The Gambling Weblog

I have noticed that even the most experienced gamblers (casino gamblers and online gamblers alike) are sometimes not very aware about certain important aspects of the games that they play. They don’t know certain terms, concepts, systems and classic strategies. A good analogy would be a professional basketball player who just knows how to shoot hoops, defend and rebound but who not only does not know what “rebound” means but is also not aware of the basic defensive and offensive strategies.

Because of this I decided to discuss these basic concepts and terms as a refresher course of sorts for online gamblers and casino gamblers.

The first concept I will discuss involves poker. It is called the Expected Value. The term, which is also known as the Expectation, is used extensively when talking about poker strategies. The term has its origins in probability mathematics and is used to explain the long-term advantage outcome of a particular scenario.

For people who want to calculate the expected value, one has to take all the possible outcomes and then multiply each of this by the probability of that outcome happening. After this you then add all of the numbers together.

The Expected Value is the foundation for a majority of non-psychological poker strategies. Mathematically speaking, the issue that a poker gambler has to face is in making decisions that has the highest expected value. The poker gambler should learn how to compute the Expected Value because this is going to be a big help in making more informed decisions in a variety of poker moves (bluffing, calling, check-raising).

I’m not always looking for challenges when I gamble online or in the casino. Sometimes, I just want to have a little fun, let my hair down and not worry too much about gambling. In other words, I just want to gamble for fun – which I think is the real essence of gambling.

When I do get to feel like this. I either go to the slot machines or I play bingo. But between the two, bingo is the game that makes me feel like a kid again. The simplicity of the game allows you to really relax.

But even with a game as “friendly” as bingo, a few tips can still go a long way towards really enjoying it. Here are some that I have compiled over the years:

* Don’t get too many cards. Only play the maximum number of cards that you can watch. There’s really no point in getting 15 to 20 cards if you end up cross-eyed in the process.

* Never bang the dabbers. It’s not a gavel, you know. Besides, dabbers work best when pressed lightly. There’s a reason why it’s called a dabber.

* Be generous when you win. It doesn’t hurt to give out a dollar to the people around you. Besides, if you do this, chances are, when the player you gave a dollar to wins, he may just return that lucky dollar to you.

* For those who want to win at bingo, a good tactic is to play at a time or day that is slow for the bingo operator – the fewer the players, the fewer the number of cards that are in play.

Je ne suis pas toujours à la recherche de défis quand je joue au casino. Parfois, je veux juste m’amuser un peu et ne pas avoir des sueurs froides inutiles. En d’autres termes, je veux juste jouer pour le plaisir – ce qui, selon, est le véritable sens du jeu.

Lorsque j’ai juste envie de m’amuser, je vais soit jouer aux machines à sous ou au bingo. Entre les deux, le bingo est le jeu que je préfère car il me rappelle mes souvenirs d’enfance. La simplicité du jeu permet de vraiment s’amuser.

Pour vous permettre d’apprécier ce jeu, voici quelques conseils pour jouer au Bingo :

* Ne pas jouer avec trop de cartes. Jouer seulement avec le nombre maximum de cartes que vous êtes en mesure de visualiser. Il est vraiment inutile d’obtenir 15 à 20 cartes, si vous n’êtes pas en mesure de jouer avec.

 
* Soyez généreux lorsque vous gagnez. Ca ne fait pas de mal de donner un dollar aux personnes autour de vous. D’ailleurs, si vous optez pour cette méthode, vous avez de grande chance que le joueur à qui vous donné ce dollar vous rende ce dollar « chanceux ».

 
* Pour ceux qui veulent gagner au bingo, une bonne technique consiste à jouer à un moment où il y a peu de joueurs dans la partie. Ainsi, moins il y a de joueurs, moins de cartes sont en jeu.