Respect at the poker table is like money in the bank. Players that have the respect of only playing well and tight most of the time are given credit for a good hand when they raise any pot. Other players are not willing to make marginal plays against this type of player. If they reraise, the odds are that the raiser may have the solid player beat, however a marginal gambling raise is ill advised against this type of player as they are likely to come back over the top if they think they have the winning hand. Consistent good players are difficult to beat in a poker game as they rarely make a serious mistake about a hand. When they call or raise, another player may not call on a marginal hand. Players like this make other players change their game as the gambling player would rather take their chances against another gambling player. The odds are far better for them in that situation than against a tight player.

Respect also lets the tight player pull off bluffs with greater ease than other players. Their reputation precedes them and helps them gain an edge when pulling off a bluff. A solid player only need bet the hand like it is the holy grail and the other players will fold unless they have been dealt a monster. Since most pots are won in Holdem by a big pair, two pair or trips, the bluffer has an advantage when setting up the bluff. If the other players are only holding a pair it is difficult to call a sizable wager on such a hand. Reputation is like an extra card in the hands of very good players that also are willing to bluff from time to time.

This type of player has an edge in tournaments as other players are not willing to risk their tournament chances on an over aggressive call. This is a huge advantage to this type of player and those with this known reputation will use it to their playing advantage. Dan Harrington is such a tournament player and he gets a great deal or respect when in a pot.
The only way to get this respect is to play well over and extended period of time and rarely if ever move away from this type of play. A tight player will rarely go on tilt and start playing wildly or throwing their chips around. It is against their nature to play this way and this would be out of character for them. Become one of these player types and it is far easier to book winning sessions. A consistent poker winner is a goal that can be obtained, but it takes discipline, skill and hand experience to achieve the goal. Sticking with a style of play when it is not working is very hard to do for most players. This is where the discipline comes into play and the player that sticks with a winning plan will prevail in the long run. Enjoy the game but do not play like a crazy person when the luck is not on your side.

This once popular game used to be played in every card room in California until Holdem took over. The game was just the opposite of draw poker where the high hand wins. The best Low Ball hand was Ace through Five suited or unsuited. There was the added touch of a Joker that could be used for any missing card. The game was simple to play like draw poker. Each player was dealt five cards face down and a round of betting was completed. When completed the dealer asked each player how many cards they wished to draw too. Most players would limit their draw to one or two cards. The usual good hand was a seven high with no pairs. Any hand that had a lower high card was considered to be a winning hand until it was proven differently. When a player ended up with a wheel, Ace through five, they could only be tied and never could lose with this hand. This game was extremely popular for many years in back room card rooms and even in some live casinos in Reno and Vegas.

There were problems with the game as players usually took turn dealing the cards. Some players were better at dealing than they should have been and there was an undercurrent of possible cheating going on. For this reason, many card rooms started using house dealers to take away any perception of fake dealing. For many years this game made good players a great deal of money and poor players would remain the drained pigeons. The game become an after thought with the growth of Holdem and when California allowed it to be dealt legally that ended the reign of Low Ball. Also the casinos were more interested in dealing stud or Holdem than Low Ball. There are sites online that still spread this game and there are players that still are willing to play, but the game has long since lost its audience. It was fun while it lasted and players were willing to gamble on low hands. The Holdem craze changed a great deal of games in the poker world. Ring games and tournaments have become the way to go for most sites that offer poker.

Keno

Keno is offered at online casinos and at live casinos. The game is an adaption of a game that has been played in Ching for centuries. The casinos are happy to offer the game as players seem to like it and the odds are heavily in favor of the house. This makes this game a great money maker for the casino.

The game is played with 80 numbered balls which are put in a machine that floats them in an air column and then the machine selects one ball at a time until 20 balls have been picked. Before the game started the player marked a ticket with their number picks. They could have played a single number pick, a four spot, the four corners and an eight spot. All of these games could have been played on one ticket. This is a common ticket with players that have favorite numbers or combinations.

At a live casino a player could play the game via a keno runner and play slots, poker or other table games at the same time. At lunch or dinner time a player can continue playing during their meal. The casinos will go to extreme lengths to keep the keno player playing the game. Online the keno ticket is just marked and played like any other game in the online casino. The reason to play this game is all about having a hunch.

There is no skill or strategy that will help a player in this game. This game is all about pure luck. Most players will pick their numbers and continue to play them while they are online or in the live casino. The idea is not to miss a game.

The game is not very exciting unless you get a three or four numbers early in the game and then the breath comes in short gasps as each succeeding number is called or put on the game board. When a player gets five numbers on an eight spot they are in the cats bird seat. Any number after that will mean a nice payoff. All three would be a significant amount of money.

When players are choosing where to sit in a live Blackjack game, many players take the last seat at the table before the dealer in getting the dealt cards. This should be one of the seats taken even if the player is playing more than one hand This last seat at the table is known as "third base" among veteran Blackjack players. The reasons for taking this position in preference to others at the table is simple. This position can take a card or decline it depending on what the dealer is showing in an up card. When the dealer is showing a break card, the player with a bad drawing hand can elect to let the dealer take a potential break card and not take a card that may break their hand. Many players will leave a table that has a player playing the "third base" position like an idiot. Others will not play at a table if they can not have the last position.

Another advantage of this position is the player gets to see the dealt cards that other players take when hitting their hands. If the payer is counting cards, this is a preferred seat as the count could change from favorable or to unfavorable before it is the third baseman’s turn to take a hit. To keep it simple, this seat has more going for it than any other seat at the table.

A bad third base play can ruin the chances of winning for the entire table and a solid player in this position can make the table a winner by not hitting a hand when the dealer is showing a break card. One of the winning theories in Blackjack is let the dealer break when possible. This is known as playing for the dealer to break. A run of small cards just before it is the third base player’s turn to take a hit will help this player decide what to do when the dealer is showing a break card. When the last player sees the odds of a large card coming next, it makes sense to let the dealer have the card when the dealer is drawing to a potentially bad hand. Play from the third base seat, you will like it better than others at the table.

When live casinos were owned by individuals, and not big corporations, a player could get a comp without a great deal of trouble. The comp could range from breakfast or lunch to a dinner show and a free room. The pit boss made the decision based on the player’s action and if they were a consistent player at a certain level of wagers.

Online casinos rarely have a comp program like live casinos. The best they can come up with is matching bonuses on deposits and loyalty points based on the players activity.

Now days the comps are controlled by computers and playing cards that tally the players total play. Slot players have a card that they insert in the machine that keeps an accurate record of their wagers. Table game players need to get the attention of the pit boss and make him aware of their level of play. Buy in at the dice table with $500 or a $1000 dollars. Then bet as you want either high stakes or low wagers. The pit boss knows that you have the ability to roll for higher amounts if you want to so they are more interested in the buy in than the specific first wagers. This idea still works at some of the bigger casinos that are not completely new school.

Another way to bring the house into play is make a deposit with the cashier and then play off the computer card they give you that shows you have money on deposit with the house. This works well and the record of your play stays in the computer even if you do not go back for a while. I have used this to get comped in both Vegas and Reno.

One thing about live casinos that does not happen online is the level of excitement that flavors the ambiance of the casino. A hot dice table in a casino is like a huge magnet and people will flock to the table to watch and try to get up to the table so they can play. If the online casinos ever can bring that excitement to their games, the online industry will grow by another dimension. The play in a live casino is all about noise, bells and people yelling and groaning with the play of the dice, the spin of the wheel and the turn of a card. This is not captured online yet, but in a virtual casino it may be possible to do so someday.

Holdem poker can be played as a limit game or as a NL game. There is a huge difference between the two games. In a NL game a player can wager whatever amount of chips they have in front of them. In a limit game the maximum bet is set at the limit for the game. An example would be a 20/40 limit game that indicates the maximum wager after the deal is capped at $40. Raises could increase the total wagered, but the maximum single bet is $40.

In a NL game the wager could be any amount the player chooses to wager. This means that it is easier to protect your hand with a sizable bet. In a limit game the chasers can stick around hoping the river card comes in. This basic difference in the games makes a limit game harder to play good starting hands as you cannot make it very expensive to call. The limit bet will not protect a pair of aces. The one tactic that works in a limit game is check and raise as this play worries the player you are raising.

Another tactic that also causes pause is when a player with a good hand sandbags the hand and then jumps into the game by raising, after a card is dealt the flop. The card may not have helped at all, but the play is one that catches the other players off guard. You may have trips from the start and you were just setting the trap for the other players. Maybe one of them will have two pair and feel the need to reraise or just call.

In NL games it is much easier to bluff if the player has the guts to bet a bad hand twice or three times. Bluffing is an art and the player that can do it has an advantage in the game. However a bluff is hard to pull off in a limit game as the wagers are not big enough to make another player fold. Good p;ayers will mix in bluffing with solid card play and if they are caught bluffing they may have set up other players into calling if they think a bluff is being pulled off again.

NL is far different to play and takes courage to play as the wagers can become substantial very quickly in a full game. A player would be wise to play conservative at first and watch the play of the other players. Some will be very conservative and some will draw to a suited five seven. This information can be of use later in a hand if the player knows the tendencies of the other players.

Customer support is what sets one casino apart from another. A well trained staff that can answer most questions is a feature of this service that most casinos can make happen with a little effort on their part. The service should be available by all three of these methods to be rated as a top service. A player can contact this service through the phone, email and the best method is by Live Chat. Most questions should be answered with little to no delay.

Questions about credit card deposits are almost a standard question for US players as the casinos may or may not be able to process the players card deposit. This is a constant source of irritation for players as the law in the US is not applied in a consistent manner.

Another common use of the support service is find out about withdrawals and how and when they will be figured up and sent out. Each casino has its own withdrawal rules and there is no common set of rules except that they all are different. One of the basic questions that the support people have to answer is how is the bonus money on deposits handled. What are the play through requirements and are all games on the site worth the same as to play through rules.

Incorrect withdrawal amounts or an error in a deposit are serious concerns that need to get immediate and accurate answers. Players will tolerate many things but errors in the handling of their money is not one of the tolerated errors or mistakes.

Asking questions about games or bad behavior by a competitor in a poker game should be handled expeditiously, and with a true sense of what is wrong and right. Game answers need to be accurate and not educated guesses. Resolving player bad behavior may need to be handled with a waring and then if it continues kicking the offending player off the site permanently. The Internet allows a lot of jerks the immunity to be truly obnoxious and a site that tolerates these actions is going to lose civil players. Without a doubt the live casino would never tolerate what is seen on the Internet in poker games. A player is civil in a live casino or they are kicked out for a week or permanently. This makes for a civil game that is free from trash talk or berating of another players play. The result is a far more pleasurable game.

The broad categories of games in online casinos includes slots, table games and special games like Keno or lotteries. Under the category of table games a player will find Blackjack, roulette, Baccarat, and Craps of Dice. These four games can be played in a casino in such a way as to make the house edge as small as it can possibly be made. All but roulette can even approach zero or even show a player edge like there can be in Blackjack when the decks are high in ten value cards and low in small value cards. Major high rollers that play online or in live casinos are players that favor the better three games of Craps, Baccarat or Blackjack. Card counters love to play Blackjack as the shoes or decks of cards can favor the player for an extended period of time before being required to reshuffle the cards.

Playing craps correctly takes a while to learn how to wager in the right sequences. Players that take the odds behind come bets and pass line bets can cut the house edge to almost zero which means the winner will be determined by luck and not the house edge. Buying the four or the ten and paying the commission if you win is a great bet. Placing the six and the eight is the only way to bet these two numbers as the big six or eight bet is a sucker bet as the payoff is not the correct odds. Let the novices bet on the field as again the odds are higher than the payoff if you win.

The elegant game of roulette is fun to play, but there is no system that can guarantee a win.
Many players like the game as it has a mystic that the other games do not have. Couple this with the fact that almost every movie on casinos has a scene with well dressed players playing roulette. This is a visual signal that gambling is going on like what else would be happening in a casino.

Baccarat is a favored game of high rollers as once a shoe is set, the run of cards cannot be changed until the shoe is reshuffled. High rollers are truly attracted to this game as the house edge is minimal and the runs in favor of the bank or the players can be astounding. Any game with long runs is a game worth betting on. High rollers as a group like to bet on this game.

n the online world of casinos, there are several different kinds of casinos. There are poker casinos, slot casinos, casinos with only casino games or bingo games and casinos with casino games and a sportsbook. The casinos with a sportsbook are common to many full scale casinos like William Hill, Intercasino and Bodog Casino. These casinos have just about every gaming venue covered, but especially casino games and sportsbook betting. Many gamblers are sports betters and are not enthralled with playing casino games. They feel that the house edge is to much to overcome and that sportsbook betting is a better wager for them. Betting with a casino in this area includes, wagers on sporting events, wagers on horse races, wagers on major games like the Super Bowl or the World Series and in the UK wagers on political races or other non sports events like who might win an Oscar.

When a major heavy weight fight is scheduled, the sporting world goes a little crazy and there are many types of wagers available on this type event. A punter can bet on who will win, how many rounds the fight will last, how the fight will end, with a KO or a decision and will the fight go the distance. Horse racing bets are a favorite wager on big races or just to pass the time of day on any day the horses are running. This type of wagering takes a great deal of study to be a consistent winner. Horse betters are a studious type of gambler and will spend inordinate amounts of time in study in order to win a bet. Books love punters in this sport as most horse players still lose most of the time. However there are other side benefits of horse race betting as there is nothing more thrilling than a bobbing heads race from the top of the stretch to the finish line. Many of the best races of all time were completed in this manner and horse betters will always bring them to mind when discussing their favorite horse.

In the United States, the three major sports are bet heavily with football leading the way and then basketball followed by baseball. All three sports are bet during their season with a passion that is almost religious. That is the only way a person can explain the way people feel about their special team. Betting and rooting for your team is a big part of this kind of betting.

Sports betting is a huge money maker for online casinos. The amount of money bet during each sports season is mind blowing

This should be the goal of all gamblers. Setting loss limits and time constraints are the only way to meet this goal Gaming sessions of four hours are ideal as that length of time is okay as far as staying focused on the game. Loss limits per session keep a loss under control and from getting away from the player. The rules for these ideas for play are simple, set a fixed time for the session to end and a loss limit that you will not exceed. If you have only played for ten minutes and your loss limit is reached, you should walk away. Come back and try later after some time has passed.

Play in games that you like and are very familiar with and leave games that you do not know well alone or only play for a limited budget of money and a limited time frame. These ideas will have an effect on your comfort level and being comfortable makes it easier to win. A player’s knowledge of a game should help them play the game at a better level

When a winning session is going well, push it a little harder and stop if the winning ceases. The time to quit is if you lose back about one third of your winnings. Stating this idea is easy and following it in practice takes a great deal of personal discipline.

A final thought on this idea of leaving a gaming session a winner or close to even. If you started out badly and then recovered, this is hard to walk a way from when the game has turned onto your favor. Keep with your time limit. This will protect your winnings and let you relax a little and be fresh when you start again later. Violation of your set time limit is a slippery slope that you may well regret later. Stick with your game plan an try another session at a later time.