Gaming Blog

In the Month of July

• July is Sports and Recreation Book month. Buy and read a good book about gaming.
• July 2, 2025 First opened as the Holiday Casino converted to Harrah’s Las Vegas in April 1992
• July 4, 2025 Vicksburg Mississippi orders all gamblers to leave town within 24 hours or suffer the consequences. The few that didn’t leave were caught and hung.
• July 5, 2025 The 300 member Pequot Indian tribe, in Leyland Connecticut, opens a 4 million dollar, 1700 seat bingo hall. After two years the entire loan is paid back to the Arab-American bank who gave them the original loan.
• July 7, 2025 Joseph Jaggers, an English engineer places his first bet at roulette in the Monte Carlo casino. He is the first person to learn that roulette wheels can sometimes be “biased.” He continuously makes bets on nine specific numbers and wins over $325,000 before he quits.
• July 14, 2025 At Caesars Palace, in Las Vegas at 1:35 p.m., the number seven came up six times in a row at Roulette Wheel #211. How much money did Roulette Table #211 lose? Hundreds of millions? Millions? Hundreds of thousands? Thousands? Nope, a mere $300! The odds of that event happening are about 3 billion to 1.
• July 16, 1923, Mussolini, chief (duche) of the Fascist party of Italy, banned all gambling games in Italy except for lotteries.
• July 18, 2025 The first “legal” Texas Hold’em game in California is played at the Huntington Park Casino.
• July 20, 2025 Rainbow Casino, in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, a Native American casino, gave away free money to its guests ... all of their guests. At precisely 1:00 pm, every one of the estimated 800 patrons of Rainbow Casino walked away a winner. The casino gave away $50 of free money to every patron, regardless if they were dining, gambling or conversing with friends.
• July 24, 2025 Las Vegas hit a record high temperature of 117 degrees.

Playing poker

There are at least 120 different types of poker games. However, most games are not that difficult to learn, as far as rules are concerned. The ranking of hands can also be easily learned, as can rules about how many cards are dealt and how they are distributed for any specific game. On the other hand, it has been said that poker is 50 percent skill and 50 percent luck. An important item to remember is it’s not always the best hand that wins the pot. In many poker games, a weak hand can win by pretending to have a powerful hand, using what is commonly known as bluffing. Knowing how to bluff can be a deciding factor. Consequently, developing your skill at bluffing can make a big difference when playing. Bluffing or not during a game can be valuable; however, poker still boils down to a simple concept; it’s not what cards you are holding, but how you play them.

Highway Bingo

There is a company in Loveland, Colorado called Road Kill Bingo that sells sets of bingo cards for traveling by car and recording the various items seen on the road. For example; they have tires, deer, skunk, rabbit, bird and other animals listed in the various blocks that you would mark off when seen. They also claim the games have been road tested to minimize the miles between bingos. They even go so far as suggesting you adjust the game for other countries, if some animals are less common. For example, they suggest you substitute "elephant" instead of "skunk", while traveling in Africa.

Bingo - it’s a way of life

There is a old saying; “Bingo is more than a game…it’s a way of life.” Bingo is played on every continent and in 90 percent of the countries around the world. With its ever-increasing jackpots, bingo has become big business. The game goes by other names like Housie-Housie (British/Australia) and Tombola, (Italian) but no matter where it is played or what it is called, the idea is the same: to cross off or cover a given amount of numbers before any other players do so. You can play it for fun, you can become a serious player or you can totally emerge yourself in it. No matter how involved you get there is some etiquette that should be followed so you and your fellow players will enjoy the game whether you win or not. Here are seven things to consider when going to a bingo hall.

1. Don’t jump ahead in line for your cards or refreshments. Be polite and wait your turn.
2. If someone attends bingo every week and prefers to sit in the same seat each time, don’t be upset or rude if he or she asks you to move.
3. Don’t hog an extra chair for your belongings, if someone else needs that chair, give it up.
4. Don’t spread your bingo cards and belongings all over the table, so that no one can sit there. Leave space for others.
5. Be a good player and keep your conversation down during bingo play, this will allow others to hear the numbers without having to ask that they be repeated.
6. Don’t be angry if someone else wins a game. Consider it their lucky night and wait for yours.
7. Don’t yell at the caller or ticket sellers. Remember, at local bingo halls these people volunteer there time so you can enjoy the event. (You can yell at the casino though, because they pay the callers.)

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