win. Or lose. And conversely. But, scaling your play up or down goes beyond raising or lowering betting level. Profit and loss track bet size only if bankroll and win target are varied in the same ratio...read more

Information about Progressive Slots Is Sparse

Casino executives are tight-lipped when it comes to offering real information about progressive slot machines. This really should come as no surprise. What do they tell us about regular slot machines? Answer: Other than overall payback percentage (not individual slot machine payback percentage) and promotional photos of jackpot winners, nothing...read more