This is the second part of a story about this year’s Blackjack Ball. If you didn’t read last week’s installment, check it out here The game of 21 Questions as devised by Max Rubin is very difficult. Success requires some specific knowledge, often some mathematical ability, and a lot of fortuitous guessing. In 2013, I […]
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Attending the 2015 Blackjack Ball — Part ...
Every year, somewhere in Las Vegas, there’s a gathering of blackjack professionals, past and present, along with some gambling attorneys and a few other miscellaneous gambling professionals, including one video poker writer. Predominantly male, many bring wives or dates, but most come alone. Perhaps it speaks poorly of how often I get out of the […]
Going Down in Stakes
I’ll begin this article by discussing live poker. Some of what I’m going to tell you is hearsay. I’m not a strong player at poker — but I believe what I am saying is true. When we discuss video poker later in this article, I’m on more solid ground.
What She Thinks Makes Sense
Bonnie, my wife of almost eight months, knows very little about intelligent gambling. Although she has assisted during a few semesters of my free video poker seminars, she concentrated more on running the projector accurately rather than evaluating what I had been teaching. Learning about gambling is simply not a priority to her. After we […]
You Can’t Hope Your Way to Victory
I recently saw a Northwestern Mutual commercial which aired during the college football playoffs. Although it ended as an advertisement for their insurance company, the part that interested me said: There are no accidental champions. You can’t hope your way to victory. Titles aren’t won at the end of the season. They are won in […]
Whose Money is it Anyway?
You’re going on a two week vacation and back home you frequent a number of casinos. Let’s say they give you $40 a week in free play. How do you deal with that? Some casinos, not many, will hold the money for you and let you collect it when you get back. Some casinos, again […]
Airline Fare Redemption
For the sake of discussion, let’s say I lived somewhere in New York and regularly flew to Las Vegas to play for big stakes. Further, let’s say the airfare cost me $600. If I play enough at one casino, sometimes I can get them to pick up the airfare. It’s a lot harder than it […]
How Do You Interpret?
As I wrote last week, Bonnie and I recently returned from a comped cruise on the Norwegian Dawn. Laundry service was included in the package, and on one particular night both of my long pants had been sent to the laundry. I had expected the laundry to be returned prior to dinner, but such was […]
A Sense of Entitlement
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, […]
What Makes Ultimate X So Volatile?
I’ve been playing $1 Ten Play 9/6 Double Double Bonus Ultimate X (DDB UX) for about two years at the Palms. It’s supposed to be a 99.87% game when played perfectly. The perfect strategy is very complicated. The simplified strategy I use is worth a bit less. With the 0.25% slot club, mailer, drawings, etc., […]
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