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It’s still a little over a week until Halloween and many venues are already well into their ghostly celebrations. Here are some highlights of haunted happenings around the valley:All Things HauntedFreakling Bros. Horror ShowIKEA Parking Lot, 6555 S. Riley St.Various dates Oct. 1-31, 7 p.m.$25-$250Featuring the classic Castle Vampyre, Coven of 13, and

In pop culture, card counters have a reputation for being MIT geniuses or Rain-Man-esque savants. Card counters roll with that, even though the reputation is entirely undeserved. Within the casino industry, they have another reputation. For being stiffs. That reputation is entirely deserved. And card counters roll with it.Throughout The

Legally, I need glasses to operate a car. Barely. In Nevada, you need to be 20-40 in both eyes (if you have two eyes) to drive without corrective lenses. My eyes are 20-40 in one eye and 20-60 in the other. I see better in the daytime than I do

Bob and I get a return visit from long time slot director Buddy Frank, and this was taped immediately after the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) show, the biggest casino industry trade show of the year. We spend a lot of time talking about the new things we saw.We welcome your

Anze Kopitar and Drew Doughty are two of the oldest guys on the L.A. Kings roster. They’re so old that Drew Doughty actually referred to Kopitar and himself in that category post-game last night. Someone forgot to remind them that this is a young-man’s game. Outside the hockey world, Kopitar

“Strangers In The Night” was a song madefamous by Frank Sinatra in 1966, which helped him revive his career. A fact that’snot widely known is that Sinatra hated this song. “I just can’t stand this song, but what the hell.” Sinatra announcedat a gig in Jerusalem in 1975.Well, Vegas GoldenKnight

A player, “Joe,” wrote a mailbag question to [email protected], and I decided to answer it here rather than on the air. It seems that this player has found a 99.8% video blackjack game among a bank of machines with much tighter blackjack games and bad video poker pay schedules. There are slot

The 1987 film Can’t Buy Me Love was one of the greatest gambling movies of all time. Millennial APs probably haven’t seen it, so here’s the IMDB summary: “An outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month.”

No guest this week as we once again dip into the mail bag.Show Notes[00:00]  Introduction[00:40]  Biggest gambling regrets[03:57]  How can dealers gain AP knowledge?[06:44]  Variance on multi-line video poker[10:20]  Fixed-odds horse racing[11:49]  Bob’s problems with betting in Arizona[22:29]  How do APs network?[25:45]  Advantages and disadvantages of playing on casino credit[30:39] 

Olivia Jade hints that his partner Val Chmerkovskiy is trying to recruit her mom Lori Laughlin for future DWTS seasons for a family affair.