Baccarat, online games

Baccarat is also similar to craps because of the manner in which other players at the table place bets. Although you won't be playing with other players at an online casino baccarat table (nor will you be required to dress up to the T's), in a land-based casino you will choose to place a bet either on the Player or Banker (In craps, you must bet either with or against the shooter).

As mentioned, two cards are initially dealt to the Banker and Player. However, before this is done, you must bet on one of three outcomes - a Player win, Banker win, or, Tie. All cards are worth their numeric value, except tens and face cards, which are worth 0 (zero) and Aces, which are worth 1.

The value of the two cards are added up for each hand. If this value is under ten, that is the number for its score. If the value is over ten, the score is calculated by subtracting ten. In other words, baccarat hands will never have a score over nine. Nor can they bust. The hand that has the higher value (closest to nine), is the winning hand.

A winning bet on the Player hand will be paid 1 to 1, a Tie bet will pay 8 to 1 and a winning bet on the Banker hand will be paid even money minus a 5% commission.

There is no difference in odds between baccarat and mini-baccarat. The only difference is that mini-baccarat is a faster game because the dealer turns over all of the cards. Also you are likely to find lower stakes at mini-baccarat.

It's no surprise that Baccarat is a high rollers game. Because of its history, Baccarat is marketed by casinos as a game for the rich and classy. In other words, expect to pay higher table minimums. In terms of playing strategy, most players advise to simply stay away from making the Tie bet.

Online Games, Keno Games

Method of playing a poker-type keno game
A method of playing a poker-type keno game that has a plurality of two-card, revealed, starter hands and five unrevealed community cards. A player wagers on one or more starter hands, after which the community cards are revealed. Each starter hand is combined with all of the community cards to form complete hands. The player is paid a payout amount if the highest ranked complete hand that has been wagered on is found in a pay table that corresponds to the hand. Optionally, the hands and payout amounts in the pay table are based on the odds of achieving ranked hands. Optionally, there are multiple sets of community cards.

Online Games, Caribbean Poker....

Caribbean Poker is a fun, easy to learn and an exciting game to play. Because of it's house edge there are some that say Caribbean Stud Poker is a poor bet. Caribbean Poker may indeed be a poor bet but it's a fun bet and that is how Caribbean Stud Poker should be played, for the enjoyment of the game.

Caribbean poker is a great game for those that like to play poker yet dislike some of the aspects of traditional poker, like the time required for a single game. Caribbean Poker is also great for those players that are just learning the game of poker, there are no big blinds, raises after raises, or having to try and figure out if your hand is better than 4 other hands. It is just you and dealer, with one decision to fold or raise and since there is no bluffing you can cheer when you get that Royal Flush.

The best way to look at Caribbean Poker is for its cost of entertainment. What does this mean? Well could you sit down at a table and play for a few hours get up and feel like the money you spent was worth the entertainment? Now there is certainly the opportunity to win money when playing Caribbean Poker, but this should not be your soul motivation for playing this game. If this is your reason for playing any game in the casino there are better games than Caribbean Stud Poker. That being said there are few games that are more fun especially when you get a great hand than Caribbean Stud Poker.

Online Games.....blackjack

BlackJack Tips For Live Tables

Here are some basic tips on how to play for begginers.
Summary of Basic Blackjack Strategies.
0. NEVER TAKE INSURANCE!
1. If you have a 10 or and 11 you double down.
2. If the dealers up card is a 7 or higher and you are holding a 12-16 then hit. You should stand if the dealers card is less than 7.
3. You have a soft 17 or lower then hit.
4. You have a soft 19 then stand.
5. Split all pairs when the dealers upcard is less than 6.
6. Always split Aces and Eights.
7. If the total of your cards equals 9 or lower you should always take a hit.
8. If you have a soft 13 to 18. You should double down if the dealers upcard is a 5 or a 6.
This basic strategies should help your odds. It may take practice to get the rules down.

The rules of BlackJack differ slightly from area to area and/or from casino to casino. For example, a casino in downtown Vegas may have different rules than one of the Vegas Strip casinos which may have different rules from a casino up in Reno or Tahoe. The rules in a casino in Freeport Bahamas may differ from those in Atlantic City, etc. Therefore, it is important to research what the rules are for the area/casinos you plan on playing in.

The BlackJack table seats a dealer and one to seven players. The first seat on the dealer's left is referred to as First Base, the first seat on the dealer's right is referred to as Third Base. A betting square is printed on the felt table in front of each player seat. Immediately in front of the dealer is the chip tray. On the dealer's left is the deck or shoe and beside that should be the minimum bet sign, which you ought to read before sitting down to play.

On the dealer's immediate right is the money drop slot where all currency and tips (chips) are deposited. Next to the drop slot is the discard tray. Play begins after the following ritual is completed: the dealer shuffles the cards, the deck is "cut" by a player using the marker card, and the dealer "burns" a card. Before any cards are dealt, the players may make a wager by placing the desired chips (value and number) into the betting box.

Occasionally a player may sit out a hand or two for various reasons. I have sat out a couple of hands at times when the dealer was getting extremely lucky and everyone was losing. If you attempt to sit out too many hands especially if there are people waiting to play at your table, you may be asked to leave the table until you are ready to play.

Once all the bets are down, two cards (one at a time) are dealt from left to right. In many Vegas casinos, players get both cards face down. In Atlantic City and most every where else the player's cards are dealt face up. Should the cards be dealt face up, don't make the faux pas of touching them! They are dealt face up for a reason, primarily to prevent a few types of player cheating.

The dealer receives one card down and one card up. The numerical values of the cards are: (10, J, Q, K) = 10 ; (Ace) = 1 or 11 ; (other cards) = face value (3 = 3). Since a casino can be very noisy, hand signals are usually the preferred method of signalling hit, stand, etc.

If the cards were dealt face down and you want a hit, lightly flick the cards across the felt two times. If the cards were dealt face up, point at the cards with a quick stabbing motion. You may also want to nod your head yes while saying "hit". The best way to indicate to the dealer that you want to stand regardless of how the cards were dealt is to move your hand from left to right in a level attitude with your palm down. Your hand should be a few inches or so above the table. Nodding your head no at the same time helps, while saying "stay" or "stand".

Single deck games are pretty much restricted to Nevada casinos. In the casinos that have one-deck games, the tables are usually full. Multiple deck games typically consist of an even number of decks (2, 4, 6, 8) although a few casinos use 5 or 7 decks. There are two main reasons many casinos use multiple decks: They allow the dealer to deal more hands per hour, thereby increasing the casino take, and they reduce (but in no way eliminate) the player advantage gained from card counting.

The rules the dealer must play by are very simple. If the dealer's hand is 16 or less, he/she must take a card. If the dealer's hand is 17 or more, he/she must stand. Note that some casinos allow the dealer to hit on soft 17 which gives the house a very small additional advantage. The dealer's strategy is fixed and what you and the other players have is immaterial to him/her as far as hitting and standing is concerned.

The player can do most anything he/she wants as far as hitting and standing goes. Should a player get a BlackJack (first 2 cards are an Ace and a ten) the payoff is 150% more than the original bet ie, bet $10.00 and the payoff is $15.00. Doubling down is restricted to 2-card hands, usually totalling 9, 10, or 11 although some casinos allow doubling down on any 2-card hand. If your first two cards provide you with the appropriate total and your cards were dealt face down, turn them over and put them on the dealer's side of the betting square. If your first two cards provide you with the appropriate total and your cards were dealt face up, point to them and say "double" when the dealer prompts you for a card and simultaneously put an equal amount of chips next to (not on top of) those already in the betting box. The dealer will give you one more card only, then he/she will move on to the next hand.

If you have a pair that you want to split and your cards are dealt face down, turn them over and place them a few inches apart. If your cards were dealt face up, point to your cards and say "split" when the dealer prompts you for a card. The original bet will go with one card and you will have to place an equal amount of chips in the betting box near the other card. You are now playing two hands, each as though they were regular hands with the exception being that if you have just split two aces. In that case, you only get one card which will hopefully be a 10. If it is a ten, that hand's total is now 21 but the hand isn't considered a BlackJack. That is, you are paid 1:1 and not 1:1.5 as for a natural (BlackJack). Combined example of above two plays: Say you are dealt two fives. You split them. The next card is another 5 and you re-split them. Three hands have grown out of one and you are now in for three times your original bet. But wait. Say the next card is a six. So one hand is a 5,6 which gives you eleven; another just has a 5 and the other hand has a 5. You decide to double down on the first hand. You are dealt a 7 giving 18 which you stand on. Now a ten is dealt for the second hand and you decide to stay at 15. The last hand is the lonely third 5, which is dealt a four for a total of nine. You decide to double down and get an eight giving that hand a total of 17. You started with a twenty dollar bet and now you are in for a hundred! Better hope the dealer doesn't end up with a hand more than 18 lest you lose a C-note.

It was dangerous to split two fives because you are replacing a hand that is great for drawing on or doubling down on, by what will probably be two poor hands.

Insurance comes into play when the dealer's up card is an Ace. At this point all the players have two cards. The dealer does not check his/her hole card before asking the players if they want insurance, as the dealer can't give away the value of the hole card if the dealer doesn't know what the hole card is. If a player wants insurance, half the original amount bet is placed on the semicircle labeled "insurance" which is printed on the table. If the dealer has a BlackJack the player wins the side bet (the insurance bet) but loses the original bet, thus providing no net loss or gain since insurance pays 2 to 1. If the dealer does not have a BlackJack, the side bet is lost and the hand is played normally. If you are not counting cards, don't bother with insurance. The proper Basic Strategy play is to decline. The time to take insurance is when the number of non-tens to tens drops below a 2 to 1 margin since insurance pays 2 to 1.

Surrender is a fairly obscure option that originated in Manila in 1958 and isn't available in many casinos. There are two versions, "early surrender" and "late surrender". Early surrender allows players to quit two-card hands after seeing the up card of the dealer. This option provides the player an additional 0.62 percent favorable advantage (significant) and therefore the obvious reason why many Atlantic City casinos abandoned the option in 1982. Late surrender is the same as early except that the player must wait until the dealer checks for a BlackJack. If the dealer does not have a BlackJack then the player may surrender.

Online Bingo

At Bingo over $2,000,00 is won every month.
Win $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 coverall Jackpot. Also play, video poker, slots and Live Chats with other Bingo Players

To get started, Signup, Download the software or Play Bingo Online.
While waiting for the bingo numbers to be called, you can chat with the other players.

Phil Fraser, of i-ludus Consulting, spoke recently on the topic of Online Bingo- How you can add value to your site by looking at new products. Here is a summary of what Phil had to say.

Online bingo? But the little old ladies who play bingo don't have internet access, I hear you say. That may, or may not be the case, but land-based bingo is huge, and its not only played by little old ladies. In fact, there are more visits to bingo halls in USA than there are visits to the cinema. In 1999, the US bingo industry alone had a turnover of $5.1b. Add to that the fact that the rules are simple ( everyone knows how to play bingo) and that most people dont even perceive it as gambling and you can see its potential. Little wonder that online bingo is growing and set to become big business.

Multi-player Bingo on the internet (as opposed to single player, Keno-Bingo) falls into three basic groups; Free Bingo, Game Sites with Bingo and Pay to Play Bingo. Free Bingo is offered by a small number of specialist sites. Game play is free and prizes are usually points or small denomination cash prizes. The operators business model is built on banner advertising sales and/ or data mining. This is the same model as operated by those sites offering a range of games, one of which happens to be bingo. These sites include places like Pogo, Gamesville and the Flipside Network. The core of the industry, however, is the Pay-to-Play bingo sites.

Compared to the 1800 online casinos, the bingo market is small, but its growing quickly. There were only ten credible pay-to-play online bingo offerings in April 2000. A year later this had increased by 50%. One year later, by February 2002, this had double to 30 sites. As I write (December 2002) this figure has risen by more than 60% in less than year and the current count is at 52 sites. ( All these numbers exclude white label sites and affiliates etc.).

The structure of the industry is similar to the online casino industry. Software is licensed to operators and costs are usually based on an upfront fee plus and on-going, turnover-based royalty. Up to recently the software was supplied by bingo specialists only. However, recently two of the online casino worlds big boys have entered the market. Both Boss Media and Cryptologic have commenced supplying bingo software. Again, as with the online casino market, the games come in download, Flash and Java versions, with the download option seemingly returning to favour after an up-turn in Java and Flash in the last year. All pay-to-play bingo sites offer slots games (as per their land-based cousins) but recently there has been a surge of new additional games on offer including Video Poker, Keno and other card based games.

So, whos playing these games? Weve already established that its not the little old ladies who play land-based bingo. From original research carried out at WhichBingo.com, it can be seen that the audience is predominantly female (85%), two thirds of them are aged 35 - 54, almost all of them are based in North America and over 80% of them also play land-based bingo. Interestingly 40% of online bingo players do not take part in any other type of online gambling. For those operators in the online casino market this is great news entering the bingo arena will open up new audience streams for them rather than cannibalising their existing player base. However if you really want to see what this audience looks like, pop into any bingo site. Most of them have players galleries so you can indeed see what the audience looks like.

Players galleries may be a strange concept to those used to promoting the benefits of the anonymity of online gaming. Online bingo is different. One of the main reasons a player will play at one site rather than another is because their friends play there. Thats not friends from the local neighbourhood, but friends across the whole internet. The basis of this community spirit within the bingo games is the chat window. The chat window is open during the game and players interact throughout the game, creating the community atmosphere. This then brings an additional marketing tool into play; the Chat Host. Simply the Chat Host is there, in the chat room, to develop a community atmosphere and offer immediate customer support. A good Chat Host (or CM as they are known) can be the difference between an OK site and a great site. Importantly, they can also be an influencer as to whether a player returns or not.

Finally, with the cost of both recruitment and retention within the gaming market remaining competitively high, its worth looking at bingo in comparison. Taking an arbitrary day, the cost to appear in first position on Overture for the word casino is more than three times more expensive than appearing in first position for bingo. Similarly, top position for online casino is more than five times more expensive than online bingo. Added to which retention levels are much, much higher in online bingo.

Although only a brief overview of the online bingo market, suffice to say that it is a vibrant, fast-growing niche within the online gaming market and one that deserves to be looked at in more depth by anyone looking for an opportunity in online gaming.

Online Games.."Backgammon'

When a player enters the online backgammon world, he wants to play against someone on his own level, especially when playing backgammon for money. When you play a live backgammon game, you can check the level of your opponent simply by asking. On the online backgammon it's different, all the information you have is your opponent nick name. To solve this problem, the biggest online backgammon communities developed a ranking system that indicates the backgammon online skills of the players.

Here is an example to a rating method (the picture is from the Gammon Empire online backgammon software).

The system is using the statistics of every player for ranking and the rating helps you decide against whom you want to play.

Having studied opening moves for many years, having had the benefit of experience, the use of computer softwares, and tremendous personal skill and intuition, the experts have virtually all agreed on the best opening moves for every possible dice combination can be. If you don't want to reduce your odds of winning do not make any move other than what the experts recommend. Let's simply go now through the list of what is the best opening moves, and reasonable variations for it...

Online Games

The Online Gaming Advantage

If you're just getting your feet wet playing any of these games, it's often a good idea to take advantage of the many free casino games online available at the better gaming sites. Also, be sure to check back often to see what new and exciting additions, such as more free online casino games, have been added to your list of options. Considering the vast array of choices already available to you online, chances are you'll discover another game or two that will also win you over.

if you study them, you'll be prepared before you sit down at a virtual casino table. You also have the opportunity to study the best strategy for all games, and if you follow the strategy tips, you won't give the casino an undeserved edge. We will guide you to the best casino gambling experience.

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