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 […]
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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.
Which Game is Best?
Let’s say you’re visiting a particular casino for the first time. Your game of choice is single line $1 9/6 Jacks or Better, and fortunately, you find it in two different machines. As near as you can tell, it takes $1 to earn a slot club point on each machine and neither machine has a […]
A Bob Dancer Rule
In March of 2011, Gold Coast had a promotion involving a wheel spin. Basically, it was like a Big 6 Wheel, only there were 20 spaces instead of 60. Each of the spaces had a prize ranging from $250 to $5000. The players selected (that’s the hard part!) got to spin the wheel. So long […]
A Look at KTx
If you’re unfamiliar with my notation, KTx refers to a suited king and ten with a third card in the same suit that is too low to be part of a KQJT9 straight flush or an AKQJT royal flush. Specifically, that limits us to KT2, KT3, KT4, KT5, KT6, KT7, and KT8. In games without […]
Getting on a Game Show
On last week’s Gambling with an Edge show, I shared a story about when a friend tried out for the Jeopardy! game show. Although it doesn’t relate to video poker, there is clever strategy involved. After I told the story on the air, several people wrote flattering emails to me requesting that I publish the […]
A Tax on Ignorance
I was reading a 2011 interview of Edward Thorp, a mathematical genius who created the first widespread blackjack card-counting system (Beat the Dealer) some fifty years ago, and then published a methodology for investing in various markets (Beat the Market) a short time later. He is widely credited with being the first “quant,” which is […]
About the Elder Wisdom Circle
This article is not about video poker. It is about a worthwhile organization for which I volunteer.
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