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Find out how much you really know about roulette. By Henry Tamburin So you think you’re an expert at roulette? Maybe you are, and maybe not. To find out, try answering these 10 simple questions about the game. True or False The chance of a red or black number hitting is 50/50. You have a […]
Thinking About the Game Betting the Big Bucks Sometimes you need to bet it all to win anything by Basil Nestor A few years ago an Englishman named Ashley Revell sold everything he owned, converted it to cash, traveled to Las Vegas, and bet the whole amount on one spin of roulette. Pretty gutsy. Ashley […]
Roulette poses a real challenge for players By Frank Scoblete Dice and Wheels Dice is probably the oldest form of gambling. Dice could be made from animal bones decorated with symbols and, yes, that’s why we call dice “bones” to this day, even though today’s dice are made from cellulose acetate. Primitive man used those […]
Rules & Strategy Roulette Fans of history know that all-too-often, discoveries come not by way of pure genius, but rather accidentally while searching for, well, something else. Electricity, X-rays, penicillin, dynamite; these and many, many more remarkable discoveries are nothing more than the product of persistence and timely happenstance. Oddly as it may seem, roulette […]
Rules & Strategy Let It Ride Similar in nature (if not in practice) to Caribbean Stud, Let it Ride is another popular poker variant found in one form or another in most of the major land-based and online casinos. Again, it is exceedingly simple in theory, with only a few actions taken during each round […]
Rules & Strategy Caribbean Stud Poker A popular spin-off of poker developed for traditional casinos more than a decade ago, Caribbean Stud has taken a front-row-seat in casinos, owing its success both to the drastic rise in poker popularity and to its overwhelming simplicity. The basic rules for the game are as follows: • All […]
Rules & Strategy Winning at Blackjack Like many of our favorite casino games, the exact origins of blackjack are forever lost to history. One of the first recorded descriptions of the game places its appearance in France during the 17th century, where it thrilled gamblers under its simple, yet appropriate appellation “vingt-et-un.” Some gaming historians, […]
The Joys of Mini-Baccarat It’s fun, it’s easy, and it’s one of the best bets in the house By Henry Tamburin “You don’t have to know anything about cards and you don’t have to be a high roller,” is the way one Atlantic City pit boss put it when he was explaining the game of […]
Rules & Strategy Baccarat Set apart from the rest of the casino floor, baccarat has long cultivated an aura of sophistication, almost as if the game is out of reach to all but the wealthiest casino patron. In reality, baccarat may be the ideal game for the less affluent, more frugal player—the house edge for […]
Online Poker Tells In poker, tells are actions or gestures by players in reaction to a specific circumstance. These predominantly subconscious cues can result from a player trying to disguise the strength or weakness of their hand, because of insecurity or uncertainty, or simply because of base emotions like fear or anger. They can be […]