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Blackjack Playing Tips and Strategies
There are lots of Blackjack tips surrounding the game, as hitting, standing, or splitting certain hands can give you a great chance of winning. There is a tip or strategy for every possible card combination in
Blackjack, but here we will group many of them together and only point out the most important few.
A “soft” hand is one where there is an Ace. This is because an Ace can go either way, as a 1 or 11. A “hard” hand is where there is not one.
Always hit on a hand of 16 or less because there is little to no chance you will bust and the dealer will always have a better hand if you don’t.
Hit on soft 17.
Hard 17 is more complicated and your decision should be based on the casino dealer’s showing card.
Hit if the dealer has 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, or A. Otherwise stand and cross your fingers that the dealer will bust.
Soft 18 is also complicated and should be based on the casino dealer’s showing card. If the dealer has 9, 10, J, Q, K, or A then you should hit, otherwise it would be best to stand.
Stand on hard 18.
Always stand on 19 and 20.
Blackjack is one casino game, such as Poker, when a solid strategy may actually give you a greater chance of winning. Your only opponent is bad judgment. Hopefully these tips and strategies will help you win
the next time you are gambling on the game of Blackjack.
Slot Machine Tips
The objective of playing slots is to bet coins or credit and spin the machine's "reels" so that symbols line up on the machine's "paylines", as described in the machine's "payout"
schedule. Players can choose how many coins or how much credit to bet per payline and how many paylines to bet on.
The payout schedule displays the machines winning combinations and the values for each combination. These values vary according to the credit bet with each spin.
Some machines give players the opportunity to win even more credit, by allowing them to bet their winnings and original bet using a secondary betting system.
There are two types of slot machines: "straight" and "progressive". Both types seem generally the same. One major difference is that straight slots pay a predetermined value, as described
in their payout schedule. Progressive slots are usually linked to other slot machines. The other slots may reside in the same building, state, or even globally, as seems to be the case with some Internet based slots. These
"progressive" machines share a "jackpot" that increases each time a player deposits bets at one of the linked machines. As a result, the jackpot can grow to astronomical proportions.
HOW MUCH DO SLOT MACHINES PAY?
Slot machines are generally programmed to pay a percentage of their winnings. This percentage tends to be between 85% and 98%, depending on the machine, it's location and usage. The higher the percentage, the more the machine
tends to payout.
TIPS
Play machines that advertise a higher payout percentage (between 95% & 99%). These machines may be dollar or higher denomination machines.
Ensure you understand the payout schedule prior to deciding how much to bet per payline and how many paylines to bet on. It would be unfortunate to produce a winning then realize it could have been significantly
higher had the bet been slightly higher.
Some progressive slots will only award a jackpot win to a player betting the maximum amount. Not betting the maximum amount means you could produce the required combination for a jackpot win but miss out because
you did not bet the required amount. Make sure you understand the payout schedule and if necessary, ask a machine attendant to clarify it for you.
The amount of credit bet is not related to the likelihood of spinning a winning combination.
Generally, it seems more beneficial to bet the maximum amount of credit per payline. The problem, however, is that this has the potential to quickly exhaust your wallet. With this in mind, find a machine that
best suits your budget. A quarter machine may suit your budget more so than a dollar machine, for example.
Recognize when a jackpot (large value) has been won. Some machines will ask you to call an attendant who will organize payment to you. Never handle or walk away from a machine that has just produced a jackpot
winning. Call the attendant or have someone call him/her for you while you wait at the machine.
If you play slots regularly, take a note of which machines tend to be paying out significantly. If a machine seems to be paying out significantly, and often, it may be worthwhile giving this machine a try sometime.
You may find that casinos place their most liberal machines in places where they are likely to attract attention.
Consider trying the machine next to you if your machine isn't paying off.
Find out if the venue you intend to play at offers other incentives, such as points, meals, accommodation, etc., that goes with your game play. This however doesn't mean that you should play purely for these
secondary benefits.
Try to recognize when your luck may have changed. There are many examples of people winning significantly then "getting greedy", so to speak, and losing everything.
Make sure you empty the machine of your credit prior to leaving it. Each year, people accidentally abandon machines that still have their credit inside.
Assign a budget for the day's play. If the budget is lost, you will know when to leave the casino.
Don't bet more than you can afford to lose.
Remember to always have fun :)
Poker Playing Tips and Strategies
Poker is not just a game of luck- poker is also a gambling game of skill and strategy. Without understanding the basic tips and strategies of playing a game of poker, players can run the risk of losing a lot
of money. When players understand these basic strategies, it is easy to play a game of poker with confidence.
One of the basic tips for playing poker is to understand the rules of the game. There are many types of casino poker games. Each one is played a little different so before betting any amount of money, it is always
a good idea to have an understanding of how the game is played and common vocabulary used. Also, a poker player should never sit down at a game without having enough cash or chips. The general rule in most casinos is that
a player should have at least 50 times the table limit on hand when gambling. Bluffing is not the way to go if players do not have enough money.
Another good tip for playing a game of poker in a casino is to use a good poker face. This means that players who are gambling should never change their facial expressions or reactions when they look at their
poker cards. This can give other players the advantage of knowing whether or not an opposing player has a good hand. Also, a poker player should always exercise patience when gambling. Poker requires a great deal of concentration
and skill. Money is not won quickly with a game of poker. Instead, players must use their best poker playing skills and play the game with patience.
Roulette Playing Tips and Strategies
When playing the game of Roulette, there are lots of tips and strategies that one can take heed of to help further their game. Although there is no proven way to win, you can do certain things to help increase
your chances. We will outline a few of the most important below.
One of the best things you can do when playing the game of Roulette is to keep your bets together so that you are not betting against yourself. For example, if you have bet on 16, don’t then bet on odd or
black since 16 is a red and even number. If you want to make secondary bets, make them correspond with your first bet.
Another thing to consider in the game of Roulette is how you gamble. Just a few more dollars can give you a much larger sum of winnings if you do hit your number. For example, if you bet $5 and win $175 that
is pretty good. On the other hand, if you bet $20 and win $700 that is even better. Just $15 extra gives you a shot at winning $525 more than you would from betting only $5.
Lastly, if you hit a lucky streak, try to ride it out and see where it takes you. The game of Roulette is a fun and exciting casino game that can involve several players at once. This atmosphere makes it tempting
to play and hard to resist. If you have a good, solid strategy worked out, it can increase your chances of coming out even, and hopefully ahead.
How to Play Craps
How to play craps or shoot dice is rather easy to learn and then progress to more sophisticated methods of play. Craps is all about the number seven which on a pair of dice is made up of 3-4 or 2-5 or 1-6. The
shooter or the roller of the dice makes what is called the come out roll. If the dice come up seven or eleven on that first roll, the shooter and all who bet on the pass line will win. It the roll is a 2 or a 3 or a 12, the
pass line bets lose. If the roll comes up any other number that number becomes what is called the point. The pass line bet is a winner if the number repeats before a seven is rolled. If the dreaded seven comes up first then
the pass line bets all lose.
The first simple strategy is to take advantage of the odds offered in a craps game. A player makes their first bet on the pass line and either wins, loses or gets a point. If a point number is rolled, the player
should take behind the line odds on the point. Each casino has its own rules as to what they will accept on a behind the line bet. Just ask the stick man or a dealer what their limit is and then bet it. If the table gets hot,
the dice will roll many numbers and few untimely sevens. A really hot table will also roll many hard way numbers like four, six, eight and ten. These are called hardways, as the dice are pairs of twos, threes, fours or fives.
A table of dice payoffs is the next thing that a player should learn as this is where the money is made when a dice table gets hot. (these payoff numbers can be obtained on the Internet or on many online casino
sites) When a table is showering the players with numbers, the player should be making all of these number bets at odds.
These bets can be of two types, all day bets and single roll bets. All day bets stay up in play until a seven is rolled. A single roll bet either wins or loses on the next roll. The better bet unless the player
has a strong hunch is the all day bet.
If a player knew nothing about craps except to bet the pass line and take the max behind the line bet on all points, then they would play better than most craps players. When a player adds to this betting on
the come line and placing bets, they have most of the reasonable bets covered that the craps table offers to a player.
The rule in craps is to push the devil out of a hot table and parlay bets, take the odds and keep all of the number bets covered until the table cools down. More money can be made on a hot craps table faster
than any other casino game. Players who know how to play craps make a killing when they find a hot table.
The secret to recognizing a hot table early is each shooter holds the dice for a number of passes. Certain shooters hold the dice for much longer than normal and throw many numbers in a row before making their
point. Hardways become common and all of this is going on without many sevens being rolled. The lack of sevens is another clue that the table is moving in favor of the craps players.
Be alert to these runs of numbers and which shooters seem to be lucky. Then make the bets and watch your stack grow as the table goes from warn to hot.
How to Play Baccarat
Baccarat is a card game that is dealt out of a shoe with six to eight decks of cards shuffled up and placed in the shoe. The shoe is just a box designed to hold the cards and let them be dealt for each hand.
Two hands are dealt each time, one for the bank side of the hand and one for the player’s side of the hand.
The players at the table can make one of three bets on each baccarat hand before it is dealt. They can bet on the bank, the player or the tie hand. If the banker hand wins then all players who bet the bank win.
The same is true if the player hand wins, then all of the player bets win. On a tie bet, it must come a tie or the bet loses. The payoff on a tie bet is 8 to 1. The payoff on a player bet is even money. The bank payoff is
even money with a five percent commission.
The common way to play baccarat is to follow the shoe. This means to bet on the side that won the last hand. The way a player at a baccarat table can win a lot of money is catch a long run on one side of the
shoe. They do this by parlaying their bets and leaving it on the side that won the last hand. Since the way the cards come out of the shoe was setup when the shoe was shuffled, the casino cannot do anything about a run on
the bank or players side.
Following the shoe is a strategy that works most of the time, but it can be a losing strategy if the shoe is flip-flopping between bank and player. If this happens then the player’s bet is always on the
wrong side.
Why players keep track of the way the hands are coming is they hope to see a pattern they can bet on. For example the winning side of the deal can only win maybe four times in a row. If you were following the
shoe, and you saw this pattern, then on the fifth deal you would cut your bet to a minimum, but not switch sides with your bet. Winning side has been seen to run over twenty hands in a row. Betting against a trend can be very
costly for the better when a trend continues for a while. This course of betting is not recommended as a trend can stay in place longer than a player can tolerate. Play the winning side and hope that you are catching a max
trend. If you are so lucky be sure to start a small parlay when making your bets.
One rule that is followed by some players is to not bet a tie hand until the first tie hand happens. A shoe can go from start to finish with no tie hands being dealt.
Most players bet the tie on a feeling or a hunch. Others will bet the tie when a certain number of hands have been dealt since the last tie. Whatever the method the tie is great to catch due to the payoff it pays to the winner.
Play the trend or do not play is the rule in a baccarat game. The trend is your friend in baccarat. The other scheme is to add a small amount to each succeeding bet that you make. Do this when a trend is in place.
Not pushing the trend is a mistake that many players make when playing the game of baccarat. In fact few players will up their bet when winning, but will do it when losing. This is a backwards way to play the game. Bet more
when winning and less when losing.
How to Play Bingo
Bingo is another game that depends on luck to win and takes no skill except listening to the numbers as they are called. A player picks preprinted cards and pays a set fee for each card. The rest of the game
is all about what numbers are called out by the house caller. In the US the total numbers that could be called come from a pool of 75 numbers. In the UK they come from a pool of 90 numbers.
The game is simple in that the player tries to get 5 numbers in a row and if this happens then they win. In the states, the card is a square with five rows up and down and five side to side. In the UK the rows
are three across. The winner is still the cardholder with five numbers in a row. This game is offered online by some sites, but not by all. It s also played in live casinos, but more often in halls and meeting places within
cities. In England it is played in almost every seaside town. In some cases the promoters tie the games together between sites in order have bigger prizes on these games.
This game while very popular in many countries is not a game that has ever had much of a following in live casinos or even in online casinos. There are sites on the Internet that offer bingo, but they are not
the big online casinos. They are not like the ones that offer all forms of gambling and attract large numbers of players to the site.
There are specials that can be played such as special numbers or the playing until someone has the numbers in four corners covered. Another variation is to cover two rows of the card. This makes for longer games
and may have an extra fee or a better prize to the winner. Another variation is the coverall numbers game. In this game, the player must cover all numbers on the card. This game will come with a larger prize and will take
longer to play. There are also local variations that can be played, but these games are played at the local establishment and may not be common to other bingo parlors. Check the rules at any place you play to see if they offer
a game that you are not familiar with.
A new variation can be thought up by any promoter and can be know only to that area of players.
Gambling laws in different countries control where and what can be offered to winners. The churches and other groups have done a very good job of making these rules as friendly as possible for the game. On the
Internet the games can be structured any way the casino wants, as there are no rules to abide by that are mandatory.
Bingo is a good way for charities to raise money and have a social event at the same time. Churches have been using this game for this purpose for a long time.
Some casinos use this game to bring in customers they would no ordinarily get through the door. The way they do this is to have a bingo tournament. This will draw patrons online and to live casinos that would
not be there except for the tournament. If the prize money is high enough, this can draw a large number of players. But remember casinos are using this game as an attraction and not as one of their more common specials. They
are trying to attract a crowd.
How to Play Keno
Keno is an import from China and is played both online and in live casinos. The object to the game is to pick numbers that will match the twenty drawn for each game. There are 80 numbers total so it is not an
easy task to pick eight to ten numbers that match. The payoff if you do pick the correct numbers is substantial depending on what you bet on the ticket. In a live casino the game can pay as much as $25,000 for a one dollar
bet. Online casinos set their own payoffs and it would be wise to look it up for each site you are interested in playing on.
A player can play a straight eight spot ticker or several combinations on the same ticket. You could for example pick eight numbers and four sets of two numbers. The point is the game is not one of skill, but
one of hunches and pure luck. Some players do keep track of hot numbers and make sure they include them every ticket. Others just use the pick and pray technique for playing a ticket.
Some other popular plays are the four corners, eight single spots and play a row on a ticket. People have won playing birthdays and anniversary dates. If you are lucky you win and otherwise it is on to the next
game. Many players will play a keno ticket while having dinner or breakfast in a casino. They just figure it as part of the cost of the meal.
Poker rooms in casinos often have runners and players at the table will play the same ticket for hours on end while they are playing poker. It is true for players pulling handles or pushing buttons on the slots.
Both sets of players hope they catch lightening in a bottle with a winning ticket.
Many casinos will let you buy the next ten games so you do not miss a game. There is nothing worse than watching your numbers come up without a bet on the game.
Many casino patrons play keno while taking a break from the table games or while sitting at the bar and having a drink. They will buy a set of tickers before going to eat or when going to a show in the casino.
The feeling is the player wants to stay in action even when doing something else.
Keno is popular and also one of the worse bets you can make in a casino due to the house edge. It is popular because it is so easy to play and if lucky win a good sum of money. The simplicity of marking a ticket
and making the bet means that the player has to learn nothing in order to play the game. This game is one of the best moneymakers for the casino that they offer to the public.
The casino industry owes a big thank you to the Chinese who brought this game to the gambling industry. Without it many casinos would lose a sure profit center each and every year. Also the players would miss
the fun of winning while eating their dinner.
If you want to test your luck at a very low cost, Keno may be the game for you to try. It has no learning curve and takes no skill to play. The game is exciting when the first few numbers called are matches to the ones you
picked and will make your heart beat faster for a few minutes. Try the game as it will payoff if you are lucky and the price is right.
How to Play Lotto
Casinos offer their form of lotto, which is an in house version of a national, or state run lottery. They may limit it to only the casino patrons or it may be a multi-casino setup like the progressive jackpots.
There are also sites that will allow their customers to purchase the lottery tickets sold in a county or state from outside the country. These should be checked out very closely to make sure they are legitimate.
Anything is possible on the Internet and the lottery is no exception.
The basic rules apply whether buying the ticket in person or on the net. The basic lotto ticket is pick 6 numbers and a bonus number and if they all come up you will win the current jackpot or a portion of it
if there is more than one winner.
In a casino lotto the jackpot can be the same for every game or it can be progressive until someone picks all of the correct numbers. The odds on a lotto win in a casino are usually better than the keno game
as the pool of number is smaller.
In a state or country run lotto the odds of winning are huge, but people still line up to take the chance. The way to get your ticket or playslip is to mark a board with your number picks and then turn it in
and pay the fee. If you are lucky you may win something or even the jackpot. If not you took the chance with a small amount of money and even if you lost, you are not out a great deal.
Some folks rather than play every week, wait until the jackpot is at a certain level before they make their bet. This does cut down the monthly cost of playing since there is no cost for the weeks you do not
play. Of course your numbers could show up when the jackpot is small, but that is the chance that you take.
If you win, do not take an annuity payout. That is a poor choice for a winner. Before you collect, you could get advice from a tax person, but for most people the cash payout is best and they can then invest
it themselves with some sound advice from a good financial planner. A large investment in tax-free instruments can return a sizeable amount each year and the principal will never be touched.
If you win, try to keep it under wraps as people and relatives will come around asking for a loan or a handout. Make up your mind early how you are going to handle this situation because it is very likely to
happen to you.
Another piece of advice is try to maintain some normalcy in your life as a windfall like this can have very destabilizing effects. Get good advice as to investments and taxes before you go crazy spending the
money.
How much you should wager when the pot is extra large is a decision based on what you can afford. If you could light a match to the money and it would not change your life style then the wagered amount is ok
if it is done only on rare occasions. Extra large pots are worth a little extra wager, but it should not become a habit as the wagers come every week and can amount to a significant total at the end of a year. Keep a cool
head and hope you win. If you do win, remember there are many good people that could use a little help from a stranger. Take care of your loved ones first and the stranger second is a valid rule to apply.
The casino industry owes a big thank you to the Chinese who brought this game to the gambling industry. Without it many casinos would lose a sure profit center each and every year. Also the players would miss the fun of winning
while eating their dinner.
If you want to test your luck at a very low cost, Keno may be the game for you to try. It has no learning curve and takes no skill to play. The game is exciting when the first few numbers called are matches to the ones you
picked and will make your heart beat faster for a few minutes. Try the game as it will payoff if you are lucky and the price is right.
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