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You can win large amounts of money when you play the casinos at land-based casinos.  Some of the best casino slot machines come from an online software company known as Microgaming.  They are one of the most popular companies providing for the online casino industry.  The only thing is that the Microgaming doesn’t accept US Players at this time; however, there are some other companies that do. Sadly, they had to back down because of an unlawful internet gambling enforcement act that was put in place that affected many people in the United States.

One of the games that you can win large amounts of money from is the Mega Moolah slot machine game, which can be found online. The Mega Moolah slot is one of those slots that require you to use Microgaming. The jackpot in Mega Moolah was hit and the player won $6.3 million dollars. This win marked a very historic day online for casino players as well as the casino industry. The story was one that quickly spread online and more people started playing this particular game as well as others.

One of the other popular games online is Keno. Some people have won $800.00, $475.00, $180.00 just by playing Keno online. Depending on what site you play Keno on, you can win as much as $4,600.00 or $13,474.00. Each site will vary with how much you win. The great thing with Keno is that you can mainly play this game all over the world and not have to worry about certain laws; however, there are still some states that could possibly stop you from playing it.

One of the reasons why people like playing at the online casinos is because of the variety of games that you can pick from. You can pick from the slots, poker, craps, among various other games. Almost any game that you find at a land-based casino, you can find online.

With the way the casino industry is growing online, many people are pushing to make it legal in every state throughout the USA. Just like playing at the casino in real life can change people’s lives when they hit the big one, it changes people’s lives just the same online once they’ve hit the big jackpot!

A lot of people are now very excited about playing at the online casinos.  This is something that has emerged and become very popular over the past several years.   There are many positive things about online casinos other than the fact that they are similar to that of a land-based casino.  In addition, when you play at the online casino, you are helping them with their business just as you are when you play at a land-based casino.  You are playing and are promoting the online casino by bringing traffic to their site and in real life, you are playing and spreading the world about the casinos, which brings in more gamblers or traffickers!

On the development side of the online casino industry, the software continues getting better for the casino players online. They can tell you how exciting it is playing at the online casinos and watching the reels spin because it looks just like the ones in real life. There are many individuals that are unable to experience a land-based casino due to personal health problems or other circumstances, so online casinos bring the enjoyment and adrenaline rushes to the comfort of their very own home.

It will be very exciting to watch and see how many more people win the various slot machines online. Once Representative Barney Frank is able to push his new bill that many people are talking about, a lot more online sites will be able to open and more people will be able to win huge jackpots. Many people are able to benefit from playing online and hopefully soon, more options will be available for the ones that enjoy it so much.

If people think that companies are still frowning on the casinos and not helping them out any, they are wrong. Many companies are actually starting to change their minds about helping the casinos out. Representative Barney Frank is really pushing and trying to help get online gambling legalized in the USA. He hopes that this opens the doors for many other things. The more companies that join up with the online casinos, the more money everyone will be making in the long run.

One company that had shut its doors down for a little while to online casinos was PayPal. PayPal is a very popular e-commerce business. You can get PayPal if you have an either banking account or a major credit card. PayPal has grown over the years and that is many thanks to eBay among many other websites making it so popular. PayPal also has a credit card that you can apply for and receive with approved credit as well as a PayPal debit card that you can apply for and receive if you have a PayPal account.  The debit card works as debit or credit anywhere that accepts MasterCard.

With a PayPal account, you can have money transferred into your account from your bank account or credit card, which you are then able to use at various online websites, including online casino websites.  In addition, PayPal is an option for withdrawal, not just deposits. Once the money goes into your PayPal account, you can transfer it to your banking account or credit card or you can just leave it in your PayPal account and do other things with it. One of the great things with using PayPal is that it can be used all over the world. This is a huge plus for the casino lovers because you can gamble at casinos all over the world online.

Representative Barney Frank was so impressed with PayPal that he kept on pushing to make it so that PayPal would open up its doors again to the casino world. It paid off because PayPal now works with most casino companies and they now use PayPal as an option for deposits and withdrawals. A lot of people feel very comfortable playing with an online casino site if they bear the PayPal logo mainly because of how popular it is.

One company that Representative Barney Frank is hoping to get is PartyGaming. He has fifty-four co-sponsors for the proposed legislation and he hopes that this will help set up a foundation and legalize internet gambling.

Internet gambling is still new to some people and most people think that it is a large scam. Most casino sites are legit and the ones that aren’t get shut down pretty quickly and are never much of a threat to internet gamblers. There have been many people to win jackpots and get a large amount of money online just like you would have in real life. Playing the online can be a very fun-filled experience because you can do it at your at your own pace and in the comfort of your own home instead of going out and being surrounded by hundreds of people that you do not know.

There are some sites that do not allow certain games to be administered, but hopefully, with the help of Representative Barney Frank, this will be changing and casino players will be able to play online and whatever game they want around the clock without having to worry about anything.

Do you remember watching the movie Wizard of Oz growing up? It’s a very popular movie that many people enjoyed. It was so popular and well-known that it was turned into a famous slot machine called the “Wizard of Oz Slot Machine”.

The images on this slot machine are just like watching the movie in real life. After what just happened to Susan Nott in California, the Wizard of Oz slots has really launched off. Susan Nott gambled with this slot machine and won $1.6 million dollars. She quickly found out that she wasn’t in Kansas anymore!

Susan Nott made it a tradition to stop by the Thunder Valley Casino before work. She would play the slots for a little while prior to heading to her place of employment. What she has been doing for a very long time might stop for now as she changes her routine a bit. She said that the money was a life changing experience and that it would be going towards many different things. She will be paying off car loans while some of the money will go towards trust funds for her children. She is even helping her best friend out and buying her a brand new car.

Susan Nott is just one of several people who have won the slots this past month. As more people play and win, the more they will be able to come out of debt. When they come out of debt, the more they start helping other people considering that they are considerate people as you may find some that would be a bit greedy and keep the funds all to themselves! However, if someone were to help others, those that were helped would be able to come out of depression and debt themselves from the help of their friends. When that starts happening, think of all the good that one win will be doing. That is why people continue gambling their money and is also why it has created such a positive effect on many states.

I am sure that we all remember Diana from Reno, NV winning $163,994.25 dollars playing Keno and winning the jackpot. She was only on her tenth game and suddenly the numbers came up. Diana wants to buy her husband a Porsche with the money. This took place at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa when her and her husband enjoyed a relaxing Easter Sunday. Atlantis Casino Resort is said to have some of the best staff on board and a very friendly gaming environment. They make people feel welcomed and it definitely shows. The staff at the casino resort gets very excited when someone wins the jackpot, or a large amount of money.

At the Eldorado Hotel Casino in Reno, Wanda won $216,577.70 playing the really popular game Wheel of Fortune. Another really big winner at the Eldorado Hotel Casino is Anthony. Anthony walks home rich after getting 10,000 dollars in a cash give away from the Casino Royal.

With so many big wins, it’s no wonder that people continue to play the slots at the casino as well as other casino games. Risking those 5 cents can help you win $1.6 million dollars in some games like Susan Nott found out. That is one of the exact reasons why the casinos will continue bringing in large amounts of money around the world.

The casino workers really love watching people win the jackpot and large amounts of money.  I think that this is one of the many reasons why they love working at the casino and because of the love that they have for their job, casino gamblers continue to come back to play more as they enjoy the atmosphere that they are surrounded by.

Over the years I have seen some of the most intricate roulette betting systems ever devised. From doubling up systems to cancellation systems….you name it and I have seen it. But it is amazing how these systems trap people into believing that they work. Some of them look so good that it can fool even highly intelligent people. Of course the simple fact of the matter is that betting systems on roulette dont work for the simple reason that the table maximums beat you in the end and this would apply even if you had an infinite bankroll.

If you did have an infinite bankroll and there were no table maximums then you could make money betting on roulette. You could simply use a doubling up system so that you won $1 each time. But what decieves people is that they find it difficult to envisage certain sequences of numbers arriving. As a croupier years ago, I was once spun 22 consecutive reds (I think thats what it was as time plays tricks but it was definitely more than 20).

But lets say that you put $1 on black…..it loses…..you then place $2……it loses……$4……loses…..$8……loses……$16…..loses…..$24…..loses……$48……loses……$96……loses. After just eight losses, you are now approaching what most small casinos have as a table maximum as a 200/1 ratio of minimum to maximum is quite common and this was in force where I worked. In fact they had a £5 table that was even worse than that and had a 100/1 ratio of £5 minimum and £500 maximum.

But yet roulette can be a good place to make money……IF YOU ARE NOT GREEDY. While it is true that you can never get your expectation into the positive using betting systems. If you want to try a hit and run session as a one off then betting systems can allow you to have a very high probability of ending the session on front. It is the same when you enter a casino, if you enter as a one off with the intention of making $20 then your chances of success are very high if you approach it right.

The problem is that most dont and next week I will show you the reverse system that Norman Leigh used in his excellent book “Thirteen against the bank”. There are systems that are intricately designed so that when certain numbers clump together, they can produce some very big wins for a minimal loss. These are systems that are designed to turn the house advantage around. They dont actually achieve this but once again they can present you with ways to win money with a high degree of probability.

see you soon

Carl

Do you remember when I mentioned about imagination and creativity always being able to defeat casinos. Well I would like to tell you a story of when we experimented with using silent vibrating cell phones to signal in the big player. We were inside a casino where they had an upstairs bar area.

In that bar area they had numerous screens showing people the action from the gaming tables on both blackjack and roulette. The pictures were crystal clear and I suddenly had the idea to see of I could count the cards from the bar area…..I could do it easily.

The problem was that when the count went positive, getting down the staircase into the pit and then placing the bets would have taken too long. Suddenly the information seemed useless until I came up with the idea of using a silent vibrating mobile cell phone to call the big player who was down in the pit.

He would have the phone in his pocket and when it rang, he knew that he had to approach the table. There was only one table in operation so we couldnt make a mistake by signalling him to the wrong table. We had one ring for when he had to move in and one for when he had to move out when the count went negative. We purchased a new phone for this very purpose so no one else had the number.

The next thing that we had to ascertain was whether or not these pictures that I was seeing were live or not. We found that out by getting the big player to reach out across the table (the camera was above looking down). We had synchronised our watches to the nearest second and there was next to no time delay.

I would like to report that this idea worked but unfortunately we were plagued by not always being able to get a signal on our respective phones as cell phones around 2002 were still in their relative infancy. Still though, it was a fantastic idea looking back and one that I am very proud of to this day.

It also gives me great pleasure to relate that story as well but I have always believed that if you look hard enough, you will eventually find the answers. It always used to give me a real kick to play blackjack, it was the underhandedness (is that a word?) of it all.

I hope that everyone is enjoying my blog so far and I am really enjoying being with bwin.

take care

Carl

Most people who come into blackjack tend to think that there is only one counting system….the high/low. This is the most common counting system and counts low cards 2-6 as +1, cards 7,8,9 as Zero and tens and aces as -1. Just like to point out here that low cards are plus and high cards are minus. This tends to confuse a lot of people as high cards are obviously advantageous to the player.

But remember that you are calculating the effect of cards that are left IN THE SHOE and not cards that have been dealt. If the first twenty cards that have been dealt have been aces and tens then that can hardly be a positive for the player seeing as they have now gone and the player cannot use them to form an advantage….perhaps now you will be able to see why low cards are plus.

I have often been asked which counting system is the best. Years ago of course there were massive debates about this. Some very fine mathematicians argued this point aggressively. I am not a mathematician (far from it), but I do know how to make money (there is a difference).

The actual efficiencies with regards playing and betting were hotly debated until it was found that betting efficiency was by far the most important concept of the two. This was why they best systems were basically on a par with each other from a betting efficiency of around .97 for the high/low. Only four counting systems were proven to be superior and they were the KO system, The Wong Halves, The Red 7 and Lawrence Revere’s count.

Some of the other systems with ace side counts came close but the four that were clearly better were only showing .98 and .99 efficiency. But the true genius of the high/low was that it was so simple to operate that you could do other things like shuffle track and interact.

At one stage though we even used the level four system of Revere’s in the belief that we were doing something smart. This count used the following numbers

2…… +2

3…… +3

4…… +3

5…… +4

6…… +3

7…… +2

8……  0

9…… -1

10…. -3

A…… -4

Now try keeping that count for even one round of play under actual casino conditions

Seriously though, the high/low does a great job and for anyone who wants to play blackjack then I recommend using this over any other system. This is especially the case with recreational players.

see you soon and take care

So you want to tackle the online blackjack games do you, its funny but I get asked alot if playing online blackjack is a waste of time simply because you cannot card count. I dont think that they are a waste of time at all for numerous reasons. Firstly they have the same strategic purpose as online poker has. If a player wanted to play in a live casino cash game or tournament and had never played poker before in their entire life then playing online first may be a viable alternative if only to learn the rules and procedures.

It is no different with Blackjack and playing a few hundred hands online after learning basic strategy can give you some much needed experience before you try it out in a live casino for real.

Also it may be possible for you to take advantage of online sign up bonuses and reload bonuses as well so it may even be possible for you to make a little dough playing online blackjack. There are also all kinds of other bonuses that are not available when you play live so it may serve your interests to check this out.

But I would advise anyone to get their BJ education first and part of my Casino blog will be to educate people in the art of BJ over the coming months. In fact I am going to start to have a structure with my blog where I talk about theory one day, then news, then my past history and then I may even divulge some really juicy stuff so keep an eye open for that.

I started out card counting while I was a croupier and that allowed me to become extremely fast and versatile when I counted. The technique with counting is to use cancellation methods to scan an entire table rapidly. So for example if the dealer dealt five hands to five players and the cards were 9,8….A,5…….10,10……3,2……K4 then if I was using the simple high/low then I could scan this and get a total running count of zero very rapidly. The first box with the 9 and the 8 are both counted as zero cards. The next box with the ace and the five are -1 and +1 so that box cancels out to zero.

The two tens on box three are -2 but they get cancelled out by the two low cards on box four which are +2. Then the final box has one high card and one low card whch cancel each other out so the total is ZERO!!!! Thats how to scan rounds of cards very quickly……now go and work on it with an actual deck.

see you soon

Carl “The Dean” Sampson