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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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