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A simple guide to baccarat By Frank Scoblete Baccarat presents you with an almost 50-50 game against the casino – the Bank bet will actually win more than 50 percent of the time. Baccarat is dealt from a shoe. All tens, jacks, queens and kings equal zero. The ace equals one. All the other […]
How to lose your shirt playing blackjack By Henry Tamburin If you are one of the many players who constantly lose every time you play blackjack and refuse to heed my advice on how to play better and win more that I have expounded for over 25 years in my blackjack columns in Casino […]
Sports Books hope March Madness mirrors Super Bowl success By Buzz Daly Hitting a parlay is the best-case scenario for bettors since it generates maximum return for minimum risk. That is how Las Vegas anticipates the profits of parlaying the Super Bowl with March Madness, which follows just a few weeks later. These are […]
Skill based slots with familiar themes By John Grochowski As casinos and game manufacturers ease toward an age of skill-based slots, I’ll admit to a small amount of trepidation. That’s age-related, of course. In my college years, the games at the back of the bar were electro-mechanical pinball machines, not video games. Home gaming […]
Money management at slots By Frank Scoblete Many casino players believe that there are ways to manage one’s money to prevent the casino from having an edge on them. This is a totally wrong assumption. If the casino has an edge at a game, which it does at just about all games, no money […]
Learn the correct way to play tricky hands By Henry Tamburin In the previous two issues of Strictly Slots, I reviewed some of the common blunders players make when playing Jacks or Better. This month I’ll continue this series with Double Bonus (DB). First a short background about DB. The game gets its name […]
GameCo’s Video Game Gambling Machines bring a new group of players to the casino floor By Frank Legato For the past several years, the casino industry has been dabbling in new looks and new types of games for the slot floor. The reason? Long-term survival. It’s no secret that younger players—anchored by the so-called […]
Strategy for Texas hold ‘em By Jim Feist Basketball season is a frenzied time in Las Vegas, with rivalry matchups, tournament play and the madness that follows. That means the best basketball coaches are going to use strategies to attack the weaknesses of their opponents, such as the full court press, the fast break, or […]
It can take a long time to hit that big hand By Jerry “Stickman” Stich It seems that hardly a week goes by without someone telling me that they think video poker games are rigged. One standard “proof” of this statement is the person saying he or she played several months without getting a royal […]
Our annual review of the new slot games coming soon to a casino near you By Frank Legato The slot-machine universe is changing. As technology continues to improve the game styles slot players have come to know and love, the world’s manufacturers of slot machines are seeking to broaden their audience. For slot enthusiasts, that […]