Baccarat 101

The high-octane rollercoaster that zig-zags its way around the exterior of the New York, New York Hotel & Casino is a fitting parallel to all the thrills (and sometimes chills) that dwell with its 84,000-foot gaming premises. Rocketing up, down, and all around its Manhattan skyline (and sometimes spinning you upside down), it’s an adventure that mimics the abrupt shifts in fortune that too often come with the Las Vegas experience.

Enter the $20 slot method. Conceived sometime during the post-Covid era, the $20 method is a low risk/high reward campaign being embraced by many lovers of the one-armed bandit.

First glance down the endless stretch of the crapless craps table leaves one to question his or her own sobriety levels. It’s like a prone-positioned Leonardo DiCaprio (Wolf of Wall Street) under the spell of heavy-duty quaaludes, peering down a staircase of six steps and seeing sixty.

One of the great heist movies of the new millennium, Ocean’s Eleven, plays out before our eyes on an evening basis. Every time we whip out the iPhone, fire up the DraftKings app, and lay a 12- or 13-bet parlay in hopes of capping a single four-figure score, we’re surely tapping into our inner Danny Ocean (George Clooney).