Who Needs Luck When You’re in Tunica
In Tunica, we LOVE the color green! Especially when the cashier’s handing us our winnings! And when you’re looking to win, you’ve got to have a lucky charm.
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Tips for Roulette Bets
My wife loves to play roulette. Mind you, she likes it best with low minimum bets and low chip values. She’s been in red or black heaven on trips when we’ve found tables with dollar minimums where you could break the chips down to 25-cent values. But even on a $5 table, if she can break her chips down to 50-cent denominations, she gets to spread some chips around the layout, making some single-number bets, some four-number corners and other combinations until her chips add up to the table minimum.
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Hitting 16 against a Dealer 7 in Blackjack
If you play basic strategy at blackjack, you’ll hit 16 if the dealer’s face-up card is 7 or higher. But players often tell me they can’t bring themselves to hit 16 when the dealer shows a 7.
As one player put it, “I hit 16 against 10, but when it’s 16 against 7, I figure the dealer has a pretty good chance to bust.”
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Are Results Really Different if You Only Bet One Coin on Slots?
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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All Video Poker Machines Don’t Pay the Same for Four of a Kind
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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