My mailbag — or email box or social media messages — occasionally brings inquiries and theories about changes to the games we play.
Two of those arrived in the last few months, one was from a craps player, the other from a blackjack aficionado.
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Video poker areas in casinos liven their mix with bonus games that can multiply your winnings when triggered by certain winning hands.
These games usually are variations on Triple Play, Five Play and Ten Play Poker, where you play three, five or 10 hands at once. And all such games require an extra bet to activate the bonus feature.
Is it worthwhile to activate the bonus, or does it reduce your payback percentage?
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Games work for casinos only if customers will actually play them. A game that seems too complicated or that intimidates players won’t do its job of encouraging wagering.
Craps has a reputation of being difficult for newcomers to learn yet is the second most popular table game behind blackjack. Everybody who plays was a beginner at one time. I asked some craps players how they learned.
Should You Try Your Hand at Craps? Read More »
I’ve mentioned there are several optional pay tables at Pair Plus in Three Card Poker. One reader asked “Why isn’t the pay table standard?”
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Players who try to sort good bets from the bad sometimes find difficulty with new games that involve more than one round of betting.
Those games have two figure that could fairly be categorized as house edges. A reader recently pointed out that wizardofodds.com lists a house edge of 4.91 percent for Mississippi Stud Poker, but also an element of risk of 1.37 percent.
Mississippi Stud House Edge and Risk Odds Explained Read More »
Slot machines with ancient Egyptian themes or East Asian imagery have long resonated with slot players. Incredible Technologies puts its own spin on both in new games we’ll be playing in 2018.
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