Have you finally decided that gambling in Vegas is one thing you have to try for yourself? That, my friend, is a pretty good decision, so long as you do not plan to stay there all your life.

If you are a beginning gambler, you might want to familiarize yourself with the house games casinos offer. This way, your first time would at most be a winning experience, and at least be a fun-filled time for you and your pals.

The number of main house games: 8

The most commonly placed games in all casinos, however, are these five: craps, punto banco, casino stud poker, blackjack, and roulette.

The roulette is housed by a majority of the casinos and there are three variations to it: French, British and American. In playing roulette, you need to predict where a white ball will land after spinning the wheel. There are two wheels, an outside rim, and the carousel inside. The ball spins outside the carousel but bounces off it, eventually resting on one numbered slot in the rim. On the table where the roulette is placed are boxes with numbers that correspond to the numbers on the wheel (0-36).

If you dream of becoming a skilled table game player, you may play the blackjack which can be learned by reading literature associated with it. You can actually beat the house in this game as long as you play by the rules some degenerate gambler has painstakingly written down eons ago.

The basic game of blackjack is thus:

1. You place a bet. 2. You are dealt two cards face up, and the dealer gets just one. 3. The aim is for you to beat the house to 21 by adding the values of your cards. You can ask for more cards if you think you still can add to the value of your cards without going over 21. 4. If you go over 21, you lose. 5. If the house gets a lower value than your cards, you win. 6. The house stops drawing cards at 17. 7. A “blackjack “is when you get one face card or a ten and one Ace.

Casino stud poker is another skill game that you may want to try. You get five cards face down and the dealer gets five also but with one card face up. The bets start before you get your cards and then you can raise your bet once the dealer gets his hand. The winner of course, is the player (or the dealer) who gets the best poker hand.

Punto Banco may be mistaken for baccarat, but there are subtle differences. Players and the banker are dealt with two cards from a six-deck shoe. You just have to compare your card value with that of the banker; only the last digit of the sum is considered. You win by placing your bet on the higher cards (yours or the banker) or betting on “equal” or tied sums.

Craps, or in full, bank craps, is probably the most exciting game there is in the casino. You will never get lost in finding the craps table since it would be the loudest. You will have to predict and bet on the roll of the dice. You win if you get your wish.

There is tons of literature on each of the games discussed here. For more information, start surfing the net for casino games explanations.

One of the recent advancements in online gaming is Live Dealer casino games. Real dealers and real games, just like you were at the Bellagio in Vegas, only you can start out with a bigger bankroll because you haven’t bucked up for airfare and hotel stays. You don’t have to tip the doorman either!

Rather than players going to the casino to test their skills, Live Gaming brings the excitement and atmosphere of the casino to the player. No longer does a player feel as if they are just playing against a computer. There are no robots in these poker rooms!

Live Gaming is the advancement in online gambling that brings players just a step away from feeling the excitement of the floor at the Venetian or Mirage. Did I mention the dealers are hot?

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What I like about the gaming experience at CasinoWebCam is that the bet outcomes are truly games of chance, not pre-determined computer outcomes. There is no random number generator or shady business with robots. It’s the real deal.

CasinoWebCam offers Live blackjack, baccarat , roulette, poker and sic bo. You don’t even have to download any software because you have the option to play their Flash casino or download the application.

I deposited with my Visa and in 2 minutes I was winning hands. I was also chatting up a beautiful blackjack dealer in a super professional casino setting, not bad considering I was in my shorts! I couldn’t believe it was real because the images were so crisp and real that I felt like I was actually in their casino, and a little underdressed! Very impressed.

After my first winning session, I requested a payout and my cash hit my Neteller account in 2 days from the day I requested it. I got a 20% bonus on my initial deposit and I cleared my wagering requirement no problem.

I wanted to see if there were other Live Gaming sites out there. I came across Ladbrokes site a few years ago to wager on the UEFA Champs league and I was happy to find the now offer Live Dealer gaming,

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I loaded my account and decided to hit up the Live Baccarat tables. I wasn’t disappointed. If you’re new to Baccarat it’s the game James Bond plays so you know it’s cool. The game itself is real simple: Two cards are dealt to two hands, named Player and Banker. You can bet on the Player, Banker, Tie or any combination of the three. The object of the game is to correctly pick which hand will have the higher score, with the highest score in Baccarat being 9 and the lowest being 0. 10 through King have no value while Aces only count as one.

I wasn’t as successful compared to my winning blackjack session at Casinowebcam.com but I still enjoyed the experience. It was a thrill to play a real game with a real dealer. Next time I’ll show a little more restraint and not double down! Lessons learned.

I did some more surfing for Live Dealer Gaming and stumbled upon BetInternet’s Live Dealer Casino:

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I haven’t played roulette since that crazy weekend at the Wynn so I decided to step into the Live Dealer online casino BetInternet and watch a beautiful dealer spin the wheel. Roulette has been a staple in every casino for hundreds of years. And nobody has found a strategy to defeat it. But I have my winning system.

Roulette was born in France in 1655 from mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal, a scientist known for his work in the field of probability, invented it as a per
petual motion machine and named it “Roulette” – French for “small wheel”. The American version of roulette changed the game by using a zero and a double zero on the wheel but the Monte Carlo casinos brought the more player-friendly, single-zero rule to the wheel, something European roulette practices today. Roulette is said to be the number of the “beast” because the numbers they put on the wheel, 0-36, add up to 666.