Author Archives: queen of comps

4/5/2007 Time flies when you’re having fun! I know how worn a cliche that is, but I can’t believe that seven years has passed since I volunteered to write a short weekly column “for a little while” to draw more … Continue reading →

3/2/2007 More good stuff that had to be cut out of Frugal Video Poker. Q: What’s the RNG in a VP machine and how does it work? A: RNG is the abbreviation for Random Number Generator, the electronic device inside … Continue reading →

2/1/2007 After I wrote in last week’s column about cashing in your players club points and/or using up your comps, I found the following in my files, an e-mail that a friend had sent me after reading my June 10, … Continue reading →

1/4/2007 Parking for casinos near the four corners of Tropicana and the Strip: Don’t park in the MGM garage; it’s too far from the casino. Instead, we park in the New York-New York garage and use the skywalks to the … Continue reading →

12/7/2006 http://wizardofodds.com/ – The Wizard of Odds is a frugal-gambler’s best friend when you want to find detailed and reliable based-on-the-math gambling information. You can find the answers to many of your questions, no matter what the game. Especially valuable … Continue reading →

11/2/2006 How many of you, who come to this Web site every week to read Frugal Fridays, have spent much time cruising the other pages of it? If you haven’t dug a little deeper into all the data on this … Continue reading →

10/5/2006 One of the most fascinating Vegas Web sites I’ve ever seen is http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/index.htm. From its home page: “Vegas Today and Tomorrow is an up-to-date, comprehensive and easy-to-navigate collection of current news, maps, plans and renderings of proposed and future … Continue reading →

9/1/2006 It’s now 2003 in the royal chronicle I started three weeks ago. Over the last few years, Brad and I’ve gradually decreased our VP play. We tire more quickly than when we were younger and we enjoy more stay-at-home … Continue reading →

8/7/2006 This week I’d like to introduce my newest baby, one that I’ve been hinting about for months, and one for which I’ve been in hard labor to birth for three long years: the book I named Frugal Video Poker. … Continue reading →

7/6/2006 I’m taking a break from talking about our big tournament win at Caesars, although there are many more of your questions about it to answer. After I catch up on some miscellaneous items from my fat “For FF” file, … Continue reading →