Let’s take a spin through a long-standing slot machine myth, one that I’m asked about several times a year.
One recent e-mail started, “This always happens to me on three-reel games. When I play one coin at a time, I win, but as soon as I start betting maximum coins, I lose. Should I stick with one coin at a time?”
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On many video poker games — Double Bonus Poker, Double Double Bonus Poker, Super Aces and more — most four of a kind hands pay 250 coins for a five-coin bet. A friend was surprised recently when casino with high pay tables overall had games that paid only 239 coins on those quads.
“Why would that be,” he asked. “Why cheap out by 11 coins?”
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The first time I ever encountered Crapless Craps, also called Never-Ever Craps, was back in the 1980s in Las Vegas, at a place called Vegas World that since has made way for the Stratosphere Tower. Since then, I’ve seen the game in Mississippi and Minnesota. It’s not a casino standard, but it pops up from time to time.
Travel Tunica learned how to play poker recently, so when we were invited to the media event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at Harrah’s Tunica, we were all in.
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Way back in the late 1980s, before casinos came to Mississippi (or anywhere else in the United States outside Nevada and New Jersey), I was walking through the Flamingo in Las Vegas on a busy Friday night. Rows and rows of slot machines were busy, but as I cruised the aisles, I spotted one empty spot. I made my way past five or six machines, and found a single idle game amidst a slot-playing frenzy.
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The World Series of Poker is the longest-running, largest, richest, and most prestigious gaming event in the world, and it will be in Tunica soon! This marks the sixth season of WSOP Circuits, which are played at Harrah’s properties throughout the United States. Harrah’s Tunica is the fifth of eleven WSOP Circuit stops scheduled this season.
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