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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

enews, gaming-and-casinos / By ceastway

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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All Video Poker Machines Don’t Pay the Same for Four of a Kind

gaming-and-casinos / By ceastway

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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Pet-Friendly Options in Tunica

Hotels / By ceastway

Sometimes one of the greatest challenges when traveling is finding suitable accommodations for your travel companion. I’m not talking about your picky significant other. I’m talking about your pet! Pets are a huge part of many of our lives but finding a pet-friendly hotel while traveling can be somewhat difficult. Fortunately for Tunica-bound travelers, there are several pet-friendly options.

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“9-6” Isn’t the Magic Number in Every Video Poker Game

gaming-and-casinos / By ceastway

The game that put video poker on the map in the 1980s was “Jacks or Better.” And as it gained in popularity, the word spread that the best games had “9-6” pay tables, meaning they paid 9-for-1 on full houses and 6-for-1 on flushes.

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Forget New Year’s Resolutions – Come to Tunica!

seasonal / By ceastway

Every year countless people make New Year’s resolutions. They pledge to work out more, to eat healthier foods, to be more adventurous, to save more and to spend less money. Most of these resolutions won’t make it past April 1, hence why it’s called “April Fool’s Day.” With this in mind, here at Tunica, we have come up with some anti-resolution solutions to help you start off your new year in a state of guilt-free bliss!

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