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Everyone who has ever gambled knows how even small bets can make
the heart race.
Gayle Mitchell understands because that's how she felt when she
first walked into a Las Vegas casino nearly twenty years ago.
Because her first experience was such a pulsating one, she
committed
herself to learn every game in the casino so that she could return
the next time a better-educated gambler.
Today, she is considered one of North America's leading experts
on casino gaming and has made a career out of educating other
gamblers.
Here she explains the best and worst bets in the casino, the secrets
of successful slots and video poker play, how to win at blackjack,
her ten "Dos" of casino gambling, tips on casino poker,
and much more.
Her thorough knowledge of the subject and enthusiasm for the sheer
fun of the casino experience makes this book essential reading
before you walk through a casino's doors.
Greetings
Casino Players:
"I am pleased to announce the publication of my new print
book Easy Casino Gambling: Winning Strategies for the
Beginner.
This is my first print venture since 2000 and I
believe you will
find it to be a comprehensive gaming guide at 224 Pages."
"I invite you to explore this preview that includes the Table
of Contents and Introduction chapter of the book."
Gayle Mitchell
author of Easy Casino Gambling
Introduction
The Four Ds of Intelligent Gambling
Wager Management
Some General Gambling Lingo
The Ten Best Bets in a Casino
Secrets of Successful Slot Play
Top-Paying Video Poker Play
How to Win at Blackjack
Winning Ways at the Craps Table
Big Bucks from Baccarat & European Games
Roulette Strategies for Spinning Profits
Bank on Pai-Gow Poker
Four Poker Games - It's In The Cards
Bingo!
Sports Betting Holds the Line at Ten
The Ten Worst Bets in the Casino
A Comprehensive Guide to Comps
Internet Gambling
Casino Security
The Do's of Casino Gambling
Casino Pet Peeves
The Final Roundup
U.S. Casino Recommendations
Canadian Casinos - North of the Border For Fun & Games
International Casinos: The World's Finest
Appendix: A Review of the
Basics and Key
Strategies
for Casino Games
My casino
gambling education began in 1990,
when I first visited Las Vegas. Our son was driving along the
Strip and, just before making a left turn onto Fremont Street,
he announced, "Prepare to be blinded."
And blinded we were, from the very first hotel all the way down
to Union Plaza's thousand lights at the end of the street.
The excitement made my heart pound and I laughed out loud. I could
not wait to park so I could drink in all the thrills of Las Vegas.
I've often said that I want to
see the world
before I leave this earth, and my husband and I have traveled
extensively.
However, nothing I had seen before could have prepared me for
the splendor and nonstop action of Las Vegas.
It was pulsating, seductive. I couldn't imagine going to sleep.
I just wanted to experience more of everything the city had
to
offer.
At Fitzgerald's I had my first
slot machine
experience. It was at a 25¢ machine that took up to five
coins.
I played two quarters and hit the jackpot - $250. Not bad for
a beginner. I would have won $1,000 if I had played just three
more coins. That was my first gambling lesson--Play maximum coins.
The roulette tables were like magnets, drawing me closer. To
this
day, I cannot pass those glittering, spinning wheels without stopping
to check out the action. At a quarter roulette table, I noticed
a man tossing a chip in the air before every spin. Wherever the
chip landed, that was his bet for the spin. I thought, "You
call that a system?" I wondered how many people really know
what they are doing when they gamble.
Next, I wandered by the blackjack table where players sat intensely over their cards. Now, I was familiar with basic blackjack, but I did not know all the rules. So I made a mental note to brush up on the game and give it a shot another time.
I knew nothing about craps and
baccarat.
Video poker looked too complicated, so I played slots only.
Later, I found out that slots is the game most Vegas gamblers
play.
That first night of touring a Vegas casino touched off my curiosity.
After that, I wanted to learn more about the full range of gambling
options that casinos offer.
Recognizing that I was uneducated about gambling, I decided to go home, start reading and begin practicing. I knew I would come back to Las Vegas, and I wanted to have even more fun the next time. I wanted to get educated. And I did just that!
According to one statistic, there are more than eighty million gamblers, but that less than 2 percent are knowledgeable about percentages, rules and basic techniques for playing casino games. Few of them know the best and worst bets in the casino.
When I read that statistic, I was amazed and I asked myself, "Why do so many people who are normally informed consumers throw away their hard-earned money on something they know so little about?"
These are the same people who clip coupons, comparison shop and read consumer news reports just to save a few dollars and make informed product selections in their day-to-day lives. Yet they lose bundles at casinos simply because they do not take the time to do the most basic research.
As I studied casino games and
learned about
the enormous edge that the house has over the player in many casino
bets, I determined to guide other casino gamblers 'out of the
woods'.
That determination led me to write books and present seminars
to educate casino gamblers, so that they could make more intelligent
and profitable gambling decisions. Gambling can be a great way
to spend one's vacation, but it need not be a mental holiday!
There's more enjoyment involved in gambling when one understands
the games.
I decided to dedicate a number of Web sites to improving
gamblers'
understanding of casino games.
In the past, I have been Editor of three online newsletters: The
Slots Report, Bingo Showcase and Casino Travel Showcase. Currently,
I am Editor of Casino Players Ezine, an online newsletter. My
goal was and is to increase the percentage of gamblers who understand
basic odds and casino strategy.
To that end, this book
concerns itself only
with casino games and bets where the house edge is no greater
than 3 percent.
I have deliberately avoided discussing inferior games and bets
where the house edge is higher than this; if gamblers can avoid
such bets, they will have profited immediately from this book.
Working with only the best bets in the house, this book clarifies
the principles for reducing the house edge as much as possible,
and it guides the reader in developing solid gambling strategies
for the ten best casino games.
It should be stated here that when the house edge is referred
to, it has been calculated against optimal player strategy.
The further you deviate from this, the greater the house's edge.
The goal of this book is thus to teach the reader the pleasure
and profitability of playing as close to optimally as possible.
As with any educational book for beginners, what's most important are the facts, and the facts explained clearly. I expect that readers of how-to-gambling books will want to learn only those essentials--just the facts ma'am-- that will prepare them for the jungle out there or, in this case, for any casino. So I have tried to make this an easy, enjoyable read, and to keep the math, charts and percentages to a minimum.
I have taken great pleasure in
walking into
a casino and knowing something about all of the major games.
Know what the best games are and how to play them allows one the
envious advantage of moving confidently from one game to another.
This book encourages both an intelligent and a diversified approach
to all that the casino offers. When you master the best games
and use the lowest-cost strategies to play, you can enjoy your
stay in any gaming location anywhere in the world.
And casinos are to be found
the world over.
For that reason, I've included a section on domestic and foreign
casinos. I encourage my readers to expand their horizons beyond
Las Vegas to include Atlantic City, Mississippi, Connecticut's
Foxwoods, Canada and international locations.
If you are confident in your gambling skills, combining travel
with a little action can lead to a great and even profitable travel
experience.
Wherever they are, casinos normally "hold all the cards," so to speak with high odds stacked against gamblers winning. There are ways, discussed in this book, to restack those odds in your favor. With short-term play, for example, the law of averages does not have time to kick in, and knowledgeable players who minimize the house edge while maximizing their odds have a great opportunity to walk away winners.
You don't have to be brainy or rich to take up the casino challenge in a fair fight. That's the beauty of the low-cost strategies you will discover in this book. The biggest differences among casino gamblers are not a matter of gender or age but of levels of "casino know-how." Here's one constant you can bet on: The intelligent, educated, prepared player will fare better than the uneducated gambler, and deservedly so!
This book is structured as a guided tour of the casino, visiting the ten best games one after another, and explaining the best basic strategies for playing each. Imagine that with each chapter we move to the next game, the next area of the casino. Summaries of the principal strategies and tips for each of these major casino games are gathered in the appendix at the end of this book.
In addition to discussing the games themselves, the book offers advice and information about such subjects as Wager Management, Comps, Internet Gambling, Casino Security and the Do's and Don'ts of Gambling. Because a lot of the terminology used in and about casinos may be unfamiliar to beginning gamblers-often it sounds like a foreign language!-the book contains sections on gambling lingo.
However, before getting to the colorful languages of the games, and to the games themselves, let me begin with the basics of gambling, what I call the Four D's of better playing: Development, Dexterity, Discipline and Diversification.
Reader, enjoy!
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