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• Every so often customers demand the dumbest things  (Dec 31, 2009)

• Start Off 2010 By Making Smart Bets Exclusively  (Dec 24, 2009)

• Power Outage Shouldn’t Cause Concern  (Dec 18, 2009)

• Warranty service with a smile  (Dec 11, 2009)

• Thomas D. 1 — Mark P. 0  (Dec 5, 2009)

• Reader Eyewear Required  (Nov 25, 2009)

• Where She Drops, Nobody Should Know  (Nov 13, 2009)

• MI Consumers Not on the Need To Know List  (Nov 06, 2009)

• Toke Tapping Tenets for Tipsters  (Oct 30, 2009)

• Some dealers have blackjack strategy know-how, others do not  (Oct 23, 2009)

• Feed the right machine the right strategy and it’s fun times all the way  (Oct 16, 2009)

• Stepmother has a false notion on how slots work  (Oct 9, 2009)

• The quicksand known as Gambler’s Fallacy  (Oct 2, 2009)

• Those hungry multi-line/multi-coin machines warmly welcome all wallets  (Sept 25, 2009)

• The Good Samaritan  (Sept 18, 2009)

• The Casino’s Bread is Now Buttered by Slot Players  (Sept 11, 2009)

• The RNG neither frowns nor smiles  (Sept 4, 2009)

• This Cultist Can’t Offer Reader Counsel (August 28, 2009)

• Persnickety Play Could Make Your Day  (August 21, 2009)

• Making money on a losing situation, sort of  (August 14, 2009)

• Those nickel machines just won’t pay back in quarters. . .  Damn!  (August 7, 2009)

• But it looks like a slot, quacks like a slot . . . .  (July 31, 2009)

• Yes, the casino wants an occasional winner  (July 24, 2009)

• Doubling up on bets and hopes  (July 17, 2009)

• When not to be on the phone  (July 10, 2009)

• The too-good-to-be-true electronic IHTD is still a work in progress  (July 3, 2009)

• Nominate your candidate for the ten best bets in the casino  (June 26, 2009)

• CASINO AHEAD: Reduced speed zone. All penalties doubled.  (June 19, 2009)

• Losing is bad enough, but losing at a fast clip really stinks  (June 12, 2009)

• Just Who’s Ace Is It Anyway?  (June 5, 2009)

• It’s a very rare casino that overlooks a half a grand shortfall  (May 29, 2009)

• Spread Your Action Around  (May 22, 2009)

• Yes, now that you mention it, profit does play a part  (May 15, 2009)

• The GREAT WHAMEROONEY, but it still slices like baloney?  (May 8, 2009)

• Natural odds, take your bow  (May 1, 2009)

• Those Gimmick Wagers Ride the Range Again  (April 24, 2009)

• 21 Madness  (April 17, 2009)

• Alert Player Sounds the Alarm  (April 10, 2009)

• Fire and Ice (April 3, 2009)

• How sweet they are – those twenty minutes of sanity (March 27, 2009)

• Tutorial on casino management (March 20, 2009)

• Casinos try to keep it cloak-and-dagger  (March 13 2009)

• Pick the Odds Against You: 5.26% OR 2.7%  (March 6 2009)

• While cards flit hither and yon, the dots on dice stay put  (Feb 27 2009)

• Honest answer, yes, but here’s the explanation why  (Feb 20 2009)

• Little risk, big reward logic is not sane gambling  (Feb 13 2009)

• Rice and Beans with that?  (Feb 6 2009)

• Anytime is the right or wrong time to play  (Jan 30 2009)

• Rigging your Payday?  (Jan 23 2009)

• Happenstance or Cheating?  (Jan 16 2009)

• While all liars figure, some figures can lie  (Jan 9 2009)

• Where did Bugsy hide the FULL-PAYS? (Jan 2 2009)

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