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Tips for playing video poker tournaments By Henry Tamburin What’s critical is not how much you win per round but rather ending up with more credits than your opponents have, even if it’s less credits than you started with. When you play video poker, it’s you against the casino. You use the best […]
After two decades, our annual report on the most generous slots in the business comes home to Strictly Slots by Frank Legato For exactly 20 years, one of the most popular annual features of our sister publication, Casino Player, was the annual Loosest Slots survey. Player, in fact, invented the term “loose slots” in […]
Baseball draws smaller crowds to sports books, but savvy bettors buck shorter house advantage By Buzz Daly Every year it seems the Vegas bet barons do a little shuffling of their baseball lines, so visitors should check out the book at their hotel, as well as others within walking distance. But if you are […]
How does the RNG work when you’re playing slots online? By Frank Legato I can’t count the times I’ve used this column to explain how the random number generator in a slot machine works. It’s one of the most frequently asked questions from our readers, so we’ve devoted a lot of space to it […]
New alliances can mean better deals! By H. Scot Krause Your player’s club cards are hard at work for you! Casinos around the country continue to negotiate new deals, alliances and partnerships to give their player’s more choices, benefits and opportunities. Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts have launched many new partnerships that we’ve discussed […]
In video poker betting, you get what you pay for By John Grochowski Betting fewer than five coins turns even the best video poker games into games that will pad the house’s bankroll, not yours. I’ve long suggested to fellow players that the #1 rule for a day in the casino is to […]
Three More Great Advantage-Play Slots By Frank Scoblete If you follow the rules completely, the game will never be positive after you collect the bonus because at least one section of the new pie will have no cherries in it, therefore requiring six cherries to fill that section. Since the game is not positive […]
A new reel-spinning format powers great offerings from WMS Gaming By Frank Legato Adding to this basic strength is the fact it is a five-line game—three horizontal pay lines and two diagonal pay lines. There is a separate pay table for lining up three wild symbols (the Triple flanked by Doubles) on each pay […]
Reel-spinning may not suit the millennials By Frank Legato Sooner or later, the slot manufacturers are going to cater to these players. Some have already begun, injecting competitive bonuses into community-style games. But those slot experiences are still solitary, except for the bonus rounds. There are 7,249,919 slot machines operating in the world […]
Tax time can be rewarding if you know where to look By now, most gamblers have requested or received their Win/Loss statements, sometimes referred to a Tax Statement from each casino where you’ve played over the past year. These statements can be used to help you in preparing your taxes, especially if you received […]