Archive for August, 2009

Tips for Playing with an Online Casino Bonus

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Knowledge is Power: Make sure that you know as much as you can about the online casino before you start playing. Most importantly, you need to be aware of its general playing ‘Terms and Conditions’, as well as the rules. At certain casinos, you will find that the Terms and Conditions are also divided into two sections – General and Promotional. Needless to say, you have to read both very well. It is very important to note things such as the minimum wagering requirements, as well as the games that are included (and those that are not!) in the bonus terms.

Take a Screenshot: A good tip is to take a screenshot of the Terms and Conditions of the bonus. This can be done by pressing the Alt and PrntScn keys from your PC keyboard (as long as the Terms and Conditions are the primary window open on the screen). Make sure that the current date is visible on the screen (by moving the cursor over the date field on your screen until it pops up). Once you have a screenshot, all you need to do is save it into a document of your choice and you have solid proof regarding the Terms and Conditions that pertained to a particular bonus on that specific date.

Scan those Documents: Most online casinos will request some kind of identification at one time or another, usually in the form of a utility bill or driver’s license. You can easily scan the documents and file them away in a document, ready to send to whichever casino requires them. The casino is only interested in your physical address, so black out any account numbers if you so wish. This is a simple way to send online casinos the information they need quickly and efficiently.

Keep Records: It is important to have a record of all the deposit and withdrawals that you make at each online casino. If you are lucky enough to win at the online casino, keeping records will help you keep track of who owes you money and when the payment is due. It is a known fact that payouts can take anything from a few days to a few weeks to reach their final destination, depending on which type of bonus was used. To save yourself some serious hassles in the future, keep a good record of all your transactions.

Deposit Wisely: Keeping within your budget, make your deposit to maximize the bonus.

Withdraw Wisely: If you find yourself with credits in your online casino account after you have completed the wagering requirements of a specific bonus, don’t hesitate to withdraw your funds – even if it’s only a partial withdrawal. You don’t want to be one of those people who thought that their winning streak would last forever and that they were invincible at online casinos!

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Ginobili Returns To The Spurs

Monday, August 31st, 2009

With Ginóbili’s return, the Spurs will certainly lit up their NBA champions’ goal. The Argentinean scored 23 points including 12 in the last quarter while Tim Duncan added 17 points and the French Tony Parker scored 26 points on Sunday’s victory over Los Angeles Clippers 88-82.

Ginóbili was not present in five games due to a left-hand finger twist. For this past game, he played with his hand bandaged to protect his injury.

“I felt well during all the game. Simply I did not do the shots that I’m used to do, but I should be patient and let this happen by itself”, said the Argentinean who got five of 12 shots from the perimeter and 12 of 13 from the punishment line.

The Spurs begun the season with a 17-3 record and they had a record of 6-6 in their last 12 games; due to this figures Coach Duncan was happy to have Ginóbili return.

“He is our specialist in finishing the games, and a great assistant and gives another dimension to the team, especially in the last minutes”, said Duncan. “When the plays don’t turn out well, someone has to penetrate the contrary defensive”.

Ginóbili’s two free shots gave the Spurs an advantage of 64-62 before the last quarter; the Argentinean only played 29 minutes.

Other Spurs’ Argentinean Fabricio Oberto played 13 minutes in which contributed with two points. The scoreboard was kept tight almost the entire game. The Spurs’ great advantage is that they are the current NBA champions and the players feel the need to continue leading the team two a second championship.

In other games, the Denver Nuggets defeated 109-96 the Philadelphia 76ers, with a total of 38 points from Allen Iverson who played against his old team.

The Washington Wizards crushed Seattle 108-86 and the Dallas Mavericks won 101-78 over Minnesota Timberwolves with a total of 30 points from the German Dirk Nowitzki.

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Mountain Biking In Damascus

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

The real fun of mountain biking can be attained in Damascus. The most popular trails are found in Virginia.

Every year, people find Virginia to be the most attractive place for mountain biking. In the recent past, this place has developed a lot.

Many people find it as just the right place for mountain biking. This is because all the facilities are available here.

The creepy trails of mountains are so beautiful at this place. Southwest Blue Ridge Highlands is a small town here, which attracts everyone. In addition to fishing, hiking and other sports available, mountain biking is a major sport here.

Damascus has been known as “friendliest town on the Appalachian Trail.”

Very big bikes fleets are commonly available at many places for your convenience. Over the years, many restaurants and other services have been started here. So, when you come here, you can never feel dejected.

Bikes can be obtained on rental basis. The bike rental fleet will have all type of bikes. You can find typical bikes meant for mountains. You can go for a simple bike as well. You will never feel short of bikes here.

Mountain biking can be started from the Virginia creeper trailhead that is at the White top Mountain. Another good place is 34 miles back to Abingdon.

At the end of the day, when you start camping around fire, you may feel the excitement, and the pleasure you had always wished for.

So, when you plan for mountain biking, it is wise to choose this place.

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Tournament Poker Professional Player Profile – Doyle Brunson

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

Doyle Brunson is nothing short of a poker legend. A professional for 50 years and winner of 10 World Series of Poker bracelets, Brunson can be still found playing the highest stakes game available (the ‘Big Game’ at the Bellagio).

Doyle Brunson started his poker career playing illegal games in Texas. The games were 5-card draw and 7-card stud and the criminals who frequented them often make this a dangerous endeavor.

Until 2007 (when Phil Hellmuth won his 11th Bracelet) Doyle Brunson was the joint WSOP bracelet winner with 10 wins to his name – tied with Johnny Chan. This includes the accolade of being one of only 4 players to win consecutive main events, in 1976 and 1977.

Doyle Brunson’s WSOP Wins:

- 1976 – $10k No-Limit Holdem Main Event – $230,000
– 1977 – $5k 207 Draw Poker – $80,250
– 1977 – $10k No-Limit Holdem Main Event – $340,000
– 1977 – $1k 7-Card Stud Hi-Lo – $62,500
– 1978 – $5k 7-Card Stud – $68,000
– 1979 – $600 ‘Mixed Doubles’ – $4,500
– 1991 – $2.5k No-Limit Holdem – $208,000
– 1998 – $1.5k Razz – $93,000
– 2003 – $2k HORSE – $84,080
– 2005 – $5k 6-Max No-Limit Holdem – $367,800

The impressive run in the world series of poker continues to this day with many final tables and cashes in large-field events. Other note worthy achievements include wins in the ‘Legends Of Poker’ tournament and WPT wins and cashes.

Doyle Brunson actually has 2 different poker hands named after him. Picking up the nickname ‘Texas Dolly” after an announcer mis-read his name, 10-2 off suit is know known by this name. It was with 10-2 off-suit that Doyle Brunson won both of his world series main event titles – both times coming from behind to beat his opponent in the hand. The other hand named after Doyle Brunson is Ace-Queen off-suit. This is because he claimed ‘never’ to play this hand, a claim which he has now toned down.

Apart from his poker career Doyle Brunson is famous for his books. Super System was first released in the 1970’s at a time when there were not too many poker books around and revolutionized the game at that point. In 2004 and updated version – Super System 2 – was released containing contributions from many of today’s top professionals.

After almost 50 years at the top Brunson shows no signs of slowing down. He is a regular feature on the televised ‘High Stakes Poker’ and continues to play in the biggest games available in his native Las Vegas.

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Arizona Casinos

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Casinos are nothing new and they can be found just about anywhere your travels take you in the United States. The state of Arizona is no different. If you live in Arizona or have traveled there, you have likely passed by one or more of the ever popular casinos in the desert southwest.

A study done by NAU (Northern Arizona University) confirmed the popularity through an extensive research project. NAU researched gaming and when the study was completed, the results were very clear. The report indicated that one-third of all Arizonans responded that they too, had gambled in a casino in Arizona.

In 1988, the U.S. It was Congress who passed an act which later became known as the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, also referred to as IGRA. IGRA has long recognized the popular entertainment form of gaming and has used it as a means to promote economic development of many Indian Tribes.

Many people feel that casinos have been the answer to the Native Americans becoming self sufficient and promoting each of the Tribes government through their profited monies from these Arizona casinos.

The AIGA organization represents the membership of some 19 Tribes and represent 90 percent of the Native American Indians who live on the reservations within the sate of Arizona. This organization was created to help both protect and promote the welfare of Native American Indian Tribes. Their focus has been, and still is, is to help their members strive to be self reliant.

The organization stands by their belief that they are most definitely committed to both maintaining and protecting the Indian sovereign government authority. The Regulatory Act permits any state to be able to operate Native American Indian gaming on the reservations as long as the state permits such gaming activities off-reservation.

The IGRA Act was a result of a Supreme Court ruling that basically said that states do not have any leverage over gaming on any United States Tribe reservation.

Prior to this Act, the 1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, really meant that states do not have any regulatory authority when it comes to Indian reservation casinos.

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 permitted states and Indian Tribes to be able to regulate Class III Tribal gaming, which is inclusive of games such as blackjack, slot machines, keno and other such related casino style games.

During the early 1990s, there were several Arizona Tribes that had installed slot machines in their casinos even though none of them had Tribal-State Gaming Compacts with the state. The then Arizona governor, Fife Symington, believed that Indian reservations should not have casinos because at that time, Arizona didn’t permit any gambling that was considered off-reservation.

Tribes contended that Arizona was already permitting gambling by allowing gambling acts such as horse and dog racing, charity bingo games, as well as the state lotteries that were readily available.

The National Indian Gaming Commission issued rules that clarified these rules in 1992, which said that a Tribe must have a gaming Compact with a state before it is allowed to operate slot machines on its land.

Following this ruling, the Arizona Governor called on the United States Attorney in Phoenix, Arizona, to proceed to shut down any and all casinos that had slot machines. It was like something that you would see in a movie. FBI agents raided several Indian gaming casinos and seized their gaming slot machines.

At the Fort McDowell Casino located near Scottsdale, Arizona, many of the Native American Tribal members tried to prevent these agents from removing their slot machines by forming a blockade which resulted in a three week long standoff.

One year later in 1993, the governor signed off on an agreement with the Native American Indian tribes which allowed Tribes to have these gaming slot machines on each of their reservations.

Not included in this Compact agreement were any table games. In 2003, however, the popular game of blackjack was added to the list of table games that were allowed.

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Biggest Betting Wins

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

I did some research on the web and thought this may interest some of you. These are some of the biggest examples of winning bets I could find.

George Rhodes of Aldershot collected £86,056,42 winnings (after tax) from William Hill for a 5p stake on the ITV Seven- accumulator in 1984.

The world’s biggest gambler is Japanese property developer Akio Kashiwagi, who bets $20 million an hour at baccarat. In 1990 he won $19 million in a casino in Darwin, Australia, and a further $6 million at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, USA.

In 1995, an anonymous woman from Nottingham secured odds of well over 3,000,000/1 for her 5p accumulator bet. She predicted 5 results correctly to take home £153,644.40.

A Scoop6 gambler won a massive £878,939 but missed out on the chance to secure a further £983,495 available if he could successfully predict the winner of the bonus race, the Bet Fred Gold Cup. Ron Nicholson failed to become Britain’s first betting shop millionaire after his horse race betting luck finally ran out at Sandown. The 51-year-old hotel worker became the biggest ever betting shop winner when he bagged a staggering £878,939 on the tote sport Scoop6 for a 4 pound stake. He arrived at the Esher course in search of the further £983,495 available if he could successfully predict the winner of the bonus race, the Bet Fred Gold Cup but failed to win the additional jackpot.

The US Powerball lottery has its roots in Lotto America back in 1988. Today its jackpot regularly tops the $100million mark. Nevertheless, if you thought 100-1 were long odds for a sports bet you should check out the Powerball jackpot odds of 1 in 146,107,962.00. A number of syndicates have overcome these odds to win prizes up to a whopping $340million but the largest ever individual win came in for Leslie Robbins and Colleen DeVries of Wisconsin, USA. They won $111,240,463.10 the largest ever gambling win for an individual.

Some people were just born lucky!

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Omaha High Low – Horse Poker Introduction Series

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

This is article number 3 out of 6 of the “HORSE Poker Introduction Series”.

Overview:

Omaha High/Low is the O in “h.o.r.s.e.” It’s the second most popular variation of poker in the world and also the second most popular poker game online, also known as Omaha Eight or Better or just Omaha 8/B.Don’t be confused by Omaha Hi/Low and Omaha High, if you don’t know what the “low” means then you will understand in a minute. The most common limit style is actually pot-limit which means your bet is limited to the size of the pot, but when you play this game in the “h.o.r.s.e” variation it will play in limit style.

How to Play:

Omaha Hi/Low is similar to Texas Holdem, but in this game you’ll get dealt 4 hole cards, instead of two. We have four stages: pre-flop, post-flop, turn and river, with a betting round after each stage. Then comes the showdown, each player needs to create the best poker hand and the best quality low hand, but you have some rules that say that you have to use 2 of your whole cards and three cards out the community cards. You can use the same cards to create both hands. Let me explain better, this is the “low” part of the game, the player that has the lowest hand will take half of the winners (Highest Hand) pot .In order for the hand to qualify to low all the cards have to be equal or lower then eight,Ace-2-3-4-5 is the best low hand possible, 8-7-6-5-4 is the worst low hand possible.

Lingo:

Double Suited: Means that two cards that have the same suit while the other two cards have another suit.

Scoop the Pot: Taking the entire pot! Means you won the high and the low hands.

Things You Have to Know:

1) The best starting hand is A-A-2-3 (double suited).
2) Quads are bad at Omaha Hi/Low, because you need to use 2 of your hole cards and 3 cards from the community cards.
3) Limit Omaha Hi/Lo is not a game of bluffing, not as much as Texas Holdem.
4) When players start to play Omaha 8/b they think that this is game of luck, it’s far from the truth.

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Online Casino – What’s All The Buzz?

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Brief Overview

Internet casinos are computer generated simulations of real land-based casino experiences and offer real cash games with wagers and rake. They are an immense source of entertainment for players who now have the luxury of playing their favorite games from the comfort of their homes or offices. They can take part in games like poker, slots, blackjack, poker, slots, blackjack, roulette and almost all the games that you can think of. You can do all this form the privacy of your home. You don’t need to worry about driving to the casino, or walking through dark allies or even go through the distractions placed at land-based casinos to prevent you from concentrating at the game. In online casinos, all bets, playing and collection of money are done online.

Legality and Scope of Online Casinos

Most countries have legalized online gaming and issue proper licenses to online casino websites that are renewed after ever few years. One notable exception of this is the US where online gambling was banned with a congressional bill that was passed recently in 2006. Currently the countries with the most online casino players include the UK, Germany, Canada and Australia. As a result of the global scope of online gaming, most casino websites accept payment in various currencies and offer versions of their games in several languages.

Different Types of Online Casino Gaming

There are mainly two kinds of ways to play at online casinos. The first way is to download a gaming software from the casino website and install it on your computer. Gaming software offers excellent graphics, sound and animation. The downloading and installation part however takes a lot of time though. The 2nd type of online gaming does not require downloading big software. They are based on Java and Flash technology and run in the internet browser. They load relatively quickly and offer good graphics, sounds and animation.

Keep in mind though that both types of online gaming require a broadband internet connection and a relatively updated computer.

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Online Casinos – The Way of the Future

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Before the internet came along and invaded our homes, gambling was the pastime of the old man down the street with his flat-cap and dodgy limp, off out of his door at the same time every day to go to the bookmakers all day in a smoky room full of other old men.

Now that there is a multitude of gambling websites we have seen the age of those now regularly gambling tumble downwards.  No longer is gambling seen as the property of the old or the rich, if you have a computer and an internet connection you can be logged in, registered and playing within a matter of minutes, and this is the reason that I see online casinos as the way of the future.  We live in an instant society, we want everything available to us 24/7 and we can certainly access gambling whenever we feel.

Think about it; you can wake up, shower, change and eat and then be playing poker against someone from around the other side of the world in a matter of minutes.  If you are particularly skilled you could be making enough money each week against real people to be able to make a very decent living out of online casinos, and believe me when I say there are thousands who do exactly that.  Can you imagine never having to go to work, never having to answer to your boss, never having to sit in boring meetings again?  Now can you see why I believe that Online Casinos will be the way of the future?

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Jacks-or-Better Video Poker Machines – Five Simple Tips to Win More Money

Monday, August 24th, 2009

If you are playing video poker, then Jacks-or-Better is a great machine to play and you can increase the odds of success dramatically by learning five simple tips.

You don’t need to spend a long time learning these tips; they’re simple, quick, and easy to learn. Jacks-or-Better video poker is fun anyway, but even more so when you’re winning big payouts!

Jacks or Better – The King of Video Poker

The three most played video poker games are Deuces Wild, Jacks-or-Better, and Joker Poker. By far the most popular of the three is Jacks-or-Better, and for good reason – it’s all to do with the odds of success.

Here then are your five tips for success in Jacks-or-Better video poker.

Five Tips to Play Jacks-or-Better Video Poker

1. Not all Jacks-or-Better-Games are the Same

Jacks-or-Better will give you a 99.54% expected rate of return when played correctly.

On the front of the machine is displayed the payouts for a Full House and a Flush respectively.

Here are the payouts for various machines:

Machine Type Machine Payback (with Strategy)

9 for a full house or 6 for a flush 99.5%

8 for a full house or 5 for a flush 97.4%

7 for a full house or 5 for a flush 96.3%

6 for a full house or 5 for a flush 95.2%

You want the best odds when you play Jacks or better and that means playing a 9 / 6 machine. You don’t have to play the others – so don’t!

2. The Importance of the Royal Flush

Always play the maximum number of coins in order to be eligible for the bonus payout for a royal flush.

The only way to beat a video poker machine is to hit a high paying royal flush. To do this you need to be able to play for a long time on the least money you can. This is another reason for playing the 9 / 6 Jacks-or-Better machine.

3. Take Your Time

Take your time to study every hand. The machine is in no hurry and neither should you be.

4. Turning Losers into Winners

Only 21% of the hands dealt are winning ones in Jacks or Better, meaning 79% are losing hands.

The difference between success and failure for players is the ability to convert the 79% of losing hands into winners.

If you follow the rules below, you will increase your odds of success.

5. A Simple Strategy to Increase Your Odds of Success

Hold all paying hands. The exception is: Break up a lesser paying hand if you get four cards to a royal flush.

When you’re dealt non-paying hands, check the following, and hold as per the list:

· Hold any four cards to a straight flush.

· Hold any three cards to a royal flush.

· Hold any four cards to a flush.

· Hold any low pair (tens or lower).

· Hold any four-card consecutive straight.

· Hold any two high cards of the same suit.

· Hold any three cards to a straight flush.

· Hold J, Q, and K of different suites.

· Hold any two high cards of different suits.

· Hold J, Q or K with a Ten of the same suit.

· Hold any single high card.

If you aren’t dealt any of the above, draw five new cards. Don’t be afraid to do this!

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