Casino Blog

These two games go hand in hand, and can be played simultaneously to great advantage. In online slots, you concentrate on reading the reels, looking up your combinations in the payout table and investing the record breaking jackpot. (more…)

Asians are said to prefer video poker before online slots. Online gamblers from other nations have other local preferences and a few games have even attained global popularity. That’s all fine and well, but I don’t really care. In my local corner of the world, the local preference was always with the Machine and you all know what I mean by that. (more…)

Once you have gotten passed the pure newbie stage of elimination blackjack, you will notice a number of interesting situations that occur time and time again. One of them is when an elimination hand approaches, you’re the second shortest stack, the shortest stack moves all-in in desperation, loses and busts out - before the elimination hand even started. (more…)

There’s a new conversation piece you need to be updated on next time you go to a fancy dinner party. You may have heard the buzz in the street, or seen it happen in front of your eyes on CBS. A select group of people have even tried it out, and your faithful Spinner is one of those. Elimination Blackjack – it certainly has something to be said for it. (more…)

It’s fascinating how luck can be either completely absent or raining down in showers. When we talked about the attraction of online slots in earlier blogs, maybe we forgot to mention a small, tiny factor that adds to the pleasure of playing – winning. (more…)

I woke up one morning in Vegas wearing a ring on my finger. Fragments of the day before were hidden in a merciful haze, others were lost completely. In a pocket I found a folded paper containing a blackjack strategy that I could have rattled off in my sleep. (more…)

Have you seen those pictures of people swimming in a pool while playing chess? The board is put up on a narrow table just above the water surface. The players and their audience (mostly older men) hang around with just their heads sticking up from the water. (more…)

The other day, we were involved in a game of online Baccarat. Baccarat is such a nice, classical card game. The banker may win a little more often than the player, but then again you are free to place your bet on the banker. (more…)

All serious gamblers have some method for handling the natural swings in their bankroll. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, there’s nothing you can do about that; but by setting limits for your losses and wins during a gambling session you can insure yourself against some common pitfalls in online gambling. (more…)

Online blackjack and online slots go hand in hand like a happy old couple. To the extent happy old couples still exist, that is. Or any old couples at all, for that matter. With today’s divorce rates not many couples are bound to grow old together. Then again, a lot of old people form new couples with other old people. I guess that’s a new species of old couple. But many of them choose not to live together, and maybe they don’t go hand in hand either. It’s so old-fashioned.

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Or, how $300,000 turned into $10 in half a second. There’s an increasing wealth of online slots variations to be discovered out there on the various Internet casinos. Through an evermore intriguing scheme of bonuses, jackpots, and game mechanisms, an endless voyage is fashioned for the explorer/gambler. It is discussed in the Kittie’s online slots blog. (more…)

Can I ask you something about blackjack? Last time I played a game of online blackjack, I managed to win around $50. I moved the money to a Pai Gow Poker table and although most of it was eventually gone, I had a long and plenty amusing time. (more…)

Spinner convinced me to write a few lines on my new hobby, playing online. He recommended me to start off with some online poker since he was afraid the other guys would make fun of me if I kept to my favorite casino game - roulette. (more…)

In online blackjack, the house has a small edge against you, but if you are playing towards a bonus you may turn the equation around and gain a certain edge against the house. Never mind that, with or without bonus online blackjack is a captivating game. Once you get into the habit of playing your basic strategy, standing, hitting or splitting depending on the situation, you find a nice and soothing flow of cards and chips, possibly together with a cultivated chat if you’re at a multiplayer table of online blackjack. (more…)

“I had cold cards”. Isn’t that the lamest excuse you can hear from poker players busting out of a tournament? Well, sometimes it may actually be the truth. Yesterday the weekly Wednesday tournament was played at the local casino. Since today is Thursday that shouldn’t surprise anyone. Tomorrow it’s Friday but that’s another story. (more…)

In the current online gambling frenzy, site security generally causes no problems. We deposit cash, play the games and withdraw whatever cash is left without much thought of any problems that might appear in the process. Nevertheless, problems surely are not an unthinkable phenomenon in connection with money transfers over the Internet to people you do not know. (more…)

I notice that the gigantesque jackpot at InterCasino is still up for the taking. At the time of writing the jackpot display reads $3,699,441. This would certainly pay more than just a few parking tickets, even I must admit that. (more…)

Casino tournaments have always exercised a special attraction on me. You’re no longer alone against the “edgy” house. You get to compete against your fellow citizen for a while. Nice change for a lone gambler.

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Okay, it was time to spend some time at the blackjack tables again. Since I’m a social animal I took a seat at the multiplayer blackjack tables at GoldenPalace.com. It’s nice having someone to chat with while you brood over your next smart move. (more…)

To tell you the truth, slots is not my strongest game. But, hey, how could anyone not play slots when there’s a record breaking jackpot sitting there waiting for a taker?! I just had to give the Millionaire’s Club a shot. I mean, the $3 million would pay at least half of my parking tickets.

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