Online Gambling Game Facts
To demonstrate just how inandated our culture has become with gambling, think about how many phrases we use in our every day conversation that have their roots in gambling. Think about how many times a day you start a sentence with something like.. "I’ll bet you", "It's a safe bet", "Easy come, easy go","It's a sure thing", "It's a crap shoot", "Let the chips fall" or "The odds are".
What this proves is that gambling has been around a long, long time. So, as a human interest piece, we've put together this list of not so well know Gambling Facts of Interest...
Gambling Facts...
1. Physical exercise will tone up the body, but the Game of Bingo enhances the player's mental capacity, speed of comprehension, observation skills and memory. Research shows that Playing Bingo Games Online keeps you in peak mental form, while providing an enjoyable social experience, too!
2. The number of possible Bingo Cards is a stagering 552,446,474,061,129,000,000,000. If you could print a million cards per second, it would take 17,505,972,382,599.7 years to print every possible bingo card. And only 4,976,640,000 cards would have the same twenty-four numbers, but in a different arrangement.
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3. When flipping a coin, it doesn't matter what came up in the previous flip, or how many times it came up in a row, the chance of a heads or a tails coming up is always going to be 50%.
4. Card Counting is not illegal, althought the Blackjack Casinos would like you to believe it is illegal, immoral, and fattening, but the fact is that card counters are simply using a greater level of skill than the typical blackjack player.
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5. Gamblers generally don't win their money back when they've been on a losing streak. Ironically, the Problem Gambler more often than not doesn't know when to quit, and often will actually begin increasing the stakes in an attempt to recoup their loses or in the hopes of being able to repay their gambling debt.
The main reason that casinos even exist is because people do not generally win their money back. No Casino would be around for long if it was paying out what it brought in, or even close to what it brought in. The fact is that gamblers lose far more money than they win.
6. The most common way you can tip a dealer at the craps table is to call a bet for them. Simply say 'Yo', or 'Yo Dealer', and toss some money into the middle of the board. If you prefer, you can simply say 'dealer' or 'for the dealer' as you give them chips. The dealer then places this bet, and if they win, the winnings are the tip.
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7. Two out of three teenagers gamble. In other words, far from being a minority, 67 per cent of teens gamble. Their gambling generally takes the form of betting on games of skill like golf or billiards.
8. Although teens tend to gamble with friends rather than in casinos, they can still develop gambling problems. A 1995 survey of adolescents between 12 and 17 years old found that 8% of those surveyed were problem gamblers. A further 15 per cent were considered at risk of developing problems with gambling.
9. Changing your playing style half way through a game of Poker is a great way to throw other players off guard and prevent them from building a clear opponent model. This will give you an advantage because others players will not know when to call your bluffs.
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10. You simply cannot predict winning lottery numbers regardless of the system used. It makes no difference how you pick your numbers, your odds of winning are always the same.
Take the Lotto 6/49 for example. The selection is purely by chance. Each number has a 1 in 49 chance of being selected, and your chances of having the winning ticket are 1 in 13,983,816. There is simply no system for picking lottery numbers. It is all a matter of luck and we know that luck comes in two varieties... good luck and bad luck!
11. Contrary to popular belief, slot machine managers have no idea when a particular machine is about to pay out. If they did, you can bet your wad that you wouldn't be the one playing that machine, he or she (or his or her mother, spouse, or other family member) would be.... and that simply is not the case.
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Gambling Historical Facts...
1. Gambling artifacts have been recovered from ancient China, dating back to 2300 B.C.
2. Gambling artifacts have been recovered from ancient India, Egypt and Rome.
3. Ivory dice dating to before 1500 B.C. were salvaged from Thebes.
4. Writings that reference gambling were found on a tablet in the Pyramid of Cheops.
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Gambling Statistical Facts...
1. A record 29.6 million travelers visted Las Vegas in 1996.
2. A wopping 38% of all U.S. residents have been to Las Vegas in their lifetime.
3. The largest percentage of visitors to Las Vegas were in the age group of 65 and older (22%).
4. In 1996 there were over 100,000 hotel rooms (101,106) in the city of Las Vegas. New York City has 63, 279 hotel rooms.
5. Two decades ago, 2 states had legal gambling and 48 states outlawed it. Today, 48 states have some form of legal gambling. Only Hawaii and Utah do not.
6. Gambling generates more revenue than movies, spectator sports, theme parks, cruise ships and recorded music combined.
7. Las Vegas is the fastest growing city in the U.S. Players lose $6 billion a year at Las Vegas casinos.
8. Gambling has become nearly a 50 billion dollar a year industry in the United States.
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