This post is syndicated by the Las Vegas Advisor for the 888 casino group. Anthony Curtis comments on the 888 article introduced and linked to on this page. A.C. says: Poker has been the basis for many new games, with video poker being, by far, the most successful of them. This article provides a good […]
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History of Blackjack
This post is syndicated by the Las Vegas Advisor for the 888 casino group. Anthony Curtis comments on the 888 article introduced and linked to on this page. A.C. says: This is a solid treatment of the debated history of blackjack. I say debated, because I’ve looked into this history, predominantly for my contribution to […]
Trying to Find a Way to Beat the Casinos at Rou...
A.C. says: The title of this article is reasonable. It doesn’t purport to provide a way to beat roulette; it talks about ways that players “try” to win. No, the methods described here won’t provide you with an advantage—and that point is made clear within—but they’re reasonable ways to play when the emphasis is on entertainment.
Poker’s Black Eyes
Years ago at the start of the poker boom, I had an idea and outlined a yet unfinished novel about a huge-prize-money televised poker tournament where the hole-card feed was compromised and a player won through cheating. My message was that it wasn’t inconceivable that this could occur and tournament organizers and TV producers needed to […]
The Moss Game
Old-time Vegas poker players will remember different games they played over the years: the infamous razz at the Stardust in the ’70s, 7-stud at Caesars and later the Mirage, and PLO at the Golden Nugget in the ’80s. Personally, I spent untold hours at the 4-8 limit Omaha straight high game at the Nugget, before […]
The Main Event Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog, I discussed the WSOP Main Event (ME) from an observer’s point of view. Now I want to look at the ME, as well as the entire WSOP experience, from my perspective as a player. As a kid, the anticipation for Christmas started at least a month before. As a […]
Radical Review of Radical Blackjack
[Editor’s Note: This review of Arnold Snyder’s latest book is written by Frank Kneeland, a long-time gambling pro (he was actually raised in an advantage-player family) and author of The Secret World of Video Poker Progressives.] When I began reading Arnold Snyder’s book, Radical Blackjack, I couldn’t help but think of the scene from Airplane […]
The Main Event
The WSOP Main Event (ME) is the pinnacle of the poker world and has been since its inception. It was the first-ever freezeout poker tournament and in the modern poker universe that features many thousands of tournaments every year, it still maintains a stature far above any other. It’s also been a huge part of […]
World Series of Poker: Old Guys Rule!
[Editor’s Note: This post is penned by Blair Rodman, co-author of our tournament-poker strategy book Kill Phil and our upcoming book All About Sports Betting. Blair has blogged about the WSOP in years past and we welcome him back from his self-imposed hiatus.] I hadn’t played a poker tournament for about five years, for a […]
Why Casino Craps Can’t Be Beaten
[Editor’s Note: The following in-depth treatment of dice setting in craps is written by the author of Blackjack for Blood, one of the all-time classic how-to blackjack books, still relevant and popular more than 30 years since it was first published. Bryce Carlson is one of the most successful pro blackjack players active in the […]
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