Gambling 2009 » Online Gambling http://www.onlinegambling2009.com online Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:13:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Roulette rules and tricks for beginners for online roulette http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/1104.html http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/1104.html#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:21:22 +0000 admin http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/?p=1104 Roulette has become one of the most popular casino games. In playing the Roulette game, your objective is to pick the winning number that will appear on the Roulette wheel. Other than the individual numbers, you can also bet on the combination of numbers or choose the color, odd or even. For many newbie, it is not as easy as it seems. Hence, let go back to the basic to learn how to play Roulette and understand what your chances to win in Roulette game are.

Two Types of Wheels

If you have been to casino before or visited an online casino, you may notice that there are actually two types of Roulette wheels, one has 37 slots, numbered from 0 to 36 and another type has 38 numbers, range from 0 to 36 with added extra number “00″.

The 37 slot’s wheel is the original wheel since the game invented; the 37 slot’s wheel is known as “European Wheel”. The house edge / casino advantage for this 37 slot’s wheel is 2.63%. The 38 slot’s wheel is known as “American Wheel”, it has an added double zero (“00″) which has increase the house edge from 2.63% to 5.26%. In other word, you chances to win in “American Wheel” are less than the “European Wheel.

Roulette Table Layout

Roulette layouts have two betting areas: the inside betting area and outside betting area. The inside betting area contains the individual numbers on the layout; the outside betting area has boxes for the columns, red/black and odd/even and different groups of numbers.

The individual numbers at the inside betting area are arranged in 3 columns times 12 rows and the zero and double zero (if it is American Wheel) are arrange at the top of the columns. There are 18 numbers colored with “Black”/”Yellow” and the other 18 numbers are colored with “Red”; you can making the betting based on these two colors at the outside betting area. Beside the colors, there are three other types of betting at outside betting area: 1-18 (small), 19-36 (big); Old or Even; column bets: 1 to 12, 13 to 24, and 25 to 36.

Buying In

In order to avoid disputes, each player will receives a different color chip and these color chips can only be used for that table only; you much cash them in once you are done playing to exchange these chip with the cash chips where you can cash them at the cashier cage later.

You can make several types of betting at inside betting area; you can bet a number straight up or straddle the line between numbers to select a combination of numbers. The payouts for each type of betting are as follow:

  • a. Single Number : Pays 35 to 1
  • b. Split bet between two numbers: Pays 17 to 1
  • c. Quad bet between 4 numbers (place your chip at the center of 4 adjacent numbers): Pays 8 to 1.
  • d. Line bet / street bet (you bet on 1 row with 3 numbers): Pays 11 to 1.
  • e. Double street bet (you bet on 2 rows with 6 numbers): Pays 5 to 1.

At outside betting area, the payouts for any winning are as follow:

  • a. Even/odd, big/small and color black/red are all pay 1 to 1.
  • b. Column bets (1 to 12, 13 t o24, 25 to 36) are paying 2 to 1.

After the roulette ball drop into the wheel’s slot, the dealer will mark the winning number with a marker. He/she will pick up all the losing chips first before paying out the winning chips. You are not allowed to place your bet until the dealer removes the marker.

In summary

This article is giving you some basics on how to play the famous Roulette casino game. Roulette has a high house edge and you cannot overcome this edge in the long run. But if you put some strategies in place, you can increase you chance to win in this game. I will discuss a few roulette strategies in my next few articles. Good luck!

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]]> http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/1104.html/feed 0 Tips and tricks in the game of Keno http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/tips-and-tricks-in-the-game-of-keno.html http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/tips-and-tricks-in-the-game-of-keno.html#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:56:45 +0000 patrick http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/?p=1001 The number one rule for gambling, and the most important of all Keno tips is to never gamble with “dear” money; only gamble with “excess” money. In other words, never gamble with money that you will need now, or may need in the near future, to pay for your financial commitments and everyday living expenses. One of the most popular Keno tips is to pick consecutive numbers, such as 28 and 29 or 33, 34 and 35. There is no rational justification for this strategy although a casual observance of actual drawn numbers may seem to somehow justify the logic. Another strategy frequently found among regular Keno players is to decide on a list of numbers and then play those same numbers continuously over a number of games. For some addicted players playing the same numbers may continue not just for hours but sometimes for days and weeks on end. Some players believe that one of the best Keno tips is to start playing numbers that haven’t come up recently in previous games. The theory here is that those numbers must soon start hitting in order to bring their occurrence up to expected levels over the long run.

Other players choose numbers that have come up recently, apparently believing there may be something irregular about the selection process that actually favors those numbers. If you’re interested in playing Keno for a longer period of time select a large number of spots on the card. This way you’re more likely to win at least something on each card, even though you’ll still be losing money in the long run. The important thing to remember is that the winning keno numbers are chosen randomly. In a land-based keno casino, they are chosen by a mechanical keno machine; in an online keno casino, they are chosen by a random number generator. In either case, random selection means that every keno number has the same chance to hit as any other number. A number that was just picked in the last keno game has exactly the same chance as a number that hasn’t been heard from in ages.

Players might think that the former is more likely because it is “hot,” or the latter is more likely because it is “due,” but the fact according to the mathematics of probability is that no number is any more likely or any less likely than any other number. The best keno strategy, therefore, is simply to have fun picking your lucky keno numbers. Pick birthdays, shoe sizes, or just random numbers that pop into your head. Since there is no best keno number and no worst keno number, the best keno strategy is to do whatever makes you happy playing online keno.

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]]> http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/tips-and-tricks-in-the-game-of-keno.html/feed 0 The history of Keno http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/the-history-of-keno.html http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/the-history-of-keno.html#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:51:17 +0000 patrick http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/?p=998 Keno is a popular gambling game mostly played in casinos, but the online activity of keno players is on the rise. The origins of keno are a bit of a mystery, but there are a few stories floating around out there.  Nobody knows the true nature and origin of this game.

Sadly, as with all history, the truth is a matter of opinion. Apparently ancient Chinese scrolls indicate that Cheung Leung of the Han Dynasty introduced a game similar to keno around 200 BC. Cheung’s city was at war for several years and was beginning to run out of supplies. Rumor has it that the citizens of his city refused to contribute any more to the war fund, so Cheung created a game of chance to produce revenue for his army. This game, a numbers game not unlike keno, was an instant success and played a great part in saving the city. Quickly spreading throughout China, keno was also used to help fund the building of the Great Wall. The game also became known as the White Pigeon Game because carrier pigeons were used to send the winning numbers from the keno games in the larger cities to small villages and hamlets.

The heritage produced by this keno history is a Chinese poem of a thousand numbers. The ‘thousand character classic’ as it is known is a set of independent characters placed in a rhymed form. Originally a new way for children to learn, the poem is so well known the characters are often used as a romantic numbering system. So instead of having a board of just numbers on the original keno boards, they used these characters. Originally as many as 120 characters were used in the game, only after it left china would the number drop to a more familiar 80.

However, the history of keno picks up the pace in the beginning of the twentieth century. San Francisco has always been a magnet for deviates, gamblers and other people who were not welcomed in the more proper mainland. It is no surprise; therefore, that it was here that keno was first accepted and played. Brought to the shores of the United States by Chinese sailors, keno was an instant success, albeit an underground one. At the time, gambling in all forms, including lotteries and raffles were prohibited by law; the authorities seeing that corruption was rampant in the raffle industry. However, keno was played avidly, with the Chinese characters changed to number in order to facilitate the needs of American players and from that point on is on the verge.

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]]> http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/the-history-of-keno.html/feed 0 Facts about the game of blackjack http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/facts-about-the-game-of-blackjack.html http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/facts-about-the-game-of-blackjack.html#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:36:44 +0000 patrick http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/?p=989 Poker and the slots are always thought of as American so called inventions, in comparison everyone can say that these gambling games are truly American as apple pie, but other casino gambling games,  like roulette and blackjack, are undeniably as French as the croissant. Despite its popularity in Europe, the game did not immediately take off in the U.S. and the rules were changed slightly to make the odds more favorable to the player. One such rule change was the addition of a 10:1 bonus payout if a player drew the jack of spades together with the ace of spades as his first two cards. Thus history was made and the game became known forever after as “black jack” or “blackjack”.

Blackjack has always fascinated statisticians and by the 1950s they realized that the game offers the player better odds than previously believed. At that time, a team of mathematicians known as The Four Horsemen published an article titled The Optimum Strategy in Blackjack, in which they used probability theories and statistics to illustrate ways in which blackjack players could be more successful. Although the Four Horsemen’s article made only a small ripple on the waters of the blackjack scene at the time, their theories were, in fact, the basis for what is now known as “The Blackjack Basic Strategy.”

The person who is generally credited for the black jack basic strategy is Professor Edward Thorp, who published his ideas (based on the Four Horsemen’s theories) in 1962 in a best-selling book called “Beat the Dealer.” “Beat the Dealer” also introduced the idea of card counting as a strategy in blackjack, and is thought of as a major landmark in blackjack history. Thorp’s book catapulted the game of blackjack to new levels of popularity, but the casinos changed the rules in order to protect their odds. In order to keep the house edge, they introduced multiple-deck games and card-shuffling machines, which made it harder for card counters to keep track of the cards that had been dealt.  Until the 1990s, the blackjack basic strategy chart had to be memorized, as casinos did not allow computers or even written charts across the threshold. Thousands of people now enjoy playing blackjack online.

Internet casinos allow you to play for free. This allows you to practice your blackjack game and your blackjack strategy before you start playing blackjack for real money. When you do play blackjack online for real money, the odds and the payouts are the same as at the casino, so you are not losing anything. The popularity of the blackjack gambling game is on the rise, as the number of online and offline player try to find the best strategy in order to constantly win and defeat the odd of luck.

 

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]]> http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/facts-about-the-game-of-blackjack.html/feed 0 Employing Efficient Gambling Strategies http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/employing-efficient-gambling-strategies.html http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/employing-efficient-gambling-strategies.html#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:03:31 +0000 admin http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/?p=957 Though you had the perfect set of gambling strategies with your bingo strategy or keno strategy in hand but just ended up disappointed later on. It is possible that your strategies have flaws within them or you simply just have no idea or limited knowledge about the game you are playing. Whatever you think you have, the best gambling strategies include an adequate knowledge and interest for the game that is being played. You can beat the house advantage if you had the proper bingo strategy. Whatever your choice of game may be, a proper keno strategy for example will work best with these precautions that the article will be discussing. Basically, design your gambling strategies to avoid the following circumstances.

Double betting is a common mistake most people rely on in their bingo strategy or any other strategies for that matter. The logic behind is to double the bets to overcome losses. Yes, you will overcome losses considering that you win each game. What if the odds are stacked against you and a losing streak is what you get? At first, the idea may work for most gambling strategies, but in the long run, double betting may work against you. You may incur more losses than that which you can bear.

Proper gambling strategies are possessed by players who know when it is already time to call it a day. You must not be greedy when you gamble as this will only contribute to losers’ strategies. When one becomes greedy, he chases risks instead of avoiding them. Taking risks is necessary for any game of chance but the need is only minimal. If you can avoid it a hundred percent that would be better but not realistic. So take minimal risks.

Successful gambling strategies involve betting on high odd gambles. This means a player should not bet on single values (like in roulette) but a combination of numbers at a time. It is also important that your strategies involve the necessary patience within a game. Do not give up after a first or second loss. You might strike it big later on. But do not also bet too big. You set it up to use only forty dollars for a given night, if your losses have reaches that amount, stop playing.

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]]> http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/employing-efficient-gambling-strategies.html/feed 0 How to Become an Online Gambling Affiliate http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/how-to-become-an-online-gambling-affiliate.html http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/how-to-become-an-online-gambling-affiliate.html#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:29:43 +0000 admin http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/?p=961 A good way to start is to become an online affiliate of an online company or program. You would then market their product or service online via your website or blog using their affiliate tracking program. Then when one of your visitors clicks on an affiliate banner or text link that appears on your site and they end up making a purchase you would get a percentage of that transaction. It all seems pretty simple, doesn’t it? Well yes, it is pretty simple, but it does require a lot of hard work and long hours at your computer to get visitors to view your website or blog in the first place.

Decide what you would like to promote.

I would recommend you consider promoting online gambling. Online gambling covers a wide variety of products – there are online casinos, online poker rooms, online sports books and online bingo halls. Online gambling is a multibillion dollar a year industry and successful affiliates can earn a very decent income from it. The key is to select a niche market, you may fancy bingo, and start from there.

You need a website or blog

Setting up your own website or blog can be daunting task if you are not a technically minded person. A lot of blog hosting platforms don’t allow gambling related blogs so you would need to find a blog hosting site that does. One such blog hosting site that is dedicated to hosting gambling related blogs is Gamblingplex.com, they offer the latest in sophisticated blogging software, along with incredible plug-ins and features like Google Analytics, sitemaps and domain mapping being just the tip of the ice-berg.

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Online gambling is easier than the traditional procedure of placing bets. Through this new trend of gambling, you need not got out of your home and spend your money all night over a game. With online gambling sites, you can pick one that you like most to place bets with. And when you have chosen the best one that suit your fancy, all you need to do in betting is enter your credit card account number or take an amount from any of your account and then there you are, playing at your own time and convenience. And when you’re lucky enough and won, you have the option to place bet your winning money to other online gambling games.

Online gambling sites cater to different games such as sports of horse racing, basketball, and football. Many patronize these game websites to serve as pastimes. And then there is this game that is growing rapidly in popularity: the poker game. Poker can be considered the most popular card game all around the globe. It is a game that started centuries ago and evolution of how it is played resulted for the now standard 52-card in a deck. In casinos, the money that you are going to spend on the poker game is traded in for its equivalent number of chips. After the game, the winning chips are once again to be traded for money.

Online poker sites are blatantly scattered in the internet. This is because this has provided a lucrative deal with the website owners. Unlike other similar commercial programs, poker sites bring in more promising business revenue. In fact, many website owners are using poker sites as partner affiliates. This started when many were able to uncover the lucrative potential goldmine in the poker game sites. This is why the affiliate programs are giving poker sites first priority to tie-up with them. Consequently, the competition on this multi-billion dollar poker industry is rising into what apparently is already a ceaseless progression.

The Revenue That Affiliate Program Benefits

 The average life span of the account that online poker sites will usually provide the player is in as short as 3 months. During this timeframe, the affiliate program earns revenue. But in the cases of the players who enjoyed the site much, they tend to extend their stay with the poker site.

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]]> http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/poker-sites-progressed.html/feed 0 Let The Dreams Begin At The WSOP! http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/let-the-dreams-begin-at-the-wsop.html http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/let-the-dreams-begin-at-the-wsop.html#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 13:02:46 +0000 admin http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/?p=919 This Friday, over 7,000 men and women from all walks of life will sit down at THE Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and bet $10,000 that they can bluff with the best poker players in the World.

Last year’s World Series of Poker shattered all participation and prize money records for a live poker tournament. The 45 events generated 32,341 player entries and more than $106 million in gross prize money. Joseph Hachem of Australia won the World Series of Poker Championship and an unprecedented $7.5 million.

These players will beg, borrow and steal to get their entry fee and along the way unknowns will emerge and become household names across America. The events surrounding the tournament have become a huge part of this extravaganza and it now has the feel of a Super Bowl week in Vegas.

A trade show featuring exhibitors from around the globe, the World Series of Poker Lifestyle Show will showcase a broad array of new poker products, websites, books and clothing. Last year more than 50,000 people, including celebrities and athletes, visited the show.

ESPN is also offering pay-per-view telecasts of the final table on August 10th and it will be interesting to see what kind of numbers this exploding event can garner. Betting action is available on your favorite character and there’s certainly no shortage of colorful nicknames.

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Last night we were midway through the third quarter and Tim Thomas was putting on a shooting clinic and the Suns up tempo and distribution game was working to a charm for their whining coach Mike D’Antoni.

Then the wheels fell off or fatigue set in!

The stars for both teams and former teammates and best friends Dike Nowitzkie and Steve Nash have taken turns in this series dominating games and then having less then stellar ones. Last night it was the 7-foot German boy who torched the Suns for 50 points on 14-26 shooting, 5-6 from outside the arc and astonishing 17-18 free throws.

Meanwhile the feisty Canuck Nash look battered and beaten near games end and the 20 points he scored are misleading as he was just 5-17 from the field and 9 of those points came from the charity stripe.

If you recall I mentioned last month that the Suns were developing a reputation around the NBA as whiners and complainers and I suggested that their coach D’Antoni should lay off the refs. Last night the game was seesawing in the fourth quarter when Raja Bell decided to deliver another cheap shot and both he and his coach got hit with technicals. Dirk sank the two freebies and then hit a jumper for a huge 4-point play.

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]]> http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/dirk-goes-wild.html/feed 0 Video Poker Tips http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/video-poker-tips.html http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/video-poker-tips.html#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:52:49 +0000 admin http://www.onlinegambling2009.com/?p=911 First and foremost, take your time. Video poker machines don’t get in a hurry for anyone to play. Check the payout charts on each hand. Play out your hand on your own time.

Don’t keep a kicker, which is an extra card, with any pair you might have. Often times a player will have a pair and keep a kicker, most often an ace, and knock themselves out of a chance to get three of a kind.

Know the layout of the machine you are playing at the time. Some video poker machines have a ‘hold’ button while others will make use of a ‘discard’ button. Be certain of which one of these buttons your current machine is using so you won’t mistakenly throw away the cards you intended to keep. The majority of video poker machines use the ‘hold’ button, but keep an eye out just in case.

Always make sure that the ‘hold’ button shows, or is lit, for each card you want to keep before you press the draw button. Some machines will have the word ‘hold’ under each card when a hold button is pressed, while others will light up the hold button only. This is something you want to watch out for.
If you are a novice player, you should begin with the lowest coin machine you can find available. Take the time to develop a feel for the video poker machine drawing strategy. Once you’ve logged some video poker time and get comfortable with the method of play, it’s time to move up.

Always play the maximum coin allowed on each machine. Payout is based on the amount of coins you use. Using more coin produces bigger payout, resulting in much happier players. If you can’t afford to play the max, go to a lower coin machine that you can afford, and play the maximum.

Be in the know about video poker machines. They are a lot like a slot machine in that the cards are dealt completely at random, generated from a cycling string of numbers till you press one of the game buttons. Once you press a button the cycling string stops and the card is displayed. So your chances of winning at any hand are equal.

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