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The best assumption is that you can make no assumptions By John Grochowski Ever have an “oops!” casino moment, one of those times when things have gone wrong and you know it’s your own fault because you didn’t check the game rules or assumed a little too much? I sure have. I’ve been going […]
Gaming Arts highlights its new VertX Grand cabinet with a trio of strong new games By Frank Legato For slot-makers lately, great new games and great new cabinets have gone hand in hand. Many of those new cabinet presentations these days are in large formats—and game developers have used those giant canvases to create […]
Gaming ingredients for smart blackjack play By Frank Scoblete Take any food package or jar of food and you will invariably see on the back or side of it a list of the ingredients that food contains. This is obviously an attempt to help you decide whether to eat that particular food. I check […]
High returns are good, but enjoying the game is important By Frank Legato For more than three decades, Casino Player has been advising players to go for the “loosest slots”—meaning, the best gamble on the slot floor is the game with the highest payback percentage. This magazine, in fact, invented the term “loose slots,” […]
Nothing in the universe is perfectly random, but slots are as random as humans can program a computer to be By Frank Scoblete There are several problems with randomness. The first, and most obvious, is that randomness is often mistaken for non-randomness. This you see at gambling games of all types. A roulette game […]
Even with slots, a little strategy goes a long way By Frank Scoblete Even though the house has an edge on just about every slot machine and video poker game (with some few, hard-to-find exceptions), player s can still play a tough game against the casino if such players use intelligent strategies when deciding […]
Should we expect a royal every 100 hours of play, every 48, or somewhere in between? By John Grochowski After more than 30 years of playing video poker, every royal flush still gives me a jolt. My hands don’t shake while an attendant is counting out my $100 bills, as they did when I […]
Incredible Technologies is turning heads on slot floors with its Prism VXP moving cabinet and a collection of strong games By Frank Legato In casinos around the country, players have been stopping in their tracks at the sight of a slot machine that’s like nothing else out there. You may have seen it. Maybe through […]
Twenty years ago, slot themes from popular culture exploded. Few remain By Frank Legato When slot machines experienced their first real explosion in popularity in the 1980s, there were no familiar themes to the games. The vast majority of games back then were three-reel, single-line mechanical reel-spinners. Some of them had unique titles, but nothing […]
When a “winning system” sounds too good to be true, odds are it is By John Grochowski Some self-proclaimed casino experts will tell you about “betting systems” that will give you an advantage over the house. One of the most infamous systems is the Martingale, which has been around for many years—and has wound […]