Gaming

Walk into any casino in the country today and you’ll find a gaming floor that’s dominated by slots that bear little resemblance to the machines that were there a decade and more ago. Handles have long since been rendered window dressing by push-button play, drop-in coin slots were covered up once ticket-in/ticket-out technology was introduced, [...]

After going through some older poker books in order to recall some of poker’s basics (see Back to Basics series in the last few issues of the Gambler), I came up with another pointer commonly called – in my business – a BFO. That stands for a “Blinding Flash of the Obvious.” Something that by [...]

One of the major differences between blackjack and most other casino games is its nonrandom nature. Yet the Old School blackjack pundits pontificate like professors using random number generated data and computer simulations based upon it. So they can talk about what phony blackjack would be like if it were random and dealt by a [...]

In the last article I mentioned rivering a Royal Flush; the first one I’d had in more than 15 years. I was up against another player, who I’m sure had the same Ace-high straight as I until the exact card needed for the Royal arrived. I begged everyone’s pardon, and then slow-rolled the Royal Flush. [...]