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  • The Birth of The Rules

    Every rule of poker started as a fresh idea, usually cooked up in a hurry to take care of a problem. I can imagine the birth of some of the great rules of poker: “Hey! Quit that! No fair telling him what to do!” And the “one player to a hand” rule was born. “You […]

  • Playing for respect

    It’s natural to want respect. In both our professional and personal lives, respect is something desired by the great majority of us. A few of us may profess to not caring what others think and actually mean it, but for the rest of us, it’s important to have earned the respect of family, friends, peers […]

  • Top Luckiest Player Ever

    The casino at Monte Carlo has been the stuff of folklore for over 100 years, and part of that lore includes one of the luckiest casino players ever. Forever known as “the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo,” Charles Wells walked into the Monte Carlo casino one day in July 1891 and walked […]

  • Poker game essential tips

    Poker is a daunting game of skill, strategy and blind luck but for all players, whether novice or pro, there are a few things you can do to help put the odds in your favour and let lady luck have less influence in your wallet content. Don’t Play Every Hand – It’s OK to fold! […]

  • Money matters online

    Lots of questions arise regarding the way of sending/receiving money to/from online casinos. It is a difficult decision for the great majority of people to entrust their money and banking information to a quite unknown company, to people they have never met (and they will never do). But solutions have been found in the past […]

  • Online casino games expectations

    Expectation is a very important concept in online casino games.  It is defined as the amount that a player can expect to win based on the rules of the game for every dollar wagered.  It is obvious that the expectation for any game can never be more than 1, because then the casino would start […]

  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – Movie

    Starring: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Jason Statham, Nick Moran, P.H. Moriarty, Lenny McLean, Stephen Marcus, Vinnie Jones, Jake Abraham, Victor McGuire Set in East London among the low-rent working class, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels follows the misadventures of four young men looking to get up in the world (Jason Flemyng, Jason Statham, Nick […]

  • Gender Gambling Worlds Apart

    Apart from being from different planets, having different views about asking for directions and having different opinions about how jeans make their backsides look, men and women differ in gambling traits. Men – More likely to gamble than women. – Begin gambling in their late teens. – Gamble more frequently than women. – Place larger […]

  • Fun facts and faces of poker

    Every gambling enthusiast loves a good game of Poker. Conversely, every trivia player loves a good dose of trivia. So, for the gambler a set of poker rules, a deck of cards, some poker chips and an place to ante-up will suffice, but what about all of those trivia lovers out there? Guess what, there […]

  • Caribbean Poker Pace

    Caribbean Poker Perks Up the Online Casino. The game of Caribbean poker has seen a revival over the past few years. People are playing it more frequently because of the speed at which it can be played. The old poker game of five-card showdown used to be played one hundred fifty years ago on cruise […]

  • Confidence is King

    Use, but don’t abuse your confidence when gambling online. While this might sound like common sense, and it is, many of us can become over-confident at one time or another in our lives and it can have disastrous consequences. When it comes to online gaming, and you are playing for real money, it is important […]

  • Five steps to success

    With the success of video poker in land-based casinos, it was only natural that video poker would become popular in online casino gambling sites.  People play online video poker games in large numbers, and many wonder if there is a way for them to improve their outcomes.  There are five steps you should follow to improve […]