Sometimes we need to take a break from playing online poker but still need our poker fix. And what better way then to read how the professional players think and the way they live their lives through a poker player blog? Below are the top ten list of poker player blogs that are a must read for any poker fan who enjoys either some light entertainment or poker strategy from the professionals.

The reason why these poker player blogs below are included in the top ten list is because they discuss topics on the following

• current state of the online games
• explaining flaws in their own games and their plans to correct it
• well explained poker concept posts
• Entertaining Trip Reports (with photos!)
• Degenerate gambling stories from the past or about other players
• Poker challenges
• Hand Histories with detailed thought processes

1. Alvin “Citizenwind” Lau

Alvin is a Cardrunners coach and pulls no punches when he describes what it takes to beat the current online poker games. Every time you read one of his posts you feel motivated to take on the online poker world with a renewed zest.

2. AE Jones

This is a classic poker blog. Even though AE Jones is running his own business which must be time consuming enough and playing high stakes, he still posts on a regular occurrence on his Leggo Poker Blog. His posts can be about anything and it reads like a personal journal.

3. Pawel “Verneer” Nazarewicz

You can tell Verneer was a teacher before he decided to try poker for a living. Most of his posts are structured in a way that he wants the reader to come away from reading the post having learned something. It’s like whenever he has a realisation, he straight away posts about it so we too can learn from his mistakes or observations.

4. Peter Halberg

Peter is the 2004 World Backgammon Champion, was born in Korea but raised in Denmark and this is one of the find blogs for me this year. Well thought out and motivating blog posts. I’m kind of surprised that he is only playing 200nl but looks like he is comfortable and happy playing at that level.

5. Christopher “FenderJaguar” Leather

Self titled “The Madhatter Poker Ramblings of Christopher Leather AKA FenderJaguar” and it is as described. there is some quality stuff here not to mention some damn good photshop images. He is a Deuces Cracked poker coach and always entertaining and educational.

6. John O Shea

This is a Boylesports sponsored young poker pro from Ireland who plays mainly mid stakes PLO online but has had some decent big buy-in MTT success, most notable coming 6th in last years 25k 5 Star World Poker Classic which is part of the WPT schedule. He’s not afraid to speak his mind and is brutally honest in his blog. One of his stand out posts where he cleaned out a visiting business man in Ireland’s biggest ever casino held poker game. He is also a fan of sports betting so definitely a degenerate streak in him!

7. Tony “Bond18″ Dunst

I just recently acquainted myself with this blog and glad I did. Tony Dunst is well known in the online poker world but I never realised that he kept such an informative, engaging and regularly updated blog like this. He must spend days putting his blog posts together and he would definitely be able to make a regular income as a journalist.

8. Padraig Parkinson

What can we say about Padraig Parkinson

- He’s Irish and proud of it

- He like s a few drinks

- He knows how to tell a good story

He was an excellent contributor when on the The Poker Show with Jesse May and had told some cracking stories, which he now relays in his card player blog. Its been around for a while so check out all his past posts to see him slate some of the well known and unknown characters in the poker world.

9. Clayton Newman

The guys at Leggo Poker seem to know how to write blogs! This is another journal type blog where Clayton muses on general observations, his own poker an non poker related goals and general goings on in his own life. I like seeing other peoples brag graph’s and he is not afraid to post those!

10. Steve Boreham

Steve is a card runners endorsed pro and his blog contains a mix of everything from hand histories, to motivational posts to general observations. Also not afraid to post his HEM results.

For the complete top ten poker player blog list which includes the chosen blogs URL and a link to a standout post from each of the top ten poker player blog list, click on the link below in the authors box.

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Red Lounge recently launched an online casino blog – a phenomenon which would have sounded absurd until quite recently. Blogging is an internet phenomenon which has developed extremely rapidly since its emergence, and is now a preferred activity for many internet users. On the Red Lounge Casino blog, customers can browse a large volume of information about the UK online casino, including press releases, articles, recent promotions, or entries from the casino’s glossary. On the one hand, this allows customers full access to any information relevant to the online casino – just like you might need to know who owns the supermarket and what ingredients there are in your favorite ice-cream. On the other hand, clients are able to share any opinions, ideas, or recommendations. Even though online gambling has often been thought to be a lonely place, there is no reason why it should continue to be so – shopping for one does not mean you cannot ask the person next to you if they have tasted the new flavor of chocolate.

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I was out on the golf course recently with a friend of mine when I spotted a Gila Woodpecker up in a tree (yes, my golf ball is usually around the trees). I said to my friend, “Hey look there’s a Gila Woodpecker”. My friend being contrary as usual said, “No it’s not! You don’t know anything about birds”. Well a conversation ensued and ultimately a wager was made. With my handy camera phone (I love today’s technology) I took a picture of the feathered critter in question.

When we got home I broke out the bird book (we keep a bird book and reptile book on our back porch because we have lots of visitors to our backyard, and I don’t mean the human kind). Anyway, we compared the picture I took on the golf course with the one in the book and it was in fact a Gila Woodpecker.

I won the bet, but the bigger question is was it a good bet?

Now, my friend was right, I don’t know much about birds. However, there is a Gila Woodpecker that frequents my backyard (he likes the hummingbird feeder), so I was familiar with that particular bird.

When I saw that woodpecker in the tree I recognized it, because I had seen one like it on more than one occasion and had identified it in my bird book. Therefore, I contend that I made a good bet, based on personal knowledge.

The next question is did my friend make a good bet? Well, I contend he did as well, because he knew I wasn’t a bird expert and while I don’t know how many species of birds there are, in this bet, he had every other bird in the world (or at least every bird in our region of the country). In other words, let’s say, for sake of conversation there are a thousand species of birds in our region. He had the other nine hundred and ninety-nine, I only had one. So, in an even money wager, the odds were actually in his favor.

What does all this mean to you? Well, I have read some interesting articles, blogs and forum discussions of late saying this bet and that bet are not good bets, with little or no substantiation, so I am going to break down two of those bets for you and let you figure out whether they are good bets or bad bets.

According to most experts it is generally acknowledged that the “field bet” in craps is a bad bet, and the “place bet” in the same game is a good bet. Let’s take a look at both.

The field bet is a one roll bet, the very next roll of the dice. If it comes up 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, or 12 you win. If you hit the 2 it pays 2 to 1, if you hit the 12 it pays 3 to 1, all others pay even money or 1 to 1. If it comes up 5, 6, 7, or 8 you lose. (In some casinos the payouts could be different, ALWAYS check the local house rules!)

There are 16 ways to win and 20 ways to lose, so the odds say you will win this bet 44% of the time. You will win 16 times out of 36 rolls. That is over the course of time, and as you well know anything can happen in a short run.

The house percentage on this bet is 2.8%. If you make the same bet every time, you will lose $2.80 out of every $100.00 placed into action.

This is calculated by taking the amount of winnings and subtracting the amount of losses then dividing the total amount bet into the total amount lost. If that is confusing, here it is broken down. Assuming $1.00 bet each time.

In the 16 wins you will win $19, $1 each on 3, 4, 9, 10, and 11 (14 ways to make those numbers); $2 on the 2 (one way to make the 2); and $3 on the 12 (one way to make the 12) for a grand total of $19. In the 20 losses you will lose $20 ($1.00 each). Your net loss is $1.00 ($19 – $20 = $1.00 lost); if you divide this by the total amount bet ($36.00) you will get.02777 or 2.8%

Now let’s examine the place bet. The place bet is selecting one of the “point numbers” (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10) and betting it will be rolled before a 7 is rolled. For this illustration we will use the number 5.

So you are betting the 5 will appear before the 7, no other numbers matter. This bet pays you 7 to 5, so every time you win you will collect $7, while if you lose you will lose $5.

There are four ways to make a 5 and six ways to make a 7, so the odds of you winning this bet are 4 out of 10 or 40% of the time.

The house percentage on this wager is 4%. Breaking that down assuming a $5 bet each time.

On the four wins you will be paid $28 ($7 x 4 = $28), on the 6 losses you will lose $30 ($5 x 6 = $30), so you will lose $2 out of every $50 bet (same formula as above) $2 divided by $50 equals.04 or 4%

Let’s recap what we have discovered…

You have a better chance of winning the field bet than a place bet on the 5 (44% vs. 40%)

The house percentage is lower on the field bet than the place bet (2.8% vs. 4%)

So what can you conclude about these two bets? Well I refer you back to my bird story!

Know your Play. Know your way.

David “tHE bIG pOSSUM” Shippey has been casino gambling since 1969 and his passion is the craps table, but he has had equal success at blackjack and roulette.

He is not a professional gambler, nor a card counter, nor a casino shill…He is just an ordinary guy who also happens to be an author, a mentor, and a casino gambling expert.

His nickname…tHE bIG pOSSUM…actually comes from his golf game. Which by the way is not very good, he is an 18 handicap (on a good day), which means he shoots in the 90′s most of the time and does reach the century mark on some days. But, he has always had the uncanny ability to actually par or birdie the hole with the big money on it, and was more than one time accused of playing opossum…the name stuck and at 6′ 0″ 235 pounds it was easy to add “BIG”…hence tHE bIG pOSSUM.

While gambling has been his lifelong hobby and not his profession, it has yielded him a good part time income!

Other than spending time with his grandchildren or taking in a baseball game, there is no other place he would rather be than at a casino.

Reminded of the line Robert Duvall delivered in “Apocalypse Now” while standing on a beach in Vietnam. He said. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”…WELL…

tHE bIG pOSSUM sez: “I love the smell of a casino anytime!”

Online bingo clubs have formed on the internet and are in fact the meeting place of all the bingo fans and enthusiasts. Bonus bucks are offered to new members as a way to initiate them into the game. Bonuses such as free games, bonus round, point prizes and lots of other such kind of incentives draw in the crowds and these incentives are the result of a good marketing ploy. A few of the leading bingo web sites will allow the accumulation of the bonus up to 150%, which would be translated into a good deal of games.

Where To Learn Online Bingo Skills

A majority of bingo clubs have the corner where this game is completely explained as well as tips are also given of how best you can play so that your options to win will be improved. Read some of the reviews about the newest bingo web sites as this will describe how to play as well as what type of winnings are available to you. Visit some of the discussion forums and blogs as you will learn from seasoned players about some of the best percentage’s of payout sites on the internet.

Online Bingo Games – A Place To Socialize

Many people join online bingo games as a place to spend some leisure time and earn some cash and whether this cash is real or just virtual, you can be sure that it is a place for socialization. People from all over the world are thrilled by the excitement of hollering the word “Bingo” before their opponents and often place their few remaining numbers in the chat screen window to show how close they are to actually calling “bingo” or is it to somehow transform that number through the lines in the hope of the number appearing on the screen before anyone else’s does.

Online Bingo Versus Real Bingo Halls

Online bingo websites are taking the internet world by storm as many people enjoy the convenience of playing online without having to leave their houses and travelling to crowded bingo halls. With the high cost of keeping the halls open and running, prices for a night of entertainment have gone up and this is why many people choose to play bingo online rather than at a real bingo hall. Other expenses that people don’t have to incur while at home are the high cost of snacks as they will be able to sit in front of their computer or laptop with their snacks with them from their own home.

Money And Time Is Saved Playing Online Bingo

Let’s face it! Saving money and time is very important to people and traveling time to a bingo hall takes some effort, struggling through the crowded transit and the thought of travelling by transit in inclement weather just doesn’t thrill anyone! Who wants to don winter boots and dredge through a mountain of snow in the hopes to cover some cards as a way to earn some cash, socialize and have some fun when you can do it online!

Intermission Time At Online Bingo

Intermission time at online bingo is generally one to five minutes which means you can suddenly make a mad dash to the loo before the next round of play begins! Other things that you can do during Online gambling casino intermission time is to click on one or more ads that are generally on the webpage as site owners will be so glad that you did.

These ads on placed on the websites as a way for the website owner to earn some cash through pay per click. Once these ads are clicked a very small percentage of money is paid to the website owner. Now if the ad is one that gathers a lot of interest and is clicked or viewed by many people in one night, just think about what kind of revenue it would bring in for a month of a year of being on the site. Some of the ads that may appear at intermission time are daily horoscopes, lucky numbers, days, lottery results, love matches, recipes and even virtual greeting cards.