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The unwritten slots rules to live by By Scobe’s Slant Somewhere around 80 percent or so of casino players are slot players. They dominate the landscape. Casinos are monstrous forests of slots with a smallish village of table games. Prior to 1984 both Atlantic City and Las Vegas made most of their money at […]
The value of using simplified video poker strategy By Jerry “Stickman” Stich Many regular readers of this publication and Strictly Slots are aware of the paybacks of popular video poker games. For example, full-pay Jacks or Better returns 99.54 percent, full-pay Bonus Poker returns 99.16 percent, full-pay Double Bonus Poker returns 100.17 percent, and […]
Squeeze the house edge to zero percent… seriously By Basil Nestor Craps has dozens of bets, and many of them carry punishing advantages for the casino. But the best craps wagers give the casino an edge of zero percent. That’s right, nothing, nada, zip. You lay down your money, the house risks their chips, […]
How to Handle Low Return Video Poker By Jerry “Stickman” Stich It is always great to be able to find high return video poker such as 99.5 percent or more. If players are diligent, they can usually find high paying games in most gambling destinations. It may take a little work and the […]
Why you CAN’T make a living playing slots By Frank Legato In the 29 years I’ve been writing about slots and casinos, I’ve met many professional gamblers. Some of them write in this very magazine, offering an array of tips on how to get the edge at their particular games. In all those years, […]
Readers ask if quick reflexes are the key to winning By John Grochowski I keep a list of questions that I’m most often asked about slot machines. You could probably tick off some of them: “Are games programmed to go cold after a big win?” “Do you get less payback when you use your […]
How “standard deviation” reveals the true odds of scoring a video poker jackpot By Bill Burton Last night I met my friend Rich at a casino. We hadn’t gotten together for a while, so we decided to play video poker so we could talk and catch up on recent events while we played. We’d […]
How to score big payouts while avoiding the pitfalls By Henry Tamburin The larger payoffs come at a price; namely, the payoff for two pair is only even money (or 1 to 1). By transferring some of the game’s payouts from the more frequent two pair to the less frequent four-of-a-kind, it becomes a […]
Get maximum bang for your buck by playing the right number of lines By Bill Burton As the number of coins needed for maximum bets increased, it was only logical that the denomination would have to be lowered if the casinos expected to get much action from the average player. When I first […]
Be wary of changes in your casino’s video poker policies by Henry Tamburin Lately, it seems that some casinos are changing their policy toward video poker players, and this often is not good news for us. I’ll give you a few examples so you will be aware of these revised casino policies. A Mississippi […]