How Lucky Was It?
I was playing at South Point for double points on Memorial Day, Monday May 30. Double points at that casino are valuable to me. A rather infinitesimal bonus for being there at 8:20 p.m. is that if they called my name for first prize in the “$800,000 Win A Toyota A Day” promotion, I’d get [...]
A Different Sort of Breakpoint Calculation
In last week’s column, we looked at the standard way of calculating royal flush breakpoints (BPs) on progressives. If you didn’t see that column, I suggest you review that one first before tackling this one. [...]
How to Calculate Breakeven Points
Frank Kneeland and I are creating progressive strategies for a number of games which are now in the M casino. If you don’t know which games I’m talking about, see www.lasvegasadvisor.com/bob_dancer/2011/0510.cfm We are giving you a list of numbers saying that you should change your strategy if the royal flush is higher than a certain [...]
New Semester of Free Video Poker Classes at Sam...
I will be teaching a six-week semester of classes at Sam’s Town, on Tuesdays, starting in the middle of June. The schedule is listed [...]
A Different Type of Progressive at the M
Frank Kneeland, my co-host on my “Gambling with an Edge” radio show on Thursday evenings, primarily plays video poker progressives. He and I challenged ourselves to come up with a type of progressive that is good for the player and profitable for the house. And we wanted to avoid the boom-or-bust cycle that makes a [...]
A Look at Scorecasting
Scorecasting is a non-fiction book by Tobias Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim. Moskowitz is an economist at the University of Chicago, and Wertheim is a regular contributor to Sports [...]
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