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Cyberattacks make for some interesting potential outcomes for casinos By Frank Legato I’ve been reading all I can about last month’s cyberattack on MGM casinos. I wrote about it in my column this month for Global Gaming Business, but for that article, my deadline was, like, right after it happened, so the information that […]
From swing to stategy By Frank Scoblete Casino playing is more to me than just wagering at games the casinos offer. I tend to stick with certain games that give me the best chances to win and I do play the very best strategies at these games. My goal is not only to last […]
Or not. By Frank Scoblete Everyone who gambles in casinos wishes to overcome the house edges on the games they play. Some players, a few, know what those house edges are, some (meaning many) do not know anything of the sort. They actually have little idea of how and why the casino ultimately takes […]
How experienced players navigate games, strategies and house edge By Frank Scoblete People who rarely go to casinos probably do not get themselves into a true routine. They go into the casinos, head for the slot machines or stand near a table game to see what’s going on. They could play a slot here, […]
Walking the walk on the casino floor By Frank Scoblete In Shakespeare’s great play, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth states that “nothing is but what is not.” He is confused and can’t figure out what is going on in his world and the world in general. But he is on his way to hell; […]
Escaping reality can be a costly mistake By Jerry “Stickman” Stich If you are an average gambler on a multiple-day trip to Las Vegas, you arrive at your hotel, drop your bags off in your room and immediately head to the casino. You then plop yourself down at the first open machine or at […]
There are some excellent bets in the casinos, though even the best bets have house edges By Frank Scoblete There are good bets in the casino. There are bad bets in the casino. And there are plenty of so-so bets in the casino. There are good games in the casino that have some of […]
The mesmerism of slots By Frank Scoblete It was April 2 in the mid-1990s (or thereabouts) and this was at Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, near the jingling Treasure Island slot machines, and she came up to my wife the Beautiful AP and me and asked, “Do you know what day this is?” “It’s […]
There are some excellent bets in the casinos, though even the best bets have house edges By Frank Scoblete Take your pick, my friends. Casinos are good places to play games. Casinos are the worst places to play games. There are some excellent bets in the casinos. There are some horrible bets in the […]
By Frank Legato Wow, it seems everyone’s beating up slot machines these days. There was that story on Christmas Day of a gambler who brutally beat the spin button on a slot at Valley Forge Casino in Pennsylvania. He was charged with “criminal mischief,” which sounds very tame and nonviolent—like it’s the same statute […]