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		<title>Gaming addiction is fairly difficult to recognize</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is truly hard to identify the real reason to recognize what is obsession and how it is brought about. Many people are suffering from gaming addiction and it is an actual ground to pry out the true reason for it. The emotional and the intellectual devotion with some things and a necessity of something [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is truly hard to identify the real reason to recognize what is obsession and how it is brought about. Many people are suffering from gaming addiction and it is an actual ground to pry out the true reason for it. The emotional and the intellectual devotion with some things and a necessity of something generated from inner side make the individual to completely depend on the game and to do anything to capture that taste of the extreme limit.</p>
<p>The basic reason for addiction is something above limit - when an individual wishes to do something out of control, not in an attitude of making any right settlement with respect to the right opportunity. Anyway, usually it might be similar to the drug addiction or some sort of gluttony and, surely, may be alcohol as well, when it&#8217;s associated with the gambling field. It could be the severe trouble when talking about the gamblers.</p>
<p>It is true that it&#8217;s pretty hard to find the cure for this addiction. According to a broad review and many other activities made on the same aspect, the individual that has these types of experiences - wins the game without any trouble, gains money again and again and could earn more and more money without confronting much difficulties during the game - is the main suspect to opt this kind of addictive activity, which is always playing in the gambling field. The income and the person&#8217;s winning capability when it boundlessly increases make them to not even think of quitting the gamble as they become more and more profitable and they gamble in such a manner that no one can stop them from playing over and over again. This increases the gambler&#8217;s necessity to gamble again and again, more and more, as this is does not take much effort to the player to win the game. The situation could as well arise when the need for money appears after having lost once, the player might want to play once again and then again and again, and again.</p>
<p>This addiction might become so destructing that it might take a form of a type of dent incident for any gambler that is addicted to gambling. If that happens, winning or losing the gamble will not be the issue then. Whatever the player will achieve, the addiction for the game will continue on prospering. If the addicted lost in <a href="http://www.blackjackencyclopedia.com/library/gaming-addiction-is-fairly-difficult-to-recognize.html">Blackjack</a> once, they will continue on playing, until they win. Thinking about them winning money again and again, for example, in <a href="http://www.blackjackencyclopedia.com/">Blackjack</a>, makes the gambler addictive, and makes the mind to not think of anything else. This makes the gambler to gamble and play at any chance. Such a player sells their personal things, such as clothing, and also manages some other sorts of illegal activities as well in order to have finances for gambling. A lot of thoughts similar to hopelessness or suicide could arise as well.</p>
<p>Many therapies and of course treatments for the gambling addicted are set to run fairly successfully. The treatment for the same is a great YES today. The psychotherapy takes a very significant place while caring about addicted within a group. The consequence for the treatment is only recognized when the person is completely recovered accommodating the entire process in a settled time period.</p>
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		<title>What is a Rake Race?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rake is that drip, drip of fees deducted from every pot you play (and, sometimes, from the entry fees you pay for tournaments or other &#8220;special events&#8221;). All the regular players who get into the action in the small to medium sized pots have already signed up for a rebate. To add extra excitement [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The rake is that drip, drip of fees deducted from every pot you play (and, sometimes, from the entry fees you pay for tournaments or other &#8220;special events&#8221;). All the regular players who get into the action in the small to medium sized pots have already signed up for a rebate. To add extra excitement to those players, some sites run races - usually over a calendar month - awarding points for the rake paid and the number of raked hands played. To let everyone see how well (or badly) they are doing, there&#8217;s a real-time leaderboard with the top one hundred (or more) being paid out at the end of the playing period. How many get paid depends on each competition and you should take time to read all the terms and conditions before you sign up. Some of the top players may be grinding through fifteen or sixteen hours of play per day - i.e. only stopping to sleep (and for other necessary functions). They will tend to sign up for the races where the prize money is high. If you are a more casual player, look for low volume competitions in smaller poker rooms. Obviously, this means the prize money is also significantly lower, but you can usually find the right competition for you when you balance out the potential for some race winnings alongside the additional loyalty and VIP bonuses and privileges you will earn if your volume of play increases. Always look at the bigger picture when choosing the race - the sites through which you signed up for a rake rebate will usually have a newsletter service to keep you up-to-date on the latest races being offered.</p>
<p>If you are serious about trying to win, what should you do? The first step is a warning. Always make sure you keep a limit on any losses. There is no point in continuing to play for the sake of winning a race only to find you are bankrupt at the end of the month. Similarly, always stay healthy. Get enough sleep and eat regular meals. Where the race is to find those who play more hands than anyone else, you have to play on multiple tables. If the winning line is solely the amount raked, you may have to play multiple tables - it depends on the value of the pots you play for and the rake percentages and caps. If the rake you pay only rarely exceeds the cap, you will have to play multiple tables.</p>
<p>To give yourself the best chances of winning a <a href="http://www.rakebackpokerlab.com/pages/what-is-a-rake-race">rakeback</a> race, play on multiple tables, always trying to find loose tables where people play more marginal hands. This also gives you the best chance of winning the game because you will see more flops and can play the odds better to take the pots away from the weaker players. However, this makes remembering every player&#8217;s style more challenging so, when playing multiple tables, using a heads-up display of stats and hand results gives you essential information. So, with these strategies in place, watch the leaderboard and avoid burning out. Even if you do not win the race, you will still get several hundred (or thousand) dollars of <a href="http://www.rakebackpokerlab.com/">rakeback</a> to add to your winnings.</p>
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		<title>Play free slots: Terminology</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you play play free slots online or enter a land casino, you have to know slot terminology. This is the jargon used in slot machines, so make sure you understand all the terms.  Slots terminology can be confusing to some. That&#8217;s why we have gathered all the terms related to slots and slots [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before you play <a href="http://www.best-slots-ever.com/">play free slots</a> online or enter a land casino, you have to know slot terminology. This is the jargon used in slot machines, so make sure you understand all the terms.  Slots terminology can be confusing to some. That&#8217;s why we have gathered all the terms related to slots and slots gambling. Regardless of whether you play <a href="http://www.best-slots-ever.com/online-slots-terminology.html">play free slots</a> online or are a fan of progressive slots in land casinos, these terms will be very helpful.  <em>Bet Max This button places the highest amount of coins allowed by the machine  Bonus Feature Any possible way of winning besides the typical payline combinations  Bonus Video Slot A video slot machine that has a bonus feature. There are may different features, but the most common most common are pick a box, free spins and wheel or fortune game style.  Buy A Pay A slot machine with multiple pay tables. With any additional coin played, you activate an additional pay tables. Consider max bets.  Buttons Interface of any slot machine that lets you interact with it.  Coins Currency used buy the slot machines to place bets.   Coin Size Actual value of the coins used in the machine  Double Up Typically found in Australian slot machines. Gives you a chance to multiply your win by 2 or 4 by choosing the color or card suit.  Fruit Machine The UK variation of slot machine that often features additions like the possibility to hold the reels, nudge and play bonus games.  Hi / Low A feature common for UK slots, which gives you the possibility to to double your win by guessing whether the next number will be lower or higher.  Hit Rate / Frequency How often the machine pays a winning combination. Is also used to denote the chance of hitting a bonus game.  Hopper The area of coin storage inside a real-world slot machine.  Jackpot The highest win the slot machine can pay  Linked Jackpot A network of slot machines in different casinos that share the same jackpot. Usually found on progressive slots.   Maximum Bet  The highest amount of coins allowed in the game.   Multi-Line A slot machine that has more than one payline to win.  Pay Line The line where the combination should line up for you to win.  Pay Out Percentage The pre-set percentage of bets that will be returned by the slot machine over the long term. Casinos cannot change this percentage.  Pay Table The chart outlining all th wins payed by the machine.  Pokies Slot machines in Australian slang  Progressive Jackpot Any jackpot that increases while the game is played.  A part of every bet is contributed to form the jackpot. Usually met in linked jackpots.  Random Number Generator (RNG)  The chip inside every slot machine that decides when the reels will stop.   Reels The drums inside the slot machine that spin when you press the button or pull the lever. Modern video slots use digital images instead of spinning drums.  Scatter Pay Typically found on video slots, a pay that wins without having to line up in the payline. Often found on bonus slot machines.  Slot Machine Any casino game machine that involves reels  Symbols The images displayed on the reels in the slot machine. Common symbols are bars, fruits and sevens.  Video Slot  A slot machine using a computer screen instead of physical reels to display the symbols.   Wild Symbol A symbol that substitutes other symbols. Acts like joker in card games.  Wild Multiplier A wild symbol that actually multiplies the win it makes a part of.   Winning Combinations  The combinations of symbols that win. Displayed on the pay table.</em></p>
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		<title>Reasons to Play Poker</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social rewards. This is a major reason behind the traditional home game. Many friends like to hang out and play cards, and many people become friends over the card table. If this is one of the major reasons you wish to play, stick with low stakes, where the games are more fun and friendly.
Entertainment. Poker [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Social rewards</em>. This is a major reason behind the traditional home game. Many friends like to hang out and play cards, and many people become friends over the card table. If this is one of the major reasons you wish to play, stick with low stakes, where the games are more fun and friendly.</p>
<p><em>Entertainment</em>. Poker is a competitive game. To win, one needs the skills and the bit of luck the game necessitates. Many find this enjoyable and compare poker to playing a sport. Make sure you don&#8217;t get swept up in the &#8216;entertainment&#8217; nature of poker, because it is possible to lose a lot of money at the game.</p>
<p><em>Education</em>. The skills necessary to become a good poker player apply well to other aspects of life. Poker will help you to improve your judgment skills (reading people) and sharpen your logical and strategic skills (how to play your hand).</p>
<p><em>To make money</em>. Most people play poker for fun, but some make considerable money at it. Of course, these people are few and far between. Not everyone can make a lot of money from poker.You an make a lot of money playing <a href="http://pokernaktionen.net/">pokerturniere and boni</a>. Nevertheless, the desire to win more is definitely a reason to improve your poker skills. Beste <a href="http://depokern.com/bwin-poker/">Pokerraum - Bwin pokerboni</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing my father taught me that&#8217;s become a kinda guiding principle, it&#8217;s that people without math live their lives in a fog. They&#8217;ve got no idea what they&#8217;re doing. An&#8217; you never see this more often than in a casino watching how people play the slot machines. So, just for a moment, I&#8217;m going [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One thing my father taught me that&#8217;s become a kinda guiding principle, it&#8217;s that people without math live their lives in a fog. They&#8217;ve got no idea what they&#8217;re doing. An&#8217; you never see this more often than in a casino watching how people play the slot machines. So, just for a moment, I&#8217;m going to slip into their mindset - give you a quick tour of how a gambler can fall into a trap. Need a drink first, though, to dull the pain.So, here I am, playing <a href="http://www.videopokerman.com">video poker</a>. I&#8217;m feeding the machine and keeping count of the number of times I do and don&#8217;t get winning combinations in the pay table. Got me some serious scientific study going on here! My video poker strategy is down pat! You see, to my way of thinking, there&#8217;s no such thing as a random sequence. The probability of any one thing happening is set by what went before. So, if I got me a winning hand, the law of averages says the odds of that happening again is poorer for the hands that come just after it. An&#8217; that&#8217;s true for the reverse as well. The longer I go without a winning hand, the more likely a big hand gets.</p>
<p>These folk live in a dream world. You ever watch a <a href="http://www.videopokerman.com/mistakes.html">Poker Dealer</a> wash and shuffle a deck of 52 cards fairly. Then the Dealer deals five cards to each player from that shuffled deck. The first card dealt comes with a 1 in 52 chance, the second with a 1 in 51 chance, and so on as the cards are dealt in turn. All the countries licensing video versions of card and dice games have laws. No country wants to kill the golden goose that&#8217;s laying all them tax eggs so they all want to see fair games. Players vote with their feet if they think a game&#8217;s crooked. That&#8217;s in no-one&#8217;s interest. So all casinos gotta match the odds of a real card game with a human dealer. You might be thinking these casinos&#8217;ll still be out to cheat you in some way - after all, wouldn&#8217;t nothing be easier than to tweak the software - and those countries&#8217;re probably corrupt, take a backhander and look the other way. But there&#8217;s no need to cheat. No matter how you cut it, the games make more&#8217;n enough money when played fairly. Even when serious professionals come out to play, the House has an edge.</p>
<p>So, on a video poker machine, the Random Number Generator (RNG for short) shuffles that virtual deck of 52 cards and pulls out your first five. Now sometimes, the slot machines sit with that randomized deck and deal the next cards off the top when you press draw. In others, that ol&#8217; RNG don&#8217;t know when to quit. It keeps on notionally shuffling the deck while you&#8217;re busy trying to decide what to do with your hand. The longer you take, the more times the RNG has cycled. Finally, you decide what you&#8217;re holding and hit the draw button. You get whatever&#8217;s on top of the deck at that precise moment. Wait a fraction of a second longer, and you get different cards. It don&#8217;t matter which wy the machines&#8217;re set up. The deck has a random distribution of cards.</p>
<p>What these dreamers in a fog never see clearly is the principle of statistical independence. This a fancy way of saying that events are unrelated - when the first occurrence has no effect on the second. When events are random. So when is a sequence of cards random? When the odds of you predicting the next card are no better than chance. It&#8217;s like tossing a coin. Every time you toss a coin, the chances of getting one of two sides is always 1 in 2. It never changes from one toss to the next.</p>
<p>So don&#8217;t you never fall into no gambler&#8217;s fallacy. There ain&#8217;t no deck of cards or dice that got a memory. They&#8217;re just the tools we use to gamble with. Sure these new video poker machines can have big memories but there ain&#8217;t no point to that. So long as they all got a RNG, all they&#8217;re doing is remembering the longest string of random numbers anyone&#8217;s ever bothered to collect.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;ll be getting back to the free online video poker - I&#8217;m looking over a new game. Ain&#8217;t no reason to pay to play. Just browsing for now.</p>
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		<title>Anyone wanna buy a system?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I got me a little snifter here. Jack&#8217;s been working his way through some freebies - a new supplier&#8217;s trying to break into supplying the casino. Reckons he needs to make sure all the right people get their taste of the good stuff and we&#8217;re both of us out to oblige him. Damn, but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I got me a little snifter here. Jack&#8217;s been working his way through some freebies - a new supplier&#8217;s trying to break into supplying the casino. Reckons he needs to make sure all the right people get their taste of the good stuff and we&#8217;re both of us out to oblige him. Damn, but some of this stuff is good! Makes me wanna give up the <a href="http://www.videopokerman.com/">poker</a> and the slot machines, and settle down with a bottle or two to enjoy my retirement.  Anyways, the young fellah just called. Caught me in a mellow mood for once. He thinks - well, we can suspend judgement on that for so long as he keeps paying me - he thinks I should explain myself. In one piece I&#8217;m saying there&#8217;s, &#8220;a proper mathematical playing strategy for <a href="http://www.videopokerman.com/anyone-wanna-buy-a-system.html">video poker</a>.&#8221; In the next, I&#8217;m saying there&#8217;s a gambler&#8217;s fallacy and you can&#8217;t predict the cards. He thinks they doesn&#8217;t fit right together.  So here&#8217;s a few words to make it all crystal.  Did you ever see Ocean&#8217;s 11 - don&#8217;t matter whether it was the original Rat Pack version or the new ones with George Clooney and his pals? Did you notice how they always robbed the casinos. There was never a hint of walking through the door with a system for winning at the tables or on the slot machines. Hollywood got it right for once. The only way you guarantee a big score at a casino is as a thief - and you&#8217;ve to be lucky to enjoy your &#8220;takings&#8221; and avoid the hail of bullets if you get caught by wrong people.  Look around online. You&#8217;ll see a small army of people touting their systems for beating all casino games with a house advantage. Play slot machines, win big. Win at blackjack without counting. When I was growing up, my mother used to play 78s all the time. She loved the musicals of the 1920s. She&#8217;d never been on the chorus line, but she&#8217;d a hankering for it. Her parents disapproved of theatrical folk and that was an end of that. Anyways, one of my favorites was Banana Oil - kinda like snake oil but always applied to lounge-lizard lines. &#8220;When he tells you, &#8216;I adore you,&#8217; that&#8217;s banana oil.&#8221; In other words, everything he said to get his mark into bed was bullshit.  Well, the same goes for all these salesmen pushing betting systems for slot machines. They&#8217;re trying to scam you outa your money. Take it from me. There ain&#8217;t no system around that even dents the House edge on games where the probabilities are set in the House&#8217;s favor. Math is math. Mind you. It&#8217;s not my money - you wanna fool yourself you can shade the odds in your favor on video poker, then feel free.  So, how do these systems work? You&#8217;re supposed to base your bets on the most recent outcomes. Take roulette as an example. Wait for a run of blacks, then bet on red - the longer the run, the bigger the bets on red. If you see a pattern emerging, you&#8217;re supposed to think that the probabilities of the game itself have changed. When I worked for casinos, we always nodded wisely when someone cautiously asked if they could play a system. Another little chicken ripe for the plucking.  My father was counting deaths by the million over decades for the life companies. Probabilities and statistics only make sense in the long view. Short-term, you&#8217;ll find anomalies in all slot machines but, over time, the basic patterns are set in stone and in the House&#8217;s favor. You&#8217;ll see lucky streaks that look like they&#8217;re never going to end. But, so long as the House keeps its nerve, the winner will lose it all back again.  It&#8217;s the same with the so-called systems. They aim to build up the small wins to offset the big losses. If you&#8217;ve the bankroll, you can often win over a session. But you&#8217;re obsessional kind, ain&#8217;t ya? You&#8217;ve invested that money in a system. You&#8217;re not going to quit while you&#8217;re ahead, are you? Which means that any small winnings you picked up on the good days will all get given back to the casinos on the bad days. It&#8217;s just the way the House edge works. Like I say, you can&#8217;t beat the math.  Which leaves me with my strategy, which I&#8217;ll get back to when I&#8217;m good and ready.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[This computer communicated its decisions to the player with buzzes and taps on the sole of the player&#8217;s foot. It was not easy to use one of these devices. It essentially entailed learning to &#8220;type&#8221; with your big toes. Even once you had memorized the codes. inputting them via the toe switches was a chore. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This computer communicated its decisions to the <a href="http://www.onlinepokerlabs.com">player with buzzes</a> and taps on the sole of the player&#8217;s foot. It was not easy to use one of these devices. It essentially entailed learning to &#8220;type&#8221; with your big toes. Even once you had memorized the codes. inputting them via the toe switches was a chore. It took weeks or even months of practice to get to the point where you could use the device at casino-dealing speed without foot cramps stopping you.</p>
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		<title>Keith Taft</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1984. w en it was still legal to use computers in the casinos. Keith Taft hired me to write an operating manual for his &#8220;David&#8221; computer. which was the computer Ken Uston later referred to as &#8220;George.&#8221; Here&#8217;s how it worked:
In the toe of each shoe there were two &#8220;switches,&#8221; or buttons-one above each [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 1984. w en it was still legal to use computers in the casinos. Keith Taft hired me to write an operating manual for his &#8220;David&#8221; computer. which was the computer Ken Uston later referred to as &#8220;George.&#8221; Here&#8217;s how it worked:<br />
In the toe of each shoe there were two &#8220;switches,&#8221; or buttons-one above each big toe and one beneath-for a total of four switches. Each switch conveyed a different code to the computer, which was a small epoxy-encased device that was strapped to the calf beneath the trousers. The computer itself was about the size of a pack of cigarettes, but thinner. By using a series oftoe taps, kind of like Morse code, the player could relay to the computer everything it needed to know in order to make a decision in a blackjack game-which cards had already been dealt, what cards the player held, and the dealer&#8217;s upcard. </p>
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Griffin Investigations, Inc., of Las    Vegas, Nevada. This  is an outside  agency that casinos can contract for assistance in combating cheats, crooks,  and other undesirables. So why is it being mentioned here? Because, as ridiculous as this sounds, in most cases card  counters are lumped right alongside  [...]]]></description>
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Griffin Investigations, Inc., of Las    Vegas, Nevada. This  is an outside  agency that casinos can contract for assistance in combating cheats, crooks,  and other undesirables. So why is it being mentioned here? Because, as ridiculous as this sounds, in most cases card  counters are lumped right alongside  these criminals. Griffin  maintains an extensive electronic  database, and can be contacted at any time to help the casino identify  an individual considered a threat to its bottom line. <br />Something about the <a href="http://www.tenandace.com/strategy.html">black jack play online</a><br />
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 and sone features of online casinos and Internet.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where does a dealer 18 leave our players? Player  Number One made
  the correct move by doubling down, but  unfortunately the dealer ended with a higher total. Betsy loses both her  original bet and her second wager, the double down. The dealer loses to Player  Number Two, and pays Patrick [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where does a dealer 18 leave our players? Player  Number One made<br />
  the correct move by doubling down, but  unfortunately the dealer ended with a higher total. Betsy loses both her  original bet and her second wager, the double down. The dealer loses to Player  Number Two, and pays Patrick an amount equivalent to his original bet. Jim from  the Sunshine State  had previously busted. His cards and wager were removed at the time that  occurred. Likewise, Glen had been dealt a blackjack&mdash;his cards were removed and  a payoff had been made earlier in the hand. Our last player, Nancy, is the big  winner this round, with a payoff equal to three times her original bet for two  hands that both totaled higher than the dealer&#8217;s. The stand-alone 21 gets paid  even money, as does the second 3, which then became part of a double down.There are endless variations to the above,  but  that&#8217;s the general flow for how a typical hand might unfold, <a href="http://www.blackjackencyclopedia.com/ ">Special blackjack</a>. After the dealer&#8217;s  cards are totaled, wagers are paid, taken away, or left on the table, depending  on whether the player has won, lost, or tied the dealer. It&#8217;s a good <a href="http://www.blackjackencyclopedia.com/ ">Blackjack Trainer</a><br />
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