Emotional Gambling?

We have all tried to make money the quick and easy way (we believe!) by using online casinos.  I don't know about the rest of you but I have lost a packet!
I have learned one very valuable lesson.
Don't get emotional.
I have found that it is very easy when you are sat there, in front of your laptop, and you are just one spin away from making a killing to let your emotions get in the way.  When this happens you make an emotional decision rather than a rational one and nine times out of ten you will lose.
Then of course, you've lost a small fortune so you take bigger and bigger risks to try and win it back.  We have all done it!  You sit there, kicking yourself, because you know if you had just taken a bit of time and thought about it properly you probably wouldn't have spun that wheel!
So how do you take the emotion out of gambling?  Well over the years I have developed a few tricks so that I know when I am getting emotional and take a break and am now winning more than I lose.
Unfortunately it has cost me a lot of money along the way.
Also now, when I buy a new 'system', I don't just jump straight in and bet the house on it.
I still try new systems on a regular basis but now my approach is much more 'businesslike' than it was before and I quite simply know when to take the hit and walk away.  It may well be a case of taking three steps forward and two steps back but it means that I'm still one step ahead!
A few of my simple, but effective tips are:

Never bet when you are tired
If the bet is large, go and make a cuppa before you place it
Go and do something else for five minutes and just clear your head of that tunnel vision
Ask yourself - can you afford to lose?

There is no such thing as a system that wins 100% of the time.  How you handle the times when you are not winning is the key.  Take emotion out of the equation and believe me, you will keep on winning by learning when to accept a loss.
I have in fact learned so much that I am in the process of developing my own system which I hope to release in the coming months but, until then, I have a newsletter in which I look at new systems, test them out and review them without you having to.
If you would like to sign up, free, then please visit my site at  Any experiences you have had of your own that you would like to share are also welcome!

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Online Roulette - Methods of Betting

Roulette is a great game to play both online and in real-world casinos. You can easily play roulette but before you do you should know how to place bets.
In order to place your bets at a roulette table you need to first get some chips to bet with. You can do this by simply exchanging you cash for chips at the roulette table. Once you have chips then you're ready to bet and to start the fantastic game that is roulette!
You bet by simply placing one or more chips on one or more spaces on the roulette table. You place your chip(s) on a number or more than one number or a color that you think will be the result of the spinning of the wheel. If you lose your bet will be collected by the dealer and if you win then you will get paid according to the payout for you bet, which is proportional to the odds that your bet would win.
Roulette is 100% completely a game of chance. This means that there is no way of predicting what will happen. This also means that what's happened on past spins can't be used to predict what will happen on future spins.
There are many ways to bet while playing the game of roulette. There are safer bets and riskier bets. And how you decide to bet is completely up to you as you have to weigh up your current circumstances at this moment in time.

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Can You Buy Winning Roulette Systems?

Roulette is a truly great casino game that's popular with players throughout the whole world. The ability to place many different bets and win money is very exciting. However, the casinos make a lot of money off of roulette and players lose a lot of money while playing roulette. This is because the odds are in the casinos' favour and laws of averages state that they will win more often than players do.
Every single roulette player wants to win more money and this goes without saying. So many people wonder if there are any roulette systems out there on the market that will help them win more money at the Roulette table more often. Luckily for you there is. Clearly the best system in the market today is Roulette Sniper. With Roulette Sniper you will achieve success and win money that is almost unbelievable.
There are many sites on the Internet that claim they have great roulette systems. Most of these systems can only be used with online casinos. Other systems are complicated to use and difficult to understand. And then some systems are very good and useful. All the roulette products vary in price.
Of all the products on the Internet, Roulette Assault is by far the best one. However, if you are new to playing roulette, any number of roulette systems will help you become a better player including Roulette Assault and R-bet. Our advice is to get your roulette system now so that you can start earning money right away.

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Best Roulette System in the World - False Claims, Bans and the Alure of a Winning Roulette System

Roulette remains one of the simplest, and most popular, casino games available. Its appeal dates back to the French parlour houses where it was played first by the moneyed gentry, later by the middle classes and eventually even by the common proletariat. Its appeal is rooted in its ease of play. Simple to understand, yet with layers of added complexity when it comes to using roulette systems and combination bets such as Voisins du zero.
Ever since roulette started to be widely played, roulette systems have emerged. Some of these have become commonly known even outside betting circles. Perhaps the most common of all, the double-up or d'Alembert method, relies on doubling your bet every time you lose, and resetting to a single chip when you win. In theory the wins will always outweigh the losses, although in reality the system quickly reaches the maximum bet limit of the table, or exhausts the player's bankroll.
Other roulette systems rely on making changes to the table itself, for example by altering the wheel, palming additional bets, or placing huge chips under smaller ones once a win has been detected. Unlike the d'Alembert method these techniques are strictly illegal and if you are caught you risk eviction, a significant fine or even prison. In addition techniques such as these do not work in online casino where only a mathematics based roulette system can prosper.
A third way to beat the wheel is to use a small hand-held roulette computer. There have been some famous cases, well-publicised in the national press, of people making large winnings using these computers. In effect, the device works by reading the position of the ball, its speed of rotation, and the relative rotation of the wheel itself. Given the speed and the other environmental variables these devices are not exact, but they can give enough of an edge to beat the house odds over time. Unfortunately these devices are also banned by most countries, and are almost impossible to use in a casino without being detected. They will not work in online casinos as the position is predetermined by a RNG (Random Number Generator).
The final type of roulette system is one that relies purely on mathematical odds. These tend to be developed over long periods by mathematicians or statisticians and are usually restricted to avoid becoming too well known. The majority of these systems are scams and do not work, so if selecting a roulette system do it carefully and ensure it has a full refund policy.

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Grand Martingale Roulette Strategy

Without a doubt, roulette is a very popular game. While it can be rather fun and exciting, profit still remains as its biggest attraction, and many people are eager to achieve it. This owes to the fact that roulette can be very easy to win despite its not-so-low house advantage, as one can wager on even money bets like black, red, odd and even, all of which covers nearly half of the numbers in the roulette table.
To further achieve the objective of making money from roulette, people invented roulette betting strategies. With these so-called strategies, bets are made and adjusted in accordance to the wheel's previous results, all in an effort to bring the player some profit. Though many roulette strategies have been created, only a good handful has seen widespread use. One of these is the highly popular Martingale system.
What exactly is done when using the Martingale? To start, the player has to place a standard minimum bet of his or her choice. This bet is then changed depending on the spin's outcome. To be more specific, the amount will be doubled in case of a loss and, in case of a win, remain as is after the initial spin or be dropped to the chosen default amount at higher progression. To exemplify further, starting from a default amount of one unit, five losing spins and a single win should look like this sequence: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, then pulled back to 1 if the player wishes to play further. The winning 32-unit bet is thus doubled to 64, covering all 63 units wagered prior to the win and netting a profit equal to your default betting amount.
However, the Martingale wins so little for what huge risk it puts one's bankroll through. Martingale requires a lot of money in the long run, and to think that it can only net you the equivalent of your default betting amount can be disappointing.
Nevertheless, there's not just a single form of this betting strategy. Being such a popular system, a lot of roulette enthusiasts have spawned various derivatives of the Martingale. One of this is the Grand martingale roulette strategy which addresses the issue of the low winnings one can get from the original Martingale.
The Grand Martingale is pretty much the same as the classic Martingale. In this strategy however, you don't merely double your bets after every loss then start again with your default betting amount after a win. Of course you still bet twice the previous amount following a loss, but you'll be adding at least one more unit. To illustrate better, here's a sequence of three losses and one win, starting from a single unit standard bet: 1, 3, 7, 15. At this point, the player should get 30 units, recuperating all 26 units lost and winning a profit of four units. The win, however, is not fixed to four. The more the losses sustained, the higher the potential profit the player can get.
This is where the Grand Martingale trumps over the Martingale strategy's classic version. While the latter consistently gives one unit of profit regardless of the progression, the profit one can gain from the former continuously increases as does the betting progress. However, the Grand Martingale is a lot riskier and requires a really fat bankroll.
To sum up, the Grand Martingale strategy is a riskier, though more profitable variant of roulette. This is very suitable for aggressive players who are willing to risk quickly losing their bankroll for a handsome profit - money management is not what this system is for.

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Video Poker : Strategy To Play Video Poker

Video Poker : Strategy To Play Video Poker

In video poker, you are not playing against anybody; you are simply trying to draw a winning poker hand. You're playing the percentages as you choose the cards you'd like to keep and those you wish to discard. As in blackjack, you can play according to your hunches about what cards will come up next, but you can get a far better return in the long run by playing according to a strategy that is based on statistics.

The probabilities of certain hands appearing on first draw stay the same. You can find these probabilities in a chart of Poker Hands. What changes your strategy is the game or variation of online video poker you're playing, and the payback percentage of the individual machine you choose. First of all, read and compare the paybacks on the machines and don't settle for a machine that pays less than 99%. Look for the payout chart posted on the front of the glass, or the screen of the video poker machine. Read the column of numbers 'credits paid' for different winning Hands.

Typically, a Royal Flush will be listed as paying 250, a Straight Flush 50, and so on. But the payouts you must pay attention to are for a Full House and a Flush. If it says it pays 9 for the Full House and 6 for the Flush, this is a 9/6 machine and is the optimal machine to play. If it says it pays less, go find a different machine. If you're playing with strategy in mind, there is no reason to even play this one.

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Video Poker : Video Poker Expert Strategy & House Edges

Video Poker : Video Poker Expert Strategy & House Edges

When I write about house edges and game strategies, I try to leave no hidden assumptions. When I tell you 9-6 Jacks or Better video poker returns 99.5 percent, I'm careful to add "with expert play." If you don't play at expert level, you won't get 99.5 percent.

I don't just tell you that blackjack has a house edge of half a percent in a six-deck game. I add that it's half a percent against a basic strategy player, and that the edge can be a little more or less depending on house rules. If you don't know basic strategy, you're fighting a bigger house edge, and if the blackjacks pay only 6-5 instead of 3-2 … well, don't play.

But there are times when I make assumptions and don't even realize I'm doing it. One I've been thinking about has to do with video poker strategy. When I detail strategy for holding and drawing cards, I make an assumption that you're betting maximum coins --- five on most machines --- and getting the best the machine has to offer.

That assumption isn't always warranted. A friend of mine recently told me he was in a casino that had 9-6 Jacks or Better --- paying 9-for-1 on full houses and 6-for-1 on flushes --- on its dollar games, but its quarter Jacks or Better games had 7-5 pay tables. That's a huge difference. With expert play, the 9-6 Jacks games pay 99.5 percent, while the 7-5ers return only 96.2.

What's a player on a budget to do? My friend chose to play one coin on a dollar game, knowing full well that if a royal flush turned up, he'd get only $250, as opposed to the $1,000 bonanza for a royal if he bet $1.25 on the quarter game. He figured he'd get a higher payback percentage on the dollar game, even with the smaller bets ruling out that jump from a 250-for-1 royal jackpot to the 800-for-1 you get with a five-coin wager.

He was right. With a one-coin wager, 9-6 Jacks or Better returns 98.3 percent with expert play --- not as good wagering five coins on a 9-6 game, but better than maximum coins on 7-5 Jacks.

Problem is, expert play when wagering one coin is not exactly the same as when you wager five. The smaller return on royals dictates some strategy changes. Let's try a few sample hands:

10 of spades, King of spades, Queen of spades, five of spades, 8 of diamonds
Wager five coins, and your best play is to hold King-Queen-10, hoping for a two-card draw to a 4,000-coin royal while leaving open the possibility of smaller payoffs for high pairs, two pairs, three of a kind, straights or flushes. With a one-coin wager, the chance of a 250-coin royal isn't enough to chase. Holding all four spades brings an average return of 1.277 coins, compared to just 0.874 for holding the three high spades.

Jack of spades, Queen of spades, King of hearts, Ace of clubs, 5 of hearts
Two cards to a royal is a nice building block, if you're wagering five coins. With short-coin play, other options can be better. If your instincts are telling you to hold Jack-Queen of spades, you have the right stuff for maximum coin play. With a one-coin wager, though, holding Ace-King-Queen-Jack of mixed suits, hoping for a 10 to complete a straight or to pair up a high card to get your money back, brings an average return of 0.567 coins, compared with 0.596 for holding Jack-Queen.

Jack of spades, 10 of spades, King of hearts, 8 of diamonds, 5 of hearts
Even Jack-10 of the same suit is a pretty good start to a hand if you're betting the max. The best play with a five-coin wager is to hold the two spades. But with short coin play limiting the value of a royal, that 10 is practically just another low card. Bet one coin, and holding Jack-King of mixed suits will bring an average return of 0.486 coins, compared with 0.459 for Jack-10.

9 of spades, 10 of diamonds, King of hearts, Queen of hearts, 5 of hearts.
You're probably thinking this is a no-brainer, that the King and Queen are the cards to hold. But when we take away the possibility of that 4,000-coin royal, holding suited high cards is much less valuable. Bet five coins, expert strategy is to hold just the King and Queen. Bet only one coin, and holding all three hearts, King, Queen and 5, will bring an average return of .547 coins, to .545 for holding King-Queen.

Betting less than maximum coins on video poker won't get you the best the game has to offer. But when the state of your bankroll leads you to one coin play, don't just make the assumption that your usual strategy will do.

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