October 1st, 2008 — Uncategorized
Look at them, video poker machines lined up at the entrance to any casino, or lurking in the corner of social clubs where the local gambling ordinances permit them. They are there to take all the money from suckers. Sore losers. . . They just can’t stop playing these machines and keep giving all their money to them.
They don’t deserve anything but this. They have worked out the one important feature of the machines. Casino has an edge. No matter where you go in the casino world, whether its to some swanky place or online, the paytables are set in a way that gives the House a mathematical advantage. There will be times when players have a hot streak and it will seem like all the jackpots are falling. That’s just the way statistics work their way to the one mathematical certainty. There’s no need for the House to rig the machines. The casino operators are going to win in the long term without having to cheat. There’s no way they will spoil a sure thing by risking detection as a fraud by regulators. The House will win in the end. So let’s put those sore losers right.
September 29th, 2008 — Uncategorized
So, here I am, playing video poker. I’m feeding the machine and keeping count of the number of times I do and don’t get winning combinations in the pay table. Got me some serious scientific study going on here! My video poker strategy is down pat! You see, to my way of thinking, there’s no such thing as a random sequence. The probability of any one thing happening is set by what went before. So, if I got me a winning hand, the law of averages says the odds of that happening again is poorer for the hands that come just after it. An’ that’s true for the reverse as well. The longer I go without a winning hand, the more likely a big hand gets.
The young fellah tells me to just let rip, so now I’m gonna give it to you straight and fast. You don’t like it. Well, you can do the other thing. At my time of life, I got no time for them as thinks they know better unless they’re buying me drinks. Then I reckon they’re buying my time - anyways, people in bars always seem more interesting when some dose of free alcohol kicks in.
Now, if it’s one thing my father taught me (and his father taught him) that’s become a kinda guiding principle, it’s that people without math live their lives in a fog. They’ve got no idea what they’re doing. An’ you never see this more often than in a casino watching how people play the slot machines.
These folk live in a world of dreams. You ever watch a Poker Dealer wash and shuffle a deck of 52 cards fairly. No country wants to kill the golden duck that’s laying all them tax eggs so they all want to see fair games. Players vote with their feet if they think a game’s crooked. That’s in no-one’s interest. So all casinos gotta match the odds of a real card game with a human dealer. Even when serious professionals come out to play, the House has an edge.
So, on a video poker machine, the Random Number Generator (RNG for short) shuffles that virtual deck of 52 cards and pulls out your first five. Now sometimes, the slot machines sit with that randomized deck and deal the next cards off the top when you press draw. In others, that ol’ RNG don’t know when to quit. It keeps on notionally shuffling the deck while you’re busy trying to decide what to do with your hand. The longer you take, the more times the RNG has cycled. Finally, you decide what you’re holding and hit the draw button. You get whatever’s on top of the deck at that precise moment. Wait a fraction of a second longer, and you get different cards. It don’t matter which wy the machines’re set up. The deck has a random distribution of cards.
So don’t you never fall into no gambler’s fallacy. There ain’t no deck of cards or dice that got a memory. They’re just the tools we use to gamble with. Sure these new video poker machines can have big memories but there ain’t no point to that. So long as they all got a RNG, all they’re doing is remembering the longest string of random numbers anyone’s ever bothered to collect.
What these dreamers in a fog never see clearly is the principle of statistical independence. This a fancy way of saying that events are unrelated - when the first occurrence has no effect on the second. When events are random. So when is a sequence of cards random? When the odds of you predicting the next card are no better than chance. It’s like tossing a coin. Every time you toss a coin, the chances of getting one of two sides is always 1 in 2. It never changes from one toss to the next.
September 22nd, 2008 — Uncategorized
But what if you do choose to go this route with your gablming? Of course you’d want the best on the market. So often, people try to get online to play a great game of online poker and find themselves lost in the great big universe known as the internet, looking for the right game for them.
They might even have that problem the other way around. Before you begin playing any online casino game, you should know who you’re dealing with. When they do find one, they are stuck between a quality site that offers nice virtual games but shoddy customer service. The casino online site that you choose should also have a variety of games to play. You can find yourself playing within minutes, not hours, waiting for a page to load or waiting for software to download. Top online casinos offer you the best in online blackjack, slots online and more in addition to the safety, security, and familiarity of playing on a safe site. All this waiting around and you could have been in a car to the casino in the desert, right? Be smart when you go to the online casino of your choice and you’ll walk away more of a winner than you could have dreamed.
September 22nd, 2008 — Uncategorized
You can’t take the full control over the slots. Slots are a game that offers the ultimate in the “trying your luck” experience. You could literally be anyone, walking around, with nothing to do. The same simply cannot be said about other casino games. You should have a sense of the game and some skill about the ways the games are played. You could also have nothing in your pocket but some spare change. Chances are you could find yourself spending that change in a slot machine, trying your luck. If lady luck shines on you in that moment, at that slot machine, you may find that you win a generous amount of money. When you play slots, you are giving away total control to the fates. And if you are lucky, you can have a life-changing experience. The options for slots have grown and are now endless. You can play free slots online and try your hand at luck from the comfort of your own home. Don’t mistake luck for stupid luck, though. You should know that you can play the best slots slots around at the right places. Slots online is one of the places where you can find the games best suited for your skill level and your lucky day!
September 16th, 2008 — Uncategorized
Some men believe that playing slots can be a game made solely for losers. These folks are obviously mistaken and ignorant to the fact that slots are a game that requires a familiarity with the game and that is very much so a well-oiled machine, protected in order to provide players with the most efficient game of chance available! Operated by a RNG, Slots machine is always maintained to generate fresh, random numbers regularly. This ensures that players like you are getting the best in the game. Also, you do have to require a familiarity with the game so that you can play correctly and leave happy, knowing that there was nothing you could have done to sway the outcome. When you do bet real money, you should always try to go for max bet, especially if these are progressive slots. This would mean that your payout, if you do win, will be huge! Or you can remain uninformed about the game and walk away with less than you could have potentially walked away with. Would an uninformed slots player do that? I don’t think so.
September 10th, 2008 — Uncategorized
Well, it seems there are times when more is better. This is one of the offshore online casinos. It’s currently based in Gibraltar but, with its tax haven status ending in the near future, it will be interesting to see if the River Belle stays put or sails off to one of the remaining havens. Now there is more than two hundred games available online. So this month sees three more games added. They’re the usual mix of slots and video poker games which add a few more twists and turns to the playing experience. Perhaps this is the way to succeed in business. If people get too bored with the same run of games and slow down, they need to be given novelty to reignite their enthusiasm. So we’ve got standard games repackaged. This time, there’s both a science-fiction-themed and a fantasy-themed 5-reel, 20-playline slot with doubling and quadrupling gambling options, plus a revamp of Jacks or Better Level-Up Poker, where prizes increase as you work your way up through the four levels. If you think your life will be richer for another video poker game, try this new game at the River Belle.
September 6th, 2008 — Uncategorized
Very rarely the reason people go to the casino is it the food, and it is definitely not the drive it takes to get to the casinos which are buried somewhere in the desert. No, it is usually the game itself or the potential a player believes he or she has at winning large jackpots. What you can count on when you choose to start a healthy hobby of playing casinos online is the game of slots online. Slots are an amazing way to introduce yourself into the wide world of gambling. You won’t be able to contain yourself when you see just how exciting slots online and other games online are. Whatever your skill level or style, you will be able to see for yourself once you take a chance on becoming a casino games player online. Top Slots are easy to find when you know where to look. Progressive and otherwise. So, yes. The drive to the casino world is worth it if you already know what is waiting for you. But now you know, you don’t have to drive anywhere. Get the action from home!
August 28th, 2008 — Uncategorized
Many people in Europe think that there should be more direct government regulation of online gambling. The reason for this shift is the series of scandals currently roiling the world of online poker. The most positive demand for federal regulation has come through the Poker Players Alliance (see http://pokerplayersalliance.org/headlines/2008/08/27/election2008-this-pair-bettors-would-fold-las-vegas-sun-082708/). The gory details of these scandals and all the allegations are too much to deal with here, so I’ll just focus on this press release. Former Senator Putin makes the obvious point that the game of poker depends on trust. The players need to know that managers of casinos and the organisers of tournaments are committed to policing both themselves and the players. When there are allegations of cheating in real world events, local regulators and, if appropriate, law enforcement officers will investigate and report. The process is reasonably transparent and people are usually held accountable for breaking the rules or the relevant laws. When cheating may have occurred on the internet, there are serious problems of jurisdiction. Who exactly has the power to investigate and what powers of sanction does the investigator have? The former Senator argues with force that public trust can only be maintained if the same level of transparency applies to both real world and online gambling. So, if anyone, whether manager, organiser or player is to be put at risk of punishment, what is due process? What court or tribunal can decide whether there is sufficient evidence of wrongdoing and make a proportionate response? As it stands, it is left to regulatory authorities in the country where the company running the internet site has its registered office. Players are therefore left with the quite natural feeling that there is no effective regulation. But the desire for federal intervention is not likely to meet with any new laws. The U.S. Government does not have extraterritorial jurisdiction to go and investigate a company in a foreign state. Its only sanction is to bar access to the site which is a sledgehammer to crack a nut.There is very little transparency with few details of the investigations or their findings ever made public. In the history of the internet, there have been no prosecutions or formal judicial sanctions applied to any company or individual running online gambling.
August 21st, 2008 — Uncategorized
It is a good idea to decide in advance how much you will spend on slots during an entire day or trip. Divide your bankroll into equal amounts and play that many sessions without going over the allotted amount during any one period of play. For example, if you decide to play four sessions, stop if you have used up one fourth of your bankroll during any one session. Take a break and do something else for a while. If you win, you may decide to keep playing or to pocket the winnings for now. If you want to be able to play for a long time, make sure you choose a machine that does not penalize you for playing less than the maximum number of coins. That way, you can play one coin at a time and prolong your playing time on a set bankroll. This goes against the advice you may see to always play the maximum number of coins, but it is the strategy to use if you want to maximize your playing time. On the other hand, if you are playing progressive slots with the hope of hitting the jackpot, you have to play the maximum number of coins in order to be eligible for the big prize. Don’t play on a progressive slot machine if you only want to play one coin at a time. Remember that slot machines are intended to be fun and entertaining. It can be exciting to win the jackpot, but the primary goal of playing slots should always be to have fun without losing your shirt!
May 13th, 2008 — Uncategorized
As you pinpoint a tournament you want to enter, signing up is fairly straightforward. The easiest and most direct way to do so is to simply pay the entry fee. To sign up, you can either mail in a check, pay in person, or in some cases, register online or over the phone. These options vary from casino to casino and blackjack tournaments to slots tournaments, so always read the fine print.
Although most players sign up in advance, in many cases you can still enter on the day of the tournament. However some events require advance registration or only allow a fixed number of players. Also, there are often discounts on the entry fee for “early bird” entries.
This section tells you some important tidbits you need to remember when you’re considering or have already entered a tournament.