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HERE COME THE NEW SLOTS

Our annual preview of games coming soon to your favorite casinos By Frank Legato If you are a regular reader of this magazine, you know that every fall, we give you a sneak peek at new slot games coming your way in the coming year. The major slot  manufacturers launch all their new titles each […]

Understanding the Slot

As the casino industry expands, the same old slot-machine myths survive—many through a misunderstanding of how slots work By Frank Legato   As casino gaming expands to new U.S. states, both physically and online, blogs and instructional websites continue to crop up to create new online communities of slot players. The majority of the information […]

Higher Bets, Higher Rewards

AGS seizes on a growing appetite for high-denomination, traditional-style slot games By Frank Legato   For many years, slot enthusiasts have been treated to a lot of new games that are feasts for the senses. Giant, curved screens, surround sound, and cinematic presentations have hosted an ever-more rich collection of game features, from hold-and-spin to […]

MEET WRONG WAY ANDRE

The house doesn’t always win By Frank Scoblete   [Please note: I wrote this and gave it to a few acquaintances and they all thought I was advocating the idiot stuff in this column. I wasn’t. I’m not. Andre is not me. He is wrong about just about everything when it comes to slot machines […]

MANY HAPPY RETURNS

Can you determine what slot payout percentages are on any given machine? By Frank Scoblete   The lament among some slot players, many other casino players and most gaming writers is the fact that slot machines do not tell you what their percentage returns are except in cases where an area of machines has signs […]

THE “OOPS!” FACTOR

The best assumption is that you can make no assumptions By John Grochowski   Ever have an “oops!” casino moment, one of those times when things have gone wrong and you know it’s your own fault because you didn’t check the game rules or assumed a little too much? I sure have. I’ve been going […]

BIG DISPLAY, BIG PLANS

Gaming Arts highlights its new VertX Grand cabinet with a trio of strong new games By Frank Legato   For slot-makers lately, great new games and great new cabinets have gone hand in hand. Many of those new cabinet presentations these days are in large formats—and game developers have used those giant canvases to create […]

The Payback Conundrum

High returns are good, but enjoying the game is important By Frank Legato   For more than three decades, Casino Player has been advising players to go for the “loosest slots”—meaning, the best gamble on the slot floor is the game with the highest payback percentage. This magazine, in fact, invented the term “loose slots,” […]

Random or Not

Nothing in the universe is perfectly random, but slots are as random as humans can program a computer to be By Frank Scoblete   There are several problems with randomness. The first, and most obvious, is that randomness is often mistaken for non-randomness. This you see at gambling games of all types. A roulette game […]

Best Strategies For Slots

Even with slots, a little strategy goes a long way By Frank Scoblete   Even though the house has an edge on just about every slot machine and video poker game (with some few, hard-to-find exceptions), player s can still play a tough game against the casino if such players use intelligent strategies when deciding […]

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