This week’s guest is Jeff Hwang, author of Pot Limit Omaha Poker. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
Change Coming
More than four years ago I began co-hosting a weekly Thursday evening radio show called Gambling with an Edge. It took awhile to find our stride and settle on the best co-hosting partnership, but it’s now a popular show among both advantage gamblers and wannabe advantage gamblers. A surprising number of casino employees listen as […]
Podcast – guest Mohan Srivastava #2
This week’s guest is Mohan Srivastava. Mohan cracked the code on several scratch off lottery games. We talk about beating the lottery. You can read about some of his exploits in this Wired magazine article. – Wired. Here is a link to the first time Mohan was on the show. Mohan #1 podcast Click to listen […]
A Day at the Office
Saturday, March 27, was date night for Bonnie and me. We decided to go dancing to Wes Winters in the Grandview Lounge at the South Point and then have dinner afterwards. Wes Winters is our old “standby,” and we go there two or three times a month. I guess we’re semi-regulars. Dinner was going to […]
Podcast – guest Bradley Davis
Our guest this week is Bradley Davis. We discuss his case with the IRS after they took issue with his filing as a part time professional gambler. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
A Legal Case Involving Auto-Hold
I know of no casinos in Las Vegas that offer auto-hold, a feature on some video poker games where the machine offers a suggested play which the player can either accept or change. Years ago when I was teaching at Barona Casino, near San Diego, they had auto-hold on their video poker which was particularly […]
Podcast – guest H. Lee Barnes
Our guest this week is H Lee Barnes, author of Cold Deck. Lee was a casino dealer, a Griffin Agent, and now a writer who teaches creative writing at College of S. Nevada. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
How Happy Do You Get with a Royal Flush?
I recently read Michael Craig’s “The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King,” which was about a banker from Texas, Andy Beal, taking on the best poker players in the world, one at a time, in heads up limit Texas Hold’em poker. For a discussion of the book, you can listen to the March 5, […]
Podcast – guest Eric Strasser
Our guest this week is Eric Strasser, author of “Baseball Betting for Profit.” podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
A New Way to Answer an Old Question
I teach a lot of classes and one of the most frequently asked questions I get is, “If I’m having a bad session, when do I change machines?” My answer was always some version of, “It doesn’t matter. Changing machines has absolutely nothing to do with the winning process.” Several years back I started trying […]
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