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Video poker leaves a former slot player confused but enthused By John Grochowski Karl is a video poker convert, a slot player who decided to give video poker a go when he learned of its higher payback percentages. Slot percentages vary by jurisdiction and individual casino, but the penny slots that are the most […]
AGS launches the frequent-hitting Xtreme Jackpots series By Frank Legato Slot manufacturer AGS is good at a lot of things—entertaining slot and table games, innovative cabinets, that big red slot machine they call Big Red. But one of the things the Las Vegas-based company is best at is progressives. The company started out as […]
An advanced strategy for cashing in at craps By Frank Scoblete Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from Frank Scoblete’s book Cutting Edge Craps: Advanced Strategies for Serious Players!) Many industry writers and other critics of dice control constantly throw out this challenge: “If the dice have to hit the back wall, there is no […]
The ins and outs of successful bluffing By Jack Clayton Lying gets a bad name – and it should. Nobody likes to be fooled, told untruths or doubt what someone tells them. Trust is like a China plate; once it’s cracked it’s impossible to get it back to its original state. I once asked […]
Playing it safe is good By Frank Scoblete If given a choice between a high house-edge bet that brings in a large amount of money should it win or a low house edge bet that brings in a comparative trickle, which choice would you make? Take the craps bet of Yo-Eleven, which is a […]
Don’t play any hand, play the right hand By Jim Feist One of the biggest mistakes sports bettors make is to wager on too many favorites. They don’t believe an underdog has a shot, either in baseball or football, so they always play teams that are supposed to win according to oddsmakers. This is […]
We’re entering another dimension By Frank Legato OK, things are getting scary around here. As you found in last month’s cover story (New Slots 2017), some of the technology coming out of the slot manufacturers this year is mind-boggling. Case in point: lGT’s got something called “TRUE 4D.” IGT has a bunch of TRUE […]
The longer I live, the more I gamble By Brian Christopher My name is Brian Christopher, I host the leading Slots channel on YouTube, and I am a non-smoker. This article is certainly not to preach on the medical harms of smoking. Anyone is free to look up the fact that a cigarette is […]
What exactly is an open straight By Jerry “Stickman” Stich Look at the strategy for just about any video poker game and you will find two different types of straight—an open (or more accurately open-ended) straight and an inside straight. The terms open and inside also apply to straight flushes which are simply straights […]
Our Annual Review Of Your Favorite Slots— And The Casinos That Offer Them! Across the country slot-machine manufacturers both big and small are constantly hard at work designing new styles of games that will impact slot floors significantly over the coming years. Relatively new to this flood are the games where skill is a factor […]