November 28th, 2008 / Posted by suicidalsam in Bingo, General
Internet Bingo
It’s the party season – but while all the normal attractions of office parties and schmoozing are as popular as ever – online bingo is doing its best to offer the newest and most affordable social fest of them all………
Chat and make friends
Just like the glitziest of seasonal parties, online bingo parlours look pretty flash – and are the perfect place to socialise and make friends. Thanks to free chat windows – you can instantly find like minded people to become your virtual social life – or even hook up with your existing mates. Online social networking is all the rage and has serious fashion kudos – so it’s no wonder the game is now very en vogue among trendy people up and down the country!
Party time with bonus games
The festive period is most definitely party time – and online bingo is always in the mood, with a slick range of bonus chat games. The interactive games are seriously wacky – with classic pub quiz themes, card games and other fun head scratchers. To qualify for bonus bingo games, you simply need to play a few daily normal bingo games.
Day time chill out
There are numerous ways to enjoy bingo – but playing the game for a morning reviver is one of the most popular – with thousands of regular gamers putting a smile on their faces with a quick gossip and cuppa with their new online friends. Whether you sneak a game during a work break, or reward yourself after the house work – bingo is always there when you need a little pick me up!
Night time bingo buzz
With the onset of the ‘credit crunch’ – many people have cut back on going out and enjoying themselves. The good news is that online bingo has become the place t be after dark – as thousand of people log-on and enjoy hours of fun, games and chat – from 5 pence per ticket! You’re sure to find a friendly party vibe 24/7, and getting the going out buzz fro pennies at home, makes bingo the coolest option for winter 08/09. What’s more - you could end up getting lucky and scooping a huge bingo jackpot worth tens of thousands!
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November 26th, 2008 / Posted by suicidalsam in General, Online Poker, Poker
Texas Holdem poker game is played both as cash game and tournament game. These two games follow different strategies.
Cash games - before invention of tournaments most of the players used to play poker for real money. They used to bet actual currency or chips which represented currency on the hands. These games which feature actual money on individual hands are called as ring games or cash games. In Texas Holdem most of the players play no-limit or fixed-limit cash games. The strategies followed in these two games are entirely different. In the no-limit game players find it difficult to gear down for limit, while limit players lack in courage and feel necessity of limit to excel. In limit games size of bets are restricted, they do not allow people to bluff. Most of small stake games involve more players in each hand and vary from extremely passive position (less raising and betting) to extremely aggressive position(high raising).
Tournaments - Texas Holdem can also be played as tournament. Poker tournament is not played with currency; it is played with chips (representing currency). In standard play all players have to “buy-in” fixed amount of money and start the game. The play proceeds until one player has accumulated all the chips and the money is distributed to players based on the place they finished in tournament. Most of the times in tournaments only 10% of players receive money and others are left without anything. Playing tournament is entirely different from cash game. The strategy followed by this game varies widely depending upon chips a player has, amount of chips others have, the tournament, playing styles of opponents. Some of the proficient players recommend beginners to follow tight playing strategy while other players recommend following loose playing strategy. In loose playing strategy players should play more hands. In these tournament games the binds and antes increase regularly and sometimes reach to their maximum at the end of tournament. Sometimes players make mistakes at the end of tournament; they play more hands at the end when compared to the beginning. This leads to severe loss at the end.
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November 20th, 2008 / Posted by suicidalsam in General, Online Poker, Poker
Most of the professional Holdem gamers prefer tight-aggressive approach. In this strategy each player plays relatively few hands (tight) and places bets and raises them aggressively. The position where a player sits is important; it helps him in achieving more benefits from the game. Especially in a no-limit Texas Holdem game players who act at a later stage have more advantage than those who act before. This implies that players play fewer hands from early positions than later positions.
Position is Power
Position is the place where a player is sitting in relation to the dealer’s button. This position is quite important for any player; it can help him in winning or loosing the game. The position plays an important role because of the fact that Texas Holdem follows Clockwise betting strategy. This position helps a player to decide and know the moves of the opponents. It will help him to choose any one of bet, raise, fold or call. There are many positions in accordance to the dealer button; these positions decide the performance of the player and his winning chance. Before knowing about positions, players should understand some technical terms.
“Dealer” or “Dealer Button” or “Button” is the best possible position, player in the dealers seat will be last person to act on the flop, turn and river. “Under the Gun” is the first player who takes action in the hand. This player will be to the left of big blind. This position is the worst position in Texas Holdem Game but this player will have better position pre-flop compared to blinds. “Big Blind” is the player to the left of the small blind. “Small Blind” is the player who is left to the dealer button. “Cut off” is the player who sits right to the button. This position is called as cut off because the player sitting here usually “cuts off” the dealer ability to steal blinds by placing bets.
- The small blind has the worst position after the flop. He has to invest half of the bet.
- The big blind invests the whole bet and similarly has a poor position.
- The player who is under the gun has worst position pre-flop. At a later stage he has junk position.
- The best position during any round is the dealer button
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November 13th, 2008 / Posted by suicidalsam in General, Online Poker, Poker
Game limit determines the betting structure of the game. High limit games are those which involve more money. Low limit games are quite opposite to high limit games. There are basically five limits in poker game namely Fixed Limit, Spread Limit, Pot Limit, Half-Pot Limit and No Limit.
Structured Limit or Fixed Limit- as the name suggests the bet of this game is fixed or set. These games are generally called as $1/$2 or $20/$40. Here the bets which are placed at initial stages at the time of flop or pre-flop are the starting digits. For example if the game follows $5/$10 strategy then the initial stage minimum bet is $5. At the time of turn and river this amount doubles. $10 is the amount placed when the turn card is dealt. In Texas Holdem poker each player can place maximum of four bets in each round i.e. he can bet, re-raise it again, re-raised and be re-raised again.
- Spread Limit- This is the stage where players can bet within certain range. For example in a $1-$5 game, player can bet between $1 and $5 during the betting round. Some times there are four amounts like $1-$5-$10-$10, that means each player can bet between $1 and $5 for pre-flop and flop. When the turn occur the betting goes up to the third number i.e. $1-$10. At the time of river the bet goes up to the last number i.e. $1-$10.
- Pot Limit- This is a stage where player can place bets on any amount between the costs of big blind and size of pot. Sometimes few games have pot limit like “$1/$2 pot limit”, at this point the minimum bet players can place should be larger than those two amounts i.e. the amount placed by the player should be greater than $2. In pot limit, first player is allowed to place bet 3 or 4 times. This bet should be greater then the size of the pot.
- Half-Pot Limit- this limit is popular in Europe. Here the strategy is similar to pot limit except that a player can bet amount which is between cost of big blind and which is up to half of the pot size.
- No Limit- here the players can place bets on any amount between the cost of big blind and minimum amount a player has to have at the table. For example if a game has no limit of “$3/$6” they do not show any impact on the bets placed by the player. Only thing is the player’s minimum bet should be larger of those two numbers.
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October 27th, 2008 / Posted by suicidalsam in General, Online Poker, Poker
Series of Steps Followed While Playing Texas Holdem Poker Game
The betting structure in this game varies, some times antes are used and some times the game starts with two players to the left of the dealer. These players place predetermined amount of money before the game starts. This event is called as posting the blinds. Once the bets are placed dealer shuffles up 52(Standard deck) playing cards. At this movement each player is dealt two face down cards, these two cards are called as hole or pocket cards. Once players have two cards in their hand next round begins. In this round players place their bets. First bet is placed by the player who sits left of the two players who posted the blinds. This round is called as pre-flop.
- Betting structure depends on the game an individual is playing.
- While placing bets, players can raise, bet, call or fold.
- Once the betting round ends, dealer discards top card of the deck. This card is called as burn card. This card is discarded to prevent cheating by players.
- Once the highest rank card is discarded, dealer flips the next three cards on the table. These cards are dealt face up and are called as the flop. These three cards are communal cards and can be used by any player in combination with their two pocket cards, for forming a poker hand.
- After the flop another betting round starts. This time the bet is placed by the player who sits to the left of the dealer.
- Once the betting ends, dealer burns another card and flips one card on the table. This card is called as turn card; this card can be used by players to form their five card poker hand.
- Again the betting starts, this time with the player who is left to the dealer. At this stage the betting’s get doubled.
- Finally in the last stage dealer burns a card and flips one more card on the table. This card is called as river. Once the card is placed players can use combination of any of those five cards on the table and two pocket cards to form the best five card hand. Here the final betting round takes place starting with the player left to the dealer.
- After this betting all players begin to reveal their hands. It starts with the player who is left to the last player to call. This event is called as showdown. Players use the whole combination of these seven cards and make the best five cards hand.
- The player who shows the best hand is declared as the winner, some times tie occurs between the players, at this time the dealer comes in and flips one more card on the table and checks the card combination of those players. Player with highest ranking card is finally declared as winner at this place.
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October 15th, 2008 / Posted by suicidalsam in General, Poker
Introduction to Texas Holdem Poker
Most of us are interested in playing casino games; one among them which is most popular is Texas Holdem Poker. This game is entirely different from games like Omaha Poker and 7 Card Stud. It’s quite simple and provides better opportunities for beginners. Few hours of practice will make players learn this game efficiently and helps them in playing it easily. Texas Holdem is popular in countries like North America and Europe. Texas Holdem is called as community card game where each player uses any one combination of the five community cards and two hole cards to make a poker hand. Some times other poker variants like stud or draw also occur in this game. In these variations each player holds a separate individual hand.
Objective of Texas Holdem Poker
The main goal or objective of winning players of pot is not to win the individual hand but rather make correct decisions regarding the raise, fold, call, bet. This game is quite similar to other poker games, where players compete for an amount of money contributed by players themselves. This money is called as pot. This money is controlled based on the card dealt by every player. If the player thinks that he will be having the winning hand, he will raise his bets. Texas Holdem is divided into series of hands or deals: at the end of each hand the pot is awarded to the winner. Sometimes the hand ends at the time of showdown. At this movement hands of each player are compared and the one who makes the best five cards hand is declared as the winner and finally awarded with the pot. Most of the times only one player wins the pot but at times more than one player hold equal hand. This stage is called as tie. If a player makes proper decisions on these four things, he will be able to play the game for long duration and win large amount.
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October 3rd, 2008 / Posted by suicidalsam in General, Roulette
Following the best strategy will help a player in winning this Roulette game. There are three variants of this game. Like French, European and American. Among all these European is said to be the best and more fetching.
- First of all a player should go for a single-zero Roulette wheel. When he goes to this wheel he has less chance of loosing the game. Always players should choose a roulette wheel which has fewer pockets.
- Put the chips over the 1-12 section of the table- this can help a player to win the game easily. Player should start their increments from $1-$6. They should not go beyond this amount while playing this game.
- Player should not place the whole amount in one single bet. Player should start placing their bets with the small amount and reach the top position soon.
- French and European roulettes have single zero wheel. This roulette contains 37 pockets. American roulette contains 38 pockets. Playing on a European roulette can be more useful and good fetching when compared to American roulette.
- Understand the house edge- every player should understand the house edge. House edge means: the chances a house has to win over the player. For example if a player chooses his bet on the zero then his expected payout is 35:1. Here the odds of winning are only 37:1. This means that each time a player places his bet the house chance of winning is 37 times. Players should always choose those numbers which though have less payout have great chance to win. For example if a player chooses odds or even number then his chance of winning the game is 1.11:1 that is he can win the game most of the time. There are other possible chances in online roulette like players can place their bets on those numbers which are in corners.
- Safest bet- most of the professionals say that the safe among all bets is placing a even money outside bet on European roulette wheel. This bet was proved to be the best one through few mathematical calculations. This bet provides best chance for the player to win the game.
- Don’t believe in streaks- player should not believe in opponent’s words. Some of them say that the ball landed on red for 20 times and next time when the ball is moved it will land on red. This strategy is totally wrong player should not get into those ideas.
- Player should set their bank roll in advance- when players set their bank roll they should play till it ends. When it ends then player should not start again but should quit from the game.
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September 28th, 2008 / Posted by suicidalsam in General, Roulette
Working roulette strategy will allow a player to reach top position and win maximum from the roulette game. There are many valuable points which can make him win the game easily.
- First thing he should do is pick the best roulette table from those that are available. Always a player who wishes to win the game should prefer European table. The problem with American table is they have best house edge. This is nothing but an extra 00 on the table. This makes odds in favor of dealer when compared to the player. It was known from a analysis that American tables have 5.4% edge over the opponent. However, European tables have only 2.7% edge over the opponent.
- People should follow Martingale system. In this system players raise their bets and double it when they loose their first chance. Sometimes this idea is good and can bring huge gains but it has its own disadvantages too. It’s always good for player to stick to a constant amount all through the game. This strategy is not the overall one to be followed but this is the one which can guide player in making more money.
- Other strategy which can help players is Andrucci Roulette Strategy. This was invented by famous mathematician Andrucci. This strategy is based on the concept called “ordered chaos”. This strategy says that there will be at least one single number which comes for every 18 times. Place this bet at 18th time on that number and you will definitely win. To put this system into action player should scroll to the live roulette stat feature and instead of ignoring the numbers with lot of wins they should bet on them.
- One other roulette strategy being used by most of the player is D’Alembert Roulette System. This strategy aims to take advantage over winning chance of the player. People who use this system will be able to bet on even money and reduce the stakes by 50%. This helps them to double the bet before loosing the game.
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September 21st, 2008 / Posted by suicidalsam in General, Roulette
There are totally 49 bets which can be placed on Roulette wheel. These bets are classified as inside bets and outside bets. Inside bets are those which can be placed on the numbers of the wheel. There are 38 inside bets which can be placed and 11 of them are called as outside bets.
Outside Bets
- Dozens- in this strategy player places chips on any one or all dozen sections. These sections are signified as 1st 12, 2nd 12 etc. These numbers imply that user is placing his bets on set of 12 numbers. First 12 consist of all numbers between one and 12. Second twelve start from 13 through 24. Third twelve numbers start from 25 and move through thirty six. People who win in this game will receive payout in 1:2 ratios.
- Even- even money strategy players place their bets on any one of the slots that say high, love, odd, even, red or black. In this game the prize will be the same amount that was bet by the player. Even betting means players say that the ball falls on any one of high, odd, black, red, low numbers.
- Column betting- in this betting player will bet on one of the columns. A player who wins the column will be paid in 1:2 ratios.
- Single betting strategy allows a player to bet on one single number. In this strategy the player will earn money in the ratio 35:1.
- Split betting- in this strategy players can place bets on the lines between them. Their pay will be around 17:1.
- Trio betting- in this technique players should bet on three numbers at their intersecting point. The pay off here will be 11 to 1.
- Corner betting- in this strategy players can bet on four numbers at their intersection point. Pay off of this technique is less when compare to 3 point intersection. Here the pay is 8 to1.
- Four numbers- in these betting players can bet on four numbers. For example he can place bet on 0, 1, 2 and 3. Pay off is 8 to 1.
- Street- in this betting player can put their bet at the end of the row. Here players can place their bets on three numbers of the row. Pay off is 11:1.
- High or low- in this betting a player can place his bet on the box which is marked with numbers from 1 to 18(low) or he can place his bet on the box which is marked from 19 to 36(high). Pay off here is 1:1.
- Line betting- in this strategy a player can put bets on two streets of numbers. He can put the bet at the end of both rows and line between both the rows. Pay off is less for this strategy its 5:1.
- Red or black- this betting is exclusively used by most of the players. Here zero does not count and the winner gets 1:1 payout.
- Odd or even- the player bets that the ball stops on an even or odd number. He wins if his wish comes true. Pay off is 1:1.
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September 18th, 2008 / Posted by suicidalsam in General, Roulette
A single spin of the wheel constitutes the game of roulette. Here player should place the bets on the roulette board. This board allows him to place bets on a single number or group of numbers. There are two important terms to be understood in online roulette, they are En Prison and Orphans, High Bet, Low Bet.
- Orphan is the one which indicates that a bet has been placed on three numbers which are in a row on roulette wheel. It also says that these bets are not placed side by side.
- En Prison indicates the player to leave the table with money he has won.
- High Bet refers to placing players own money on the numbers between 19 and 36.
- Low Bet refers to placing of bets on any number between 1 and 18.
Number Sequence of a Roulette Wheel
the pockets of roulette wheels are numbers from 1 to 36. These numbers have red and black colors. Green color is used for 0. In American roulette 00 is used for representing the extra house edge. This is green in color.
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