Once in a while I do like to play games that involve no skill whatsoever even though I know the odds of hitting a huge jackpot can be pretty poor and you’re better off playing something like blackjack or craps with a low house edge. But its precisely because these games take skill that they have a low house edge. And the lottery is just so tempting sometimes because you barely have to put in any thought...

Placing a wager at online casinos for US based players is set to get a whole lot tougher in just a few days time. Unfortunately, the stage is set for that federal law signed in 2006 and known as the UIGEA to come into force on 1 June. This law prohibits the use of credit cards, checks and other financial instruments for online gambling transactions. The flow on effect of this law is intend to undermine on the...

One slot player, Louise Chavez, at the Fortune Valley Hotel and Casino in Colorado was bitterly disappointed recently when she learnt that she didn’t in fact win the $42 million jackpot as she had thought. This was a nationwide jackpot and one of the biggest in the history of Colorado. The player saw her machine display the message that she had won the progressive jackpot.  However, she was then informed...

In Australia, there is currently an all-out prohibition against local gaming operators. A recently released report in Australia (called ‘Online Gaming: A Gamble or a Sure Bet?) claims unsurprisingly that the government is potentially missing out on millions and millions of dollars it if does not relax its position against the online gambling market. In 2008, it is reported that as a result of the Aussie players...

This is a Microgaming video slot and one of the games that I have been enjoying lately. It’s obviously a football themed video slot centred around the soccer World Cup and will no doubt help you get in the mood for the ensuing football frenzy that is about to grip the globe come June this year. In the lead up to the World Cup in South Africa, its available at a few different online casinos including Jackpot...

I love backgammon myself but until recently it never even occurred to me to try playing it online let alone at an online casino. I have found playing backgammon online to be surprisingly exciting and some of the online casinos offer quite high prize tournaments.  Some of what I regard as the better and more reliable online casinos offer backgammon. For example, William Hill Skill Games, Party Gammon and 888...

Don’t be fooled. Casinos can and do take action against players they consider to be abusing the bonus system. Many a player before you has been stripped of their bonus privileges and a huge proportion of disputes with online casinos are centred around bonuses. A typical casino response where they suspect abuse is to freeze your gaming account and to return your deposit. So the question becomes: what constitutes...

Personally, the jury is still out for me on whether poker bots are a good development or not for the online poker industry. In case you’re not familiar with the term, online poker bots are computer programs that help poker players to win based on the statistical data that is fed to them. It’s obviously argued by many that those players who rely on poker bots receive an unfair advantage over the others players...

In one of the more bizarre gambling related news stories that I’ve come across, I just read that a South Carolinian priest took a gamble – literally speaking – on a poker tournament to raise the remainder of his church’s 5.5 million goal to build a new facility. I should add that he did seek (and was granted) approval beforehand from his pastor. Reverend Andrew Trapp took part in the PokerStars.net....

There is apparently now one poker machine per every 110 people in Australia which means that the country now ranks amongst the top 10 international gambling centres in the world. Yep. That’s right … Australia is up there next to the likes of Macau and Monaco even. Actually, Monaco took out the top spot (with 1 machine for every 16 people!) but other surprising appearances in the top 10 (well, to me...