This article was written by Jake Jacobs in 2006. It is about the Vegas backgammon scene in the early 80s. I wanted to post it here as a prelude to my review of Ace – Deuce: The Life and Times of a Gambling Man. The book was written by J. E. Anderson who was a […]
Posts in category Casino Games
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time —P...
In last week’s column (available a few clicks away), I started to tell you about a slot machine promotion I played at the South Point. The story continues:
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time — ...
In September of this year, South Point ran a “Spin 2 Win” promotion every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It was for slots only — not video poker — and I basically ignored it. Still, I received some information during the last week of the month that convinced me that I should play a whole lot […]
A Look at Holy Rollers Documentary DVD
This Thursday evening, our guest on Gambling with an Edge radio show will be Colin Jones from the Holy Rollers blackjack team. In preparation for the interview, I watched the DVD Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card-Counting Christians.
Power of the Pack
Let’s say you’re playing a variation of Deuces Wild. Assume you are asked to look at the following two hands: Q♠ J♠ K♦ T♦ 4♠ and Q♠ J♠ K♦ T♦ 3♠. Assume further that you are told that in one of the hands you hold Q♠ J♠ and the other one you throw all five […]
More Dogs than Bones
I used this same title in my May 1 article. This is not the same article, but it again relates to the situation of more people wanting a limited number of machines than there are machines.
Knowing a Slot Club Well
For the three days of Labor Day weekend the Gold Coast offered 7x points for video poker and 25x drawing tickets. It’s not always the case at that casino, but usually point multipliers are limited to 10,000 base points. And there’s an official maximum of 10,000 drawing tickets per day, which you’d reach after play […]
Getting Used to an Idea
Shirley and I recently spent a week cruising southeast Alaska on the Norwegian Pearl out of Seattle. We planned the trip with two couples we know from square dancing. All four of our friends have attended at least one of my classes, but these folks are not advantage gamblers. On the Sunday we disembarked back […]
Throwing a Football
I usually participate in drawings at the Palms one weekend a month. I play all week long to earn tickets and on either one or two nights over the weekend they call some names and give away some money. All their drawings are a little different from the others, but they are all usually “about […]
Another Look at EV
A friend, “Tom,” and I were talking about the senior drawing at Silverton as it exists in August 2012. There is optimism that it will change soon. Memorizing how it currently works isn’t important. Seeing how to use the rules of the promotion to calculate how much it is worth is important.
Never miss another post