Poker How to host a home game By Kevin Bright
So youve decided you want to host a home game and battle the night out with your buddies, well how do you start? There are specific items for specific games here we will discuss the generalize needs as ...
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Gambling Comps 101 or The Ask Game By D. Ebert
Gambling Comps 101 or The Ask Game
I don't know who did it or when it happened, but someone shortened the word complimentary to comp and made it an industry standard.
In casino language, comps are cash or gi...
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How To Extend Your Stay & Play At A Casino By D. Ebert
How To Extend Your Stay & Play At A Casino
If you decided to build a new home, would you start construction without first developing a plan or blueprint? Or would you begin a new business without having a business plan?...
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The Truth Behind The Limits: What Minimum and Maximum Bets Are About By Bill Edge
Have you ever thought about the reason behind the existence of minimum and maximum bets? The truth is simple: casinos want your money. As simple as that. So they restrict your possibilities to win.
It was in 1654 that Antoine Chevalier ...
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Why All the Excitement Over Poker? By Tom Howze
Poker's new upsurge in popularity in is due to televised
showings of championship poker tournaments, such as The World
Poker Tour and The World Series of Poker. This has resulted in
millions of people all over the world playing either online or
...
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World Series of Poker Mania By Tom Howze
The popularity of the World Series of Poker gained tremendousmomentum from The Travel Channel's World Poker Tour showings. Although the event had been showing for a number of years on ESPN, when new technologies such as the table cam...
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Poker Online Freeroll Tournaments By Tom Howze
Poker online freeroll tournaments are a huge way to leverage a player's way into major tournaments and to win big money at no cost to the player. Casinos and poker rooms offer them to reward active players and to recruit new ones. Generally by p...
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Online Poker Gambling Sees Tremendous Growth By Tom Howze
Online poker gambling at casinos and poker rooms is one of the fastest growing forms of wagering on the Internet. Fueled by the televised tournaments seen on Travel Channel's World Poker Tour, ESPN with the 2004 World Series of Poker (WSOP), and...
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World Poker Tour -- The Beginning of a Phenomenon By Tom Howze
World Poker Tour high stakes poker tournaments started a revolution in the way the game is viewed, enjoyed, followed and played. Even though the World Series of Poker had been televised for years before the World Poker Tour (WPT), the game of po...
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Online Poker Tournaments -- Time to get aboard By Tom Howze
Online poker tournaments are skyrocketing in popularity due to reasons ranging from low buyins into major tournaments for a fraction of their usual cost to those who do not live within driving distance of a land based poker room. (And of course ...
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Craps World Record Holder to Appear at WCC - On May 23, 2009, Patricia DeMauro of New Jersey picked up the dice for only the second time in her life at the craps table at the Borgata Casino in...
Colorado Casinos Raising the Limits - When casinos opened in Colorado in 1991, the only games offered were slot machines, blackjack and poker. Gamblers were limited to making a maximum bet of five dollars on the...
Positive Progressive Systems - My friend Rich and I were playing craps the other day at the casino. We both bought in for the same amount but at the end of our playing session,...
Casino Companies Favor Online Gambling - Many years ago when online casinos started appearing on the Internet, the owners of the brick and mortar casinos spoke out vocally against them. They were in favor of legislation...
Hawaii Gamblers Have Taxing Problem - Hawaii does not have any casinos but that is not stopping the state from collecting revenue from gambling activities. A change in the tax code could net hundreds of thousands...
Leave the Credit Cards Home - I was at the casino this morning and when I was getting ready to leave I went to the casino cage to cash in my chips. They only had one...
Pennsylvania Proposes Adding Table Games - Pennsylvania got a taste of the easy money generated from gambling when it legalized slot casinos in the state in 2004. In the first 11 months of the current fiscal...
New Owner for AC Tropicana - More than a year after the New Jersey gaming regulators took control of the Tropicana, the troubled casino will finally get new owners. Last week Judge Judith Wizmur of the...
Community Slot Play - I remember years ago when the Internet was in its infancy. As people began logging on and spending more time "surfing the web," there were warnings that we could become...
An 18 Month Losing Streak - I received an e-mail from a reader who wrote:
I have done what I thought was virtually impossible: I have had 18 losing months in a row, playing baccarat, American Roulette,...