Casinos 2009 » Gambling online http://www.casinos2009.com online Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:28:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Online gambling industry facts http://www.casinos2009.com/gambling/online-gambling-industry-facts.html http://www.casinos2009.com/gambling/online-gambling-industry-facts.html#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:24:08 +0000 admin http://www.casinos2009.com/?p=1189 Online gambling is for sure growing day by day. The meteoric rise in online casinos and poker rooms has made many people very wealthy. The owners of cassava enterprises (888) Avi and Aaron Shaked recently floated their company on the London Stock exchange, their company is now valued in excess of £700 million. Ruth Parasol the co-founder of party gaming also recently floated her enterprise on the stock market making her an overnight billionaire. But where is all this heading? Surely the industry cannot continue to generate wealth at the staggering rate that we have witnessed over the past two years.

It must be remembered that the online gambling industry is still very much in its infancy. The first online casino opened around 1995 although the exact date is somewhat of a mystery. The industry itself did not fully capitalise on the online marketplace until around 1999 when faster internet connections became more widespread, allowing more colourful games with smoother graphics and game play. Today the industry is evolving more quickly than ever before with an ever increasing number of entrepreneurs realising the vast fortunes that can be made from hosting an online gambling site.

Today it is estimated that there are over 2000 online gambling sites just waiting to take punters money. There is a mixture of honest and dishonest sites out there and choosing a website that is fair and honest is no easy task. The reason for the vast number of online gambling sites out there lies in the simplicity involved with setting one up. One can set up an online poker network for several thousand pounds and the owner doesnít even need to worry about a starting number of players on his network. Players from the ownerís site simply play in the software providerís pool of existing players, providing an incredibly easy route to market.

Online gambling has taken affiliate marketing by the horns and adopted it as its own. For those that donít know what affiliate marketing is, here is a brief rundown. Companies with products or services to sell do deals with website owners, whereby for every sale that is generated from a visitor of the webmasters website, they will receive a commission. The commissions offered by online gambling operators are one of the highest and most lucrative in the marketplace ranging from between 10 and 50% of net gaming revenue (player losses) or up to $500 CPA (cost per acquisition). As a result the online gambling industry is the most competitive industry on the web, with top spots in google form keywords netting webmasters over $1 million dollars per year.

]]> http://www.casinos2009.com/gambling/online-gambling-industry-facts.html/feed 0 There Are Still New Online Casino Games. http://www.casinos2009.com/casino/there-are-still-new-online-casino-games.html http://www.casinos2009.com/casino/there-are-still-new-online-casino-games.html#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:46:21 +0000 admin http://www.casinos2009.com/?p=990 The pocket cards are dealt to the player and dealer, then the player makes a decision – to play or not to play, and places a bet. After that three cards of flop are dealt and again the player may place a bet; there is also a possibility to place the bet after the turn. However, there are some differences: before deal the player places the ante bet. If the player wishes to continue preflop game, he is to place the bet equal to two antes (the flop bet), otherwise he is to be dropped and to lose his ante. Nevertheless, the bets after flop or turn are equal to one ante (turn and river bets); at this stage the player may say “check” and continue the game without additional investments. When the river is dealt the combinations of dealer and player are compared according to the hold’em rules: the played away player loses all his bets; in case of draw game all bets are returned; if the player had won then he gets one-to-one payment as for the flop/turn/river bets; ante is returned in case if the combination is lower than street and it is one-to-one repaid in case of street combination. As you see, this game’s strategy is very difficult and unlike club hold’em you have to play with almost 100% hands and to drop only off-suit 23-27! During optimum game the advantage of casino makes nearly 2%. The word “bonus” in the name of game means, that there are additional bonus bets. The player can place the bet on his pocket cards. When the pocket pair or ace and jack, lady or king comes out, the player receives from three-to-one up to thirty-to-one payments. Side bet advantage of casino makes about 8%.

If you like to play blackjack and to bargain when playing club poker you need to have a look at Hold’em Blackjack (only InterPoker has it). The authors of game had swiped the rules of collection and calculation of hand points from blackjack – the player is to have the combination to the utmost close to 21 without overshoot. As the game is played not against the dealer there is no any surrenders, divisions, duplications, and even blackjack is disabled. This game is simple pontoon and has no advantages against 21 points collected from three cards. But the most senior combination becomes “Seven Charlie’s cards” – seven cards without overshoot. The rules of action are swiped from hold’em. In the first round all players receive one card each, obligatory small and big blinds are placed (in tournaments ante also can be used) and then there is an action round which is completely similar to limit hold’em in increments of big blind and three raises maximum. In the second round each of the remaining players receives the card and the second round of double bet action takes place. After the second round of action the players may continue to collect the cards (in a clockwise direction starting from the player to the left hand of dealer’s button). The player may widow the cards until he wishes to stop or until he overshoots pontoon. When the players finish to widow, the last round of action starts and the bets on this stage may vary from 2 up to 10 big blinds. When the action round is finished there is a showdown; the player with the best combination (“Seven Charlie’s Cards”, 21, 20, etc.) takes the bank and if several players have identical combinations they divide the bank. If the remaining players had overshot the player having minimum points (22, 23, etc.) wins. Casino takes the rake as it is the club poker. It is understood that there is no standard strategy against opponents, but it is possible to assume, that the player having quite good knowledge of blackjack and hold’em will have the advantage.

It should be noted, that popularity of various tournaments grows. It is more interesting for players to compete with human opponents instead of computer dealer. There are slots, blackjack, roulette, oasis-poker, and baccarat tournaments. A lot of casinos offer such tournaments and there is even a blackjack tournaments site.

And finally let’s have a look at innovations in the field of slots. As I said before, there is basically quantitative increase – new pictures and more lines (20-25 lines do not surprise anymore; there are even 30 and 40 lines). But there are also some innovations. The latest thing for the Internet which is known for a long time in offline games – slots with stoppage of lines and option “to push” the drum. Cryptologic casinos had gained the right to use so-called British fruit-machines which are classical slots of fruit themes, but as a bonus the players may have, from time to time, the option of either to fix 1-2 drums and to twist the remaining drums, or to shift any of drums on one symbol downwards.

Cryptologic also has another innovation – Cubis slot. The player sees three walls of a cube – bottom and two back. On each of the walls appear 25 multi-colored cubes. There are 15 lines which pass through two walls and if on one of lines there are four cubes of one color successively the player takes the prize depending on color and number of cubes. Then the winning sequence of cubes disappears and its place becomes occupied by other cubes and new winning sequence can be formed. In game there are also the cubes-multipliers increasing the prize up to six times as well as bonus cubes allowing to change the line or the whole plane.

]]> http://www.casinos2009.com/casino/there-are-still-new-online-casino-games.html/feed 0 Casino Games – Blackjack http://www.casinos2009.com/casino/casino-games-%e2%80%93-blackjack.html http://www.casinos2009.com/casino/casino-games-%e2%80%93-blackjack.html#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:44:38 +0000 admin http://www.casinos2009.com/?p=988 The objective in blackjack is to beat the dealer by getting a hand as close to 21 as possible without going over. To play casino blackjack, you need only a basic understanding of the rules and a desire to have fun.

So how do you reach 21? In blackjack, the cards have values. Number cards two through ten are counted at face value, while all face cards (King, Queen and Jack) are worth ten points. The ace is a special card in blackjack: you decide whether it’s worth one or eleven points. Since casino players are dealt two cards to start, if you get an ace and a face card or ten, you have 21—an instant win, as long as the dealer doesn’t get 21 as well. This two-card winning hand is called a “blackjack”; hence the name of the game!

Casino rules for blackjack are basically the same at all casinos. After you get your first two cards, your options are to hit, stand, double down, split, or sometimes surrender. Hit means to take another card; stand means to keep what you have. A double down means you will double your bet in exchange for taking only one more card (you can draw up to five cards in blackjack). If your first two cards are the same value, you can split, or separate them and play each card as a different hand. Not all casinos offer the option to surrender, which means you would withdraw from the hand and receive half your bet back.

Most casinos have color coded blackjack tables according to the minimum bet the table accepts, usually $3, $5, $25 or $100. In any casino, it’s a given the $3 and $5 tables will be crowded, but they’re great for beginners at casino games because all of the cards are dealt face-up, as opposed to the one-up, one-down method at higher tables.

]]> http://www.casinos2009.com/casino/casino-games-%e2%80%93-blackjack.html/feed 0 Casino Online http://www.casinos2009.com/casino/casino-online.html http://www.casinos2009.com/casino/casino-online.html#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:48:57 +0000 admin http://www.casinos2009.com/?p=967 Many players are sure that a number of gambling portals prospers due to the use of the special programs, able to beat an above-average player, not mentioning a beginner. In a traditional casino you can always guess the weak sides of your competitor, figure out his strategy and etc, in a virtual gaming house there is no telling your competitor is a human, but not specially created program, “substituted” for a real player.

If it is true, then widespread of poker bots capable of beating an average player would pose a significant problem for poker sector. Without creation of a special system verifying the identity and “humanity” of cards players in on-line casinos, the business could be significantly undercut. This is an opinion of players themselves, and gambling figures, interested in further development of on-line game industry.

Some skeptics say that, considering the complexity of the game and constantly changing strategies, creation of the program that can read opponents’ cards using special techniques of screen scanning and respond in real time is many decades away at best. The supporters of this point of view point to the variety of commercial programs that purport to help players, but with no actual effect. However there is a ready answer for all of these objections – in Canadian University of Alberta a computer poker research group has developed an artificially intelligent automaton known as “Vex Bot”. This robot is capable of playing poker at master level in a game with two players. The new system has already been used to test the frontiers of artificial intelligence, as it will be the basis for commercial poker tutorial program. As soon as the news about robot creation was published in media, the creators began to receive letters mentioning the danger of system use for the purposes of illegal gambling business.

Darse Billings who is lead designer of “Vex Bot” considers that probability of the use of bots on commercial sites is approximately 50:50, but he is also sure that all of the modern programs can unlikely match his creation, which is a result of a 10 years research work of a team of specialists.

“The strategy of the game is difficult and to sit down and write a program that can beat a table of experienced human players is no trivial task,” Billings said. According to his the opinion, the biggest obstacles lie in the amount of information unavailable to the player and the need for the program to be able to employ a variety of strategies at different times, such as bluffing and laying traps for opponents, etc Exactly for this purpose artificial intelligence was added to the system, capable not only calculate probabilities but also line up logic of game, model it’s opponents behavior, etc.

In the opinion of creators of “Vex Bot”, its main advantage is that, as well as any other robot; they have no emotions, no fear and no shame and can not be nervous. He will remain indifferent even before the most aggressive player.

Journalists, studying the problem of poker boats, note that it is very difficult to get the real picture because of the unwillingness of many gambling operators to answer upon requests on this issue. There are no high-quality programs, able to watch suspicious poker sites with the unusual patterns of game.

Representative of CryptoLogic Company, commenting this problem, mentioned that some players, suspected to use of boats, have been banned from the member sites. Sometimes it is just impossible to be sure who plays is a human or robot, but a company, exposing all unusual strategies, prefers to be reinsured and protect itself from the possible socializing with a bot.

Professional players, speaking about the popularity of poker bots, mention how advantageous it can be: if you have the program, able to play 25 casinos simultaneously, two tables apiece and even if you are playing a minimum $10-20 on a game, you earn $1000 an hour. The participants of many gambling chats are distressed that the computer programs have already took the place of interactive poker.

]]> http://www.casinos2009.com/casino/casino-online.html/feed 0 Becoming A Smart Gambler http://www.casinos2009.com/gambling/becoming-a-smart-gambler.html http://www.casinos2009.com/gambling/becoming-a-smart-gambler.html#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:19:32 +0000 admin http://www.casinos2009.com/?p=929 Here are smart gambling tips :

Know thy game

Don’t play any casino game seriously unless you know it really well. It’s one thing to spend a few bucks while learning or just having fun, but it’s another to play it over and over without knowing the fine details of odds, strategy, etc.

Know more than one game

It’s fine to “specialize” in one game, but you should know two games or more well. There will be times when it’s smart to walk away from a game. Maybe your head just isn’t working well at that time or the game is too hot the wrong way.

Slots are for fun

Show me one player that’s played slots a ton and has won a lot and I’ll show you either someone that happened to get lucky by hitting a very large jackpot or a liar. Slots are for fun, not profit. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying them in doses, but don’t make this your main game.

A tip is a loss

This is for the guys and gals playing in the real world. It’s a common courtesy for players to tip good dealers or the cocktail waitress. This is fine, but it’s money lost, so you need to treat it as such. If you’re playing $1 Blackjack and you’re up $10 when the cocktail waitress comes around think for a minute. If you tip $1, you’ve just lost 10% of your profits. I’m not saying don’t tip, but you need to keep it relative. And all money out is money lost-good cause or not.

Love what you do

It doesn’t matter if Baccarat (House Bet) is the best bet in the house if the game bores you to tears. You’ve got to love what you’re doing. If not, you’ll get mentally lazy and that’s when money is lost for sure. Stick with your passions.

]]> http://www.casinos2009.com/gambling/becoming-a-smart-gambler.html/feed 0 Online gambling tips http://www.casinos2009.com/gambling/online-gambling-tips.html http://www.casinos2009.com/gambling/online-gambling-tips.html#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:40:34 +0000 admin http://www.casinos2009.com/?p=914 When is about gambling online one of the worst think to do is just to start gambling without reading some tips before and just jumping into spending cash.
For sure an online casino will have the same target as a classic one , that is to take some cash from you not to make you rich, but because of the big competition.
So really the number one tip is to browse some online casinos and after to pick some that are offering big no deposit bonus. With this cash you can do same stuff that you can do with real cash when gambling online. Only that is for free.
Next tip is that you should choose only reputable casinos. They are investing big buck in keeping the reputation clean, they have the best software and enhanced security. Gambling in one of the no name online casinos will be risky. You can be very easy scammed.

Also don’t get stuck in one casino. Try some others so you will see the differences between the software used, between the gambling rooms, between the players from inside.Is better if you choose a medium populated room, chances to win are bigger than in a crowded room.

Also try all the time to have a maximum spending limit on mind. If you are constantly loosing maybe is just not your lucky day. Leave the casino and for sure you can come back later. If you are after big prizes try to participate all the time at special events.

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Also a very big advantages at online casinos is the fact that you can receive a big bonus when you are starting to play. So actually you will play for free. Is very important the first steps when starting to gamble online.In a classic casino bonuses are not so often, You need to get used witht the game, with the website, software, and also with the feeling of the game.

You can play lots of game online, like poker, roulette, bingo slots or progressive slots . You can also play when big prizes are in the game. The biggest the prizes the biggest the chance to win the Jackpot.

Another big advantage is that you can stop whenever you want , just close your computer. So is more easy thatn leaving a classic casino. But if you are loosing in a certain day you should stop and try again another day. Maybe the luck will hit you.

]]> http://www.casinos2009.com/casino/advantages-of-gambling-online.html/feed 0 Gambling: Business From 1992 http://www.casinos2009.com/news/gambling-business-from-1992.html http://www.casinos2009.com/news/gambling-business-from-1992.html#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:30:20 +0000 admin http://www.casinos2009.com/?p=199 Gambling online is a popular form of recreation throughout the world. Places such as Las Vegas  have boasted legendary betting venues for much of the last century.

In Canada, gambling is a growing industry. Casinos have sprouted up across the country. octa

In the decade since 1992, the net revenue from government-run lotteries, VLTs and casinos has risen from $2.7 billion to $11.3 billion.*

Of all net non-charity gambling revenue in 2002, lotteries accounted for 27 per cent, casinos 34 per cent and VLTs 23 per cent. Slot machines not found in casinos account for 17 per cent.

Lotteries alone generated $5billion in revenue in 2008-2009 up from $3.5billion in 2001.

The gambling industry shows no signs of slowing down.

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