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By Sean Chaffin When Tony Dunst heads off to work, that usually means the poker tables – either playing or manning the mic for the World Poker Tour. A regular on the high-stakes tournament scene for years, the 34-year-old Dunst calls the action for the show along with longtime commentator Vince Van Patten. With $3.7 […]
By Sean Chaffin Robberies, cheats, counterfeiting, and even murder. Poker hasn’t always been the safe casino-based game players know today. In the old days the re could be a criminal element lurking near the game. As poker players like Doyle Brunson know firsthand, making it home with your winnings wasn’t always easy. “Exchange Avenue […]
We Can Tell by Frank Legato Last month, I told you about the July study from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas that concluded that players can’t tell the difference between low and high payback percentages on a slot machine. I told you the researchers missed the point in concluding that casino operators […]
Extras muddle the picture By John Grochowski Evaluating a video poker machine is usually pretty straightforward. A 9-6 Jacks or Better machine where full houses pay 9-for-1 and flushes 6-for-1, will return more to players than an 8-5 machine. A 10-7-5 Double Bonus Poker game, where full houses pay 10-for-1, flushes 7-for-1 and straights […]
By John Grochowski Carrie has been playing slot machines for longer than she cares to remember. She and her husband Bill had already been annual Las Vegas visitors for nearly a decade when I met them in the early 1980s, several years before my own first Vegas visit. “There was no video then, just the […]
LONGER OR SHORTER By Frank Scoblete One of the opening scenes of the 1995 movie Casino has Robert De Niro as Sam “Ace” Rothstein explaining how the casino makes money. A mega-high roller has just won millions from his casino and Rothstein and company want to get that money back. So, Rothstein arranges for the […]
THE NEED FOR SPEED By Jerry “Stickman” Stich Each video poker player has their own comfort level when it comes to how fast, or slow, to play their favorite game. Some set the speed of the machine on the slowest possible setting, hit the Deal button, study the cards that are dealt in great […]
SLOTS TO THE MAX By John Grochowski For decades, players have been told they should always bet the max to get the best possible payback percentage. That’s still the case for most of the three-reel stepper slots, as well as on a small percentage of video slots. But simply getting the highest payback percentage […]