Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 931

The Slot Expert's Tips for Winning at Slots and Video Poker

You can hear me give my slot and video poker tips live on The Good Times Show, hosted by Rudi Schiffer with Frank Scoblete, which is broadcast live from Memphis on WHBQ over the air on 560AM and over the Internet on Yahoo! Broadcast on Saturday morning from 8-10 CT...read more

Readers Write

Dear Frank, This is an update on my use of the Supersystem, and I also have a few questions. We (the beautiful P.D. and I) were in Las Vegas for five days staying at Paris in a strip-view room for $49 per night--a tremendous value. Aside from a few hands of blackjack--I noticed a great increase in the number of continuous-shuffle machines in operation--all of my playing time was at the craps tables employing the Supersystem with $5 doey-don't bets and going up with 3, 4, and 5 times odds, which now seem to be the norm on the strip...read more

Barney Vinson's World

It was graveyard shift in a Las Vegas Strip casino. One of the blackjack dealers didn't show up for work, so the pit boss called her at home on the telephone. "It's two o'clock," he said angrily. "How come you're not at work?" "Oh, I've been in California," she answered sleepily...read more

Slotpourri

There are three types of lies: Lies, damn lies, and positive thinking. * * * * * Teacher to gambler's son: "What comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb?" Gambler's son: "A slot player with a system." * * * * * I've made it a rule never to play slots before sunset and after dark...read more

The 100 Most Significant Events of the 20th Century in Casino Gambling (96 to 100)

What is the leisure time activity that more adult Americans participate in than any other? Going to movies? No. Playing softball? No. Golf? No. Bowling? Come on! Tennis? Oh, my aching elbow! Stamp collecting? No. Coin collecting? You're getting colder...read more

Harrah’s Buys Harveys

That was the buzz all day yesterday, coming first to me from a casino source... and then the evening news, and there it was this morning, splashed all over the front of the newspaper...as one Tahoe legend buys the other Tahoe legend, leaving a different air of excitement at the lake as locals and tourists alike wonder out loud about what it holds in store for them in the future.....read more

To Continue, or Not to Continue: That Is the Question

The mathematics of the game of craps is based on two assumptions: The rolls are independent. The results of rolls are uniformly distributed across the 36 possible combinations of two six-sided dice (a distribution I call "The Perfect 36"). Proceeding from these assumptions, mathematics demonstrates that the player is doomed. OK, everybody calm down...read more

Why Do Slot Players Win Big, When Table Games Have Lower Edge?

A factor contributing to the appeal of the slots is the chance to arrive at a casino by bus and depart by limo. Say, by parlaying $100 into $500,000. Traditional table games, with no bonuses or progressive side bets, don't seem to offer this opportunity...read more

Ask The Slot Expert

Dear John, At one time I had a formula for figuring out the cashback percentage at a slot club. Do you know what it is? Thank you,John Dear John, Slot clubs sure don't make it easy to figure out what their cashback percentages are. It can get confusing going from how many dollars it takes to earn a point to how many points it takes to get a dollar back...read more

The Parable of the Tax Cuts

Two guys, Karl and Ken go into the world's greatest, most spacious, stupendous all-purpose store. This store sells everything. Karl picks up a CD that he wanted. The clerk charges him $25 and Karl pays and leaves. Ken searches for just the right yacht and finds it several miles down aisle "Y and J" (for yachts and jets)...read more