Archive for April, 2007

Wagering in Atlantic City

by Eduardo on Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

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Betting in Atlantic City, first made legal in Nineteen Seventy Eight, has provided an awesome increase to the economy. As a result, Atlantic City is now a huge tourist industry, with millions of visitors each year, spending billions of dollars for enjoyment.

When you think of gambling in Atlantic City, you’ll more than likely to think ‘Poker’. In excess of 50 million people play poker at a minimum once a month and Atlantic City offers a number of the greatest casino poker rooms in the state.Just about all of these are situated along the Boardwalk and in the Marina area. The Sands, Bally’s, and Harrah’s are relatively small in comparison to some of the other gambling casinos, but they offer many low-limit poker tables and daily tournaments in Texas Hold’Em, five-Card Stud, and omaha eight-or-better poker.

The poker rooms at the Sands, Bally’s Wild Wild West, and many of the other casinos provide a substantial number of non-smoking tables for poker players. The Tropicana has televised sports events that are viewable from each and every table. The Tropicana also has the Trop Poker Club, open 24/7, in which members can accumulate between 50 cents to $2.00 each hour for each real life poker game they compete in. This Trop money can be used for room, diner, or beverage credit and are simply another incentive to compete in poker.

Gambling in Atlantic City is frequently closely identified with the incredibly well-known Trump Taj Majal, which introduced the very first non-smoking poker room. It features in excess of 70 tables, where you will be able to participate in most types of poker, including but not limited to 7-Card Stud, Texas Hold-em, and omaha high, for a tiny buyin of one dollar all the way up to $600. Daily tournaments, hi-low poker games, and 2 annual tournaments, which includes the United States Poker Championship and the Trump Classic. The Taj Majal, as well as numerous other casinos, provide complimentary poker classes for the newcomer. If you’re gaming in Atlantic City and looking for luxury and elegance, you will need to think about the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa and Caesar’s.

Gambling in Atlantic City has breathed new life to a decaying city. Discover wagering in Atlantic City; it is thrilling and enjoyable.

An Internet Wagering Cyclopedia

by Eduardo on Monday, April 16th, 2007

Despite the reality that internet wagering is now a many billion dollar business, and endless thousands of new bettors world-wide log on daily to gamble at internet casinos, there are still millions of newcomers to the world of web betting who do not as yet have a good comprehension of much of the doublespeak employed in internet wagering, and betting on athletics in general. Notwithstanding, insight of these ideas is necessary to understanding the games and rules of gambling:

ACTION: Any style of bet.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has risked all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the wagerers with additional chips.

ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the same event.

ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a specified value of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.

BRING-IN: A required bet in seven-card stud made by the gambler showing the smallest value card.

BUST: You don’t win; As in 21, when a gambler’s cards exceed a value over 21.

BUY-IN: The minimum amount of money necessary to enroll in a game or event.

CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a already made bet.

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without wagering. This is acceptable only if no other players wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to lay a bet on par with but opposite of the starting wager.

COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.

COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has established her point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to arrive at a number, or the 1st toss after a number has been achieved.

COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the numbers on a bingo sheet.

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, three or twelve is an immediate defeat on the come-out roll.

DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the 1st two events of the day.

DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an action will be lower than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on one or more of 3 groups of 12 numbers, 1-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletics wager, which means to bet on a team or player to win or medal in an match.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same sum as wagered, ( one to one ).

EXACTA: wagering that two horses in a event will complete the race in the exact identical assignment as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a grouping of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.