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Gaming – Another foolproof roulette system bites the dust

Twice last week, I was buttonholed by bettors bragging about foolproof roulette systems they’d devised. Once in person. Once via e-mail on the Internet. By coincidence, both players had struck upon essentially the same ostensible secret of success. Details differed, but here’s the nub. 1) Wait for five successive hits anywhere in the left-hand column [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Gaming – What about continuous shuffle machine games?

I got this question from someone who reads my columns: “Hi do you have a system that can beat the continuous shuffle machines and if so which book?” My first inclination was to answer with a cryptic: “Play it the same way you would play baseball with a blindfold on.” To each his or her own. [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Gaming – When and why buying beats placing at craps

Most craps players wisely “buy” rather than “place” fours and 10s when they’re betting big bucks on the numbers. If not, dealers usually – and rightly – suggest it. Few solid citizens use this option on the five or nine. Fewer dealers recommend it. But it’s legal. Sometimes it’s even smart. I’ll review place and [...]

May 7, 2013No CommentRead More

Gaming – Top 3 ‘do’s’ and ‘do not’s’ at a poker table

The way we play the game of poker, otherwise known as “poker etiquette,” is important. It’s above knowing the rules of the game – that is expected. It’s about the way we play the game hand after hand, session after session. A good poker player can gain an advantage by picking up on the slightest [...]

May 7, 2013No CommentRead More

Gaming – Why blackjack players need to remain anonymous

The stories are legion – that is, the cautionary tales I hear demonstrating loudly and clearly why blackjack players must remain anonymous, at all costs…in this day and age where most casinos in most locations can bar us from ever playing there (or elsewhere sometimes) for any reason (including, for instance, they don’t like how [...]

May 7, 2013No CommentRead More

Gaming – Can bad players louse up the cards?

Can a bad player mess up the game, making it more likely everyone else will lose? At the casino, for example, you’ll often hear angry accusations when the third baseman (the player with the last turn) takes a card the others thought he or she shouldn’t have and the dealer then goes on to pull [...]

April 16, 2013No CommentRead More

Gaming – Tournament Tales: Tournament Rules Part VII

In this, the last of the seven-part series covering rules devised by the Tournament Director’s Association [TDA], we arrive at the subject ever-so important for the smooth progress of a tournament. As the game progresses and remaining players get closer to cashing, emotions and tensions may run high. Words may be spoken which offend and/or [...]

April 16, 2013No CommentRead More

Gaming – Don’t quit your day job for the ‘full-pay’ slots

You sometimes hear about “full-pay” slots. Machines that return 100 percent or more of the money bet in them. They do exist. The stories aren’t all fibs fabricated by casino bosses to beguile believers into betting more. Nor, necessarily, rumors repeated by con artists to sell gullible gamblers dubious inside information, bogus systems, or worthless [...]

April 2, 2013No CommentRead More

Gaming – A little luck was on my side during the great comeback

I was buried in the game $1,600. My confidence was at an all-time low; I was playing too many hands and was spurting money out of the countless holes in my game. Of course there were rundowns and missed flushes – but that doesn’t matter, I was down and playing poorly. The game was an absolutely [...]

April 2, 2013No CommentRead More

Gaming – When should you play blackjack with someone else?

Years ago, I was more liberal when someone suggested we go play blackjack together at a casino. My answer was usually, “Sure!” Now I’m more circumspect. And you should be too. Why? There are a number of reasons. And there are a variety of settings in which “playing together” can be done and some are [...]

March 19, 2013No CommentRead More