Whether you want to play online or offline, the wide array of games available can be bewildering. Do you want to play slots or table games? Do you want games that are fun on their own, pay out regularly or have the best odds of winning? Here are a few questions to ask yourself so you can pick the right casino games for your personality.

What Is Your Bankroll?

The size of what you’re willing and able to risk can be a reflection of your personality. People who are risk averse tend to have smaller bankrolls. If you don’t have much money on hand, you can’t play the more expensive games. However, you’re at risk of playing games that seem inexpensive that aren’t; penny slots is the one we’re going to warn against here. The solution here is finding websites or gambling venues that have lower minimum bets. You can also look for slots that offer free bonus rounds, since these extend your game play.

Are You an Introvert or Extrovert?

If you are an introvert, playing with a lot of strangers is unnerving. If you’re a loner, you won’t want to play social casino games. For people like these, slot machines and video poker are your best options. You can play free slots first before you visit a casino and commit money. Another option is finding games that give you free spins so you can see what you think.

If you enjoy being around other people, then table games are your best choice. This includes, but isn’t limited to roulette, craps, poker and blackjack. Each game has its own clientele, so find a group you fit in with. When you are risk averse, you can minimise your overall losses by choosing blackjack variations that have the highest return-to-player percentage.

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We should probably be sadder because someone died and poker had everything to do with it. But at the same time … man hosts poker game, catches brother cheating, shoots brother in the chest and kills him, gets seven years. Seven-ish to be more exact. Seems about right, and arguably a +EV move — though future family Thanksgivings could be tough.

Read more here: http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2014/11/flint_man_gets_prison_time_for_17.html.

Sheldon Adelson turns 81 today, which makes him still just a kid according to my grandmother. We of course all know Adelson is a wealthy man, but I didn’t realize he was the richest person in Nevada (like by far). I mean sure, he woulda made my shortlist if you asked, but I didn’t really place his economic stature in context until seeing this bit of data porn showing who has the largest net worth by state.

So what do you get a man who has everything? OK, maybe Adelson doesn’t have everything, but he does have more personal wealth than the GDP of nearly 100 independent nations. He has so much money ($35.7 billion) that he could singlehandedly pay off ALL of Caesars’ debt and still have more than $12 billion left over — enough to still be the richest person in Nevada, as well as 34 other American states. Sooo … maybe just close your eyes and make a wish?

A Canadian gambler’s license plate asks: Want to go double or nothing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)

I have a feeling that converting Xbox players to online cash game players might be a long-term goal.

I’m not sure when they ended, but the days of old have certainly passed. People seem to be moving on in poker and in life. New jobs (or just jobs, frankly), new gigs, new wives and babies even, new adventures to be sure … only a few of them to be livestreamed prior to airing on TV.

Once upon a time poker, and poker blogging for that matter, was about escapism. People like you were captivated by a game, one you were watching on TV and playing at home, while a few of us (those without jobs, it seems) were out there sharing the adventures of those who were best at it. Stepping into that poker world from afar — if only for a few minutes at a time — was apparently alluring to enough of you that a few of us were able to turn it into our livings … but as poker turned from passion to profession … well, it was only a matter of time, for many, before problems would arise … and the game would begin to leave us if we didn’t leave it.

Remember Pauly? He got out a couple WSOP’s ago. So now he’s following Phish instead of the global poker circuit … but that doesn’t mean he’s left behind all he learned during his time with Tao of Poker, not to mention Tao of Pokerati. Have a listen to what he’s been up to below, as he and Change100 transport you back to those glorious days of old via the Phish Phamily Classic 3 from Harvey’s Lake Tahoe … a tournament where probably only two players have read Harrington, and even then you can’t calculate a player’s M without factoring in whether or not any drugs might be kicking in before the blinds go up.