Winning Strategies | You can’t look at any single hand and outguess what cards the machine is going to give you on the draw. You have to use math.
viewIt has been a question that has risen it’s head ever since gambling online became a ‘thing’.
viewIt is funny how quickly a widely held belief can take hold without any factual backing. The world of online gambling is not exempt to this phenomenon and there are currently quite a few “stories” doing the rounds.
viewPayPal has long been the go-to payment method for online transactions. In the UK, PayPal is known as the leading online payment method and e-wallet service.
viewThe major companies that inhabit the gaming world have a tendency to leap in one of two diametrically opposite directions during peak times such as the festive season just past.
viewThe online gambling industry is filled with lots of gaming websites that claim to be the best in 2019 but only a few really deserve this title.
viewIn the UK, there are strict laws that surround any type of gambling. This is why many online casinos as well as land-based casinos and betting sites require a license from the UK Gambling Commission in order to operate legally.
viewWinning Strategies | Video Poker is certainly NOT real Poker. Not only do I agree on this point, but I’ve stated it dozens of times over my 15 years of writing for GT. Video Poker is a paytable game played only against, well no one, really.
viewNo industry likes to promote its losses quite like casinos. It gives other players the hope that they, too, could make one of those life-changing spins on a slot machine. A Christmas Eve jackpot hit for $2.7 million on a Monopoly machine at Green Valley Ranch Resort.
viewWinning Strategies | You have to review your dealt hand and figure out which cards you want to hold/discard. We do this by recognizing the partial hands out of the five cards that are dealt and determine which of these partial hands have the highest expected value.
viewWinning Strategies | Video Poker strategy is all based on what we call a Strategy Table.
viewWinning Strategies | Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve tried my best to break down the concept of expected value, how it is calculated and a bit of how it is used. In doing so, I showed how some of the most common hands are likely being played wrong.
viewWinning Strategies | When we look at a game in its totality, we call this the game’s payback and express it as a percent. At the individual hand, we express it as a decimal. If the value is over one, it means that we expect to win money on average in this situation.
viewWinning Strategies | The purpose of the last several columns has been to show that math drives everything in the casino. While the casinos have a macro approach, the player has a more micro approach, generally looking at things in shorter sessions.
viewWinning Strategies | I’ve spent the last couple of weeks discussing how the casinos don’t really gamble, but just provide a means for Players to gamble. At the tables and machines, this happens by taking a macro approach.
viewTrying to find an angle that makes an online casino a little bit different to the rest has turned into something of a holy grail in what is an immensely crowded and competitive marketplace.
viewWinning Strategies | Last week, I discussed how casinos don’t actually gamble. But how does this concept of not gambling apply to the table game, video poker or slot portion of the casino business? It’s all about the math.
viewSuccessful gamblers come in all shapes and sizes. Whether you gamble online from the comfort of your home, through your mobile device or you prefer visiting a land-based casino, there are a few traits that are common among successful gamblers.
viewWinning Strategies | I think I saw more innovation at the Global Gaming Expo this year than I have seen in the past several years. While the number of companies with offerings seems to have shrunk, I liked that I saw a variety of new games.
viewThere have been murmurings for years about a high-speed rail link from LA to Vegas, but when the DesertXpress project was officially abandoned in 2016, that seemed to be the end of it.
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