Collusion
Collusion is by far the easiest, and therefore most dangerous, manner to cheat. It is virtually impossible to catch players in collusion, and even more difficult to prove it.

Exploiting Opponents' Weaknesses
A great deal is made of a skill called 'game selection' - being able to select the right game for your level of ability, for your style of play and for the quality of opponents in that game.

Short-handed Play
We've all seen it a hundred times. That annoying player who, whenever the game gets short-handed, turns into what appears to be a maniac. He's betting, he's raising, he's re-raising - and completely dominating the game. To the beginner, or to those inexperienced in short-handed play, he appears to have no idea of how to play.

False Shuffling
False shuffling allows the dealer to give the impression of mixing up the cards randomly when the cheat is actually manipulating the deck to place certain cards in certain places.

Knowing the Signs
Sleight of hand experts can perform tricks that you know before you without you noticing. Also, if you do not spot any of the 'popular' maneuvers, you may feel that they were not used when you were, in fact, cheated.

Marked Cards
Depending on how professional a cheat is, cards can be marked as outright obvious, noticeable up close, or not noticeable at all.

Poker Etiquette
Matters of poker etiquette are not rules, per se, but manners. Yet, they relate to the orderly maintenance of the game and civility among those who participate in the game.

Shifting the Cut
Shifting the cut is the sleight of hand solution around the protection of cutting the deck. Honest players developed the tendency towards cutting the deck as a way to foil second dealing, bottom dealing, and peeking.

Sleight of Hand
Much cheating occurs through the perfection of sleight of hand in manipulating cards in the deck. This is facilitated by a special manner of holding the deck to perform these cheating maneuvers. One such way of holding the deck is called the Mechanic's Grip.

Poker and the Law
Several state laws of Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and the Canadian Criminal Code.

Online Casino Featuring Super Bowl Flash Blackjack
Taking advantage of the new Macromedia Flash 7.0 casino software many online casinos are now featuring bigger and better instant flash casino games. The gap between downloadable software and instant Flash software offered by your favorite online casino is shrinking rapidly. Blackjack is just one online casino game that has gained much popularity in the Flash instant version. Check your favorite online casino to see if they offer Flash blackjack games online. There are also many Sportsbooks & Racebooks websites that are also making use of the Flash instant technology. With each release of the instant Flash software the games are become more and more realistic, more fun to play and very smooth.

Choctaw Casino Adds Blackjack Tables
DURANT, Texas - The Choctaw Casino started gearing up for new gaming machines and card games immediately after the passing of SQ 712 in the November election. Blackjack will be the first new card game and will make its official start Feb. 21.

Flash Blackjack a Hit at Oasis
CURACAO, N.A. -- (PRESS RELEASE) -– With its new Macromedia Flash (7.0) casino software less than a week old, Oasis Casino, Sportsbook & Racebook (www.oasiscasino.com) is pleased to report that the interactive blackjack games are an unqualified success. Since going live on Friday, January 4th at 12 Noon ET, the results generated by the program launch have exceeded the company's initial projections.

Bilingual blackjack
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba Lotteries Corporation has partially lifted a ban on French in the province's casinos by allowing bilingual blackjack tables twice a week.

Ohio mulls gambling proposals
An American Indian tribe's proposal to build up to nine casinos in Ohio has created a buzz cross the Buckeye State, but it is only one of several proposals to bring gambling to Ohioans who are traveling to other nearby states to try their luck at blackjack, roulette or other Las Vegas-style games of chance.

Try Roulette
You may have itched to try roulette ever since you heard Captain Louis Renault say he was "shocked, shocked" to find it being played at Rick's Cafe Americain in Casablanca. It's a good game for solid citizens seeking a leisurely pace, a menu of bets with a range from highly probable small wins to remotely possible big returns, and almost nothing they can do to look foolish...

A Look at Roulette
The game of roulette isn't nearly as intimidating as craps. There's a good chance you may even have played it at home with a miniature plastic version of the roulette wheel and a felt layout. The basic premise of the game is picking numbers, or guessing red or black or odd or even. Today we'll take a look at Roulette with an emphasis on the wide variety of bets that are available to you...

Exposing Roulette Wheel Secrets
Casino operators take great measures to preserve the integrity of their games, both for the protection of their own interest as well as that of the betting public. These measures include surveillance cameras that monitor the players and the dealers, and fresh decks of cards and brand new dice every day at the table games...

Not All Gambling is One Spin at Russian Roulette
Nobody plays a fancy new slot machine because it's intellectually stimulating. Or because the action, in and of itself, is inherently fascinating, let alone fun. Video versions of games you found boring when you were 10 years old? C'mon now! Solid citizens pump in the pennies hoping to win money. Or, at least, to earn points for free meals at the all-you-can-eat buffet...

 

Roulette Signatures
Roulette dealers get into a rhythm. They pick up the ball from the pocket where it last hit the same way each time. They then spin it the same way each time, with the same force. Thus, the ball will spin the same number of spins and should land the same number of pockets away from the last spin. This unconscious ability or trait to place the ball, not so much in a given section, but a given distance from the last hit is called dealer signing or a dealer signature...

Fun and (Table) Games: Try Craps
You may have been drawn to craps by the roar of solid citizens caught up in the action, then found it too intimidating to try. Fear not. The game is little more than betting on how a pair of dice will land. And, on any toss, your wager may win, lose, or be unaffected by the result...

Craps Gold
What do the following sayings have in common?
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
"Better late than never."
"High fences make good neighbors."
"Always play the Pass/Come and take full odds."...

Craps A to Z
If you are a craps expert, you should know all the craps odds, and how much every bet pays off. You should know the difference between the place, buy and come odds, all the prop and hardway odds, and exactly how much to place behind a passline bet at a 2X, 5X or 10X odds casino. If you know all this you really are an expert...

Are You Trendy?
Craps players love to discover, uncover, capitalize and ride trends at the craps tables.
The thinking goes that if several people have sevened-out just after establishing the point, then the table is cold and most likely it will continue to stay cold for a while. If a shooter has hit several nines in a row before sevening out, then the next shooter, if he should hit a nine, is more likely to hit another nine than, say, a five, which has the same probability of hitting as does a nine...

 

A Craps Bull Session
"I've won a lot of money playing craps," a friend was telling me as he set off for Hollywood Casino in Aurora, Illinois. "Lost a lot, too." That's normal, I told him. If the shooter makes a lot of points in a row, most of the table is likely to win big. If he doesn't, well, the money goes faster at the craps table than anywhere else in the house...

Basic Slots: Features & Strategies
Three features that should dictate any slot players' search for basic slots are:
First, single payline in your quest to stretch your gambling bankroll...

Where Should I Go to Play Slots?
A question I hear all the time is: "Where's the best place to play the slots?" It is very difficult to answer generically. It would be similar to asking a restaurant critic: "Where's the best place to eat?" In both cases, it all depends on your tastes. A gourmet would have to categorize his answer according to different cuisine. Similarly, I have to know what denominations and types of machines you prefer...

What Price Entertainment?
I've noticed a growing trend.... now instead of finding happy gamblers playing the newer slots, I am instead finding clumps of gamblers piled into the remaining "old" slots.... standing room only for the video pokers... and it is getting harder and harder to find an uncrowded group of video keno machines. Could it be that the entertainment factor, the big draw to the newer slots, is wearing thin?...

New Year's Resolutions for Slot Players
There's something about the start of a new year that makes us want to wipe the slate clean and begin a fresh outlook on life. We set goals, resolve to break bad habits and replace them with good ones. For now, put those thoughts about buying a treadmill or bringing a salad to work for lunch aside and concentrate on how to become a better slot player...

 

Bonus Video Slots
Bonus Slots, today's popular trend, are the most fun, graphically loaded, glitziest slots to come along in a long time. When I think how I laughed at my video arcade friends back then, but guess who's playing these arcade party machines now?...