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Monday, May 11, 2009
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Easy Lotto is a video-based casino game I noticed at the Mandalay Bay in August, 2008. After making a bet, the player chooses six numbers from 0 to 9, or has the game choose the numbers randomly. Then the game will choose six numbers of its own. Finally, the player will be paid according to how many match, and where.In Easy Lotto, the player’s picks are scored two ways, and he wins the higher or the two. The first type of win is left-aligned matches. These wins must match in number and position, starting with the first position on the left. The second type of win must match in number and position, but the position can be anywhere.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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9:10 PM
Two-up is a traditional Australian gambling casino game, involving a designated 'Spinner' throwing two coins into the air. Players gamble on whether the coins will fall with both heads up, both tails up, or with one coin a head, and one a tail (known as 'Odds'). It is traditionally played on ANZAC Day in pubs and clubs throughout Australia, in part to mark a shared experience with Diggers through the ages.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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6:57 PM
Sports betting is the general free casino play activity of predicting sports results by making a wager on the outcome of a sporting event. Perhaps more so than other forms of free online gambling, the legality and general acceptance of sports betting varies from nation to nation.
In the United States, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1994 makes illegal to operate a "betting, gambling or wagering scheme", except for in the states of Delaware, Nevada, and Oregon. Proponents of legalized sports betting generally regard it as a hobby for sports fans that increases their interest in particular sporting events, thus benefiting the leagues, teams and players they bet on through higher attendances and television audiences. (more..)
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Monday, January 12, 2009
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5:17 PM
Racetrack betting is called pari-mutuel betting, which is French for “to bet amongst us”. This is because the money everyone bets is placed into pools and shared amongst winners at the end of the race. You never bet against the track, only against others who have placed similar bets. Each type of bet, Win, Place and Show has its own pool from which money bet is paid out to customers with winning tickets at best casino.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
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7:07 PM
Pai gow is the oldest of the free casino games. It easily pre-dates roulette and baccarat. How such a complicated game ever got started, I have always wondered. Indeed, pai gow is a difficult game to learn. The concept is the same as pai gow poker, where both player and banker make high and low hands, and then compare against each other. What makes pai gow difficult is there is order of hands and tiles seems largely random, and is difficult to memorize.
What I love about pai gow is that for bankroll preservation, there is nothing that beats it. The pace is slow at about 30 hands per hour, and 41% of hands result in a push. If you are a pale-face, like me, you’ll impress the dealer and some other players that you even understand it. However, some Asians immediately leave the table when I sit down, as if I’m unlucky. Don’t be scared to try the game, even if you know nothing about the rules. You can always ask the dealer to set your hands according to the “house way.” Better yet, keep reading to learn more about the game.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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4:56 PM
Keno is a lottery-like or free online gambling bingo-like game played at modern casinos. Keno can be played either live, or on a machine. I refer to the later as “video keno.” The odds are better in video keno, but the rate of play is much slower in live keno, so you may lose less that way on an hourly basis. A traditional live casino keno game uses a circular glass enclosure called a "bubble" containing 80 ping pong-like balls which determine the balldraw result. Each ball is imprinted with a number 1 through 80. During the balldraw, a blower pushes air into the bubble and mixes the balls. A "caller" presses a lever opening a tube, where the balls lift one at a time into a "V" shaped tube called the "rabbit ears". The caller and a "verifier" record each of 20 balls drawn, and the computerized keno system calculates all wagers based on the numbers drawn.
