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Six Ways To Escape An Online Casino With More Than Just Your Shirt
You have probably heard the expression, “losing your shirt.” Unfortunately, that expression is right at home when it comes to gambling. Whether you are in an online casino or the brick-and-mortar of the everyday, the chances of you “losing your shirt” are better than the alternative. How come? Frankly, most people are too quick to throw caution to the wind. They make big risks without being fully aware of a system for winning. They mistakenly assume that winning is all luck and no skill, and that they can be just as lucky as a seasoned pro.
Not true.
If you want to escape an online casino with more than just your shirt – like, say, a pocketful of cash – here are the six ways to make it happen:
Walk before you run. If you are a beginner, it is never wise to start out making big bets and hoping luck falls your way. In fact, it’s not really that smart to make bets at all – at least, not until you’ve had a chance to try out your online casino and make the most of it. Luckily, most online casinos offer their games for free. This allows you to build a level of comfort and skill that makes it possible for you to excel.
Stake your money on reputation. Don’t bite in to big promises until you’ve had the chance to wisely research and analyze an online casino. You don’t want to put yourself at financial and mental risks before you have confirmed that an online casino will do what it claims – pay what they owe!
Find your niche. The expression “jack of all trades, master of none” seems fitting here. Not even the best gamers are pros at every single game online casinos offer. They specialize and hone their talents in one or two specific areas. Reasons are twofold: one, it’s easy to be passionate when you’re good at something; and two, it’s easy to get good at something the more time that you spend with it.
Hang in there. If you are making wise bets, you should not get discouraged if you find yourself losing a lot. Just be conservative until the time comes that you can feel the tides start to turn. Help those tides turn faster by choosing games such as poker and craps that favor you the longer your play continues.
Live to play another day. Sometimes it just isn’t your night. Keep a budget, and if you feel yourself slipping in to a rut where the losses are too frequent and the successes aren’t big enough, it’s time to walk away. There will be other nights!
Keep it about the fun! As long as you are having fun, you are building passion and experience doing something that you love. Keep it about the fun, and playing online casinos will always be a winning proposition.
An online casino isn’t for everyone. But if you fashion yourself a shrewd, observant, risk-taker, online casinos can be the answer for you!
The Basics of Badugi
Online games have brought poker to the masses and popularity is at an all time high. This has in turn lead to the popularity of previously little known variations such as Badugi to be searched out and found as people look for new games.
Badugi is a game for 2 up to 6 players and the game is a low card game, getting used to this can be strange at first especially if you have been used to playing the more popular games such as holdem which is a high card game. As well as been a low card game Badugi is also a draw game, meaning as the game is played out, players have the opportunity to exchange some of their cards with cards from the pack. To begin a game the player will have to make a choice of table to play at, the table can be one of three kinds, limit, pot limit or half pot limit; this refers to the betting structure of the game.
Players receive 4 cards face down from the dealer at the start of each hand. The aim of the game is to have 4 cards that are neither paired or suited, share the same number or suit, ideally the numbers will also be as low as possible. An example of one of the best possible hands would be 4 of H, 3 of C, 2 of S, A of D. If a player has a hand like this it is called by the same name as the game, the Badugi hand.
There are 3 rounds or draws during which you have the option to call/check, raise or fold just as in any other game of poker. You also have the opportunity to replace cards during each draw. Get rid of any matched cards and receive new cards from the stack. If ever player draws cards and the deck runs out of cards, usually the discarded cards are re shuffled and used again.
The pre draw round starts with the player to the left of the big blind, if no blinds the dealer, and goes clockwise. Big Blind is usually placed by the player to the left of the small blind and is usually the size of the minimum bet. The small blind is placed by the player to the left of the dealer and is half the size of the big blind.
Those still remaining at the end having not folded reveal their cards in the showdown. Any paired cards left in the hand at showdown must be discarded.