Craps Even Odds: Your Best BetNo one can deny the drama and excitement of yelling out, “Yo!” while slapping down a proposition wager on the Eleven or the thrill of hitting one of the “Hard Ways.” In fact, the craps table is filled with dozens of intriguing and exotic bets that can turn the game into a virtual carnival of variety. Unfortunately, almost all of those bets carry with them a huge advantage for the house. There is one strategy, however, that turns craps into the most player-friendly table game in the casino: taking or laying “Even Odds.”
Are Slots Rigged?You will hear it several times a day in your local betting shop and often the casino too – “this thing is rigged!” But are slot machines and fixed odds betting terminals rigged? How can they be truly random, when they are programmed to payout a certain percentage of their intake? Read on and dispel a few myths about slot machines.
Gambling A To Z: AWelcome to the first article in our new series, the Gambling A to Z. In each article, we take a look at various topics related to the wonderful world of gambling and what better place to start than with the letter "A"?
Basic Strategy for Rush PokerFull Tilt Poker’s recently launched game known as “Rush Poker”, was hailed as “the greatest innovation since poker started on the Internet”. Now that the dust has settled on the game’s grand release and they hype has all but disappeared, how do we actually go about playing it effectively?
Chips Stacks in TournamentsWhen playing in a No Limit Hold’em poker tournament, it is important to keep an eye on your fellow players in order to absorb as much information as possible, which will help make your decisions easier. Paying attention to your rivals, the cards they play and their betting patterns is not the only useful source of information though.
Why Poker Sites Monitor Your Computer ActivityIf you take the time to read the user agreement for most online poker sites, you will see that a small portion of the agreement deals with the poker room’s ability to monitor your computer’s activity during game play.
The Five Best Casino Wagers - Part FourIn the last of our "Five Best Casino Wagers" series, we took a look at the popular casino game Baccarat, whose "Banker" bet carries a house edge of 1.17%. Next up is Pai Gow Poker, which offers a house edge of 2.30%, making it fourth in our list of the best casino bets.
In 1996, Mike Petriv wrote the first fully-comprehensive book on poker odds – “Hold’em’s Odd(s) Book – gives you an edge“. Its cheap, spiral bound format belies the content between its covers and the book has provided an invaluable source of information for poker players at all stages of their game, the world over.