Roulette is a fascinating game of luck. It has a great following in the gambling dens. The regulated European and American casinos love it (ah! It offers a very high house edge). Roulette has also made a beautiful transition to the online casino houses. Today, most of the top online gambling site offers Roulette.

Chiefly, Roulette is of two kinds: the American and the European variation. The European Roulette has one zero and the American Roulette has 2 zeroes. Naturally, the later holds a far bigger house edge. In fact, a simple calculation would suggest that an American Roulette has a 5.26 percent house edge, if you play your money on reds or evens or green or odds.

For instance, if you place your bet on all the odd numbers, your winning probability is (18/38) x 100. This is equivalent to 47.37 percent. Summing up, the house edge is 100- (47.37×2) or 5.26 percent. For the European casinos, the house edge is subsidized but is still a worthwhile figure of 2.7 percent.

For a game that holds such a big house edge, more often, it is the players who are at the receiving end. So there is no special way of beating the roulette board. Yes, if you are lucky and the liquidity taps are running full then run away as far from the casino as you can, once you bottle up some money.

You can try the Martingale or Labouchere or some other systemic variation. It teaches you to play exponentially. This means that you have to keep betting in double-ups till you finally win. This proposition is faulty as you won’t have enough money to play if you are not lucky for the first ten times.

Think about it. If you start betting with 10 USD, your 25th bet will be 1.6 billion dollars. This then is a dubious style of betting. Yes, you will have the chances of squaring all the losses made through the past defeats but you can only live to see the sun if you win by the 7th or 8th hand.

You can also look to bet on the same given number till the time it finally comes. Place 10 dollars on it till the luck of draw smiles at you. Having said this, this again is only a viable proposition if you can win by the 30th shot. This is because you can’t discount the house edge which is a mammoth 5.26 percent.

Overall, the best way suggested by the masters is to come to the Roulette Board at lengthy intervals and play double or nothing kind of bets. No other strategy will work. If your day is good, you might be a king. Keep shuffling the roulette boards following your lucky directions. The red or black bets and the odd or even bets are by far the most promising. Despite the house edge, these provide a greater flicker of hope. Idea is to shy away from greed and exponential winnings once you are on the Roulette Board.

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Forbid the thought of taking a break from poker, but it is inevitable.  It happens to everyone.  To pros and amateurs, alike.  The day that comes when you finally admit to yourself that you are overdue for a break.

When your mind has gotten fuzzy, when your bankroll has started sliding, when nothing has gone right, when everything you have tried has failed, and when you have blamed everyone but yourself, that is when it is time for a break.  Simply put:  you have been working too hard.  Your mental circuits have grown weary.  Your mind and body need some time to recover. 

Think of a break as nothing more than a well deserved vacation.  And, we all need vacations, no matter how much we love our jobs.  Whenever you take a vacation, remember how you return with that feeling of being able to conquer the world?  It is the same way when you take a break from poker.  I am on a two-week break right now.  My mind had gotten all mixed up.  After a nice, long winning streak, suddenly I started backwards.  The harder I tried to stop the fall, the worse it got.  Finally, I threw in the towel, and put myself on the injured list.

Today, a large part of poker weariness is a consequence of on-line play.  There are great hazards of playing too much and too often.  And, of taking for granted declining performance.  Some faulty reasoning circuit tends to overlook the obvious in favor of hope.  Especially, when hope is presumably only a mouse click away.  When you add lots of other issues, like neglect of family, neglect of exercise, and eye strain, it should be easy to appreciate the result:  poker mental meltdown.

I am pretty sure that that was my condition when I began my break.  But, it is hard to know for sure, because our rascally minds can play so many dirty tricks.  For example, when we are losing badly, our minds will convince us to keep playing because we are due or overdue to start winning.  Or, convince us that a weak hand is really strong, since we have not had a decent hand in hours.  And of course, if you are not thinking clearly, how can you possibly know that you are not thinking clearly?  That must be the ultimate poker conundrum.

So, what will I be doing with all of this extra time?  For one, I have started reading a new poker book.  And, that is already proving to be my next best recent poker decision.  (My best recent poker decision was to take a break.)  Not only have I been enlightened about several of my playing mistakes, I have also learned some new ways of thinking about my game.  Probably, any good poker book would suit this purpose.  I suppose that it is merely the changed perspective that helps most.

Of course, I did not realize I was making any mistakes at the time.  Or, perhaps I did, but not consciously.  Anyway, hindsight is 20-20, and that is what really matters.  The process of becoming mentally able to sort through everything is what is important.  It is a form of healing.  And, the deeper the wounds, the longer the healing process.

The good news is that eventually one will recover.  Of this I am certain, because over the years this is not my first break.  There have been many before, and some lasting for months.  So, do not be hesitant or remorseful about taking a break from poker.  You will not forget how to play, and the games will darn for sure still be there when you get back.  Indeed, I can promise that you will return with more energy, and a clearer, sharper mind.  More importantly, you will return as a mentally and physically stronger player than before you left. 

As a test, ask yourself this:  right now, am I playing because I feel compelled to play, or simply because I enjoy and want to play?  If your answer is the former, then it is time for your break, too.

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When you win at the dog track, it’s a good feeling. Very often, when someone wins, they turn around and invest their winnings in their next bet. It’s the worst thing they can do, even if they win, and here’s why.

Over thirty years of betting on dogs has taught me that the people who make a profit at the dog track, never spend all of their winnings on bets. They always keep some money back, even if they’ve hit so many bets that they’re way ahead for the day.

The losers I know, though, are the bettors who think that the time to bet big is when you’re on a roll. While I agree that it makes sense to take advantage of “lucky streaks”, betting too much at a time just because you’re winning isn’t good betting policy.

My advice is to always keep a portion of your winnings back when you bet, even when you’re winning big. That way, if you lose later on, you’ll have a stake for your next outing and money besides for daily expenses. Somehow, no matter how we pay attention to our money, there are always unforeseen expenses that crop up and deplete our bankroll.

So, next time you hit a nice trifecta or quiniela, put a percentage of your money back into your wallet and leave it there, no matter what happens during the rest of the program. If you don’t, there’s a real chance that you’ll end up the day wishing that you had, as you go home with less than you came with.

In fact, the best plan is to decide even before you go to the track, how much money you’re going to deduct from your winnings every time you win. That way, you won’t even have to think about it. You’ll just automatically put that amount aside and go on with the bets you had intended to make.

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You have seen a lot of online casinos offering no deposit bonuses for their potential players to try the casinos’ games. What you need to do is sign up a real player account, and no-deposit bonus will be instantly credited into your player’s account (some online casinos required you to enter your credit card number for verification purpose). You can use this no-deposit bonus for real plays and keep your winnings if you win. Have you wondered why the online casinos offer the no-deposit bonuses? If you are uses to play at online casinos, you probably know the reason behind, but if you are new to online gambling, you probably will be very happy to accept the no deposit bonuses and thanks to online casinos for giving you the free money.

Is that the story? Definitely not. Online casinos have no different than other businesses which like to make profit from this customers. They won’t offering free stuff without a marketing purpose. However, in the players’ stand points, no-deposit bonuses are good, especially when they want to test the playing an environment of an online casino. In the casino’s stand points, no-deposit bonuses serve 3 purposes:

1. Attract New Players To Sign Up A Real Player Account

No-deposit bonuses are among the most effective entry point for new players to an online casino. Those who are new to online gambling and would like to try the games will search around the internet to look for online casino’s offers, but most of them tend to not sign up with a real player account or make a deposit with their credit card because they have no experience with the online casino; what they tend to do is go and search for the information such as the casino reputation, payout percentage, playing environment, customer support & etc from various online forums and reports to get more information on the online casino they are interested in. Online casino operators understand the worries of these new players; Therefore, they let these new players have a trial on the casino’s games without the need for them to make any deposit, they can play with the no-deposit bonus once they have opened a real player account.

2. Build Online Casino’s Prospect List

Not all players who have opened a real player account will make a deposit after playing with the free money. But, once the player has signed up a real player account to claim for no-deposit bonus, he/she needs to provide valid contact information in order to be eligible for the bonus, or the player won’t be able to withdraw the winning if he/she provides false identity. Hence, the valid contact information can be added into the casino’s prospect list for future marketing purpose. The online casinos will send their new promotions and marketing messages to the list from time to time, part of the prospect list can be converted to real players with this efforts.

3. Encouraging Players To Make 1st Deposit

Online gambling is one of the most additive games that makes people tend to continue playing once they get started. The online casinos offer the no-deposit bonus for new players with purpose of getting them to start playing the casino’s games. Players who play and win initially, but loss all the no-deposit bonus at the end tend to make their 1st deposit to recover their losses, this the natural human greedy behavior. Once the players have made their 1st deposit, most often the players will become the casino’s royal customers. Hence, the no-deposit bonuses are offered to make the new player to become additive and encourage them to make their 1st deposit to the online casino.

Summary

No-deposit bonuses work in win-win situation for both online casinos and the players. In casino’s point of views, the bonuses serve 3 purposes mainly to encourage new players to move their first step to play with real money.

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