Slots: The most popular form of betting.

Slot machines have been around since the 1800s. People loved them from the start, and the more time passed, the more popular and the more cherished slots have become. Starting off as a reel with four spinning drums encased in a nice box, moving on to giant arcade-like machines, and nowadays, digitized, pretty much like everything else in the world thanks to the advancement of technology.

But what makes slots so popular? It all started off when you’d find a slot machine in a bar, paying a coin and pulling the lever to spin the drums, we all know how it goes, however the first ever slot machines were built with 5 reels, each holding 10 cards from a normal 52 card deck. Two cards were cut out of the deck to give the “house” the winning edge. The game depended on how good a hand your 5 cards would give you in a game of poker, where if the player gets a decent hand, the machine wouldn’t give them any money, instead the player would get free drinks of cigarettes from the bar. No wonder people were so entertained!

Nowadays, it’s not just about entertainment when playing slot machines. There’s some slots out there that can win you really really… REALLY big money, costing you nothing but a quarter… if you’re lucky enough! The evolution from slots with physical reels (which were the most popular machine games in the world), to the video slots we know of today happened in the late 1990s. Video slots then became one of the most well-known images one would imagine when thinking of a casino. In fact, well-known casinos would have thousands of video slot machines, all ready to be played by visitors, each having different features, animations and themes. The selection would be endless!

Nowadays, one can even play slots from wherever they are, whenever they like, over any device like their smartphone or computer or tablet. There are hundreds of online casinos and betting companies that feature hundreds of different themed online slots you can easily access and play online, all you need is an internet connection. Sometimes it’s not easy to identify which online slot game you want to play, one can check out the best unibet slots, ,for example.

It’s known worldwide that there are some slot machine players out there who really did win mega jackpots from a simple pull of a lever or push of a button. The world’s largest slot machine jackpot recorded in history happened in 2003, where a lucky 25 year old software engineer from Los Angeles had hit a life-altering win on a Megabucks machine at the Excalibour Hotel Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, going home almost 40 million US dollars richer than he was when he left.

What are the true odds against winning ‘outside’ bets in roulette?

Confusingly, ‘outside’ bets in roulette are so-called not because they offer an outside chance of winning – they offer odds of 1/1 or 2/1 so, in fact, the exact opposite – but simply because of their position on the roulette table. The bets available are red/black, odd/even and first 18/second 18, all at 1/1, and first/second/third column and first/second/third dozen, both at 2/1.

Of course, the presence of a green single zero, on a European roulette wheel, and an extra green double zero – and, in some cases, an additional green triple zero – on an American roulette wheel, is what creates the ‘house edge’ and reduces the probability of winning outside bets. On a European roulette wheel, an even money bet on, say, red or black, does not have a 50% chance of winning, but rather a 48.64% chance, while bets on any column or dozen have a 32.4%.

On an American roulette wheel, an extra green double zero pocket also puts paid to all outside bets and increases the house edge to 5.26% from 2.70% when compared to single-zero roulette. In the double-zero version, the probability of a winning 1/1 bet is further reduced to 47.38%, while the probability of a winning a 2/1 bet becomes 31.58%. Triple-zero roulette, which is becoming increasing popular in Las Vegas and elsewhere, does the player fewer favours still, other than offering a lower table minimum stake than the double-zero version. For this ‘privilege’, the player pays an extra 2.5%, in terms of house edge, while the probability of winning outside bets is further reduced, to 46.15% and 30.77%, respectively.

The Do’s And Don’ts Of Betting

Betting is one of the easiest and hardest things that you will ever try to do. This is because when it comes to betting, you are not sure if you are going to win or if you are going to lose. However, what we do know are the things that you are supposed to do when you are betting. That is why we have the do’s and don’ts of betting. Please note that these rules apply to all types of betting, be it you are playing games at online casinos, or you are engaging in sports betting.

The Do’s of Sports Betting

When you are engaging in betting you need to make sure that you do the following:

  1. Use a trusted, safe and secure site
  2. Always make sure that you set a budget
  3. Sign up with many sites as they will have different games as well as different odds
  4. Make sure to take advantage of the bonuses as well as the rewards
  5. Play live online casino games such as online baccarat, or live sports betting
  6. Always and we mean always make sure that you read and understand all the terms and conditions
  7. Check for banking methods that you can use on the site
  8. Read players reviews to find out what type of site you are betting at
  9. Check if you can engage in betting on your mobile phone
  10. Always make sure that you have fun.

The Don’t Of Betting

When betting these are things that you need to stay away from

  1. Chasing your looses, this will only result in more losses
  2. Getting greedy, as you will end up losing more than you could gain
  3. Betting when you are too emotional, you will make the wrong choice
  4. Betting when you intoxicated as you will regret it
  5. Betting on your favourite team, it will end in tears

How do you play craps?

Craps is, of course, a gambling game in which players bet on the outcome of a single roll, or a series of rolls, of two dice. Craps offers numerous betting opportunities, but the main wager, around which the game is structured, is the so-called ‘pass line’ bet.

A pass line bet typically takes more than one roll to decide. The pass sequence starts with the first roll of the dice, known as the ‘come out’ roll. If the first number rolled is 7 or 11, a pass bet wins straight away but, similarly, if the first number rolled is 2, 3 or 12, a.k.a. ‘craps’, a pass bet loses straight away. Any other number establishes, or sets, a ‘point’; thereafter, for a pass bet to win, the shooter must roll the point number again before he or she rolls a 7, or ‘sevens out’. Winning pass bets pay even money, or 1/1, and offer a low house edge of 1.41%. Alternatively, if a point has already been set for pass bettors, players can place a similar bet, known as a ‘come’ bet, the sequence for which starts with the next roll of the dice. The odds, and the house edge, for a come bet are identical to those for a pass bet.

In a bricks-and-mortar casino, players place pass and come bets by putting their own chips on the appropriate area of the craps table. However, certain other bets, such as place bets – which allow players to wager on the numbers 4-10 at any time before the shooter sevens out – are not self-service and require chips to be placed on the table by the dealer, under instruction from the player.

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