Category: Video Poker

Bonnie and I had to skip our European honeymoon six months ago due to her health. She’s feeling better now and so we went on two back-to-back cruises out of New Orleans-the first November 30 – December 7 on the Carnival Dream and the second departing a few hours later, December 7 – December 14, on the Norwegian Dawn.

All of it was casino comp. Our Carnival Cruise Lines trip was courtesy of the M Casino. Our Norwegian Cruise Lines voyage was a Seven Stars Signature Event from Caesars Entertainment. For our travel to and from New Orleans we used a Seven Stars annual trip. Continue reading A Sense of Entitlement

The following is a hypothetical problem set at an unidentified casino: Assume the games are single line, for dollars, and I play $20,000 coin-in a month. Assume the slot club pays 0.25% and the mailer gives me $160 a month (i.e. $40 a week times four weeks) as long as I play $20,000 or more coin-in.

One month, however, my mailer includes a coupon that will pay me double for four 4s with a maximum bonus of $500. If I’m playing a deuces wild variation, it has to be four natural 4s, and if I get five 4s with exactly one deuce, I get paid double for that as well. I get to cash the coupon once only and it expires at the end of the month. Continue reading How Would I Go About It?

I don’t read a newspaper. I pay attention to the news, but get it online. Bonnie has subscribed to the Las Vegas Review-Journal for 20 years and reads it daily.

She is not particularly savvy about gambling offers, but she cuts out many of them and places them in my office. Mostly I either already know about the offers and/or am not interested. Occasionally, however, she comes across something I didn’t know about. One of those times was an ad for the Downtown Grand. Continue reading Checking out the Downtown Grand

The SLS Casino opened up at midnight on a Friday the week before Labor Day, 2014. Half a day later, Saturday afternoon, I visited to check it out. I wanted to see if there were any games worth playing.

In the High Limit room I ran into Scott McDermott. Scott had been some sort of slot department manager or shift boss at the Palms for perhaps 10 years. He knew me well. He had seen me hammer $5 Five Play or $25 single line games for hours and he knew I was “Bob Dancer.” I went up to him, shook his hand, and found out that he was in charge of slots at the SLS. Continue reading My Adventure at the SLS — Part 1 of 2

Strategy cards can be useful. Generally speaking, they use some sort of notation to shorten and simplify a written strategy. Most cards intentionally give up some accuracy in favor of ease of use. I sell strategy cards and Winner’s Guides which include strategies.
Continue reading Knowing a Strategy versus Using a Strategy Card