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• GameMaster's Video Poker Archive - Everything you every wanted to know about Video Poker, for your gaming pleasure.
• Kenny Pearlman's From The Felt Top - Kenny died late in 2005, but before he passed on he wrote over 200 articles on life, his Cubs and especially gambling.
• Kenny Pearlman's Las Vegas Dealer - More stories from this incredible talent.
• GameMaster's Life on the Gambling Web - A strange little collection of GameMaster dittys.
• The NextShooter - During 2001 we published many of the fine articles from NEXTSHOOTER. Please feel free to wander around his excellent archive.
  Or go directly to his web site and see what he's up to.
• Las Vegas Craps Directory -Another NEXTSHOOTER exclusive.
• Las Vegas Craps Lingo - More NEXTSHOOTER.
• Deal Me In - We have a fairly complete collection of Mark Pilarski Q&A series.
• Gambling and the Law - by Professor I. Nelson Rose
• Status of Gambling Laws - by Professor I. Nelson Rose

From 2005
• Chase The Royal -Revisited

From 2003
• The Future of Video Poker
• Making The Best of It
• Which is Better?
• Multistrike Poker
  Video Poker Primer
• Video Poker Primer - Part 1
• Video Poker Primer - Part 2
• Video Poker Primer - Part 3
• Video Poker Primer - Part 4

From 2002
• An Analysis Of Double Double Bonus Poker
• I Want A Royal Today
• High-Return Video Poker on the Internet
• Chase The Royal Video Poker
• Fun With Deuces
• Loose Deuces

From 2001
• Playing For The Thrill
• Decisions-Decisions-Decisions
  The Sim Series
• Sim Series Part 1: Pick 'Em Poker
• Sim Series Part 2: Full Pay Jacks or Better
• Sim Series Part 3: Full Pay Double Bonus
• Sim Series Part 4: Full-Pay Deuces Wild
• Sim Series Part 5: "Illinois" Deuces Wild
• Sim Series Part 7: Loose Duces

From 2000
• Multiple-Joker Poker
• All 100% Returns Are Not Alike - Part 1
• All 100% Returns Are Not Alike - Part 2
• Games To Avoid - Part 1
• Games To Avoid - Part 2
  Experts Guide to All-American Video Poker
• All-American Video Poker-Part 1
• All-American Video Poker-Part 2
• All-American Video Poker-Part 3
• All-American Video Poker-Part 4
• All-American Video Poker-Part 5
• All-American Video Poker-Part 6
• All-American Video Poker-Recap
  Video Poker Diary
• All American Video Poker Diary- Part 1
• All American Video Poker Diary- Part 2
• All American Video Poker Diary- Part 3
• All American Video Poker Diary- Part 4

From 1999
• Drawing To An Inside Straight
• 30,000 Hands of Video Poker
• The Long Run
• Let's Get It Right
• Straight Flushes
  Pick A Game Series
• Pick A Game--Part 1
• Pick A Game--Part 2
• Pick A Game--Part 3
• Pick A Game--Part 4
• Pick A Game--Part 5
  Fundamental Errors Series
• Jacks or Better
• Double Bonus
• All American Poker
• Deuces Wild

From 1998
• Can I Really Win?
  Yes. Or rather, yes, but....
• 15,000 hands of video poker
• I Feel The Need-
  The Need For Speed
• Back to Basics
• $56 An Hour at Video Poker
• Dumb Plays
• $137 an Hour at Video Poker
• You're Driving Me Crazy!
• Video Poker.....and Bingo
• Jacks or Better Games
• Deuces Wild Games
  9/6 Jacks
• 9/6 JacksBasic Strategy Variations
• 9/6 Jacks Basic Strategy Variations - Part 2
• 9/6 Jacks Basic Strategy Variations - Part 3

From 1997

• Video Poker: Beginnings
• Thoughts on Money Management

From 2005
• Digging Your Own Grave
• A*C*T*I*O*N
• Happy Birthday Las Vegas!
• Slip Slidin' Away
• Wynn or Lose
• A Last Dinner with Jimmy "The Cowboy" Tomissario
• Buzz

From 2004
• Kids Growing Up On TV Poker
• A New Twist, Card Counting By The Casinos
• Tipping Ain't a City In China
• A Dark Shoe
• Las Vegas Is Pricing Itself Out Of Business
• The End of the Jimmy Hoffa Story
• Luck: When Preparation Meets Opportunity
• Hand Held Tech
• American Casino...A Peak Behind the Curtin
• What Happened in Vegas Never Really Happened

From 2003
• Bedroom Poker Casino: The Real Story Behind The Movie
• Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
• Cubs September Song
• Welcome To My Job
• Smillin'Like A Rose
• Silence Of The Sheeps
• Hard Time
• There Still Selling Beer In Chicago
• Rage Against The Machine
• Miss Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Picnic
• Gaming (OUT-OF) Control Board

From 2002
• WHIPPED
• THE REAL VEGAS VIC: THE FINAL CHAPTER
• 6 TO 5: THE NEW BLACKJACK
• FUTURE WORLD: LAS VEGAS
• The Power Of The Pen
• How Soccer Saved The World, Or Wake Me When It's Over
• Hook Or Crook
• Born to be Wild
• A Pirate Looks at Fifty
• Before and After
• THE SAD PASSING OF JOEY "THE DEUCE" ENCINO
• REMEMBER...?

From 2001
• PENNIES FROM HEAVEN?…AND YOU CAN HAVE 'EM
• HONEY, I'M JUST GOIN' OUT FOR A DRINK
• ATTACK ON AMERICA ...WAKING THE SLEEPING GIANT...ONCE AGAIN...
• STRIPPING THE STRIP: THE WAR HITS VEGAS
• Your Cheating Heart...Las Vegas Style
• Unionizing Vegas-The Impossible Dream
• Steve Wynn At It Again
• Game Of The Year
• Good Old Laughlin
• Amarillo Slim Taught The Band To Play
• The Return Of The Hustlers
• Real People: Stories of Las Vegas
• Cubs Or Sox-Chicago's Civil War

From 2000
• I Am Waiting...
• Interview With A Gambler
• Thirty Seconds Over Vegas
• Geronimo Meets The Sopranos
• Bless My Mommy, My Daddy and Most Of All, Bless My Bookie
• Sox Side or Cubs Side? Lemme Call Ya Back
• Heh Lady...Don't Touch The Cards
• The Deal With The Wheel
• Clueless in Las Vegas?
• The Legend of Chunky O' Farrell
• To Have And Have Not

From 1999
• You Never Know Who You'll Bump Into, So Always Be Ready...
• The Dirty Filthy Truth On Dealing In Las Vegas
• Don't Cry For Me, Except On Sundays
• Perlman Reviews: The Mandalay Bay
• Binion's Mysterious Safe Stays Safe With Binion
• A Trip On The South Strip
• Discovering Las Vegas
• Binion Murder Solved
• A Tribute to JFK Jr.
• Sin City or Kiddyland?
• King Kong Meets Vegas

From 1998
• A Look At Luck
• Are Pitbosses Supersticious?
• Some Money Managemanet Tips
• Eye In The Sky
• The Dirt on Ted Binionand the Las Vegas MOB
• The Gambling Scammer
• So You Want To Move To Las Vegas? No Problem...
• Greeting From Lake Tahoe, Nevada
• In Vegas, You Gotta Pay If You Wanna Play
• Whales Spotted In Vegas
• A Tribute To Teddy Binion
• Binion's Mother Lode
• Bellagio-Steve Wynn Ups The Ante
• Who Killed Ted Binion
• Stu "The Kid" Ungar Played His Last Hand

From 2005
• Captain Kirk Of The Starship Las Vegas
• The Last Great Aviator
• Merkle's Boner and Other Bonehead Plays
• Alcoholics Meet Sportaholics - No More Fun
• Brave New World
• What To Do In Vegas
• A New View of Las Vegas

From 2004
• I Am Waiting - Two
• The GameMaster - Dream Answered
• Bringing Up Baby - Thanks to Caesars
• Caught in the Act
• Adventures of Tony Snow - Teenage Gambler
• The Cooler - The Real Story
• Something Just Don't Look Right
• Ding Dong The Bitch Is Back
• Vegas Aiming For The Wall

From 2003
• Hollywood's Eye In The Sky
• Great Expectations
• I'd Walk A Mile For A Smile
• Do You Believe In Miracles?
• Taking Tahoe
• World Class Poker For A Day
• Lost Treasures
• Smart (Ass) Machines
• The $2Million Dollar Rim Shot
• Las Vegas, We Bad
• Gladiators...EnterTheArena.shtml

From 2002
• The Last Shoe
• Snatch
• One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indian Casinos
• How To Make A Half A Million Bucks In Vegas
• Beating The Nazis
• The Horseshoe Screw
• Last Days of the Ice Man
• Comps-My Ass
• Fear and Loathing in Vegas
• Thunder From The Mountains
• Psycho Mike's At It Again

From 1998 to 2001
• It's Cheap To Be Rich In Las Vegas
• Wynn Rising
• Caesars Takes A Cheap Shot - Part 2
• Caesars Takes A Cheap Shot - Part 1
• Team Blackjack
• Hand That Lady A Pamper And A Chevy
• Discovery-ing Las Vegas
• Got A Problem? Take A Number
• Bus People Invade Las Vegas
• The Good News And The Bad News
• Just Between Me And The Dealers
• Happy Milennium From Las Vegas
• Don't Play Just Anywhere: Choosing A Casino
• Danger In Paradise, Cover Your Ass
• Teddy Gets Even, or, Where's Geraldo When We Need Him?
• The $250,000 - Dollar
• Hate The Heat? Then Don't Go To Las Vegas In the Summer
• Don't Let Your Trip To Las Vegas Become A Tragedy
• My Basic Rules Of Gambling
• Visions are only worthwhile when someone dreams them...
• On Your Next Trip To Vegas...Let's Be Safe Out There
• Learn Before You Lease
• Holidays and the Casinos
• Management For Effective Casino Play
• The Personal Truth About Odds In Craps
• Why People Gamble (and why some shouldn’t)
• All About Tipping
  
• Complaints. Who, What and Why
  
• Harrah's Laughlin
• Dealers: An Endangered Species?
• Why Dealers Hate You
• The Pros Vs The Cons
• A Bit On Netiquette
• Is It Luck Or Something Else?
• A Bet Is A BetThe Las Vegas Quiz
• Las Vegas Quiz-The Answers
• Baccarat and Chemin De Fer
• Sometimes There Are No Winners
• Bar Bets Revisited
• Las Vegas Has A New Collection Agency

• Surviving an I RS Audit
• Flame War with Jane
• Tom Seeks GM's Blackjack Advice
• Craps is an Indulgence
• Gambling At Stanley Acropolis Casino

• Secrets Of The Table Lay Out
• What Does House Policy On “Coloring You Up” Mean To You?
• Why "The House" Is As Superstitious As You Are
• Player Etiquette And It's Effect On Winning
• Ten Ways A Dealer Can Spot A Loser
• How Place Bets Were Invented
• What Is The True Meaning Of Table Odds, Minimums And Maximums?
• The Incredible Truth About Craps Dealers
• Nevadas Black Book
• Downtown Vs. "Strip" Odds
• Las Vegas Recommendations: 5 Star Craps Casinos
• Dice Setting And Precision Shooting
• The Simple Truths About Most Players
• Where To Play To Get The Most Out Of Your Bank
• How Dealers Can Be Selective In The Way That They Service Players.
• Using Multiple Odds To Design Your System
• What Kind Of A Player Are You?
• Why Systems Work At Home But Not At The Casino
• 10 Things That Dealers Hate Most
• Where To Place Wagers For The Dealers
• When Does The House Change The Dice
• How To Keep Track Of Your Bets
• Craps Directories for Laughlin, Nevada and Louisianna, Mississippi & Missouri

• Just Say No To Keno
• Crap Etiquette
• This Business Is Huge
• Gambler's Ruin
• Sometimes Casinos
  Can't Figure Either
• Play Where There's Competition
• Slots Simplified, Part 1
• Slots Simplified, Part 2
• With the wise guys gone, Wall Street rolled in!
• Three's a charm?
• Consider Tipping A Contribution
• The name is Bond, James Bond
• In reality, the fewer hands per hour the better
• Waiving The White Flag in Roulette
• The Luckiest Of The Lucky
• Always wager the full amount on progressives
• Is it gaming or gambling?
• The telephone call is probably from your annoying brother-in-law
• Bad Checks, Loaded Dice and Coin Flips
• Tabasco Style Blackjack
• Consider Tipping
• Forty Winks
• Is It Worth The Hassle?
• Buying A Book Will Not Make You An Instant Winner
• Bookmakers Always Search For Balanced Betting
• Do slot machines near the aisle pay more?
• It cost plenty for a shot at slot immortality
• Comp and Circumstance
• Only One Dog Has His Day
• Hanky Panky
• What to do with those ambiguous soft hands in blackjack
• Rapid Fire Q and A
• When to Surrender Those Damned Hands
• Does Kevin deserve a dinner for his play?
• My System Of Don¹ts
• Who's Grinding Whom?
• Charting results won't make you a winner in Bacarrat
• Moving Up The Smart Way
• Aquire Skills At Home Before You Expose Your Hard Earned Money
• The Side Of Gambling Casinos Never Talk About
• How About Them Jokers
• The Classic Roman Myth Approach To Gambling
• This Old Timer Still Runs On High Octane
• You won! Great. Now pay Uncle Sam

From 2005
• The Bizarre Law Of Dealer Schools
• Compulsive Gamblers Lose Again - In Court
• Busted for Betting Online
• States Win Again
• Casino Struck Under New Anti Terrorism Laws

From 2004
• Caution - Bingo May Be Hazardous To Your Health
• The Name Game
• The World's Only Gambling Court
• Court Upholds Casinos' Right To Unreasonably Exclude
• Slot Machines And Lotteries Win Election
• Playboy and the Past and Future of Gambling

From 2003
• Dealing With Card-Counters
• If Betting Is Not A Crime Is It Legal?
• Re-raising Arizona

From 2002
• Gov. Davis Legalizes Gambling, Again!
• California Bill Would Have Brought Bakc Prohibition
• Politics And The Law Of Gambling
• California Legalizes Internet Gambling
• The Day Congress Outlawed Sports Betting And Violated The U.S. Constitution
• Don't Tug On Supermans Cape
• Nevada Legalizes Internet Gambling - Maybe
• Butsted For Betting Online
• Big Brother (The IRS) Is Watching

Older
• Why Disney Won't Take Bets From Vermont
• Nevada Supreme Court Orders Casino To Pay Card Counter
• Status of Gaming Enabling Laws
• Making Your Web Site Too Good Can Get You In Trouble
• Goverment Joins The War Against Card Counters
• Do Parents Have A Duty To Keep Their Kids Out Of Casinos?
• Casinos As Spies For The Federal Goverment
• Who Won The 2000 Election?
• Tribes Given Chance To Open Class II Casinos
• Indian Nations And Internet Gambling
• Federal vs. State
• Navada A.G. Finds Free Internet Gambling Is Still Gambling
• State Can Bar Some Adults From Gambling
• Federal vs. State Goverments
• Court Rules Internet Gambling Is Not Illegal
• In Nevada, It's Pay Your Markers Or Go To Jail