2013年9月25日星期三
Roxy Palace Flash Casino
In the beginning, all online casinos were created using downloadable software content that enabled live casino gaming and the depositing and withdrawing of money. These days, online casino software offers players with the choice to play no downloadable (flash) casino games as an alternative. Roxy Palace Flash, for example, does not require players to download any content locally; Rather, they are able to play directly in the internet browser window that supports flash technology.
While the vast majority of online casinos offer Flash platforms in addition to downloadable packages, we would like to specifically talk about Roxy Palace flash casino, as it is one of the highest rated Euro-friendly flash casinos in business today. But before we talk more specifically about Roxy Palace, let’s take a closer look at the benefits of flash technology in the internet gambling world.
When you make a decision to play games at an online casino for the first time, you will want to take a test drive right? Well, you should. In fact, check as much as possible about a casino’s game selection and take that test drive before making any real money deposits. On the chance that you are not pleased with the games, you can simply move on. There’s no software to uninstall and no withdrawal to process.
If you are new to gambling on the internet, chances are you will eventually play at more than one online casino. Not only will you want to take advantage of multiple welcome bonuses, you will want to experience the different software platforms available (albeit the gaming experience at online casinos using the same software platform will be relatively the same and have the same selection of games). Remember, there are more online casinos around these days than you can shake a stick at. If you start to download casino software for each of them, you will need a computer that can handle the space. In the case of flash casinos, you just open your browser and that’s it.
That said, we certainly agree with the online gambling community at large that Roxy Palace flash casino is a great place to experience flash gaming technology. You can play the flash version to start things off, and if you decide the casino games, deposit/withdraw methods and the bonuses offered are to your liking, you can easily choose to download the casino at a later time. Or, you can continue playing the no-download version. The choice is yours.
In terms of bonuses and promotions, all online casinos have their own welcome offers, and finding your favorite bonus is part of the journey (be sure to check out our top 10 online casino recommendations). However, what makes Roxy stand out on this front is a long-running no-deposit offer worth £10 Free. You don’t have to download and you don’t have to make a deposit. Register an account, log into the secure, Flash platform and claim your free £10 chip. It only takes one lucky spin on the slots to get lucky.
As far as the download version at Roxy goes, it is supplied by Microgaming software – a suite of over 500 casino games, including the vastly popular Thunderstruck 2 and Mermaids Millions slot machines. All flash version games are also powered by Microgaming, which ensures a top quality gaming experience – from graphics and sounds, to wins and payouts. The flash casino lets you play promptly, easily – and most importantly – safely. All of this is guaranteed by Roxy’s eCOGRA Safe and Fair seal of approval.
Whether you decide to play the flash version or downloadable version, unlimited free-play is available. The Roxy Palace flash casino version features over 300 casino games, including flash version slots, video poker games, online roulette, blackjack, baccarat, craps, table poker and many other popular games all containing great rewards. While this is a smaller selection than the download, keep in mind that most other flash online casinos offer less than 200 games. Both versions at Roxy Palace hold the same licensing and safety/security dynamic.
When you are considering a flash casino versus a download casino – whether at Roxy Palace or not – it will all boil down to whether you need to play every game (in this case 300 games versus 500), and have the room and disk space (especially if you play at several casinos). The quality of games does not differ, and as mentioned, nor does the security. Bottom line: Try the Roxy Palace Flash casino version first, and then decide how to proceed. You may even decide to go elsewhere all together. Have fun and play responsibly!
2013年9月24日星期二
Club World Casino Download
While Club World Casino has an amazing selection of online casino games for both download platform and no-download flash play, it’s safe to say that this US player friendly casino is worth the download. With over 120 casino games via Real Time Gaming (RTG) software available, this is as good as online game play gets.
Club World Casino has been around since 2005, and has for the past five years, been the top-rated online casino at OCNet. The Club World Casino download process is free, super fast and extremely easy to do. If you are itching to try it out first, there is also a simple no-download version available. Just keep in mind that for full game selection, we recommend you use the download version. The download process takes no more than a couple of minutes – the process of which is covered in the FAQ section on the Club World website. Whether you download the software or opt for flash play, unlimited fun-money credits are available, as are several secure deposit options.
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So, what casino games can you expect to play using the Club World Casino download platform? As mentioned, there are over 120 games available, and these include over 100 video slots, progressive jackpots, several versions of video poker, table games (blackjack, baccarat etc.) and even scratch cards and arcade-style games. But beyond the necessity to stay intrigued and entertained by an amazing game selection, how an online casino operates is also vital to your experience. Without proper functioning, it will not matter what game you are playing if the casino is not being powered by a top-shelf, reputable software platform and managed by a competent team. Whether you download at Club World Casino or use the flash version, operationally speaking, an online casino must provide a setting conducive to having fun within a safe and friendly environment – And Club World certainly does that.
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As covered in our Club USA Casino Review, the RTG software available on the Club World Casino download is renowned for its continual, rigorous-tested processes by Technical Systems Testing (acquired by Gaming Labs International, GLI), which ensures the software you are downloading is fair, and that game play is randomly generated. TST/GLI, is an independent casino software testing agency with no affiliation to either Club World Casino or Real Time Gaming, which itself, is an upstanding member of the Interactive Gaming Council, iGGBA, the Interactive Gaming, and the Gambling and Betting Association. Club World Casino is part of the Club World conglomerate of online casinos including Club USA Casino, and is based in the UK.
In addition to providing premiere gaming software, Club World’s Random Number Generator (RNG) is certified and utilizes the latest technology to produce a high speed flow of random numbers – the outcome of which (the hand/game result) is dependent on the exact moment the mouse is clicked. This means that it is neither possible to calculate the next number in the sequence, nor to calculate which number from the sequence will be utilized to establish the outcome of your game result. No cheating is possible on either your end or the casino’s!
As an advocate of fair, responsible and legal online gambling here at OnlineCasino.net, it is essential the casino software platform you are downloading holds the above-mentioned credentials. This is precisely the case at Club World.
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2013年9月23日星期一
Casinos across US using intelligence network to beat cheaters
Casinos across US using intelligence
network to beat cheaters
The man at the poker table had a ball cap pulled down almost to his nose, but his glance up at a television screen revealed a familiar face to Mohegan Sun's surveillance cameras: A photograph of the known card cheater had been sent by bulletin to casinos around the country.
Within hours, the bettor was arrested, accused of marking cards with invisible ink."The officer who identified him, basically she had a 'Holy crap!' moment," said Jay Lindroos, the casino's surveillance director. "She saw the face and said, 'I recognize that guy!'"scanning cameras.
Casinos from the U.S. to Australia use their own intelligence network to warn one another about cheaters. As table games spread across the Northeast, resorts are using it more than ever to stay ahead of suspect players — professional thieves and card counters — who can easily hit multiple casinos in the span of a few days.
Mohegan Sun, one of the world's largest casinos, began sharing intelligence a decade ago with its giant, next-door rival in southeastern Connecticut, the Foxwoods Resort Casino. Although it was once less common for casinos to talk with competitors, the online network has evolved through mutual self-interest.
"If something happens at Foxwoods at 1 o'clock, we'll be aware of it no later than 2, 2:30," said Joseph Lavin, director of public safety for the Mohegan Tribe, which owns and operates the casino. "It won't take more than a day or so before that information goes to Atlantic City, goes to Pennsylvania, goes out to upstate New York."
The element of luck makes it impossible to know exactly how much revenue is lost to cheaters, but 100 percent casino surveillance coverage is a security standard for a U.S. industry that generates tens of billions of dollars annually.
Workers at Mohegan Sun monitor feeds from roughly 4,000 cameras, scrutinizing the dealers as closely as they do the players. On a given day, they could be on the lookout for as many as hundreds of faces, some pointed out by other casinos, others by law enforcement agencies seeking criminals who might be trying to launder money.
If a camera picks up somebody who's been flagged for possible cheating, security officials said they'll watch the person play before taking any action.
The man arrested Sept. 15, Bruce Koloshi, 54, was the subject of a security bulletin issued two weeks earlier by officials in Louisiana. He had cheating convictions in Iowa and Nevada and was facing charges in Louisiana that he marked cards last month at the L'Auberge Casino in Baton Rouge.
After the surveillance officer spotted him, Koloshi was seen moving his hands away from the Mississippi Stud poker table, allegedly for the marking substance, and cameras detected the ink that wasn't visible to the naked eye. Koloshi wore special contact lenses to see the ink, authorities said. He was arrested and charged with cheating, conspiracy to commit larceny and being a fugitive from justice. His bond was set at $300,000.
When he was questioned in Louisiana, he surrendered $3,300 in winnings though authorities did not have enough evidence to charge him at the time, according to Capt. Doug Cain, a spokesman for Louisiana State Police. Mohegan Sun officials said Koloshi was arrested at their casino before winning a significant amount.
A person who answered the phone at Koloshi's home in Summit, N.J., declined to speak with a reporter. His defense attorney was not available for comment.
The warning about Koloshi was relayed by the Division of Gaming Enforcement in Delaware, where table games were introduced in 2010. The division's director, Daniel Kelly, said information sharing has increased as Northeastern states have legalized more types of gambling. It also has become more important, he said, because cheaters have so many potential targets in a small geographic area.
"Within an hour, they can be in three or four different states," Kelly said.
High-level casino cheats are considered rare, but Mohegan Sun officials say they frequently see card counters and other "advantage players," people who are not breaking the law but have skills that bend the odds in their favor. Lavin said card-counting techniques were glamorized by the story of a group of MIT students who scored big wins at casinos, including his, in the 1990s.
One tell-tale sign for surveillance workers is gamblers placing higher bets than might be expected with the hands they're dealt. When card counters are discovered, Lindroos says, the casino will restrict their play by keeping them to betting the minimum or suggest they try a different game.
"The professionals, as soon as they see somebody walking over toward them, they'll say, 'OK, I'm out of here,'" Lindroos said.
2013年9月12日星期四
MARKED CARDS
From personal experience I know that when average people think of card cheating they usually first think of marked cards. Furthermore, whenever the subject of marked cards is brought up, most people usually suspect miniature marks on the backs of the cards. Unfortunately, they don't hit the nail quite in the head.
First of all, marked cards are just one of the many gaffs that may be used to cheat during a card game. Furthermore, even if marked cards are used, the markings are not necessarily small nor do they have to be on the backs of the cards. Sometimes the marks can be large symbols on the backs, and sometimes they are not even marks (see sorts below). Sometimes the marks are not on the backs, but rather on the sides, or even on the fronts. By now you probably have guessed that cards with those miniature marks that everyone looks for on the backs are usually used by less knowledgeable amateur card cheats.
Marked cards are also called readers or paper. Card cheats who use paper are called paper players. Another popular term for paper players is painters. This is because expert cheats like to "paint their own paper," as opposed to buying a ready-made marked deck from a crooked gambling supplier.
An expert painter will only prepare as many cards as absolutely needed for a particular
game. For example in some games, such as blackjack, the suits are irrelevant so there is no
need to mark them. Furthermore in blackjack cheats usually mark only the relevant groups of
cards. The aces, the tens (this includes picture cards), high cards (7's, 8's and 9's) and
low cards (2's to 6's). To use this system the cheat only needs to develop three marking
patterns. One of the four groups (in this case the low cards) will be left unmarked. It
should be noted, however, that another very effective marking system for blackjack would be
to mark only the Aces and the tens. What groups of cards the cheat decides to mark is a
matter of personal preference. As a general rule there is less chance to discover markings
if fewer cards are marked. By the same token, the fewer times the cheat resorts to those
markings, lesser the chance of being caught cheating.
In poker the suits are relevant because they can complete flushes. However, contrary to what people may think, expert poker cheats do not often mark the cards for suits. There are
several reasons for that, but the number one reason is to keep things simple. However, there
are plenty of other card games where suits play a much more significant role than in poker,
and those are the card games where the cards are more likely to be marked for suits. But in
this case the values may be omitted.
Marked cards have also frequently been discovered in casinos. Under rigorous casino security it is even more necessary to keep things simple and minimize the amount of work put on the cards. So, interestingly enough, the higher the stakes the simpler the work.
It also should be noted that a marked deck is just a tool, but a tool does not do one any
good if one doesn't know how to use it. An amateur cheat who purchased a marked deck from a crooked gambling supply house will not really know how to use it correctly. When you play
cards you don't really have time to study the backs or ask your opponents to please hold
their cards in such way so you can see the backs. Using marked deck is a skill that requires
practice. An expert paper player will spend time developing an effective cheating strategy.
To better illustrate how hard it is to use marked cards feel free to do the following
experiment. Take a deck face-up in dealing position. Then deal the cards as if for a four-
handed game of poker, in effect into four face-down piles. As you deal you have the chance
to glimpse at the cards while they are in your hand. After the cards are dealt players might
cover them up with their hands and you may no longer have the opportunity to see them, nor
the marks, which is why you dealt the cards face down. As soon as the cards are dealt try to
reconstruct each player's hand. Get the idea? This is obviously a poor strategy for using
paper but nevertheless it is a problem that every inexperienced cheat might face if they
just buy a marked deck and jump into a game without really knowing how to use it.
Besides using inferior methods of marking, amateur cheats also tend to rely on those marks too much. This gets them caught as they feel too confident and therefore tend to make
illogical decisions during the game. On the other hand, experienced cheats will only resort
to those markings whenever absolutely necessary. To be convincing they need to lose some
and win some. They will always lose those hands with low stakes and win when there's something worth winning. In fact, the only time they really care to cheat is when the stakes are high enough. The rest of the times they may simply play the game like everyone else.
From personal experience I know that when average people think of card cheating they usually first think of marked cards. Furthermore, whenever the subject of marked cards is brought up, most people usually suspect miniature marks on the backs of the cards. Unfortunately, they don't hit the nail quite in the head.
First of all, marked cards are just one of the many gaffs that may be used to cheat during a card game. Furthermore, even if marked cards are used, the markings are not necessarily small nor do they have to be on the backs of the cards. Sometimes the marks can be large symbols on the backs, and sometimes they are not even marks (see sorts below). Sometimes the marks are not on the backs, but rather on the sides, or even on the fronts. By now you probably have guessed that cards with those miniature marks that everyone looks for on the backs are usually used by less knowledgeable amateur card cheats.
Marked cards are also called readers or paper. Card cheats who use paper are called paper players. Another popular term for paper players is painters. This is because expert cheats like to "paint their own paper," as opposed to buying a ready-made marked deck from a crooked gambling supplier.
An expert painter will only prepare as many cards as absolutely needed for a particular
game. For example in some games, such as blackjack, the suits are irrelevant so there is no
need to mark them. Furthermore in blackjack cheats usually mark only the relevant groups of
cards. The aces, the tens (this includes picture cards), high cards (7's, 8's and 9's) and
low cards (2's to 6's). To use this system the cheat only needs to develop three marking
patterns. One of the four groups (in this case the low cards) will be left unmarked. It
should be noted, however, that another very effective marking system for blackjack would be
to mark only the Aces and the tens. What groups of cards the cheat decides to mark is a
matter of personal preference. As a general rule there is less chance to discover markings
if fewer cards are marked. By the same token, the fewer times the cheat resorts to those
markings, lesser the chance of being caught cheating.
In poker the suits are relevant because they can complete flushes. However, contrary to what people may think, expert poker cheats do not often mark the cards for suits. There are
several reasons for that, but the number one reason is to keep things simple. However, there
are plenty of other card games where suits play a much more significant role than in poker,
and those are the card games where the cards are more likely to be marked for suits. But in
this case the values may be omitted.
Marked cards have also frequently been discovered in casinos. Under rigorous casino security it is even more necessary to keep things simple and minimize the amount of work put on the cards. So, interestingly enough, the higher the stakes the simpler the work.
It also should be noted that a marked deck is just a tool, but a tool does not do one any
good if one doesn't know how to use it. An amateur cheat who purchased a marked deck from a crooked gambling supply house will not really know how to use it correctly. When you play
cards you don't really have time to study the backs or ask your opponents to please hold
their cards in such way so you can see the backs. Using marked deck is a skill that requires
practice. An expert paper player will spend time developing an effective cheating strategy.
To better illustrate how hard it is to use marked cards feel free to do the following
experiment. Take a deck face-up in dealing position. Then deal the cards as if for a four-
handed game of poker, in effect into four face-down piles. As you deal you have the chance
to glimpse at the cards while they are in your hand. After the cards are dealt players might
cover them up with their hands and you may no longer have the opportunity to see them, nor
the marks, which is why you dealt the cards face down. As soon as the cards are dealt try to
reconstruct each player's hand. Get the idea? This is obviously a poor strategy for using
paper but nevertheless it is a problem that every inexperienced cheat might face if they
just buy a marked deck and jump into a game without really knowing how to use it.
Besides using inferior methods of marking, amateur cheats also tend to rely on those marks too much. This gets them caught as they feel too confident and therefore tend to make
illogical decisions during the game. On the other hand, experienced cheats will only resort
to those markings whenever absolutely necessary. To be convincing they need to lose some
and win some. They will always lose those hands with low stakes and win when there's something worth winning. In fact, the only time they really care to cheat is when the stakes are high enough. The rest of the times they may simply play the game like everyone else.
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