Blackjack Institute Review
By Sonny White | June 6, 2010
Blackjackinstitute.com is a great website for blackjack players. Created by famed MIT Blackjack Team members Mike Aponte and Dave Irvine, it’s a one-stop shop for everything blackjack. You can get books, seminars, merchandise, tables and much more. The site has all the basic strategy charts and free software. You can get card-counting strategy information and many useful tools to get better.
There’s a message board section with different subjects on which to comment. It has lots of traffic and is kept up to date. The latest blackjack-related news is posted right on the home page, and they feature different products they consider to be good. There’s a good selection on home training, with a collection of instructional DVD’s to choose from. They range in price from $20 to $215.
There weren’t many articles, and the site seems more interested in selling products, but the products are good.
Topics: Blackjack Strategies |
Casino Gambling: Affordable Strategies for Maximizing Profits
By Sonny White | June 5, 2010
If you don’t have big bucks to gamble with but still love the action, there are a few ways to play that won’t cost a lot. Playing the nickel slots can give you hours of gambling for less than $50. Look for a good machine with a payout percentage of at least more than 98%. The payout schedule is labelled right on the machines, so search through them until you get a good one.
The best way to save money in a casino is to make sure you take advantage of comps and freebies. Many casinos have special packages available right now because the industry is in a general slowdown. Look for package deals that include coupons for services outside the casino. These savings, combined with regular comps, can help you recover a percentage of your losses. The more freebies you can get, the higher the percentage you’ll recover.
Topics: Casino Strategies |
Online Casino Gambling: Old School vs. New School
By Sonny White | June 5, 2010
If you’re someone who’s still on the fence when it comes to the old-school casino experience and the new online casinos, let’s look at the advantages of both. The old-school casinos offer more interaction with other people in a real setting. If you like your casino experience to be about meeting people and getting out, the old-school environment is right for you. If you drink, which isn’t really recommended when you gamble, most of the live casinos will supply you free drinks.
The new-school online player doesn’t have time in abundance. Instead of wasting valuable free time travelling to the casino, they just log-in online and start playing. Another big advantage to online play is the free bonuses the sites offer you on your buy-in money. But the biggest advantage to online casinos is the endless action. You never wait for a seat in your favorite game, regardless of the stakes you play.
Topics: Online Casino |
Video Poker Versus Live Poker
By Sonny White | June 4, 2010
Video poker and live poker are completely different games. The only thing that’s the same is that you’re playing some form of poker, but the similarities end there. Video poker is played with strict rules to follow, in order to achieve optimum play. You can make the correct decision every time once you learn the proper strategy.
Live poker is against other players, and there is no way to play a robotic-like game and succeed. Live poker allows you to gain numerous edges over opponents through careful observation of betting patterns and how your opponents react to different events in the game.
They are both skill games, but live poker is more skill-dependent. Video poker is for people who feel like gambling by themselves, while live poker is more interactive and social. There’s no video game that can give you the thrill of outsmarting an opponent into a mistake.
Topics: Video Poker Strategies |
Best Books on Casino Strategies
By Sonny White | June 4, 2010
If you’re looking for a good book on casino strategies look no further than Winner’s Guide to Casino Gambling by Edwin Silberstang. This book is great for beginners, and covers just about every game you’ll encounter in most North American casinos. There are a lot of revised editions out there because the book stays current to the changing industry. You want the fourth edition. Silberstang has other books that cover specific games in greater depth.
American Mensa Guide to Casino Gambling: Winning Ways by Andrew Brisman is widely considered the best complete book on gambling. This book lists all the best bets in the casino, and offers advice on bankroll management and house edge. The book is also filled with charts and numbers showing you why some bets are better than others. “The runaway winner as the best overall gambling encyclopedia written in the past 20 years”, Detroit Free Press.
Topics: Casino Strategies |
Casino List Poaching: Rolling the Dice on High Rollers
By Sonny White | June 3, 2010
Lists of high rollers have long been a guarded secret amongst casinos. These lists were handwritten by casino hosts, but today everything is automated in a database. These databases are valuable to other casinos who want to lure the best players to their casinos.
These lists have been an issue for some time. Hosts have taken lists with them when they switched jobs, or periodically a casino will be approached by someone trying to sell another casino’s list. Civil suits have been filed in the past, but criminal charges are rarely filed.
Recently charges were laid against a top Atlantic City executive, along with two other former casino employees, for allegedly stealing information on more than 20,000 of the best Tropicana gamblers. But gaming experts say that most A.C. casinos have the same lists of gamers, because the players spread their action around.
Topics: Casinos |
Craps Strategy: How to Improve Your Bets
By Sonny White | June 3, 2010
Improving your bets on the craps table can be achieved by only choosing the bets with the lowest house edge. The best bet you can make is to buy don’t pass and/or don’t come bets from players who place don’t pass and/or don’t come bets that wind up on the six or eight. Once you’re up on the numbers, the don’t bettor has the best of it because he is now rooting for the seven. So if you are up on the don’t-six, you have six ways to win and five ways to lose. That’s a 6/5 edge. Just pay the bettors off in cash when they go to change the bet.
When making don’t pass, don’t come, pass, and come bets place the minimum on the bet and the maximum on the odds. The bet has a 1.403% edge, but the odds bets give the house no edge.
Topics: Craps Strategies |
Need for More Skill Games at Online Casinos?
By Sonny White | June 2, 2010
Skill games have always been a big part of every society. Games like cards and backgammon are enjoyed by millions of people. If online casinos started offering action on skill games it would attract more players to the sites. These games can be raked for profit, or a predetermined buy-in fee could be charged before every game.
Backgammon is already competitive, and thousands of dollars can be won in tournaments. This game would surely be popular online. Video games of all kinds could be offered. The networks for the players already exist. They just need to provide prizes to the winners. Gamers will be lining up to compete. Even chess action could be offered.
Trump card games and cribbage could all be played online. Many people are more familiar with these traditional games then most versions of poker, and all these skill games are perfect for tournaments and cash games.
Topics: Online Casino |
Bad Luck vs. Bad Play: Which Do You Blame at the Casino?
By Sonny White | June 2, 2010
Bad luck is something that everyone will experience at times. There’s no way to get away from the bad luck, and at the casino bad luck seems to be everywhere, especially if you don’t play well. And let’s not forget that bad luck is stacked up against us, the house edge always keeps us on the losing side of things.
Bad play is another story. If you’re playing casino games and you don’t know everything there is to know about the games, it’s your fault that you’re losing so much. Learning the games and playing them to optimum strategy will decrease the edge the house holds over you. It gives you chances to win sometimes, and your bankroll will go that much further. The internet has all the information you need.
Topics: Casino Strategies |
Is the Gambling Boom Over?
By Sonny White | June 1, 2010
There has been a real gambling boom online and in places like Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and Macau. But the dropping U.S. economy has caused a slowdown in Vegas revenues. People have less money, and spending it in Vegas is not a preferred option. The cost of travel has also increased, and tourism is expected to be down until 2011. Employment numbers are down one percent from last month, and the single family housing market has collapsed. The boom is at best on hold in Vegas.
Online gambling is becoming an easier, more inexpensive way to gamble for many players. Advances like mobile casinos have made gambling an anytime, anywhere activity for some.
The boom continues in Macau, where the US economy has no direct effect. Gambling is still booming, it’s just booming in other places right now because America’s war machine has driven the country’s economy into the toilet.
Topics: Gambling Industry |