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Tips for playing video poker tournaments When you play video poker, it’s you against the casino. You use the best playing strategy in games that will give you the highest expected return. Your goal each session is to end up with more credits (i.e., money) than you started with. Video poker tournaments are different. […]
AGS has augmented its Coin Bonanza series, which now offers three different game themes with the same wealth of coins By Frank Legato Slot-maker AGS knows when to give players more of a good thing. That’s why this year, the supplier launched the third game in its popular “Coin Bonanza” series. Called Pyramid Party, […]
Don’t expect to go from rags to riches in one or two sessions By Frank Scoblete You’ve taken a bit of a hammering at your favorite table game or games. It’s been a really tough session or day and/or night and/or trip. You’ve lost a significant amount of the money you brought for this […]
The reasoning of slot officials who avoid offering the highest-paying video poker doesn’t make sense By Frank Legato Our sister publication, Strictly Slots, this month publishes its annual “Loosest Slots Awards.” Every year, this report takes actual statistics on slot payouts publicly reported by casinos in various jurisdictions and recognizes those casinos or casino […]
16-Time World Series of Poker Champion Phil Hellmuth Discusses His Life in Poker and Quest for Greatness By Sean Chaffin The World Series of Poker kicks off on May 31 and no player may be more synonymous with the event than Phil Hellmuth. The 1989 Main Event champion has 16 championship bracelets and $16.3 […]
Tips to maneuver yourself into a possibly better position to maybe experience some positive results By Frank Scoblete We have all been there. Yes, we have. Nothing is going right. You try this machine, that machine. You try machines that were hot for other players and they turn ice cold for you. You try […]
Tackling common video poker questions By John Grochowski Video poker players love to raise questions about their games, and the questions aren’t limited to strategy puzzlers. Often, questions from readers focus on how the games and odds work and why. Why don’t royal flushes pay more when they’re so rare? How are best strategies […]
Are you holding the best cards? Don’t be so sure Often times video poker players are dealt hands in which one of the holds is so tempting they just cannot resist. For example, suppose you are playing Jacks or Better and are dealt the following hand. How would you play it? […]
Our annual guide to where players can find the best slot returns in the nation By Frank Legato In 2022, most slot players know the meaning of “loose slots.” It means the slots that offer the highest return-to-player percentage (RTP)—the highest payback percentage. For slot enthusiasts, the search for loose slots never ends. When […]
Three new IGT video poker games inject extra rewards to top-returning pay tables By Frank Legato International Game Technology is credited with inventing video poker as we know it today back in the 1970s and early 1980s. And, it is IGT that keeps reinventing the game. Whether a video poker expert or simply a […]