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Checking Out Hot New Casino Start-ups Around the Globe Online gambling is an area where changes are coming thick and fast, with new brands appearing out of nowhere to create huge customer bases, and established casinos finding the going hard due to upstart competitors. And the booming industry doesn’t seem to stop. Statista reports indicates a worldwide market growth the coming years ahead as wel...

Myths, Lies & Misconceptions About Slot Machines By Alex J. Coyne © 2018 Gifts for Card Players Slot machines are some of the most popular games on the casino floor – and for online play, too. And people really want to win. This has given rise to some really weird myths about slot machines, how they work and how people can supposedly beat the system. We took a closer look at some myths, lies...

Odds on the Floor by Alex J Coyne © 2018 Gifts for Card Players Beating the house at the casino is all about understanding and working with odds and probability. (Of course, it’s also about having fun while you’re doing it, but like we said, it’s about statistics!) So, we took a look at some odds around some of the most popular casino games. What are the odds of landing on even? How can you figu...

10 Casino Facts You Didn’t Know By Alex J. Coyne © 2017 Gifts for Card Players Even if you’re a seasoned veteran of the casino floor, we’re willing to bet on the fact that you might not have known about any of these cool, weird or otherwise unusual casino facts and statistics. Use the comments below the article to let us know of any weird facts you might know about! Gambling is officially illeg...

The Greatest Virtual PC Casinos By Alex J. Coyne © 2017 for Great Bridge Links You don’t always have to visit a casino to have the full casino experience. Check out our list of some of the best free, downloadable virtual casinos and casino games from the golden good old days of DOS through to PC’s and smartphones. For DOS DOS Games can be played on a Windows or Linux-PC by using an emulator – ...

Best Places to Play Card Games and Bingo Online by Jake Watkins - Special for Gifts for Card Players Playing cards online can sometimes be even more thrilling than doing so in person. In real life, you can read people’s expressions and so forth to try and get an idea of their hand and whether or not they may be bluffing. Online, however, your abilities are really put to the test as you are for...

What makes an online casino game most popular? Most of us would assume an online casino game is popular because it pays well, or it's easy to learn, or it can be found everywhere, or it uses some kind of advanced marketing technique. Truth is, the most popular games, typically slots, are popular because they're the ones people are talking about. The most popular online casino games are easy to r...

Casino in a taxi (and other strange casino facts) by Alex J. Coyne © 2017 Gifts for Card Players Did you know that the world’s largest slot machine tournament ever took place at Muckleshoot Casino in Washington, USA - with 3, 173 players hitting the machines simultaneously? Keep reading for more interesting, historical and just plain weird facts about casinos, or try your luck at some of the...

Five Ways Las Vegas Casinos Attempt to Manipulate Your Judgment by Margie Pignataro © 2017 Great Bridge Links One of the first things I learned at ten years old about gambling in Las Vegas casinos was that once you walk through the casino door, you are under the casino's influence. Casinos employ many subtle tactics to keep guests in the casino and gambling for as long as possible. As bizarre...

How to wrestle the one-armed bandit online The one-armed bandit is a slot machine, often called 'pokie' in Australia, short for poker machine. In the US it's referred to as a slot machine, in Britain sometimes a 'fruit machine', in Scotland a 'puggy' and almost everywhere it can be called the one-armed bandit - harkening back to when there was a lever on the side. You can find a great History of ...