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The Triple Coin Treasures family of games from AGS stacks up the bonus wins By Frank Legato These days, there are many player-favorite features you’ll find in a lot of new slot games. The ones that stand out are the games that serve up clever ways of combining popular features and presenting them in […]
WSOP underway with some famous names chalking up wins By Sean Chaffin Las Vegas is the center of the poker world throughout the summer with the World Series of Poker running May 30-July 18, with 95 tournaments at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos. With the bracelet chasing now underway, players from around the world […]
How blackjack changed the course of one man’s life By Frank Scoblete Say “hi” to Professor Symington D. Delray, a blackjack player for several years. Professor Delray used to work for a wellknown university in New Jersey, just outside New York City, until his retirement in 2018—weeks before the pandemic shut many of us […]
Payback percentage, and its effect on overall play remains misunderstood By Frank Legato For decades, readers of this magazine and our sister publication, Strictly Slots, have been given information on what many feel is the most important statistic in the world of slot machines: the payback percentage. These days, as online casinos spread, the […]
AGS table-game progressives add a new level of excitement to the pit By Frank Legato The big-money jackpot. For more than three decades— since the 1986 launch of Megabucks—that phrase has been most associated with the slot machine. For the past decade, however, it has gained attention in the pit as never before. Table-game […]
It’s easier to earn a high theoretical playing slots than it is video poker By Frank Scoblete Slot players rule the casinos. They do. Just walk into a casino and look around. This fact is not hard to see. Some 60 to 90 percent of slot losses make up the casino coffers. There would […]
With Power Push and Mega Money Catch, Incredible Technologies shows off the capabilities of it’s unique Prism VXP cabinet By Frank Legato When visiting a casino in this age of online gambling, it’s easy to remember why so many of us prefer to be there in person. There’s much to say about the grand […]
The Captain warns: Avoid these bets with high house edges By Frank Scoblete My mentor, the Atlantic City legend, the late Captain of craps, had two words to describe the worst bets in a casino craps game. He called them Crazy Crapper bets. These bets could be found in the middle of the table […]
Slot-makers copy each other on the trendy bonus features, but the best add a unique touch that defines a game By Frank Legato In the business of developing slot machines, imitation has always been a sincere form of flattery. Put another way, it is a normal occurrence that once a slot-maker comes up with […]
A complete guide to index play By Don Schlesinger As with so many of the ambitious blackjack projects I have directed over my career, the article that you are about to read summarizes the result—The Hi-Lo Card Counting System: A Complete Guide to Index Play—of an incredible amount of sophisticated computer programming and simulations […]