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The value of players club cards By H. Scot Krause I’m often amazed at the number of gamblers I see playing without a slot club card and hearing some of the excuses they give for not using one. So this month I’m going “back to basics” and reviewing what slot clubs are all about, […]
A newbie’s guide to table games By Frank Scoblete Many new casino players approach the casino experience with a dash, dab or cartload of anxiety while brand new players can be frozen with terror. Newbies have fears: How are these games played? How do I get chips? How do I bet? Will other players […]
Dreams are fine—but you do want a good chance to win now and again By Frank Scoblete Except for some banking slots which I wrote about a little over a year ago, slot players are fully aware that they face a bleak future. The casino will have edges over them of between 17 and […]
What exactly does “random” mean, anyway? By Jerry “Stickman” Stich In articles and books about video poker, we read about the odds of particular hands being made, and the house edge of various games. Discussions of odds or house edge are always predicated on a random game. For example, the odds of getting a […]
A max bet by mistake pays off big time in Triple Double Bonus bonanza By John Grochowski Like any other casino player, I slip up sometimes. One of the signs of fatigue that tells me it’s time for a rest is when I see a video poker card I should have held disappear from […]
By Jerry “Stickman” Stich Video poker myths have been around since the first machines were introduced. Some myths have been phased out by technology, such as the one about the temperature of your coins influencing whether you would win or lose. (Some folks really believed that putting in cold coins would improve your results, […]
6,420 began but only nine players remain in the WSOP’s Championship Event By J. Phillip Vogel Every year, like clockwork, poker players from around the world descend on Las Vegas in droves, all with one burning thought on their mind: to win a World Series Of Poker event. Those players with the highest […]
Ins and outs of the check raise By Jim Feist August may be hot, but I could care less: Football season is here and the poker rooms are air conditioned! Football season means coaches are going to use strategies to attack the weaknesses of their opponents, such as running the football all day long […]
Learn the answers to gaming’s most frequently asked questions! By Frank Scoblete I love giving talks to my fellow casino players, and I can always be certain they’ll bombard me with plenty of questions. Here are 38 of the most common queries I’ve answered over the years, organized by category and followed by my […]
The sane way to look at comps By Frank Scoblete Casino players love comps. No secret there. Look at all the players who routinely hand in their player’s cards in order to be “rated.” Being rated is simply the casino keeping track of how much you bet, how long you play, the house edge […]