What Is Baccarat?
Baccarat dates back to the Middle Ages. It has been said the game was first played with a Tarot deck and originating in Italy, it soon made its way to France where it found a home among the upper class aristocracy. Recently it was made popular by Ian Fleming’s fictional secret agent James Bond, in …
How To Play Roulette
Roulette has been a casino mainstay for centuries, and the principle of the game is very easy to grasp. People who never have or never will gamble know how a Roulette wheel works, such is its reputation and prominence in the media. Roulette can be played by any number of players against the house, by …
Roulette & Visual Ballistics
Roulette is a game of chance, and ever since its creation people have been trying to analysis and develop a set system for winning at it. One way of beating roulette is visual ballistics which is where you visually determine where the ball is most likely to land on the wheel. It sounds …
How To Play Blackjack
Blackjack is a game where you play against the dealer independently of other players, and the aim of the game, and why it is sometimes known as ‘21’, is to defeat the dealer by drawing cards whose sum are more than the dealers sum or add up to 21, when the dealers sum of cards …
Online Gambling Etiquette
Gambling online is a whole different ball game to playing in the traditional sense, but there are still certain rules of etiquette that have to be employed. First of all you must be eighteen or over to gamble on web sites. If you are found to be under eighteen your membership to the …
How To Play Craps
Craps is an extremely popular game in land-based casinos but a lot of online gamers don’t indulge simply because they think that is quite solitary when compared with the loud excitement of the game when played in ‘real’ casinos. However, it does have its advantages for online players – both experienced and novices. …
Basic Rules Of Backgammon
Backgammon is one of the oldest games in the world, and can be traced back nearly 5000 years! If you’ve never played backgammon before here are the rules: The game of backgammon is played on a board which is marked out with 24 triangles which are called points. These triangles alternate in colour and are …
Counting Cards
Card counting has been around since the 1950’s but wasn’t popularised as a method of beating the Blackjack table until the 1960’s when a mathematics professor by the name of Dr. Edward O. Thorp published a book called ‘Beat the Dealer’. The book highlighted that it was possible for a clever player to actually gain a …