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Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Qiu Qiu Online Hold’em

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October 16, 2021

Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Qiu Qiu Online Hold’em

Until this book was written, the best advice on playing Texas Hold’em in Pot Limit or No Limit games was the section from Doyle Brunson’s epic, Super System. Since the writing of Super System the state of the art in poker writing has advanced considerably. There certainly remained a lot to be said about “the Cadillac of poker games”.

J. Cloutier, who has been competing in big time poker events for the better part of two decades, has impeccable credentials as an expert in pot-limit and no-limit Texas Hold’em. The question is, will his expertise translate into a good book? This was especially of concern because although his collaborator, Tom McEvoy, has been one of the most successful tournament poker players in the last 20 years, his book, Tournament Poker was a mediocre offering at best, offering few, if any, significant new insights into being a successful tournament poker player.

I’m happy to say, that these fears turn out to be unfounded. This book was written clearly, as a spoken exposition by Cloutier. The topics in this book are well organized and carefully spelled out. All aspects of the play in these poker games, with a special emphasis on tournament play, are covered. More importantly, there is a significant amount of information here that has never before seen print.

Cloutier goes through how to play starting hands in various positions in detail, covers having various hands on the flop, turn and river. He discusses carefully how to get a read on one’s opponent, the skill Cloutier believes most critical in winning these games. This is a difficult topic to discuss, reading players is much more instinct than science, but he does a respectable job of it.

There are two chapters specifically devoted to Qiu Qiu Online tournament play, a very good set of practice hands with commentary by Cloutier, and the book concludes with a set of tales from Cloutier’s colorful life.

I like this book quite a bit, but it is by no means perfect. First, charging $39.95 for 206 pages of paper bound content seems a little steep to me. While one could rightly argue that if this book saves you just one bet at a game of these limits, or moves you up one money place in a medium sized tournament, you’ve recovered this money, it’s out of line with what I expect from books in general.

My second complaint, with which it may be fair for the author to take issue with me, is that I get the sensation that the author is holding back a bit. There are several places, where Cloutier does a good job of explaining what one can expect in situations, except that one has a feeling that the author was almost ready to continue with an “… except in these cases…” or “… but watch out for …” but didn’t.

This has been a point of a great deal of soul searching by poker writers for years and can be found in Super System and Ray Zee’s introduction to Texas Hold’em for Advanced Players among other places. However, the sense I’ve gotten from Brunson, David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth is that after a great deal of soul searching, they decided to “damn the torpedos” and bare all to the poker public. I don’t get the same sense from Cloutier. Again, this is merely my impression. I’d be very interested in hearing how the author answered this question, very diplomatically worded, of course.

Nonetheless, this book represents the current best information in print on pot-limit and no-limit Hold’em. If you are a beginner or intermediate Hold’em player interested in pot-limit or no-limit ring games or tournaments, don’t be afraid of this book’s price tag.

Capsule:

Unless you’re a big money winner of pot-limit and no-limit Texas Hold’em games, this book will provide enough useful information to more than justify its cost. While not perfect, this book represents the best information publically available on how to play and win in these games.

So You Want to be a ป๊อกเด้ง ไฮโล Dealer?

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So You Want to be a ป๊อกเด้ง ไฮโล Dealer?

Well now you’ve been dealing poker for awhile, and you are getting your own dealing personality. What else could you expect? That’s funny, cause whatever you expect, expect much more. You will never see all of it, but it will be there. I myself dealt for 2 months and then left town for personal reasons. I didn’t get to see it all, but in those 2 months, I saw alot! Dealing live is so much more complex than dealing tourneys. In tourneys, nothing really matters. The limits go up, and you deal till it’s over. In live however, We’re talking serious stuff.

Every player seems more concerned about who is not playing, or who missed a blind. Oh, and who rivered me, and who plays that crud in certain positions. It’s endless! As a dealer, you have to set yourself aside from those things, and get on with running the game.

Make sure the blinds are in, and make sure you talk the ป๊อกเด้ง ไฮโล game, and everything should be fine. That is such a lie! If you show you know what you are doing, you might be okay. But if you show ANY sign of weakness, the players will eat your lunch!

I myself didn’t take long to adjust, but in the beginning, I was toast.

Also, get to know all the rules in all situations, so that when you need supervisor assistance, you will be ready to tell the full story of what went down. Know your floor help and your players. Hopefully your floor help will back you up. As for the players, their gripes are always the same. Same person, same gripe! If you have any poker playing skills, this will help in the long run. You will know how to handle any situation, and the job will become much more fun to go to. I can’t imagine ever dealing any other game now.

Well, I’ve covered mostly all you will need to get started in the poker industry. May you’ll enjoy it as much as I have and will, cause I just moved back to Vegas, and I’m ready to deal some poker!

PLAY GOOD!

“Tunica World Poker Finals Offers Tremendous Potential for Players”

By Andrew N.S. Glazer

When I first heard that the hugely successful Tunica World Poker Open would be going head to head with the equally well-received Reno Hilton World Poker Challenge in January, 2002-the dates for the two events are virtually identical-I felt, like most members of the major poker tournament scene, greatly disappointed.

After all, there are seven great tournaments in the U.S. each year, and here we had two of them now operating it total competition with one another, making it impossible for the big time tournament players to attend both.

What could have caused this, I wondered? Management at both events is top flight. Why should one tournament try to hurt the other and almost certainly hurt itself? Had this become some sort of poker “pissing contest?”

It turns out that none of those preliminary judgments or guesses were even remotely correct: some unfortunate timing, and some completely benign decisions by management, left the two tournaments facing one another.

I’ll get to those reasons in a moment, but I soon realized that this overlap created an opportunity for the mid-level tournament player to score in a prestigious event, because the top hundred players in the world can’t be in two places at one time, and that means that even though the fields in both tournaments will be tough, they can’t possibly be as tough as they would be if they each held their own space.

In other words, if you’re a good but not great tournament player, the overlap that so dismays the poker elite may just provide you with the opportunity of a poker lifetime. Ditto for the average tournament player who is hoping for that one big score.

OK, so that’s the good news. How did the situation come to pass, and what can players expect to see in Tunica?

Originally, the World Poker Open was the creation of Jack Binion, a poker legend who for so many years ran poker’s Holy Grail, the World Series of Poker. When Jack and sister Becky had a parting of the ways, Becky retained control of the Las Vegas Binion’s Horseshoe, and Jack opened his own Horseshoe in Tunica, Mississippi.

The first two World Poker Opens were roaring successes by almost any definition. Although I chose not to attend either (more on that in a moment-it’s important), I heard nothing but absolutely spectacular reports about not merely the events, but about all the little (and not so little) things that help make a poker tournament successful:

Awesome side action, with thirty to forty round the clock games at any limit you could imagine, with plenty of players who seemed willing to mix it up (One fairly famous and reliable poker friend of mine told me she had never won as much in side action as she had at the first WPO, and she hadn’t even felt that she’d gotten so many great cards).

Great rooms at great prices ($29 for rooms throughout the tournament, including the weekends).

Incredible food (not that the average poker player has high gastronomical standards) served with expected southern hospitality.

Now, I could excuse myself for missing an event like this the first time around, because the WPO was, after all, a new tournament, and even with Jack Binion’s name behind it, I couldn’t be sure what it would be like, and Tunica is a long way from LA.

The second time around, though, I passed on Tunica because the World Series of Poker had backed up its starting time to within a week of Tunica’s finish (the first year, there was a two week separation). Knowing that I planned to spend a month in Las Vegas covering the WSOP, the thought of three weeks in Tunica with almost no turnaround time seemed a bit much to me, if I planned on having any kind of a life outside poker for those two months.

For 2002, Jack Binion faced a dual dilemma. There were rumors, unclear at the time but still credible, that the WSOP was going to continue to expand its schedule and move its starting time closer to the Tunica finish. If a one-week turnaround was going to be tough for people who don’t devote their lives to poker (and that’s a description that applies to most participants in both events), no turnaround time figured to be devastating to the WPO.

Second, the Las Vegas Club starting talking about running its own tournament during the exact same period, and even though the LVC event wouldn’t be as big as the WPO, a simultaneous event was going to cause problems for Horseshoe poker room manager Ken Lambert.

“We’ve always had problems getting enough quality dealers to come to Tunica,” Lambert told me. “We’ve made it, but not with much margin to spare. For an event of this magnitude, you want the very best, and a lot of the very best dealers are in Las Vegas. Unless we put together some sort of incredible financial package, we felt it would be difficult to lure dealers out of Las Vegas to come to Tunica.”

The final piece of the difficult puzzle was set when the Horseshoe and neighboring property The Gold Strike went searching for a time slot when they could offer poker players the inexpensive rooms they like so much. The event is too large for either hotel to manage individually and so it is run as a collaborative effort. This doesn’t cause any problems for the players because, as Lambert told me, “the two buildings are so close that you’d have to walk really slow to get wet if it were raining.” For those of you interested in less colloquial measures of distance, it’s about 50 yards.

The two facilities wanted to set aside roughly 850 rooms for the event, and only have 1,600 rooms to start with (as of this writing, with nearly six weeks to go before the event, more than 500 rooms have been reserved at the $29 rate). Of course, the Reno Hilton doesn’t exactly come up short in this department either: they offer $25 rooms for the duration of the WPC!

As a result, Binion, Tournament Director Jim Albrecht (himself a WSOP legend), and Tournament Coordinator Jack McClelland, along with Lambert, decided to do something they didn’t want to do: go head to head with a tournament they like and whose management they respect. McClelland is certainly tournament poker’s all-time greatest director, but you’d be hard pressed to find anyone else you’d consider putting ahead of Reno’s Dave Lamb.

“It’s a real shame,” Binion told me. “We certainly weren’t trying to damage Reno. I think it’s important for poker tournaments to try to cooperate with one another, and try to build up poker overall, rather than fighting over what action there is. But we got boxed in by room availability. Players weren’t going to want to shuttle in from hotels 20 miles away.”

Even though Binion wasn’t anxious to get into “we’re better because…” kinds of statements, he was willing to talk about what he thinks makes the Tunica event the great tournament that it is.

“Number one, I would have to say, is our side action,” Binion said. “People are really surprised at how good the action is in the south, especially in the higher limit games.”

Lambert’s experience also provides a good reason to come to Tunica. Lambert has been more or less following Binion around since he was 16 years old and got a job as a busboy at the downtown Las Vegas Hilton. He later moved into Security when he turned 21, but had always had his eyes on poker, when he would deliver room service orders to poker players and noted the thick bundles of cash.

Lambert left Binion briefly when the Mirage poker room opened, staring as a brush and working his way up to assistant shift manager in three years. But when Jack Binion called him in September 1994, he headed to Mississippi to run Binion’s poker room there.”

“I’d thought about holding a big tournament at the Shoe almost from the day I got there,” Lambert said, “but I realized that for the kind of tournament I wanted to run, one that would really put Southern poker on the map, we needed a partner, and I worked on the Gold Strike folks for about a year, convincing them that we had a real winning situation, combining Jack’s name with the marvelous Gold Strike facility.”

“Once we had the Gold Strike convinced of the possibilities, I called up Jim Albrecht, who was semi-retired, and Jack McClelland, who was completely retired, and all of a sudden we had us a real all-star line-up of tournament professionals.”

As to the overlap with the Reno Hilton, I wasn’t surprised to hear Lambert echo Binion’s sentiments.

“It was never personal,” Lambert said. “I even called (Hilton poker room Manager) Mike Gainey to see if there was some way they could switch. We were just already in trouble with the WSOP only one week away-30% of our players were leaving early, because most players have families, jobs, or other responsibilities and just can’t drop off the face of the earth to play poker for two months straight. I hope Reno does well also.”

For Reno to do well (and having attended that event last year and having loved it, this won’t be hard for them to do), they will have to offer side action that matches up with Tunica.

“We run all the action in the 30-60 games and above at the Gold Strike,” Lambert said, “and that includes a lot of pot-limit. Usually you can find pot-limit Omaha with 5-5 blinds, 10-25 blinds, and more often than not, games as big as 200-400 blinds too. We spread some pretty big limit games, too. We had $1,000-$2,000 Lowball last year.”

“The smaller games,” Lambert continued, “we run over at the Horseshoe, but I wouldn’t even call those ‘small.’ We’ve had as many as eight 20-40 games going on simultaneously over there. If you want to play some serious money poker, you don’t ever have to go near the tournament room to an action-packed three weeks.”

From my talks with people who have played both events, it sounds like if you want lots of options at the lower and middle limits, Reno might be the right choice, and if you want lots of options at the high-middle and higher limits, Tunica sounds like the right destination.

Both events will be non-smoking this year. In Tunica, all of the tournaments, and all of the action at 30-60 and above, will be at the completely non-smoking Gold Strike. The smoking situation at the smaller games over at the Horseshoe isn’t quite as clear. There will be non-smoking tables, but you should be prepared for some second-hand smoke in the Horseshoe side games.

As far as the tournaments themselves, if you’re looking to play a little higher, Tunica is probably the better choice, while if you’re on a bit of a budget, Reno makes more sense.

Tunica will offer one $300 event with rebuys, nine $500 buy-in events, five $1,000 buy-in events, $2,000 events in Limit Hold’em and No-Limit Hold’em, and a $10,000 Championship event (for which they are guaranteeing a million dollar prize pool).

In Reno, you can select from among eight $300 events (one with a rebuy), six $500 events (two with rebuys), four $1,000 events (one with rebuys), and a $5,000 Championship event.

If you’re one of those folks who holds a strong opinion for or against Tex’s Tears 50% blind increase structure, you’ll find that in Reno (although WSOP payout structure will be used), while in Tunica you’ll find a the more traditional WSOP-style blind structure and payouts, not surprising considering that McClelland is running the show.

“I think we’ll give the players a lot of action for their buy-ins,” McClelland said. “We’ll be using 50 minute rounds in the early events, hour rounds in the later events, and of course two-hour rounds for the four day championship event.”

How can you tell when a ligaz888 machine is due to hit?

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How can you tell when a ligaz888 machine is due to hit?

A word that should not be in any slot player’s vocabulary is “due.” No machine is ever “due.” The RNG constantly cycles and conceivably could pay out two top awards in the space of two pulls, and then not pay another for years.

The only way to even get an idea about individual machines is to “scout” them over an extended period of time. Keep mental (or even written) notes about which machines you and other players seem to win on again and again. Those machines that pay out consistently will be the ones on which to concentrate your play. No, it’s not an exact science, but even a little information can go a long way.

Betting on sports is one of the casinos’ greatest entertainment values, and it doesn’t have to be as intimidating as you might think

Want a bargain? I mean a real, honest-to-goodness, bona fide betting bargain? There aren’t many of them, but one activity in the casino qualifies absolutely.

It’s sports betting.

Casinos ligaz888 prosper because they provide what most consider an equitable exchange of entertainment for expectation, a fair balance between fun and fee. But a true bargain for the recreational gambler? That’s asking a lot. If a game is going a little too easy on the gamblers, the casinos will attempt to nudge up the take. This can be done by changing the odds, changing the payoffs, or raising the limits. But in most cases they’ll opt, instead, to increase the speed of playautomatic blackjack shufflers, multi-race keno, and horror or horrors video Caribbean Stud are prime examples. But this doesn’t work against sports bettors. How do you speed up the Packers/Giants game?

In 1991, I wrote a guest column for USA Today. The premise of my article was that gambling is a form of entertainment and that nowhere is this more apparent than in sports betting. I wrote:

Even the smallest bet can turn an otherwise dull sporting contest into a riveting energy-charged experience that’s guaranteed to get your adrenaline pumping. Has your spouse been complaining about your game-day preoccupation? Try going partners on a $10 bet and see if you perceive a change in attitude.

I wasn’t kidding. Sports betting is a blast. But it’s more than just excitingit really is a legitimate bargain. Your expected loss on a typical $11 football wager is about 50 cents. Divide that by the three hours it takes to play a game and you wind up with an expected loss of 17 cents per hour. You’ll pay 25 times that rate just to go to a movie, 50 times if there are two of you. And when’s the last time you came out of a movie theater with more money than you had when you went in? I’d go so far as to say that sports betting is one of the best entertainment values in the world.

The basic sports wagers come in two forms: ãpoint spreadsä (for football and basketball) and ãmoney linesä (for baseball and boxing). But first, let’s take a look at how you’ll go about ãgetting down,ä as they say in the sports betting biz.

Betting and Collecting

ãWhoa, what does all that mean?ä might be the thought that flashes through your mind when you first set eyes on one of the NASA-esque betting boards in the bigger books. Don’t panic. Sports betting is a little like craps, somewhat confusing and intimidating at first, but actually quite simple when you stick to the basic wagers. In sports, this means the ãstraightä bets on ãsidesä (teams) or ãtotalsä (scores). Not only are these the easiest wagers to understand, they’re also the best from an odds standpoint. Let’s walk through the mechanics of making these bets. Here are the preliminaries:

When you’re ready to place a bet, walk up to a sports book window manned by a sports book writer. Tell the writer what you want to bet (you’ll use numbers, as you’ll see below), and give him the amount of the wager. He’ll give you a ticket with your bet printed on it. Check the ticket for accuracy, then put it in a safe place; it’s your receipt to collect if your bet wins. Understand that a betting ticket is a ãbearer instrument,ä meaning that if you misplace it, it’s cashable by anyone who finds it.

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If your bet loses, you can throw the ticket away or add it to your collection (I know players who’ve wallpapered their bedrooms with losing tickets). If it wins, you’ll be paid the amount of your winnings (which depends on the wager, if there are odds involved, etc.), plus the amount of your original bet. An $11 football winner, for example, returns $21the $10 you win plus the $11 you bet. Don’t go back to the writer to collect. During regular sports book hours, a cashier window is open to pay winners. If it’s after hours, you can usually cash your ticket at the regular casino cage.

You usually have 60 days to cash winning tickets, after which time they become void. Read the back of the ticket to be suresome specify 30 or 90 days. You can also redeem winners by mail (instructions for doing so are also printed on the back of the ticket).

Football and basketball straight bets are made against the point spread. Wagers are made in increments of $11 to win $10, and most casinos will accept bets of $5.50 to win $5. Always take care to bet in units of $11 ($11, $22, $110, etc.). Casinos will accept any wager and usually pay to the nickel, but you’ll look like a goob if you bet an amount that results in an uneven payoff.

All that’s left for you to learn now is how to decipher the information on the betting board. The quick primer that follows will show you how it’s done.

1003 St. Louis Rams 41-1/2

1004 Chicago Bears -5

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This ãlineä provides all the information you need to place a wager. The team listed second is the home team. An easy way to remember this is to think, top city at bottom city. In the football example, St. Louis is playing at Chicago.

Chicago is the favorite, listed at minus 5 points. This means that you give up (ãlayä) 5 points when you bet on the Bears. For you to win this bet, the Bears must not only beat the Rams, they must beat them by more than 5 points.

Often, there’s no number after the underdog, but the relationship is symmetrical. When you bet the Rams, you get (ãtakeä) 5 points. You win your bet when the Rams win the game or if they lose by less than five. With a final score of Bears 30 – Rams 28, a wager on the Rams would win because the Bears did not ãcoverä the 5-point ãspread.ä

The ãtotalä is the number on the right (41-1/2). This is a separate bet on whether the combined points scored by both teams will go over or under the posted number. In the case of a 30-28 score, a bet that the total would be over 41-1/2 points would win.

Use the numbers preceding the team names to make your bet. Tell the ticket writer the number of the team you want to bet, and the amount you are betting. Example: ãNumber 1004 for $11ä means you’re betting $11 on St. Louis +5 (taking five points). If you bet a total, give him the number of either team and specify either ãoverä or ãunderä the total. If you don’t see a number in front of the team name, check the time (the sports book is about the only place in the casino that you’ll see a clock in plain view). The game has probably already begun and it’s too late to wager.

Other particulars:

If the score were to end Bears 33 – Rams 28, the bet would be a tie (ãpushä). A tie is a tie; all money is refunded.

Points scored in overtime always apply to the final outcome.

If you see the designation PK instead of a number (-5 in our example), there’s no favorite, and therefore no point spread. The game is called a ãpick.ä If your team wins, you win your bet regardless of the margin of victory. You still must bet $11 to win $10 on the team of your choice.

The minus symbol is sometimes dropped. If you see a line posted with a number and no minus sign, mentally insert the minus symbol in front of the number. The team with the number beside it is always the favorite.

The whole point-spread process is the same for basketball.

If you’re betting for the first time, walk into any sports book and try it out mentally. Scan the teams on the board; you should be able to figure out the terms for betting any team up there. When you feel comfortable, walk up with your money and you’re in business.

If you don’t quite get your courage up by game time, or are just late getting there, you’ll have a second chance if you wait until halftime (of football games). All the books now put up halftime lines on sides and totals.

Money Lines

Baseball and boxing are bet differently than football and basketball. For these sports, a money line is used and a point spread doesn’t apply. The money line handicaps the chances of either team (or fighter) winning the contest outright. You simply have to choose the winning team to win your bet.

In money-line betting, you don’t put up $11 to win $10 as you do in point spreads. The amount you bet is determined by whether you take the underdog or the favorite and by the odds on the favorite.

A money line for a baseball game might look like this.

409 Minnesota Twins Radke +120

410 Baltimore Orioles Musina -130

The Twins are the underdog, denoted by the ã+ä sign. You wager $100 to win $120 (since the underdog is not expected to win, you get paid more when it does). You can bet more or less than $100 and you’ll be paid at the same ratio, e.g., $10 to win $12. Again, it’s convenient (and it’s considered slick) to size your bets so that payoffs will be in round numbers. To do this, just remember to bet in increments of $10 when betting the underdog. If you want to calculate the payoffs on winners, you’ll have to compare your wager to the ratio designated by the line. In this example, $10 returns $12, $20 returns $24, $450 returns $540, etc.

You say you want an easy formula? (I knew you’d say that.) Move the decimal point in the line two places to the left (+120 becomes +1.20) and multiply by the amount of the wager. Example: $450 X 1.20 = $540. Your original wager will also be returned with your winnings when you cash your ticket.

The Orioles are the favorite, denoted by the ã-ä sign. You must wager $130 to win $100 (since the favorite is expected to win, you wager more than you get back). Again, you can bet more or less than $130. To size bets for even payoffs on favorites, divide the line by 10 (if it ends in zero, just drop the zero), and make your wager a multiple of that number-in this case, $13, $26, $221, etc. Winning bets win $10 times the multiple that you chose$13 wins $10, $26 wins $20, $221 wins $170. To calculate the amount you win for any bet on a favorite, move the decimal point in the line two places to the left again, but instead of multiplying, as you did for the underdog, here you divide the amount of the wager by that number. Example: $221/1.3 = $170. Your original wager will be returned with your winnings when you cash your ticket.

Other particulars:

Again, the team listed second (Orioles) is the home team.

Pitchers are so important in baseball that each team’s scheduled starting pitcher is listed.

The numbers preceding the team names should be used to make your bet.

An over/under (runs scored) line is also posted here. It’s connected to its own money line.

Unless you specify otherwise, you’ll have ãteam action,ä meaning that your bet stands even if one or both starting pitchers is changed before game time.

You might see a money line for almost any contest, including football and basketball. In the football example we used above, the money line might appear as:

Rams +180

Bears -200

The same information applies. If you take St. Louis, you bet $10 to win $18. If you take Chicago, you put up $20 to win $10.

Boxing lines work essentially the same way, though they tend to look different due to greater disparities between the abilities of fighters. A boxing line might look something like this:

Tyson -700

Holyfield +600

The formulas I gave you above still work. You can bet $10 on Holyfield to win $60, or $70 on Tyson to win $10.

Hockey

So this guy calls his bookie on Saturday and bets 12 college football games. At day’s end, he wins 1 and loses 11. On Sunday he calls again, bets the full slate of pro football games, and goes 2 and 12. Monday comes and he calls again. ãGimme the Raiders and over.ä The game comes Jets and under. Finally on Tuesday he calls his bookie and says ãI need action. Whatcha got today?ä The bookie responds, ãWell, football’s over until next weekend, but there’s a hockey game tonight.ä The gambler thinks for a minute and says, ãHockey? I don’t know anything about hockey.ä

For a long time, no one seemed to know anything about hockey. But now the game is gaining in popularity and you’re much more likely to find a line. Hockey lines are strange because they often combine a money line and a point spread (goals scored). Here’s an example:

Rangers +1-1/2 +110

Calgary -1-1/2 -150

Here, you can take the Rangers with 1-1/2 goals and get $110 for every $100 you bet. Or you can lay Calgary giving up 1-1/2 goals and betting $150 to win $100. If you really want to bet hockey, find a writer who’s sitting idle and ask him to go over it with you.

The standard bet-$11-to-win-$10 football betting proposition gives the casino a 4.5 percent advantage. Casino sports books sometimes run promotions that allow you to bet less than this standard -110 price. The Las Vegas Hilton, Flamingo Hilton and Las Vegas Club offered -105 during restricted periods this year, which reduced the edge to -2.4 percent.

The casino advantage on money lines is a function of the spread between the prices. In the -130/+120 example, the spread is 10. This difference is referred to as 10 cents, and this is known as a ãdime line.ä The casino advantage with this dime line hovers around 2 percent. Some sports books post wider spreads like -130/+115 (15 cent line) or -130/+110 (20 cent line). The casino edge goes up as the difference widens. From time to time, you might find a casino that deals a nickel line, i.e., -120/+115. The casino’s edge on a nickel line is only about 1 percent. This is one of the best gambles you’ll find anywhere. A $10 wager buys you three hours of action for a total expected loss of about 10 cents.

Other Bets

There are other bets you can make in a sports book. Among them are parlays, teasers, propositions and futures. All offer worse odds for the casual better than the straight bets we’ve already discussed.

Parlays A parlay is a linking of more than one bet on a single wager. Any number of different teams from two to five (sometimes as many as seven) can be combined. The more teams you combine, the higher the payoff when they win. For example, a typical two-team parlay pays 13-5, while a three-teamer pays 6-1. All teams in the parlay must win for the ticket to pay. Gamblers like parlays because they can win a lot for a little, but you’re almost always better off mathematically betting the teams you like individually.

Teasers Teasers are parlays in which you’re allowed to add or subtract points in the line. This increases the probability of winning, but there’s a corresponding decrease in payoffs. A typical two-team, 6-point teaser pays 10-11; a three-teamer pays 8-5. Note that both parlays and teasers can be made ãoff the board,ä which means combining teams that are listed in the manner discussed throughout this article. Alternatively, you can bet them from a list of games on pre-printed ãcards.ä Parlay and teaser cards tend to be even worse bets for players than parlays off the board.

Futures A future bet is a bet made far in advance, usually on the eventual champion in a sport, such as the winner of the Super Bowl or the World Series. Futures have a high house edge, but they’re decent when you factor in the entertainment value; a small wager provides months of action.

Propositions ãPropsä are the wild bets you see listed in abundance during events like the Super Bowl. Which team scores first? Which quarterback with throw the most TDs? Props are usually bet in a money-line format and, as such, aren’t too bad if the spread between the favorite and underdog price isn’t too great.

Pari-Mutuel

Remember what I said about the bookies not being able to raise their take on sports? Well, that wasn’t altogether accurate. A movement is afoot to convert sports betting to a pari-mutuel activity. In a pari-mutuel, all the money bet on a particular contest goes into a pool. The bookie then cuts out a percentage and the remainder is divvied up among the bettors. Pari-mutuel sports betting would almost certainly result in a house advantage greater than the current 4.5 percent. The market will ultimately decide the fate of this idea.

Best Books

Is one book better than another for making your bets? Usually. But I can’t tell you which right now. The book that’s best for you will be the one that offers the best line on the game you want to bet. If you like the Packers, and the Horseshoe has Green Bay -9 while the Fremont has them -10, you’d do better to place your bet at the Horseshoe where you have to lay one point less. This is called line shopping, by the way, and it’s about the most powerful strategy a casual sports bettor can implement.

Once you’ve made your bet, you’ll want to watch the game for maximum enjoyment, and watching in a Las Vegas sports book enhances the overall experience.

Three casinos boast facilities referred to as ãsuper booksä: The Mirage, Caesars Palace and the Las Vegas Hilton. These places attract the biggest action and offer the most amenities (multiple viewing screens, plenty of seats, speedy cocktail service). Several casinos offer ãbig booksä (a step below super). They include: Stardust, MGM Grand, Imperial Palace, Circus Circus, Excalibur, Luxor, Golden Nugget, Horseshoe, Bally’s, Palace Station, Boulder Station, Texas Station, Santa Fe, Fiesta, Sam’s Town, Rio, Orleans and Gold Coast. The latter nine have a distinctly local flavor. Dozens of other casinos have smaller sports books, many of them part of the far-flung Leroy’s chain.

Sports books are great places to hang out. They run promotions, sell hot dogs and beer, and generally do whatever it takes to make their venue as exciting as possible. As I mentioned earlier, sports books are the only places in the casinos with clocks. When I need to know what time it is, I head for the casino’s book. They also have something else I like: Pens. Sports books always have free pens. The next time you’re in a casino and find yourself in immediate need of a writing utensil, you’ll know where to go.

Top Gambling Tips

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3 for the general punter and 3 for the advanced methodical gambler:

Tips for the general punter

Whatever your gambling activity, below are my three best gambling tips for the general punter or bettor, in order of importance that I consider essential in your quest for success. The result of over 30 years’ gambling experience.

Call them punter tips, gambling tips or golden rules. Stick to them and you will probably be a winner, stay a winner and enjoy gambling for a long time to come with no pain and no regrets.

1st tip: Gamble money you can afford to lose. If you need the money, don’t gamble.

2nd tip: Gamble half of what you are willing to risk. This way, if you don’t win, you will give yourself a second chance, another day.

3rd tip: Don’t be greedy; if you lose what you have just won, you are.

Tips for the methodical gambler

If you bet methodically or want to devise your own betting system, then these are my three best gambling tips:

1st tip: Employ this ‘one-way’ winning strategy: Start with minimal bets. When winning, intensify the betting progressively as you win risking only a calculated portion of your wins. Put NO limit to winnings as long as profit is progressing.

2nd tip: Set your target profit levels backwards. It is easier to fulfil a target level backwards (as profit recedes) than forward. The danger of forward profit targeting is that you can get close to it, never quite make it, and then lose the lot. Backward profit level targeting is more suitable on low risk/win ratio betting systems; that is, you risk a little to win a lot but you win fewer times. Therefore when devising your system you should aim to win more money with fewer bets and in fewer winning rounds, hands or cues. Positive progression betting is one way to achieve that. This is usually a more efficient way to bet and gives you more flexibility in managing your winnings.

3rd tip: Approach gambling realistically. You cannot force a winning outcome and don’t expect to win every time. Decide on a plan that lets you play in sessions or intervals, closing each session once certain criteria are met, and don’t aim to win each one of them. Remember, what matters is the overall net profit result.

Gambling Don’t

Gambling don’t: What not to do

Don’t be afraid to bet. If you are not up to it, don’t gamble.

Don’t try to impress people by betting more than you can afford.

Don’t drink and gamble.

Don’t gamble if you feel tired.

Don’t increase your bets to try to recover losses.

Don’t take your check book, ATM card, credit or debit card to the casino.

Don’t be greedy; if you lose what you have just won, you are.

Don’t gamble more than your set limit.

Don’t stay beyond what you have set out to do.

Never quit after a win.

When you win a lot, don’t think it’s easy. It may feel that way but it never is.

Don’t bet more than you can afford especially on a new 인터넷바둑이 game or a game that you don’t know all the rules of.

Don’t lose your winnings. Leave when you are up. For example; if up $50, leave. There is a $100 difference if you then lost and were down $50.

Don’t always go for the home run…remember…the tortoise always wins the race.

Don’t play scared. If your bankroll has gotten too low for your approach, walk away with what’s left.

Just be smart. Let common sense take over, don’t think with your money, think with your mind.

In horse racing, don’t bet in every race. You can’t beat the system. Pick and choose your bets for the day after careful reasoning and stick to your bets.

Don’t play without a system, any system! Unless you play for fun.

As a beginner, don’t try to master all the games at first, learn how to play well 1 or 2 games…

Nevada Takes Small Step for Togel Online Gambling

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Nevada Takes Small Step for Togel Online Gambling

But Virtgame, which created the technology, touts it as a giant leap for Net sports betting.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board took a small step toward legalizing online gambling this week with its approval of technology that will allow sports wagering via modem.

On Thursday, the board approved the technology, created by Virtgame of San Diego, Calif. But it still must approve related software that ties into the sport book’s system, said Dennis Neilander, a Gaming Control Board commissioner. That approval is likely next week and will be followed by a 30-day field trial, he said.

Through an agreement with Virtgame, Coast Resorts plans to offer 24-hour betting on sports games to Nevada residents. On its Web site, Virtgame called its agreement with Coast Resorts, which owns four casinos in Las Vegas, “a landmark in the evolution of legalized online gaming.”

“For the first time we are offering regulators a viable solution for the online gaming boom, in a legal and controlled way,” the company said. Virtgame officials could not be reached to comment.

But Neilander disputed media reports that Virtgame’s technology would create the first online gambling system approved for operation in the U.S. “It’s just an extension of telephone betting,” he said. “It doesn’t involve the Internet at all.”

Instead, the bettor will use a personal computer, modem and browser to directly call and place a bet with Coast Resorts. Even before that, the patron will have to register in person with Coast Resorts, show proof of Nevada residency and age, and put down a cash deposit. In addition to such in-person registration, Virtgame’s technology will determine whether the telephone call is coming from a Nevada telephone, Neilander said.

Online gambling remains a legal gray area, with most of the Togel sites operating outside the U.S. States are currently charged with regulating gambling and laws vary widely. Sports wagering is only legal in the state of Nevada and to a limited degree in Oregon. Nevada sports books handled legal wagers totaling $2.3 billion in 1998. Illegal sports betting nationally ranges from $80 billion to as much as $380 billion each year, according to estimates in the National Gambling Impact Study Commission report.

Things To Do Before You Gamble Online

Each week Steve Adkins reports on the good, the bad, and the ugly in the online gambling scene. WINNERonline welcomes feedback on Adkins’ remarks from both players and casinos. Send your comments to pitboss@winneronline.com. Your comments may be published.

Internet gambling can be as fun and exciting as a real casino. Instead of waiting for your lucky machine, you can just log on and play.

While this multibillion dollar industry grows at a substantial rate, it does remain non-regulated. The industry depends solely on self-regulation.

Before whipping out your gold Visa card there are a few things that you should know first. When looking for an online casino to play, I recommend that you follow the ten points below. (Of course, the very first thing you should do is join the Online Players Association. Get details at www.onlineplayersassociation.com.)

Is the casino licensed by a sovereign government? If no, find another casino.

Does the casino have a toll free customer service number that is answered 24 hours a day? If no, find another casino.

Do they allow you to play for free? This is very important: it gives you the chance to check out their software before you spend any money. If they do not, find another casino.

What is the smallest denomination of their poker and slot machines? You’re looking for a wide variety of denominations, such as nickels, quarters, dollars and five-dollar machines.

How many different versions of video poker do they have? You’re looking for at least three. That tells you that the operator has spent a lot of money on the software. Beware of those casinos that tell you they only have one version of video poker.

What is the smallest and largest bet that they accept on craps or blackjack? This is mainly for your own betting information.

Does the casino have a place where they keep track of your purchases and cashouts?

How is the customer service? There’s an easy way to test this: Send them an email with a question and see how long it takes them to reply.

What is the reputation of the software maker involved in the casino? There is no sense in gambling online if you do not know how you will collect your winnings.

Make sure you read all the rules on bonuses and cashing out procedures. Do your homework before you gamble online, not after.

Before you wager one dime, call the casino’s toll free customer service number and ask the following question, “If I buy in with my credit card for $100 but cash out $300, how will I get paid?”

Beware of those casinos that tell you they will send you a check. Be sure to ask how long it takes. Most casinos that send checks take up to 4 weeks. That is unacceptable unless the site clearly states the time frame for receiving your money!

The only answer that you are looking for is that they will, within 3 days, credit back your credit card up to the original amount of purchase, then give you an option of mailing you a check overnight or doing a wire transfer into your account.

If you use these very basic common sense methods of checking out a casino it will save you a lot of problems in the end. And it would even cut down on the number of complaints that I receive on a daily basis. Don’t just give your credit card number to the first casino you find. Please use your brain when picking a casino.

New Licensees, Products Pave Way for Thaibet Growth

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New Licensees, Products Pave Way for Thaibet Growth

Toronto — CryptoLogic Inc., a leading software supplier to the Internet gaming and e-commerce industries, is pleased to announce the following licensee- and product-related developments:

Ritz Interactive Chooses CryptoLogic Software;

Dukes Entertainment Chooses CryptoLogic Software And Enters Into Preferred

Advertising Agreement With FreeLotto;

Sports.com Casino Goes Live;

Littlewoodscasino.com To Go Live In May; and,

New CryptoLogic Bingo Product To Go Live In May.

“CryptoLogic’s strategy is to drive profitable growth by focusing on brand-name licensees operating in Tier-one regulated jurisdictions. Right now, this means Europe,” said Jean Noelting, CryptoLogic’s President and CEO, “and the signing of Ritz Interactive and Dukes Entertainment, the launch of Sports.com and the pending launch of Littlewoodscasino.com are prime examples of this strategy in action. As a result, we expect to return to growth in the second half of the year.”

“Our goal is for 50% of licensee revenue to be generated in non-U.S. markets by the end of 2002 through a combination of organic growth and the addition of four top-tier licensees,” Noelting said. “I’m very pleased that, within the first half of the year, an already solid base of licensees has been further strengthened through the addition of three highly-regarded organizations which we expect will very quickly make an impact on the European Internet gaming marketplace.”

Ritz Interactive Chooses CryptoLogic Software

Ritz Interactive Ltd. has chosen CryptoLogic software to bring The Ritz Club, one of the world’s most exclusive privately-owned gaming clubs, on-line.

An exclusive members-only club located in London’s historic Ritz Hotel, The Ritz Club appeals to the true connoisseur of luxury and elegance. The Ritz Club’s online casino will carry the same cachet, and a highly customized slate of games will mirror those offered to members in the London casino. Roulette, blackjack, punto banco and casino stud poker will all be available any time, online.

Ritz Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Ritz Club established to pursue online, wireless and interactive television-related gaming activity, was recently awarded one of three online casino licenses in Alderney, a Tier-one regulatory environment with controls on par with those adhered to by land-based casinos.

Dukes Entertainment Chooses CryptoLogic Software And Enters Into Preferred Advertising Agreement With FreeLotto

Dukes Entertainment N.V., through its Dukesgaming.com website, will offer CryptoLogic’s full slate of downloadable and Java casino Thaibet games to players around the globe. Fully regulated and licensed in Curacao, Dukesgaming.com will provide players secure online gaming with a friendly and fun atmosphere. Dukesgaming.com is scheduled for launch in the second quarter.

In support of its international strategy, Dukesgaming.com has entered into a long-term advertising agreement with PlasmaNet, Inc. PlasmaNet operates FreeLotto.com, the leading multilingual sweepstakes provider online. This agreement gives Dukesgaming.com access to FreeLotto.com’s 24 million registered and qualified players worldwide. The most trusted sweepstakes site on the web, FreeLotto.com boasts over 5.7 million unique users and 1.6 billion page views per month.

Dukes Entertainment N.V., incorporated in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dukes Partnership, an Isle of Man Partnership.

PlasmaNet, Inc. is a leader in the online data mining and product promotion industry. FreeLotto.com originated the online lottery format sweepstakes, and thus far has awarded over $34 million in prizes, including one $10 million winner and eleven $1 million winners.

Sports.com Casino Goes Live

CryptoLogic is pleased to announce that the Sports.com Casino is now fully-launched and ready for the start of football’s World Cup in June.

Sports.com is the first licensee site to initially go live with CryptoLogic’s recently launched suite of Java-based casino games. A downloadable casino version is currently in development. Based in Curacao, the Sports.com Casino is fully functional for play and payouts in British pounds sterling.

Sports.com is one of the largest Internet sports brands and sports content providers in the world. Published in five languages, Sports.com has the highest traffic digital network for sports information and betting in Europe with over 4 million audited unique users via the Internet and wireless devices. Regulated and operating in the U.K., Sports.com’s sportsbook provides its global users an online sports wagering service as a natural complement to its real-time, live and comprehensive sports coverage.

Sports.com is a primary sports content provider to some of the world’s best-known online news sites in the U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Ireland including Yahoo, AOL, MSN and Lycos, and supplies news and results to more than 30 newspapers in the U.K. Strong financial partners such as Soros Private Equity Partners, IMG, Reuters and Goldman Sachs have supported Sports.com’s broad reaching success.

Littlewoodscasino.com To Go Live In May

CryptoLogic is pleased to confirm that software compliance testing is now in its final phase, and that Littlewoodscasino.com will go live on the Isle of Man in May as one of the first Tier-one regulated gaming sites on the Internet.

Littlewoods Leisure is one of the best-known gaming organizations in the U.K., providing football pools, sports betting and lotteries to more than 1.6 million households per week. Littlewoodscasino.com will offer 30 single- and multi-player casino games with British pound sterling play and payouts.

With a highly trusted brand name and large customer base, and the added benefit of operating from the Isle of Man under some of the most stringent regulations currently in place for Internet gaming, Littlewoods has a tremendous opportunity to quickly become a leading player in the rapidly growing Internet gaming marketplace.

Littlewoods Leisure is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sportech Plc., a U.K. company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Founded in 1923 as Littlewoods Pools, Littlewoods gaming products are distributed via telephone, the Internet, 15,000 retail shops and 13,000 door-to-door collectors.

New CryptoLogic Bingo Product To Go Live In May

CryptoLogic’s leading-edge downloadable Bingo product will go live with its first licensee, InterBingo, on May 23, 2002. Discussions with other well-known brand-name licensees are underway.

Emulating the traditional 75-number Bingo game played in Bingo halls around the world, CryptoLogic Bingo offers five play-for-money halls and one play-for fun hall, with themes customizable to the preference of each licensee.

Backed by the Company’s proven technological excellence, CryptoLogic Bingo offers all the features of a live bingo hall and more, including a Card Minder option to help players keep track of their card strips, and AutoDab, which allows the computer to dab players’ cards for them.

The addition of bingo is the next phase in CryptoLogic’s market driven product strategy designed to enable licensees to tap into a wide range of vertical gaming opportunities to create profitable Internet businesses with broad appeal.

Choose Your Situs Judi Bola Paradise at Kiwi Casino

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September 30, 2021

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Choose Your Situs Judi Bola Paradise at Kiwi Casino

Kiwi Casino is following up their highly successful Adventure Getaway giveaway with another special offer for players. Kiwi’s Choose Your Paradise Escape Competition, which begins tomorrow (July 20), offers one lucky player and a companion the chance to win an exciting holiday in New Zealand.

The contest winner will be able to choose from three paradise escapes: Spa Decadence, Adrenaline Heaven, and South Seas Cruising.

The Spa Decadence escape is a weeklong stay at the Hanmer Springs thermal resort on New Zealand’s South Island. The lucky guests will be able to relax in the thermal pools and receive special beauty treatments at the spa.

Evening activities can include trips to the city of Christchurch, where the Togel winners can gamble at Christchurch Casino or stroll through the city’s beautiful downtown gardens. This getaway package also includes a car rental.

The Adrenaline Heaven package offers a slightly different type of Kiwi holiday, and as it sounds, this isn’t for the faint of heart. The adventure tour begins in Queenstown, which is also on the South Island. Queenstown is known at the adventure capital of New Zealand, so this is a fitting starting point for the Adrenaline Heaven holiday.

Contestants who chose this holiday will stay at Gardens Park Royal, one of the city’s premier hotels, before they take off for their adventures. Activities will include a jet-boat ride on the Shotover Jet, a 440″ bungy jump from The Nevis Highwire, a helicopter flight of the area, and a whitewater rafting trip down the Shotover River.

The final treat in this adventure is a five-course meal at the Skyline Restaurant, located in the hills above Queenstown.

The final getaway option is a little more sedate. The South Seas Cruise offers two days of cruising around world-famous Milford Sound. The ship anchors in Harrison Cove during the evening, and people have the opportunity to explore the scenic coastline in kayaks.

Guests will stay at The Gardens Park Royal Hotel when they return to shore, and will have a chance to tour the region’s wineries, play a little golf, and try their hand at fly-fishing in local rivers. The package also includes the choice of either a helicopter trip or car rental.

All players need to do to enter the Choose Your Paradise contest is place a bet at Kiwi Casino. Every $10 wagered puts them into the draw to win, and the more players wager, the better their odds of winning. The lucky winner will be drawn October 15, 2001.

Go to Kiwi Casino for more details.

Big Winner at New Progressive Slot

Internet Wire – Jackpot Madness announces that Suzanne G, a prison worker and grandmother of 2, is the first-ever jackpot winner on Treasure Nile.

Launched less than a week ago, Treasure Nile, the Internet’s first 5-reel 9-line progressive slot, has already paid out a substantial jackpot to its first winner.

Suzanne G. won a $105,248.06 jackpot playing the new game at the Lucky Nugget Casino. “I was ecstatic! I jumped up and down and started running and screaming. I told my family and all my friends … I screamed it to the world,” Suzanne remarked. “I really enjoy Treasure Nile, as there are so many different lines to play on. This is the first time I won and only about the seventh time I have ever played online and I plan on playing a lot more!”

Treasure Nile, the Egyptian-themed progressive, is the newest addition to the Jackpot Madness family. Featuring five reels, the unprecedented nine-slot progressive is already popular among online gaming enthusiasts, as witnessed by the rapidly escalating jackpot totals.

Treasure Nile accumulates deposits from players on the Treasure Nile slots at all participating casinos, creating constant, unmatched jackpots. Powered by Microgaming’s trusted software, Treasure Nile is also backed by PlayCheck which enables players to obtain a complete history of their game play for up to 7 days after they have finished playing.

“We are very pleased with the immediate success of Treasure Nile, as it has already become the hottest slot to hit the Internet. At this rate, we are expecting the average jackpot to reach well over $100,000.” said Marilyn Glazier, Director of Public Relations for Jackpotmadness.com.

“Treasure Nile is the largest slot available online today, and we are anticipating it will appeal greatly to serious slot players who are looking for massive jackpots and frequent payouts. When we developed the game, we were looking to create the largest and most exciting slot, and as evidenced by the attention it is drawing, we have already succeeded.

We are looking forward to seeing more players win huge jackpots, and we want to take this opportunity to thank Suzanne and wish her the very best of luck in all her endeavors.”

Vegas VS The Web: an 8 Keluaran Sgpround bout.

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Vegas VS The Web: an 8 Keluaran Sgpround bout.

Ladies and Gentlemen. In this corner, in gold trunks, weighing in at about 300 billion a year we have the heavy-weight champion of the gambling world … Las Vegas! And in the opposite corner, in the virtual trunks, weighing in at under 5 billion a year we have our contender, the World Wide Web! It’s our feature bout tonight, Ladies and Gentleman, an eight round contest.

Atmosphere:

Vegas. From the old-school feel of Ceasar’s Palace to the grandeur of the MGM, the kitchy canals at the Venetian to the get-stabbed-in-washroom feel of the seedier downtown spots. You name it, Vegas is the smorgasbord of atmosphere.

Web. Aside from the basic sound and graphics of the casino games — which, admittedly can be pretty good — the rest is up to you. Feel like redecorating?

Gaming experience:

Vegas. Great! If you’re a player who loves to watch your dealer or the other players, Vegas has your thing in spades. Hope you don’t mind cigarette smoke and spilled drinks though.

Web. You’re sitting at home so what you do and how you do it is your business. Use the strategy tables, count the cards, whatever. No one is going to say boo! And with the latest multi-player games we’re starting to get pretty close to that up-close-and-personal feeling online too.

Hang-ups and hassles:

Vegas. Lineups, spilled drinks, and no seats in the bar are about as bad as it gets. Until you head for the buffet that is and then it’s every punter for themselves.

Web. The casino is always open, no lineups, no hassles from the other folks at the table (generally speaking) and what happens at your “bar” is your business. Just be sure you follow the cash-out rules to the letter or payments can get seriously bogged down.

Entertainment value:

Vegas. Woo hoo! Glitz and glamor, some great food, beautiful Keluaran Sgppeople and awesome drop-in firing ranges. Vegas has got it all! Ever fired a Thompson? You should.

Web. Well the graphics on this latest release looks pretty good…

Payouts:

Vegas. Cashing out couldn’t be simpler: you walk over to the cash cage, wait for the nice lady to hand you a stack of bills and you head for the bar to celebrate. Voila!

Web. Cashing out online is a little different. If you request a check it’ll usually arrive in 1-4 weeks depending on the casino. Or a wire will make it through in a few days if you’re willing to pay the surcharge.

Odds:

Vegas. Good to bloody awful depending on your game, but things are fairly standardized and that makes it easy to research your game, know your odds and head out to play.

Web. Often better than Vegas, but Web games are not even close to being consistent between casinos. On the Web the smart player keeps a close watch on their game for rule and/or payout changes.

Registration:

Vegas. What registration? Maybe for the comps but that’s about it. Vegas is all about gambling anonymously.

Web. Registration is mandatory, no way around it. And to cash out you may have to fork over your driver’s licence, bank info, whatever. It’s no fun but that’s just the way it is online.

Perks:

Vegas. Free drinks are just the beginning. Comps for meals, rooms, entertainment and even travel can really make that trip to Vegas worthwhile. Be warned though: there’s a lot of other punters out there asking for the same goodies you are.

Web. The sign-up bonuses are as good as it gets, much better than Vegas. Some casinos reward their high-rollers through their VIP programs but it’s not very common.

A Judi Domino Online Race that never ends

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A Judi Domino Online Race that never ends

Chris Hughton’s dismissal from Norwich City yesterday was the ninth sacking in the Premier League this season.

Eight of the twenty teams have fired their managers since the campaign began last August, Fulham have pulled the trigger twice (on Martin Jol and Rene Meulensteen) and the result is a tableau of carnage with only six clubs employing the same coach they had in 2012.

Three of the top ten longest-serving managers currently working in the top flight were appointed as recently as last summer: Mark Hughes, Roberto Martinez and Jose Mourinho.

It is unlikely any more heads will roll before the end of the season, but expect another round of blood-letting in the summer. Last year five new Premier League bosses were appointed during the close season.

Despite the incessant opprobrium heaped upon Arsene Wenger, Spurs’ Tim Sherwood is the bookies’ favourite to be pushed next, followed by West Brom’s Pepe Mel and Newcastle’s Alan Pardew.

The merry-go-round is revolving so fast, the rewards of top-flight survival so high and the desperation of directors to avoid relegation so painful that at least half of the coaching roles on offer must be, as Graham Taylor said of England, impossible jobs.

If Michael Laudrup could bring Swansea their first major trophy and a host of admiring suitors but then be shown the door less than a year later following one win in ten, nobody is safe.

A fear of relegation is of course not the only reason for dismissal: Andre Vilas-Boas was booted out by Spurs with the team in seventh and having won eight out of sixteen matches.

A lust for short-term success militates against the sort of long-term judi domino online planning the best teams have benefited from, leaving the hapless managers in Catch-22 positions, with no job security and an ever-present fear of the boot after a run of duff scorelines. Forget that new youth policy, the psychologist, advanced conditioning and new playing style you had in mind when you took the job, we need to get the ball into the box or I am out of a job on Monday.

Give him time is the perennial mayday call for managers in trouble, but since no-one can specify how long is enough, directors tend to plump for the fear factor, shift the blame and wield the knife. If Fulham go down this season, the owners can always blame it on Martin Jol instead of the mid-season upheaval his abrupt departure and the hasty appointing of his inexperienced assistant brought.

As of today, the bottom seven teams in the Premier League have all fired their managers this season, which makes Norwich’s move with five games to go look like a clueless card, a last-ditch throw of the dice, or what they aptly call in American Football, a ‘Hail Mary.’

God help us indeed.

Queen’s Club Judi Bola Casino – Review

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September 15, 2021

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Queen’s Club Casino is one of Boss Media’s latest offerings, with the same beautiful 3D-rendered graphics that you’ve come to expect from them, combined with high-quality multiplayer games and tremendous support services.

Boss Media’s multiplayer software has proven itself to be in a class of its own – no muss and fuss with clunky avatars or silly wasted time walking to various rooms just to play a game. If I wanted to walk into a room I would go to Las Vegas… not with Boss Media – if you want to chat with others you simply type in the box below – and you have the ability to make rooms private if you wish!

Also known as Queen’s Club at Judi Bola Monte Carlo, this casino provides the usual selection of Boss Media games – blackjack, jacks or better video poker, roulette, slots, progressive slots, baccarat – all with the highest quality of graphics available in any online casino today.

Following my usual pattern, I tried out blackjack – which seemingly plays more fairly than the other blackjack games I have played anywhere else. No wondering how the dealer managed to snatch a 21 out of nowhere when you had 20… no sudden losses when you raised your bet or doubled down… everything played just as I would expect it to at the tables in Vegas. I made a few bucks here and decided to proceed on to some of the other games.

Jacks or better video poker has lately become one of my favorite games, as it provides an opportunity to hit a large win for a small investment, yet at good casinos provides a very low house advantage. I did okay here too but it was apparent that, while the royal flush pays 5000, the regular hands pay less, and that probably would have hurt me had I played for the long run. So what the heck, off to the next game.

Being a recent convert to the world of progressive slots, I headed on over to the progressive slot banks, sat down and – this is one of the good things here – chose which denomination I wished to play for. Cheap Charlie here decided to play the quarter slots because, after all, the objective was to review the game and the casino, not break the bank.

I found the progressive slot machines to be reasonable – never hit anything remotely big, and even when the bonus screens came up I always won the smallest or next smallest of the five payouts available. But I did manage to make my money last quite a while here, and I have heard that some friends have nothing but the most incredible runs of luck playing these machines – wish it would happen to me sometime!

Roulette? Ok, why not – just for the heck of it, I played once, betting 1-18, even, red, 14. Came up 21 – aw shucks! Didn’t win a single bet but I’m sure the game is quite fair, and the graphic layout easy to use. Beware, though – this roulette table does not take quarters… $1 is the minimum bet.

By this time I was convinced that the games were quite good, so I headed off to play some normal slots before retiring… and my belief was reinforced as over a reasonable amount of time I broke even. Just didn’t stay long enough for the big payoff, I suppose…

Support at Queen’s Club is of a high standard – you can normally expect responses to your requests within a few hours. The payment system, like all Boss Media casinos, is processed by WebDollar (www.webdollar.com) and is very efficient – winnings usually credited within a few days. The check is the cheapest transaction – $1 to process – and seems to be the favored method of payment. I personally prefer ACH or wire transfers, so I hope one day these costs will be lowered as in fact they incur less overhead to process. Remember that you have to request a PIN by snail mail for cumulative deposits of more than $500, or any withdrawal – this is for your protection only, but being the impatient sort I hope that Webdollar comes up with a faster alternative soon. Wonder how much a telegram costs…

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