Category: Gambling and Casinos

NO. Children shouldn’t be encouraged into gambling at a very young age. It affects their over all personality development and kids learn more about topics that they should be handling at an older age. The National Research Council reports that not only do most adolescents gamble but they gamble frequently.

Kids mainly gamble on card games and do sports betting. And today parents are worried that their children may be gambling on the internet. It’s very easy for kids to access sites and credit cards or debit cards add to their sense of joy. It’s annoying for parents that many non gambling websites carry the online casino ads and there are links too which attract kids to try their luck in gambling.

Federal Trade Commission on the risks of gambling among kids

• If you are not thorough with the gambling procedures on the net, you will end up losing a lot of money
• Online gambling operations are in a business to make profit, they are out to take your maximum advantage
• You can destroy your credit rating. Would you want to see your kid play games and end up emptying your online account
• Online gambling is addictive. People can play uninterrupted for hours. Your kid might develop problems resulting from addictive gambling which need medical attention
• It can isolate your kid and make him lose out on play
• Gambling is illegal for kids. Every state prohibits gambling for minors
• There are self help programs and workshops for families who want to get out the addiction risks. It is specially suited for your kid if he has minor or severe gambling addiction problems

Iowa, “the Hawkeye State,” is a North Central state known for its agriculture, scenic trails, fishing, and hunting. With a population of over 3,000,000 and an area of 56,276 square miles, Iowa ranks first in the United States in the production of corn. The capital of Iowa, Des Moines, is a center for insurance, printing, and publishing, with a population of 200,000.

There are a number of Iowa casinos in the state, the majority on stationary riverboats. The largest of the Iowa casinos is the Meswaki Bingo Casino Hotel, a Native American casino in Tama, with 127,669 square feet of gaming space, 1,500 slots, thirty table games, such as blackjack, craps, roulette, and baccarat, and several types of poker; as well as three restaurants, monthly entertainment, and gaming instructions. Another large Native American casino is the Winna Vegas, with 45,000 square feet, 668 slots, and 14 table games. In addition, the Ameristar Casino Hotel in Council Bluffs is open 24 hours, with 38,500 square feet, 1,589 slots, 36 table games, and four restaurants. There are several other popular Iowa casinos, including Harrah’s Council Bluffs, with 28,250 square feet, 1,212 slots, and 39 table games; and the Lakeside Casino Resort, with 37,480 square feet, 921 slots, and 31 table games.

A smaller Iowa casino is the Diamond Jo, a riverboat casino in Dubuque, open during the week from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. and 24 hours on the weekends, with 17,813 square feet, 776 slots, and 19 table games. The Catfish Bend Riverboat, in Fort Madison, is open Tuesday through Sunday for 24 hours, with 13,000 square feet, 535 slots, and 14 table games. Another Iowa riverboat casino, The Isle of Capri, is open 24 hours, with 24,939 square feet, 1,100 slots, and 24 table games. The Mississippi Belle II, a 10,577 square foot riverboat casino in Clinton, has 506 slots, 14 table games, live entertainment, and Thursday blackjack tournaments.

Iowa casinos provide a great deal of tax revenue to the state of Iowa, which has enabled the funding of many statewide projects. Tourism has grown at a rapid rate along with the demand for services and a gain in employment. Iowa casinos have contributed to the growth of the economy, and the enthusiasm for gambling in Iowa is widespread. The future of Iowa casinos looks bright, with more and more casinos appearing and major expansions being planned.

New software has been introduced to take advantage of the arbitrage opportunities in sports betting worldwide.An arbitrage is simply the purchase of securities from one market for immediate resale to another market in order to profit from the discrepancy
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There are arbitrage opportunities in numerous markets.The one concentrated on here is the sports betting market worldwide.
With the correct software this market can be exploited,giving guaranteed profits.If you know what to look for in this type of situation you can exploit the situation to give you a guaranteed profit.Coupled to the software is a FREE booklet detailing in specific detail how to exploit this market.

If the instructions in the book are adhered to the user can look forward to a guaranteed profit.There are people operating at the moment making a full time living out of arbitrage investment..This book will show you everything you need to know ,to produce a very profitable and regular income from a loophole that has been brought about by the Internet and the masses of bookmakers that have sprung up and continue to do so. .This loophole can never be regulated or closed down and as the Internet grows the number of opportunities this loophole will make available will multiply.

To make money with the system you need to take whatever amount you are going to invest, and divide it into five equal amounts
Take a specific sport and concentrate on that particular one.Let us take tennis. Open your browser to six different betting sites and lok at what the odds are on each site for a particular match.

Open a spreadsheet and note down all six bookies odds for that particular game.Now take the software and calculate what two bookies odds will give you the greatest return.When you have ascertained where your best profit is, wager your bet,but make sure to wager for a win with both bookies as you are profiting out of arbitrage,not out of gambling.This is the reason why your profit is guaranteed.

Spread the remaining four bets over other sporting opportunities,operating in exactly the same way.The reason why I say you must spread your investment five ways is because you are placing wagers on fixed odds for events that are taking place over the next couple of days.If you wagered all of your capital on one event you would have no money to invest until that particular event paid out. By spreading your investment you are continually generating profit,and at the end of a 30 day cycle you will have more money in your pocket. .

There are many reasons why bookmakers may offer wildly different odds on the same sporting event .For a start many bookmakers overstretch themselves when offering odds—they try and cover every possible market to get as many customers as possible. This is great news for us because in doing so they will sometimes offer odds on events that they have little or no expert knowledge in .For example a bookmaker in the USA may offer odds on English division football yet he knows very little about it.

They’re worse than poker sharks. They’ve taken over online poker rooms everywhere. In fact, they’re most likely sitting next to you at the table right now. They probably have most of your chips. Emotion doesn’t get in their way. Neither does greed, exhaustion, or fear. Their tells are nil and, try as you might, you cannot put them on tilt. They’re poker bots, and rumor has it, they’re fleecing you bare.

Poker bots are computer programs set up to play on behalf of (and instead of) an actual human being, according to a consistent and, presumably, proven strategy. Hearing of the possible presence of these borderline cheaters in your online poker rooms could be enough to make online poker players question whether to sit down at the online poker tables at all.

So let’s start there. In a word: yes. Of course you should keep playing poker. As we’ll explain, these poker bots are far from foolproof and even farther from unbeatable. Secondly, online poker rooms are in the process of making it harder and harder for a poker bot to even get through their virtual doors (think: cyber-bouncer).

You see, here’s the thing: there are countless poker bots. Countless programmers with dollar signs in their eyes have tried and are trying their hand at pitting technology against humanity. There are so many different types of poker bots to choose from, new ones cropping up on online poker rooms all the time, that it leads to but one crystal clear conclusion:

They can’t all be unbeatable. This is both a caution against relying on them and a consolation to those players who fear being unwittingly pitted against them.

What about a table with more than one seat occupied by a poker bot? If you think it hasn’t happened, doesn’t in fact happen all the time, then you’re kidding yourself. In an instance like that, some poker bots have got to lose. In fact, in each hand, only one can win.

In truth, each bot is only as good as its programmers. And to be clear, that’s programmers with an “s”: there’s the guy or gal who built the program and you, the user, who must determine the parameters (or settings) by which the poker bot will play. That’s two human variables affecting quite directly the actions of the poker bot. So, let us ask you something: Why not just play the darned game yourself?

Another thing to realize is that poker is not suited to mechanical play. It’s a human game. Sure, a poker bot can’t be put on tilt, but neither can a poker bot read a tell nor spot a bluff. It’s questionable at best how beneficial a poker bot can be to one’s game. You’re probably just as well off improving your game the old fashioned way: practice practice practice.

But this threat may not be a threat for long. You might think, why should the poker rooms care, since poker bots make just as much money for online poker rooms as real people? The answer: the real people are getting restless. And at the risk of having their flesh and blood customers retaliate against poker bots by boycotting online poker itself, the online poker rooms are starting to take notice of the problem.

Already, may online poker rooms are instituting software that identifies when a player seems to be using too much of a pattern in their play. It’ll be a tricky road, since distinguishing poker bot play from human play is a tricky and therefore risky business. Nobody wants to make false accusations or, worse, take erroneous action, like blocking an innocent user’s account. But they’re working on it.

As a new form of competition arises — namely: who can build the better bot? — we’ll find more and more online poker rooms hosting bot-only tournaments (don’t laugh, some already have). Hopefully, an increase in this practice will encourage poker bot enthusiasts to create a niche for themselves (surely a profitable niche for the online poker rooms) and leave the rest of us ordinary folk to play against other flesh and blood human beings.