Once upon a time, I was a decent poker player - when I was in university, I used to head out to Gardena, California, where there were a few poker clubs such as the Normandie and the Horseshoe.  On other occasions I might hit the Commerce Club or the Bicycle Club when my roommate would lend me his car.

In those days, Texas Hold ‘Em was not the most popular game - the poker clubs still played a lot of draw poker, Omaha, and my favorite, Lowball - you know the one where you try to get the worst hand possible?  I won three jackpots in a month playing Lowball, even though I only played about 10 hours a week.  All poker games were limit games - so perhaps one could say that I was a moderately successful limit player, though I had many bad sessions as well. Read the rest of this entry »

A player made a post on Casinomeister.com which complained that he had been found to be in breach of the following term:

“Before any withdrawals are processed, your play will be reviewed for any irregular playing patterns e.g. playing of equal, zero margin bets or hedge betting, placing single bets using your entire or the majority of your account balance and bonus, all of which shall be considered irregular gaming for bonus play-through requirement purposes. Should the Casino deem that practices such as this have been utilized, the Casino reserves the right to withhold any cashins and/or confiscate all winnings.”

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…why there haven’t been any posts in the last couple of days, I’ve been tied up trying to gather additional information for Awesome Jackpots as well as trying to write a bunch of code for AJ as well as my hotel booking site.

A couple of software platforms have yet to respond to my requests for information - kind of strange considering it’s essentially free promotion for them - but I’ll keep knocking and either I’ll get the information from the horse’s mouth or I’ll get the information from a bug on the wall of the stable of the horse - one way or another I get what I want, so if you’re reading this and have received a request for information from me, might be a good idea to give me the official version… Read the rest of this entry »

Well, Mr. Spitzer, at least you did the right thing.  Quite a fall from grace, methinks - from the Emperor’s Club to just plain old Mr. Spitzer.

Good bye.

Good riddance.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, lest you be charged for damaging public property as well.

I nearly spit my Crystal Lite all over my notebook when I saw the Breaking News from CNN… New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, formerly NY’s #1 enemy of online gambling as NY Attorney General - has admitted that he was involved in a prostitution ring.

I guess even tenacious bulldogs who bark and bite and never let go sometimes latch on to the wrong thing.  But this particular instance has completely startled New York citizens, not to mention a number of other high-profile personalities and people. Read the rest of this entry »

The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA), a group of people formed to challenge the legitimacy of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), saw its challenge shot down in flames in a court decision rendered on March 2.

iMEGA challenged the UIGEA on a number of issues, including the right to free speech, the right of states to regulate gambling, and the inconsistency of the UIGEA with the foreign trade obligations of the US with respect to its membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Read the rest of this entry »

I was cruising around one of my favorite haunts, Casinomeister, when I happened on a post which asked, What about your Privacy & Security?.

It turns out that a player is claiming that a casino asked him for the usual ID documents for their own records - but when asked by a payments processor for those documents, they were provided by the casino - NOT the player. Read the rest of this entry »

Most online casinos offer bonuses of one type or another to try and attract your custom. Quite often there’s a large bonus available for opening an account, followed by weekly offers to keep you active.

However, there’s no such thing as a free lunch - every bonus has conditions, of which the most common is a minimum playthrough. For example, if you deposit $100 and get $100 in bonus, you may be required to play the entire amount ($200) through X number of times - quite often this can be 15x playthrough or about, meaning you will need to wager $3000 before being permitted to cash out. Read the rest of this entry »

Hardly. Unless you’re a casino operator, or an affiliate who doesn’t gamble, you’re not likely to get rich through casino gambling, unless of course you hit some major jackpot like the online jackpots listed on my Awesome Jackpots site.

Awesome Jackpots is currently undergoing a revamp, and will soon feature every up-to-date jackpot available online, as well as various articles and reviews of each game. In the meantime, feel free to visit the old site to see what kind of information is already available.

But back to getting rich… some people believe that the only way to get rich gambling is - you guessed it - not to gamble. The house always has an edge of some sort and over time the house will always win. Read the rest of this entry »