A progressive jackpot is a jackpot (highest payoff) for a gaming machine (usually a slot machine or video poker machine) where the value of the jackpot...
The standard poker hands in descending order. A hand in poker can mean any of the following: 1.. A unit of play consisting of a deal, one or more rounds of...
In Baccarat Chemin de Fer, it will have been noticed that a given bank only continues so long as the banker wins. So soon as he loses, it passes to another...
One dollar chips from various Las Vegas casinos. Casino tokens are small colored metal or plastic discs used in gambling establishments. There are two main...
The basics that must be mastered by the beginner. Hand strength Once a player has mastered the rank of hands, it is more important to realize their relative...
An Asian Handicap is a sports betting term used to describe spread betting in football (soccer). Described as Asian because of its Eastern origins, the phrase...
Gamblers Anonymous is an international organization of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other to solve their common...
Liar's poker is a bar game that combines statistical reasoning with bluffing, and is played with the eight-digit serial number on a dollar bill. Normally the...
Cheating in poker is any behavior outside the rules intended to give an unfair advantage to one or more players. Many people make the distinction in poker...
Chinese Blackjack is also known as 21-point, ban-nag (Cantonese) or ban-luck (Hokkien). It is a gambling game played in South East Asia which bears similarity...
A lottery machine is the machine used to draw the winning numbers for a lottery. Early lotteries were done by drawing numbers, or winning tickets, from a...
In poker, players may often use slang terms for particular types of hands. Though most are recent neologisms, others date to poker's antiquity. All such slang...
A quiz machine is a type of slot machine in which the player must answer questions in addition to, or instead of, matching symbols. See also itbox. They are...
The World Poker Tour Walk of Fame is designed to honor those poker players who have played the game well at the highest levels as well as those who have...
The Las Vegas Strip (also known as The Strip) is 4 mi (6.7 km) of Las Vegas Boulevard South partly in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, that has been...
Although Kentucky's culture is generally considered to be Southern, it is unique and also influenced by the Midwest and Southern Appalachia. The state is known...
Bourré (also commonly known as Bouré and Boo-Ray) is a trick-taking gambling card game primarily played in the Acadiana region of Louisiana in the United...
A poker tournament is a tournament at which the winners are decided by playing poker, usually a particular style of poker. Contrast this to a ring game, where...
Google received the highest approval, from the Queen, to allow companies to buy sponsored links for the online gambling in UK. Google stopped advertising...
Button Men is a dice game for two players, invented by James Ernest of Cheapass Games and first released in 1999. Games are short, typically taking less than...
The game of Basset (in French Bassette, from Italian Bassetta) was considered one of the most polite games with cards, and only fit for persons of the highest...
In poker, the dead man's hand is a two-pair hand, namely "aces and eights." The origin of the name is the five-card-draw hand held by Wild Bill Hickok at the...
Reality On December 24, 1954 the American blues musician Johnny Ace shot himself to death in Texas playing Russian roulette in a dressing room before a...
Casino war is a casino card game based on the children's game of War. The game is arguably one of the most easily understood casino card games, but it also has...
Parimutuel betting (from the French language: pari mutuel, mutual betting) is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a...
In poker, a dominating hand is one with an overwhelming statistical advantage over another specific hand. For example, in Seven-card stud, while a Starting...
A dead pool, or deathpool is a game of prediction which involves guessing when someone will die. Sometimes it is a bet where money is involved. The combination...
A daily double is a type of wager offered by horse and dog racing tracks. It requires bettors to select the winners of two consecutive races. Because of the...
A♦ K♦ Q♦ 10♦ 8♦ Non-standard poker hands are hands which are not recognized by official poker rules but are created by house rules. Non-standard...
