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Important Factors to Consider in Poker Tournaments

Playing in tournaments demands that you think carefully about how you play, because tournament players are going to see mistakes and capitalise upon them. Fundamentally, you need to be controlled in all aspects of your play.In a tournament you can’t restock your chips, so you can’t throw caution, or chips, to the wind. You need all the chips to win, so if you’re throwing them away, you’re losing. However, this also means that you need to do more than just minimise your losses. If luck comes your way, then you have the chance to ride it, but if it doesn’t, you need to work with what you’ve got. Don’t forget that blind levels will increase as you progress either.

The biggest determining factor in competitive play is skill, so developing your skill will do more than anything to help you win.

Man Goes Out for Lunch, Comes Home with $425 Million

B. Raymond Buxton was queuing for a Sub for lunch and like a lot of people looked around while waiting. He saw lottery tickets were available and bought one for $2. His life got very interesting not long after because his numbers came up. All of them, giving him $425 million, a 21,249,999,900% return on his investment.

Whilst he’s worked to keep as much of himself private as possible, he intends to put a lot of this money into a foundation for child health, hunger, and education. If he’s able to make this work then countless children could get a great start in life because of him, a start they’d never get otherwise.

We should warn you though that a particular brand of sandwiches doesn’t guarantee winning hundreds of millions. As Buxton’s t-shirt said ‘Luck of the Jedi I have’.

 

 

Interesting Roulette Terminology

Like many other games and sports, roulette has a terminology all of its own. There are many websites out there that can help you with terminology, so here are some of the more interesting and unusual terms.

Biased Wheel: a wheel in which there isn’t an even chance of every number winning. This can lead to big wins as players grasp which numbers are most likely to win.

Racetrack bets: the racetrack is the area in front of the croupier, used for making bets on groups of numbers. These are also known as ‘call bets’.

Queen Theatre: in electronic or ‘touchbet’ roulette the players are arranged in two circles. The centre circle has 8 players while the surrounding second circle, the theatre, has 16 players.

Street bet: this is a bet on three numbers, which has a payoff of 11:1. This is also known as a ‘trio bet’.

Driver Stopped For Speeding Whilst Trying to Cash £30k Lottery Win

It isn’t easy to keep your cool when you realise you are a winner.

Young Scott Lowe, aged 22, was in a state of high excitement when he realised he’d won the equivalent of £30,000 on a Massachusetts State Lottery scratchcard. The only thing he had to do was to get to the lottery headquarters to claim his prize.

He was driving to collect his winnings when local Hingham police spotted him travelling well over the speed limit. Scott was pulled over and was visibly shaking as he blurted out the reason for his haste.

Officers must hear every excuse in the book for speeding and are usually very cynical. These agents of the law, however, had a sense of humour and let Scott go with just a warning about speeding. So, he not only wins a small fortune, he escapes paying a fine too. Lucky man indeed!

LES CROUPIERS NEWS – Our Slot machines now have a maximum jackpot of £10,000!

This. This right here is the news of the century. If you come on down to Les Croupiers, not only will you open yourself up to having an unforgettably good time with equally good company, but you also now have the chance to win a massive £10,000 on our slot machines!

What’s that? ‘I’m not lucky enough to win that much’ ‘I never win anything!’ In the great and apt words of Hockey playing legend, Wayne Gretzky, ‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take’.

When opportunity knocks, don’t shy away in the darkness, answer the door! And walk your way to ours. We hope to see you soon!

Casinos – A History

Gambling dates back as far as cavemen watching rain drops trickle down a cave wall but Casinos are far more modern. Taking the definition to mean a building specifically used for the purpose of gambling the first known example is found in Venice, Italy in 1638. There, the Ridotto was set up to provide a home for gambling during the Carnival Season. This is also where the name ‘casino’ came from, derived from the Italian ‘casa’ meaning house.

A taste for gambling spread to France where games of Baccarat and Roulette were invented which gave the House an edge and ensured the casino business prospered.

Oppressive legislation lead to more liberal neighbours supplying the demand for casinos and Monte Carlo took the lead in Europe while Nevada thanked the rest of the USA for its trade boom.

Helpful Crap Strategies

If you want to be a winning player at craps then you need to know the odds. The most favourable odds in Craps are the pass line bet and don’t pass line bet. With these bets the house has only a 1.41% advantage. To make these bets you must have already placed a minimum bet on the don’t pass line or pass line. Most casinos will also limit the amount that you can wager on these objects. Once you have an understanding of the different odds on offer, here are some specific strategies that you can use when playing craps:

The Classical Regression StrategyThis Craps strategy involves the following steps:Step one – First wait until the shooter has established a point before you make your bet.Step two – Once the point has been established you should place two units on both the 6 and the 8.

Step three – When a single hit occurs taken down the bet on the 6 and the 8 by one unit.

The Anything But 7 Strategy

The aim of the strategy is to win with anything other than a 7.

Step one – Wait until the shooter has established a point before you make your bet.

Step two – Once the point has been established you should place two units on the five, six and the eight.

Step three – Place a single unit on the field.

If none of this makes any sense to you we suggest reading our previous blog posts on the subject, which are much more broad and basic.

The History of the Casino Chip

The humble casino chip seems like such an important feature of the modern card table that it’s hard to imagine that they didn’t always exist. Early gamblers used whatever tokens came to hand, including sea shells, beans, bits of broken pottery and other improvised tokens. Of course, cash was a commonly used form of exchange. Gamblers in the Old West even used gold dust and gold nuggets to play with.

When the first casinos began to emerge in Europe in the 1800s, they used ivory, bone or clay tokens, sometimes circular or rectangular but also in the shape of animals or other images. To prevent counterfeiting, they began to mark them with the name of the casino.

The modern casino chip, made of a composite of clay and other materials, came into being in the 1880s. Distinctive, durable and affordable, they have remained the standard for casino visitors ever since.

Man Spends 20 Years and £80,000 on the World’s Biggest Scratchcard Collection

Most people buy a lottery ticket or a scratchcard in the hope of winning a big prize, but a Cheshire man has amassed a collection of 100,000 National Lottery scratchcards and, amazingly, 10,000 of the cards remain unscratched.

Dave Mannix, 42, collected the cards over twenty years and has spent £80,000 buying new and used cards. The collection contains almost every scratchcard released since 1994, when they were first introduced, and takes up an entire room in the house he shares with his partner Sue. Most of the unscratched cards have now expired, so Mr Mannix cannot collect any winnings.

Mr Mannix now hopes to sell the collection for £500,000, although he’s been told it could fetch up to £5 million. If he can find a willing buyer, it’ll turn out to have been a pretty tidy investment.

How to Deal With Gambling Addiction

It may sound like a cliché but the first step in dealing with a gambling addiction is admitting that you have a problem. While people who become addicted to drugs or alcohol are often easy to spot, problem gamblers routinely go unnoticed until their addiction has reached an advanced stage.

If you are having trouble controlling your gambling, borrowing money to place bets and hiding your activities from your loved ones, you are showing signs of addiction. No two problem gamblers are the same so a solution that works for one may not work for another. This means it is important to identify the underlying causes that lie behind the addiction.

Controlling a gambling problem takes enormous willpower, but it can be done. Many addicts find that group support or therapy sessions enormously useful in helping them adapt their behaviour and soon go on to lead happy, healthy lives with their gambling problems far behind them.