This is the only game where the player can relax when he is playing. This makes it the most commonly played casino games around the world. Right from the land based casinos in the Las Vegas and Atlantic City to the huge mass of the online casinos, playing slots is a rage. Playing slots is [...]
Keno is a gambling game popular at the modern casinos. The game had its origin in ancient china, over 2000 years back. It can be traced back to 205 to 187 B.C. during the Han Dynasty. There is a legend that this game helped to save an ancient city during war. The story goes that [...]
Craps is an unusual dice game that can be played with other players as well as a bank. It is a simplified version of the old English game called ‘Hazard’. There are a lot of debates regarding its origin. The game dates back to the Crusades and was later influenced by the French gamblers. It [...]
Black Jack is one of the most popular card games in the world. It is also known as ‘twenty-one’ or ‘Vingt-et-un’, which is the French word for twenty one, or ‘Pontoon’. The Twenty One had originated during the 1700s in the French casinos. The Black Jack which is played in the modern casinos is completely [...]
Baccarat is a popular casino card game. It is said to have its origins in Italy and during the reign of Charles VIII around the prod of 1483 to 1498, it was introduced to france. In style it is quite similar to Faro and Basset. The three variants of this game comprises of ‘baccarat chemin [...]
As a gambling game, Roulette had been in practice since 1796 in Paris. It is a casino game named after a French word which means ‘small wheel’. The pace of the game is tardy, soothing and leisurely. So much so, that you can nurse a fine drink along.
The game in Paris was played in almost [...]
That gambling has a non-quantifiable effect on human life is an unpleasant fact. But the positive economic effects of gambling in Las Vegas are rather impressive. It’s a city which wears its dreams on its sleeves. It also reveals that egalitarian models in America are based on an unequal distribution of wealth. Here casinos are [...]
