Online slots is a new phenomenon that has spawned hundreds of sites in the past several years, and the numbers keep growing. If you haven’t seen online casino adds and offers to play play free slots than you haven’t been online at all. Only a few years ago online slots were simple downloadable programs that […]
The most famous book Stanford Wong wrote is Professional Blackjack. Wong had a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University, hence his pseudonym. This book was the next big advance for card counters. Wong described his playing style, which included table-hopping shoe games to avoid playing at negative counts. As four-deck shoes were the most widely […]
Blunder: The most common mistake beginners make is to stand too often on their stiff hands (12,13,14,15, and 16). Players are naturally afraid to hit these hands because every one of them could bust (make a total of 22 or more) with a single hit. But when the dealer has a high card (7, 8, […]
I am skeptical of much of what Scarne has written in his book about blackjack, so I’ll quote from Mickey MacDougall’s MacDougall on Dice and Cards (Coward-McCann, 1944, NY), which was published prior to any of Scarne’s books: “Many professionals dress up the game by giving prizes for certain hands. A favorite stunt is to […]
When people join clubs, it is usually for the shared interests, enthusiasm and passion that everyone in the group shares. For the most part, folks join already knowing what their counterparts are like. Book clubs, movie groups, knitting circles online! They all have terms and ideologies about their group’s topics that can be, well, predictable. […]
To the public at large, one of the most incomprehensible things about professional blackjack strategies is hole-card play. Hole-card play is not a single strategy, but a whole range of strategies. The one feature that can be found in all of these strategies is that the player either knows the dealer’s hole card, or has […]
When you walk up to a slot machine in a casino or log into an online casino and play the slots, it’s a battle between you and the machine to see who comes out the winner. Actually, even if you’re a professional, the machine will almost always come out ahead over the long term. That’s […]
There is one thing to remember when playing casino poker. No matter your experience level, everyone needs help sometimes. There are five main rules that can be followed to improve the game of all players, regardless of how well they play.
The first rule when playing casino poker is to have fun. There are many different […]
Red, white, and blue sevens came up and I collected $400 instead of the $1,0001 would have received with two coins in. The win could not have come at a more opportune time. I had been through a series of break-even or losing sessions and was well down at that stage.
Great fun! The Windows of […]
Multipliers are the most common but not always the most popular slots in the casino. Two factors attract me: Except for the jackpot and, rarely, the second top line, there is no penalty for playing less than maximum coins—each coin will buy a multiple of each winning payout; and irrespective of how many coins I […]
