Blackjack has the best odds of winning, with a house edge of just 1 percent in most casinos, Bean said. Plus, you are playing against only the dealer, not hooded poker champions.

The grammars are called slot grammars because they are organized around slots (grammatical relations) and rules for filling them. The parser works bottom-up and maintains, for each phrase being built up, a list called the available slots list, ASLOTS.

After you've spent some time on the slot machines, move on to the Blackjack table, and start by just observing. Blackjack has the best odds of winning, with a house edge of just 1 percent in most casinos, Bean said. Plus, you are playing against only the dealer, not hooded poker champions.