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Some of you may know that there is a number of slots games in every land casino that have a higher payout percentage than the others. But, as always, the machine is occupied and you have to play another slot game that isn’t that willing to make you win. That’s how the casino makes you pay more. To give your luck a test and not spend too much money while doing it, you need to find one of such loose slots games in the casino.
There are some hints you may find helpful. First of all, you won’t find loose slots games somewhere near the table casino games. This is because table players prefer a quiet atmosphere around them, and casino executives pay much attention to their comfort. The perfect place for a tight slot machine is next to a line area, where players will play slots games just to pass the time. This leaves us with an area inside the slot machine territory, where only the slots games players are.
Such slot machines don’t have a «loose slots, win here» sign on it, so you’ll have to do a bit of research and think like casino executives would think. Get a layout of the casino, and evaluate what would be the most beneficial place to place loose slots games. So keep your eyes open and your mind working, but don’t get too suspicious in your research, because casino executives won’t welcome your findings much.
November 22nd, 2008
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In 1975, Stanford Wong came out with Professional Blackjack. Wong had a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University, hence his pseudonym. This book was the next big advance for card counters. Wong described his playing style, which included table-hopping shoe games to avoid playing at negative counts. So, at last, some twelve years after Harvey Dubner had proposed the Hi-Lo count values, his system was available in a format both fully optimized with strategy of blackjack indices, and presented with a simple methodology of play.
The counting system Wong published was the Hi-Lo Count, and like Revere’s count, used the easy divide-by-remaining-deck(s) approach to running count adjustments. Wong’s table-hopping approach to shoe games was in many ways similar to Al Francesco’s Big Player (BP) team approach, but allowed a solo card counter to attack shoe games invisibly, and without a team of spotters. This playing style has since become widely known as wonging. As four-deck shoes were the most widely available games in Las Vegas by that time, this original approach was brilliant. The casinos looked for card counters by watching for their betting spreads. It had never occurred to the casinos that a counter might be watching a table from the aisles, waiting for an advantageous count before jumping in to bet.
October 17th, 2008
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In 1978, Resorts International opened in Atlantic City, the first legal East Coast casino in the twentieth century. Their four- and six-deck blackjack offered a new form of surrender, dubbed by card counters as “early surrender,” since the casino allowed players to surrender half a bet even when the dealer showed an ace or 10 up, and before the dealer checked for a blackjack. This rule gave basic strategy players a small edge over the house right off the top, without any card counting whatsoever! And the advantage to card counters was even greater. From opening day, card counters had a field day at Resorts’ tables. Ironically, as word spread through the gambling community that card counters found the Resorts’ blackjack game to be the most lucrative game for players in the country, gamblers from all over the world - most of whom knew nothing about basic strategy or card counting - flocked to their tables. And, ironically, Resorts International was soon the most profitable casino in history, winning an average of $650,000 per day.
A team of professional blackjack players whose founders were from Czechoslovakia that had been playing in Las Vegas flew all of their members to Atlantic City to take advantage of this new surrender rule. This team, which later became known in the casino industry as simply the Czech Team, found the Resorts’ game to their liking and stayed for months.
A New Jersey college student named Tommy Hyland, who had just turned twenty-one, started going to Atlantic City in 1978 when he heard about the favorable black-jack game at Resorts. Within a year, he had organized about twenty of his college and golfing buddies into a team of blackjack players. Hyland’s team continues to this day as one of the most successful casino gambling operations in history.
It was also in 1978 that the first MIT blackjack team was started. This team actually consisted of students from MIT, Harvard, and other East Coast colleges. Johnny C.j now a legendary player who joined the team in 1981, plays high-stakes blackjack to this day and continues organizing teams of professional players. The Czechs, the Hyland teams, and the MIT teams would be the scourge of the casino industry for decades to come. Many believe these teams owe their existence to the Resorts’ game with its early surrender rule that made the game so easy to beat. College kids found that they could pool their money, play blackjack with a modicum of intelligence, and get rich quick.
August 27th, 2008
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When on the lookout for a bluff, beware of players who are chatting about how their poor luck is, especially if you notice that they are raising pots at the same time. Also be wary of players who raises before the flop and then quickly raises again after the flop. When this occurs, don’t call unless you are reasonably sure you can win with what is already in your hand.
Another sign of a bluff is a player who is “sitting out” and then suddenly re-enters the game just as the cards are being dealt. If this player is also quick to call or raise, he or she may simply be in too much of hurry to seriously be playing a good hand. Playing quickly is a sure sign of a bluff in poker games. To win consistently with good hands, players must take the time to play strategically. Someone who always plays holdem poker quickly is not taking the time necessary to play a good hand. On a similar note, very loose players who bet on every hand are also very likely to be bluffing much of the time. It isn’t possible to always have a good starting hand.
Also be careful of a player who has low stacks and bets an entire bankroll. This may be a player who is ready to give up and is playing with an “all or nothing” mentality to see if they can win the pot and stay in the game.
Another sign of bluffing to look for is a player who checks on the turn after betting on the flop. This may look like confidence, but how confident is this player in reality? Players who do this should be called. If you have a decent hand and feel confident, force this type of player to bet.
Always pay attention to what a player shows at the end of a hand. This is another way to pick out a bluff. If you notice a player raise before the flop and that player loses the hand, notice what he or she shows. If it is not much, it is probably a poker bluff, and the player is likely to try it again. Be aware of that player’s tendency to bluff foolishly.
As you can see, playing with impatience is, in fact, one of the biggest mistake a poker bluff will make. While a good bluff may be able to fake patience, an impatient player is a top suspect for being a bluff.
August 22nd, 2008
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The most generous payout in the machine is for three bells, which pays 20 coins each time it happens. Since there are two bells on the third reel, along with one apiece on the first two reels, three bells can be expected to occur twice as often as three hearts. The combination can be expected to occur twice per 1,000 plays for a total payout over that period of 40 coins.
Adding up all the payouts, you find that this simple three-reel machine with 10 symbols on each reel pays out only 756 coins for every 1,000 it consumes. That’s a payout rate of 75.6 percent-not very good for the player.
By the mid-1930s machines were already a good deal more complex-but the odds for the player were no better. In fact, they had grown a little worse.
April 10th, 2008
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For you math buffs, this means that two horseshoes should come up a total of 250 times, 50 of them with a star and 200 of them with something else on the third reel.
When three spades come up, the machine pays off eight coins. Three spades can be expected to come up eight times out of every 1,000 plays. That’s the two times it appears on each reel multiplied by itself three times. So for three spades, the machine pays out 64 coins per 1,000 plays.
For three diamonds the machine pays off 12 coins. This combination is expected to come up three times per 1,000 plays for a total payoff of 36 coins. Three hearts pays 16 coins and is expected to come up once per 1,000 plays- there’s one bell on each reel, so one is multiplied by itself three times-for a total payoff of 16 coins.
March 29th, 2008
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Perhaps you are planning a trip to Blackjack tournaments Nevada. If you are, I would like to recommend that you pay a visit to the Silver Legacy Hotel, or the Reno Hilton, or the Pepper-mill, all in NevadaReno in the winter is a picturesque city, with many winter activities nearby, and a host of casinos with good value for slot players.
Of course, there’s no place like Las Vegas. If this is your destination of choice greatest slot , then some of the best casinos for you to visit are Bellagio, Palace, Mirage, Bally’s and Paris.
February 18th, 2008
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Today I wish to focus on where to play slots tournaments. This is a choice you must make in the selection of the casino in which you will make your slot playing investment. In the Midwest, there are many casinos whose slots offer some of the better payouts, and whose slot clubs offer many valuable incentives. Among some of the casinos I like are Kewadin Casinos (I like the Sault Ste. Marie and St. Ignace properties in Michigan), Soaring Eagle Casino at Mount Pleasant, Michigan, Fortune Bay Casino in Minnesota, Ho-Chunk and Oneida Casinos in Wisconsin, and the Meskwaki casino in Tama, Iowa. For those of you who may be planning a trip to the East Coast for slots games, Foxwoods and Mohegan are both excellent tribal gaming properties, with many of the best slots to be found in casinos anywhere.
February 7th, 2008
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This is the part where “skill” in slot play comes into the picture. Many people believe that winning at slots depends purely on luck. While it is correct that slots are a passive game and, therefore, you cannot control the outcome of the event, it is not correct to say that playing slot machines involves no skills. I don’t mean merely the skills of being able to operate the machine that contains the game. I am referring to skills such as game selection, machine selection, brand name selection, game detail selection, size of wager selection, payout hierarchy selection, credit vs. coin play selection, play methodology selection, size of bankroll selection, play duration selection, time to play selection, casino to play in and what kinds of machines to play there selection, and the remaining variety of various applied skills which you will acquire as you continue reading this book, and then put your own abilities into practice. There is a lot more to being a winning slot player than just showing up at the casino, sticking your money in the machine, and pulling the handle.
Each of these skills is part of the learning curve and comfort zone which all of us have to reach. By acquiring these skills, you can become not only more knowledgeable, but also more comfortable. You will find that you are no longer a victim to the mere chance of luckily selecting just the right machine, at the right time, and for the right reasons. You will now be able to approach your casino visit with the ability to look for and select the kinds of games slots tournaments which you know are among the better options, and do so with a solid plan of attack. Not only will this result in more confidence and comfort for you when you play, but it will directly translate to regular profits. Although you won’t win every time, or perhaps achieve your win goal every time you play, you will now be able to realize that this is a part of the overall approach to the game. You will no longer be a victim to emotional swings, such as deep disappointment when you don’t win or reckless exuberance when you do. Although curbing these emotional reactions is part of Patience, as discussed above, and also Discipline, discussed below, the selection skills will contribute to your overall Keys to Winning. The slot machines will no longer hold the “secret” but will divulge it to you, because you now know what to look for, and how to do it to your best advantage.
Now let’s take a look at some of the selection skills in more detail. Remember that each is part of an overall whole, and even though each is important, the sum of the whole is far more crucial to your winning success at playing some slot machines than any single part. Often you will have to make adjustments, even while you are playing, because in the real world not all of these skills will apply all the time. Neither will all of the advice I am offering here, nor the guidelines. However, all this information, viewed together, forms the greater whole, and this is the sum total of what will eventually become your slot playing expertise.
January 24th, 2008
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January 20th, 2008
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