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Before engaging in your next showdown with The House, arm yourself with the latest tips and trends to help make all your gambling ventures lucrative ones.

"Money won is twice as nice as money earned."

-Fast Eddie Felson

Tales of Triumph: The Final Chip

With beginner’s luck comes a blind arrogance, and I had an abundance of it back in the fall of 1997. Although a novice dice roller at the time, my track record remained unblemished at the craps table.

May 313 min read

A Character Study: The Joe Montana

The clock is tickin’ and he’s taking a lickin’. His hand scrambles into the pocket, searching for a hint of salvation and feeling nothing but lint. He’s well behind in this struggle, but this is no time to panic or fret. He’s got ‘em right where he wants them. After all, he’s the Comeback Kid.

May 162 min read

Three of the Gutsiest Casino Moves You’ll Ever See

They’re not quite of the same peril as snapping Polaroids during an inverted 4G negative dive at a range of two meters (“one and a half, actually”). But some of our friendly casino daredevils have performed many reckless gaming stunts that would do even Maverick proud. And unlike the Russians, who outright denied the incident at the climax of Top Gun, we’re assuring you that these wild casino stunts actually did happen.

May 116 min read

Royale with Extra Cheese

We’re talking gun fights, machete fights, sex romps, vehicular rollovers, elevator drownings, foiled terrorist attempts, defibrillator shock pops, smackdowns in speedy gas trucks, rope-induced testicle torture (yes, you read that right), and a whale of a foot chase up, down, and around a crane chain at a Madagascar construction site.

May 53 min read

Se7en Deadly Sins of Gambling

Somewhere between the ultra-creepy Nine Inch Nails intro and discovering what was in the cardboard box, the cerebral Detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman) lays it all out for us about the Seven Deadly Sins. These major no-no’s date back to the biblical writings of Dante Alighieri and Saint Thomas Aquinas and signify those pesky little demons dwelling within each of us.

Apr 295 min read

Sin City that Never Sleeps

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.

4 days ago2 min read

Playing the Field: Twenty Dollar Slot Method

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.

Jun 82 min read

Taking No Craps

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.

Jun 53 min read

The Super Sports Parlay: An Ocean’s Eleven Scenario

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).

Jun 24 min read

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