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BIG WIN / BIG LOSS

Why do you lose after a big win in a casino? By Frank Scoblete   She loves playing the slot machines, and she and her girlfriend Wendy would go to the casinos once a month for a weekend stay. They played, they took in the shows and they had delicious meals. They are not rich […]

Cause For Celebration

Being dealt a royal is a rare, wonderful thing By John Grochowski   If you’re a video poker player, you know that any royal flush is a cause for celebration. When I drew my first, way back in December of 1989, the stack of $100 bills handed to me by the slot attendant at the […]

Malfunction Pays

For once, a slot computer malfunction works out for a player By Frank Legato   “Malfunction voids all plays.” For as long as anyone can remember, those words have been displayed on the front of every mechanical slot machine or at the bottom of the screen of every video slot machine. For the nearly 40 […]

A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR

The bells, whistles and soothing sounds of slots help make the pain of losing more delightful By Frank Scoblete   If you like the original movie version of Mary Poppins, you are certainly familiar with its great song “A Spoonful of Sugar.” The song lauds the salutary effects of some sugar placed in some horrible […]

HOT NEW SLOTS

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Keepin’ It Straight

What exactly is an open straight? By Jerry “Stickman” Stitch    Look at the strategy for just about any video poker game and you will find two different types of straight—an open (or more accurately open-ended) straight and an inside straight. The terms open and inside also apply to straight flushes, which are simply straights […]

Our Favorite Slots

More of the most popular slot games on today’s casino floors By Frank Legato   Last September, we featured an article offering a snapshot of the most popular slot games in the business at that time. Readers are always asking us what the most popular slot machine is, so we decided to compile a list […]

Enough’s Enough

When it’s time to call it a night By Frank Scoblete   There is a time to quit; to call it a night or day or morning. Things have gone to the point where you cannot afford to lose another cent and you won’t because you are ready to say, “Enough’s enough.” Every casino player […]

Stubborn Myths

Some of the oldest myths concerning slot machines are still around, and are still the subject of “expert advice” By Frank Legato   As you may know, every month, I do a humor column for our sister publication, Strictly Slots. Last month, I poked fun at a recent blog entry I found titled “Six Ways […]

The Games We Love Not To Play

Players share experiences on table game play By John Grochowski   If you’re the kind of casino player who likes to try a lot of different games, you’re going to run into games you just don’t like. A jackpot hunter might not go for blackjack, where successful sessions mean grinding out a profit. Players who […]

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