Hope this article helps. Be forwarned, the gravy train days of mass fortune are gone but you can still grind a few bucks here and there. If you order the book, you will learn basic staregy on how to beat these machines. I disagree to some degree on about 80% of his recommedations on when and how to play them for maximum profit. In fact, I have really nothing good much to say about this gentlemen that I know personally, but thats another long story. With this book, you will at least learn the basic fundamentals of the games. There are of course many games that have come out since this publication that one can beat. If you have any questions on these games feel free to ask me. It is amazing, but I have probably played 200-300 different variations of these games in my lifetime.....many of which nobody even know s about to this day!!
HERE IS THE ARTICLE.......
With all the great little hints you can find here), you saw my column on "Looking for Little Edges" not that long ago. Today I'm going to talk about some more little advantage plays you can find if you stay alert to the possibility.
For those of you who missed the first column, I'm talking about small advantage plays, or ways to get rich. For bigger advantage plays you can use against obnoxious acquaintances (I wouldn't advise you to use them against friends), go watch reruns of the old early Seventies TV show Alias Smith and Jones. I got a lot of great bar bets out of that show.
For example, what would you say the odds are of being able to have your opponent shuffle a fair deck of cards, deal you 25 of them, and for you to be able to use every single card to make five pat poker hands (a pat hand is a straight, flush, full house, four of a kind, or straight flush)? Most people (including the sucker in ASAJ) think the right odds should be about 50-1 against your being able to do it. Actually, because of all the straights and flushes you can make with that many cards, you're about a 20-1 favorite.
Maverick was a great show but Alias Smith and Jones made me a lot more money. My teenage buddies never knew what hit them. None of them ever asked where I found this "Montana Red Dog" game I introduced into our high school poker game.
(Actually, one episode of Maverick also used the 25-card pat hand trick, although I was most unimpressed by the way they used it. Bret got cold-decked and lost. I'm just a good poker player, not a card magician or the Greatest Player in the West, but hand me a deck with 51 cards instead of 52 and I will very likely notice the difference in weight-50 cards would be easy. I'm supposed to believe The Great Bret Maverick didn't notice the deck was four cards light?)
OK, enough reminiscing about television earning me the pocket money I used for other vices as a teen. Let's look at some more ways you can find small edges in casinos.
Many "serious" gamblers tend to look down on slot players, but actually there are quite a few advantage plays possible with slots. Most of the advantage plays involve becoming a video poker pro, and while that's easier than becoming a blackjack card counter (a REAL card counter, not a "pretend" card counter like 99% of the people who say they do it) or a regular poker professional, learning all you need to go pro is still not a useful recommendation for the recreational gambler. If you do want to play video poker, get some good books on the subject. Two of my favorites are "Victory at Video Poker," by Frank Scoblete, and "Video Poker-Optimum Play," by Dan Paymar.
Believe it or not, though, there are some very real advantage plays you can make at certain kinds of regular slot machines. Charles W. Lund, in his absolutely terrific book "Robbing the One-Armed Bandits (Expanded Edition)," describes many of the better plays. If you are a regular slot player and don't buy Lund's book (I wish I owned stock in it, but I don't: I just know something good when I read it), you don't like money. It's available in most bookstores and also directly from RGE Publishing (www.rge21.com).
Lund was one of the first, if not the first, slot experts to discover the advantage plays possible in the new and increasingly popular "banked bonus" variety of slot machine. A banked bonus occurs when a player plays certain kinds of machines (Lund details them all by name) but give up the machine before cashing in on the bonus.
For example, most players have seen one of the forms of the game where King Kong is climbing the Empire State Building. On occasion, a player feeds in his $20 bill, and leaves when he fails to hit a jackpot, but leaves the mighty Kong a reasonable distance along the way to the top, where the player collects a bonus, which is a much better result than Kong, Fay Wray, or Jessica Lange got in either of the movies.
If you follow Lund's guide to the many kinds of banked bonus machines on casino floors, you will be able to locate a good slot without relying on superstition or guesswork. Not only that, you will know when it is right to play these machines for one coin instead of three (normally slot heresy), and when to move on to another machine.
HERE IS THE ARTICLE.......
With all the great little hints you can find here), you saw my column on "Looking for Little Edges" not that long ago. Today I'm going to talk about some more little advantage plays you can find if you stay alert to the possibility.
For those of you who missed the first column, I'm talking about small advantage plays, or ways to get rich. For bigger advantage plays you can use against obnoxious acquaintances (I wouldn't advise you to use them against friends), go watch reruns of the old early Seventies TV show Alias Smith and Jones. I got a lot of great bar bets out of that show.
For example, what would you say the odds are of being able to have your opponent shuffle a fair deck of cards, deal you 25 of them, and for you to be able to use every single card to make five pat poker hands (a pat hand is a straight, flush, full house, four of a kind, or straight flush)? Most people (including the sucker in ASAJ) think the right odds should be about 50-1 against your being able to do it. Actually, because of all the straights and flushes you can make with that many cards, you're about a 20-1 favorite.
Maverick was a great show but Alias Smith and Jones made me a lot more money. My teenage buddies never knew what hit them. None of them ever asked where I found this "Montana Red Dog" game I introduced into our high school poker game.
(Actually, one episode of Maverick also used the 25-card pat hand trick, although I was most unimpressed by the way they used it. Bret got cold-decked and lost. I'm just a good poker player, not a card magician or the Greatest Player in the West, but hand me a deck with 51 cards instead of 52 and I will very likely notice the difference in weight-50 cards would be easy. I'm supposed to believe The Great Bret Maverick didn't notice the deck was four cards light?)
OK, enough reminiscing about television earning me the pocket money I used for other vices as a teen. Let's look at some more ways you can find small edges in casinos.
Many "serious" gamblers tend to look down on slot players, but actually there are quite a few advantage plays possible with slots. Most of the advantage plays involve becoming a video poker pro, and while that's easier than becoming a blackjack card counter (a REAL card counter, not a "pretend" card counter like 99% of the people who say they do it) or a regular poker professional, learning all you need to go pro is still not a useful recommendation for the recreational gambler. If you do want to play video poker, get some good books on the subject. Two of my favorites are "Victory at Video Poker," by Frank Scoblete, and "Video Poker-Optimum Play," by Dan Paymar.
Believe it or not, though, there are some very real advantage plays you can make at certain kinds of regular slot machines. Charles W. Lund, in his absolutely terrific book "Robbing the One-Armed Bandits (Expanded Edition)," describes many of the better plays. If you are a regular slot player and don't buy Lund's book (I wish I owned stock in it, but I don't: I just know something good when I read it), you don't like money. It's available in most bookstores and also directly from RGE Publishing (www.rge21.com).
Lund was one of the first, if not the first, slot experts to discover the advantage plays possible in the new and increasingly popular "banked bonus" variety of slot machine. A banked bonus occurs when a player plays certain kinds of machines (Lund details them all by name) but give up the machine before cashing in on the bonus.
For example, most players have seen one of the forms of the game where King Kong is climbing the Empire State Building. On occasion, a player feeds in his $20 bill, and leaves when he fails to hit a jackpot, but leaves the mighty Kong a reasonable distance along the way to the top, where the player collects a bonus, which is a much better result than Kong, Fay Wray, or Jessica Lange got in either of the movies.
If you follow Lund's guide to the many kinds of banked bonus machines on casino floors, you will be able to locate a good slot without relying on superstition or guesswork. Not only that, you will know when it is right to play these machines for one coin instead of three (normally slot heresy), and when to move on to another machine.
