Archives for December 2007
History of Gambling in the United States
Examining the history of gambling in North America suggests important conclusions that are useful today in considering policies related to gambling.
The United States has had a long history of allowing some forms of legal gambling and a degree of tolerance of illegal gambling.
Societal tolerance and acceptance of legal gambling can change rapidly. Scandals and political […]
3x Zero - episode from Fedor Dostoyevsky book “The Gambler”
The distance to the casino was about half a verst, and our route led us through the Chestnut Avenue until we reached the square directly fronting the building. The General, I could see, was a trifle reassured by the fact that, though our progress was distinctly eccentric in its nature, it was, at least, correct […]
Crazy bets - episode from Fedor Dostoyevsky book “The Gambler”
Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one’s head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the […]
Trente et Quarante
Trente et Quarante (Thirty and Forty), also called Rouge et Noir (Red and Black), is a game of French origin played with cards and a special table. It is one of the two games played in the gambling rooms at Monte Carlo, roulette being the other.
Two croupiers sit on each side of the table, one […]
Online casino types
Online casinos can be divided into three groups based on their interface: web-based casinos, download-based casinos, and more recently live casinos. Some casinos offer multiple interfaces.
Web-based online casinos are websites where users may play casino games without downloading software to the local computer. Games are mainly represented in the browser plugins Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Shockwave, […]
Black Jack Extreme - New casino game
A retired Hollywood movie mogul now living in Johnson County is hoping to spin a hit TV show and more from his patent-pending casino game invention, BlackJack Extreme. The card game — a blend of blackjack and poker strategies — is as intriguing as its inventor, David C. Thomas.
Thomas’ lengthy resume as a producer, director […]
Land based casino vs online casino
Online gambling industry develops with fantastic speed lately in conjunction with rapid Internet development in the world. The visitors of online casino are not only land based casino regular customers but also who never played in offline. There are all merits and demerits of gaming in online casino to playing in Land Based Casino.
The first […]
Winning & Losing in online casino !
Many a time we’ve to listen about astronomical winnings of the most optimistic inveterate online casino gamblers but more rare and with feeling of pique - about astronomical losses of non-optimists. However, for practical purposes, no one of them is able to say about total sum of winning or losing in casino gaming with absolute […]
What Is online casino ?
In most articles on the internet are dedicated to the special and rather narrow questions of the internet casinos’ function. I think it’s time to tell about online casino in general: what is it, what good is it or what poor is it, what its possibilities and claims, which ones are the worth for gaming […]