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Casino Games
There are a great many casino games to play, both at land casinos and online. From poker in its many forms to blackjack, roulette, craps, slots, baccarat and more, casino gaming is an exciting, fun experience and if you’re good at it, a lucrative one indeed. A quick run down of the most popular Casino Games would suggest that the ones the players like to play the most are poker, blackjack, craps, and roulette.
Poker is the king of all card games, a deliciously complex game where fortunes can change hands extraordinarily fast. Popular variations on poker are five and seven card stud, and the king of all poker games, Texas Hold ‘Em. Texas, incredibly popular especially among the college set, has been called “the only pure game left.” It is relatively simple to learn, yet hard to master, as it is, more than any other poker game, a game where a player has to play the other player, and not the cards on the table.
Texas Hold ‘Em is often played as a “no limit” game, which means there are no limits set as to what one player can bet. This often results in situations where one player will force another to make a decision for all his or her chips. This is one of the great allures of this game—it really forces you to make the right decisions, because one wrong decision can potentially sink you.
The way the game is played is quite simple; each player is dealt two cards, and the rest of each of their hands is made up of community cards. The first three community cards laid down are called “the flop.” The fourth card is called “the turn,” and the fifth is called “the river.” Texas Hold ‘Em is a big betting game, with bets laid before the flop and in between each of the next series’. The World Series Of Poker plays Texas Hold ‘Em to decide its champion, and, with some practice, you might be there one day too, sitting side by side with Johnny Chan.
Of course, Texas Hold ‘Em, and other poker games, are not the only casino games that people enjoy playing. Slot machines, with their brilliant noise and sometimes monstrous payouts, are exceedingly popular. Also, blackjack—with the best odds of winning in the casino—is a perennial favorite. But knowing what to play means you have to get there first and try everything out.
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