ONLINE GAMBLING AND CASINO GUIDE

Playing online poker against other players can be really profitable for the skilled player. If you are a novice to poker, on the other hand, a great place to learn the basics (more…)

Everyone knows what a jackpot is, but what about progressive jackpots? It simply means that the jackpot payout increases little by little with each placed bet until it reaches ridiculous amounts and/or someone finally wins it. You can see the size of the current jackpot on a “jackpot meter.” (more…)

I don’t think I’ve seen such a generous online casino bonus ever in my life! Or in my previous lives for that matter. A mind-blowing $2400 bonus – that must be some kind of world record. Can it be true? (more…)

Certainly, online gambling has its downside. No one tries to deny that. But what’s all the fuss about?

The heap of groups fighting over the issue is growing like a pot in aggressive big-bet poker. (more…)

I was playing slots in a Nevada casino. At my side sat a man from Michigan who was in love with Alison Stokke and needed to collect a quick fortune. He had a huge coin bucket which was almost empty. (more…)

In a lot of life’s undertakings you’re up against adverse odds.

You apply to a school with very restricted admission – bad odds. If you make it into the school, the chances of graduating with excellent notes are low. (more…)

Dear reader, have you ever sneaked through the underworld as Agent 47, heavily armed and very, very deadly? (more…)

A lot of us have loved online casino games since the day they appeared on the internet. For the flair and excitement that they offer – at a convenient distance from our favorite couch. Now they are going through a revolution. (more…)

Exchange Poker sounds interesting, but I’m a bit puzzled. In exchange poker, instead of playing the hand yourself, you place bets on hands that compete in a pot. You may place new bets in each betting round and, which is a bit exotic, even before the hole cards have been dealt. (more…)

As pointed out by one of our blog neighbors, there are other forms of online blackjack tournaments available beside the Elimination Blackjack at Ultimate Bet that we have talked about in a couple of blogs at Gambling-Win. Several online casinos have realized the great thrill that the tournament format adds to the blackjack game. (more…)

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Sometimes, web site staffs get the feeling they’re working for no one; that all the strategy tips and online casino reviews and blogs go straight into cyberspace without being noticed by anyone, less still coming to good use and maybe even being appreciated. (more…)

These two games go hand in hand, and can be played simultaneously to great advantage. In online slots, you concentrate on reading the reels, looking up your combinations in the payout table and investing the record breaking jackpot. (more…)

Asians are said to prefer video poker before online slots. Online gamblers from other nations have other local preferences and a few games have even attained global popularity. That’s all fine and well, but I don’t really care. In my local corner of the world, the local preference was always with the Machine and you all know what I mean by that. (more…)

Once you have gotten passed the pure newbie stage of elimination blackjack, you will notice a number of interesting situations that occur time and time again. One of them is when an elimination hand approaches, you’re the second shortest stack, the shortest stack moves all-in in desperation, loses and busts out - before the elimination hand even started. (more…)

There’s a new conversation piece you need to be updated on next time you go to a fancy dinner party. You may have heard the buzz in the street, or seen it happen in front of your eyes on CBS. A select group of people have even tried it out, and your faithful Spinner is one of those. Elimination Blackjack – it certainly has something to be said for it. (more…)

It’s fascinating how luck can be either completely absent or raining down in showers. When we talked about the attraction of online slots in earlier blogs, maybe we forgot to mention a small, tiny factor that adds to the pleasure of playing – winning. (more…)

I woke up one morning in Vegas wearing a ring on my finger. Fragments of the day before were hidden in a merciful haze, others were lost completely. In a pocket I found a folded paper containing a blackjack strategy that I could have rattled off in my sleep. (more…)

Have you seen those pictures of people swimming in a pool while playing chess? The board is put up on a narrow table just above the water surface. The players and their audience (mostly older men) hang around with just their heads sticking up from the water. (more…)

The other day, we were involved in a game of online Baccarat. Baccarat is such a nice, classical card game. The banker may win a little more often than the player, but then again you are free to place your bet on the banker. (more…)

All serious gamblers have some method for handling the natural swings in their bankroll. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, there’s nothing you can do about that; but by setting limits for your losses and wins during a gambling session you can insure yourself against some common pitfalls in online gambling. (more…)