Tricks and Tips for those Games of Chance and Rare Skill – Poker, Blackjack, etc.

Another Poker Pub article with some good tips. This time, Mike explains freeroll strategy.
When playing in a freeroll, especially early in a tourney, I don’t think beyond level zero. There’s no sense in doing so, considering it’s highly likely that as we read this the big blind just called a 10x raise on some site [...]

Annie Donnelly, 38 pleaded guilty on Wednesday for stealing more than $2.3 million dollars from Great South Bay Surgical Associates where she was a bookkeeper. Donnelly wasn’t at the gambling tables or betting on horses and sports. She instead became very caught up in scratch-offs and weekly lotteries that can be found in any gas [...]

Kiwi Casino is having a no-entry-free tournament tonight (Kiwi members only) The winner will receive a seat at Kiwi’s $15K tournament and the runners-up will receive more cash in their Kiwi accounts.

Poker Pub’s article on when to check and when to bet gives some solid advice for poker beginners. It’s a good starting place if you want to hold your own at a “friendly” game of poker. It also says quite a bit the author’s playing style… which is always the disadvantage to blogging about poker.

Ideally when you go into a casino you want 100% depth in the shoe.  Obviously that maximizes your advantage over the house when you count; this is especially true when you are using sidecounts.
But that’s not reality.  At best – at absolute best your depth will be 85% into the shoe.  Most likely you’ll end [...]

This Askmen.com article called Beware Of Tilt highlights some of the major differences between on-line poker and face-to-face games. Because of the speed of online play, plus that fact that multi-tasking gamblers have a few tables going at once, it can become easier to play loosely and take increasing (and often unwise) risks. The author [...]

No, it’s not the old Windows game. Jewel Thief is a Mircogaming slots game. Like most slots games, it seems that the best jackpots come from a combination of wilds and wild luck. 
Full Article Here

No, it’s not the old Windows games. Jewel Thief is a Mircogaming slots game. Like most slots games, it seems that the best jackpots come from a combination of wilds and wild luck. 
Full Article Here

Caesars Indiana lost $487,000 because of a switch? in one of their slot machines. Customers who were playing at the machine noticed that when you put in money it would multiply it not by 2 but by 10. If you put in $20 it would read that you put in $200. Then people withdrew the [...]