Category: Gambling and Casinos

Casino bonuses are offered by some online casinos so that they can encourage their players to keep playing in their site. Some casino bonuses offer free money for certain games. And others offer to double or triple the deposits of the player. But, are casino bonuses advantageous to online casino players?

Some online casino players ignore casino bonuses. They believe that casino bonuses are not real. They believe that offering casino bonuses is just a method of online casinos to strip more money from the players. And they already had an experience with casino bonuses which left a bad taste in their mouth. The reason for their negative opinion is that there are numerous so-called online casinos that offer deceptive bonuses.

Yet, there are casino players who love the bonuses offered by online casinos. These players come back again and again to a certain online casino because of the bonuses offered by this particular online casino. These players have become loyal to the online casinos. Obviously, these players have chosen the credible online casinos that offer real bonuses.

Players, therefore, must carefully choose the online casinos that they sign up with. The players should not be just lured in by the bonuses. If the casino bonuses are real, then the player is lucky. But if the casino bonuses are deceptive, there is practically nothing that the player can do to recover his money from the disreputable online casino.

How does a player choose bonuses that are real? There are two major things that a player must check out before he decides to avail of the casino bonuses.

The first thing to check out is the license of the online casinos. The online casino that offers bonuses should be fully-licensed in the country or state where it operates. Some states have banned online casinos and if an online casino reports to have their main location in that such a State, then the online casino is fraudulent. To determine if an online casino has the right credentials, a player may check the “About Us” page or contact the online casino itself and ask for the information. If the online casino is hesitant about giving such information, it may be fake.

The second thing to check out is the customer support service of the online casino. This customer support should be always available to the player, twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. Reputable online casinos have a customer support service such as this. These online casinos believe in keeping their clientele, the online casino players, happy and satisfied.

To find out about the quality of customer support, a player must find and test the contact numbers of the online casino. The customer support service is supposed to help players to cash out their bonuses. If the support lines are not available, then the online casino may be either fake or incapable of giving casino bonuses.

It’s extremely important to keep in mind that welcome bonuses are very influential for new members at a particular Online Casino and you shouldn’t fall into this trap, as many people do. The higher the Bonuses are, the higher the level of visitors is. Great Bonuses are attracting many gamblers to do whatever it takes for playing, which is a wrong kind of manipulation. Most of the gamblers are guided by these unfortunately, without thinking about the consequences or the problems which may occur. The other thing is that it’s very hard and risky in the same time to choose the most appropriate casino to play online, no questions asked.

As there is a wide range of websites to select from, a gambler is put up to certain risks whenever he/she is about to play in an Online Casino. In other words, it’s not the Bonuses which should make you start gambling on a specific website, but its trustworthiness and security. Besides these important facts, the games which you are offered play a great role in choosing it, as it’s necessary for you to be provided with the ones that you like and which are due to your taste.

The overwhelming graphics are also influential for people, as well as the eye-catching offers and online casino promotions which are updated and changing periodically.

Otherwise, it is entertaining when playing in an Online Casino and there are many beneficial things. One of the greatest things is that when you gamble online, it may happen that you are not so tense when you spin the Roulette wheel for instance; you just sit in front of your pc, enjoy your time and it is more relaxing. The atmosphere is calm and the surroundings are due to your desire. Then, if you pay attention to how secured the Online Casino is, you are able to make a wise decision. Another vital fact is that you should never forget to check the casino’s payout percentage, because it has a great role in showing how honest it is towards gamblers. The higher this percentage is, the higher the chances of winners to be paid are.

Above these, you are required to pay a great attention to every single detail of offers and particular promotions which are available for you on each Online Casino.

There is no use for you to waste your time or spend your free time doing nothing. Experience the exciting entertainment available on the internet provided by Online Casinos and start gambling!

Don’t do it. Not at the Texas Holdem table. Not anywhere else. ‘Nuff said. Right?

Oh, you already don’t cheat? Well congratulations and good for you (and for the rest of us too). But as honest as you may be, cheaters do abound, as much in Texas Holdem as in any other game, and you’ll need to know their tricks in order to spot them before they turn them loose on you.

Fortunately, many forms of cheating at Texas Holdem are subverted in online play by the nature of the internet. Online players, for example, can’t miscall their hand, manipulate the deck, short pots, or practice any other form of devious sleight of hand.

Online Texas Holdem players can however collude, and collusion is cheating just the same. Collusion is when two or more players partner up to mislead the other players at the table and unfairly take their money . There are a number of ways that online Texas Holdem players can do this, including:

Codes
Using the chat window, the colluders communicate in a pre-established code, right in front of the other players’ eyes, whereby they compare their two hands and then fold the weaker of the two, only playing the stronger

Sandwiching
The colluders take turns betting and raising heavily into a third player, forcing him or her to either keep calling ridiculous bets or keep folding out of every hand.

Signaling
In offline Texas Holdem, this can occur as hand gestures, bodily cues, or careful arrangement of one’s chip stack, but in internet play this occurs by communicating through some alternate method — telephone, private email, or an instant message.

Cheaters don’t always travel in pairs, however. In fact, one of the most common forms of cheating in online Texas Holdem is when a single player sits down in multiple seats at a single table. How? Simple. Multiple computers. Now this one player is able to perform the same dirty tricks as a couple of colluders, except more efficiently since they have no one else to try to subversively communicate and strategize with. And the lone cheater is doubly motivated by the fact that he doesn’t have to split his “winnings” either.

Now, there are those who protest that the very nature of Texas Holdem is the art of deception and as such they are free to use whatever means necessary to be the best deceivers they can be. This is a fallacy, a clever rationalization designed to deceive (go figure) — nothing more. Don’t be fooled.

Cheating is an offense to the game of poker. And it has no place at the Texas Holdem table. One of the great appeals of Texas Holdem is that anybody — expert of beginner — can win. And that is as it should be. By sitting down at the Texas Holdem table you are implicitly consenting to play by the same rules as everyone else there. That too is as it should be.

Cheating is the bad apple that spoils the whole bunch. It gives Texas Holdem a bad name. Cheating is stealing — plain and simple. That’s why it’s incumbent upon honest players like yourself to call out cheating whenever you spot it. Report it with a vengeance. And get yourself to a different Texas Holdem table as fast as you can.

With the help of honest players like yourself, a cheater can only “win” at Texas Holdem for so long before eventually getting found out. And you can take that to the bank.

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Being social in the online realm has never historically been part of the big picture. This has certainly changed over the last few years and the cyber realm has become a large part of who people are. The ability to interface with others across the globe has made the Internet so much more than simply a gaming platform. It has made it a place for people to meet, greet, and evolve with each other in a way that has never been seen before.

But in a casino? The answer is unequivocally yes. With today’s online casinos offering chat in many of their games people can get together and play their favorite games just as the inventors of the games intended. I can assure you that the people that developed Blackjack years and years ago never envisioned a time when their game would be played on a screen with little digital cards flipping up and down, or maybe they did, who knows? What they did know was that people were supposed to gather, and chat, and above all have a good time.

The ability for players to chat with each other in a real time environment while playing cards opens up a myriad of possibilities to the casual and professional online gambler. Sometimes just the possibility of the chat makes the game of cards a secondary interest in the room. Some people are obviously more social than others and some may simply enjoy the type of chat that they are able to experience in an online casino better than the type of chat that they might become involved in in a more traditional type of chat room.

Today’s online casinos now offer the option for players to use avatars. If you aren’t familiar with avatars they are simply a small picture, or image, that says a little something about the player’s personality. Some of the times these avatars are little cartoon like characters that the players customize themselves. Other times casinos allow players to use their own images further enabling the player to customize their image exactly and calculating what they want to say to the rest of the world.

While there are many options available to the tech savvy player that wants a little “face” time with the other players when they are playing, many people don’t know how to get started chatting in a casino environment. Unfortunately there are many casinos, including some of the premier casinos, that don’t offer chat room capability with their games. Either they haven’t seen the benefit and increased customer base that is capable with chat rooms, or the technology just isn’t as pervasive as I think that it is. I’m not sure which it is. What I am sure of is that chat is big enough that in the future only a handful of online casinos won’t have online chat capability for at least a portion of their games. And after that a whole new world will open up for everybody.