How Progressive Jackpots Work
On 21 March 2003 a 25-year-old software engineer from Los Angeles put about 100 dollars through a Megabucks machine at the Excalibur in Las…
Atlantic City and Las Vegas: Two Recovery Stories
America’s two gambling capitals went dark within days of each other in March 2020, and the parallel largely ends there. Las Vegas reopened on…
Slot Volatility Explained
Two slot machines can advertise identical 96 per cent return-to-player figures and still behave like entirely different games. One pays small amounts on every…
What Casino Comps Actually Cost
The comped suite, the free steak dinner, the limousine at the airport: casino comps are presented as generosity and administered as accounting. Every complimentary…
European, American and French Roulette Compared
Three games share the name roulette, and to a casual glance they are identical: a spinning wheel, a bouncing ivory-coloured ball, a grid of…