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How many times has the team you wagered on staked out a decent lead, only to let it slip away in the second half? Fans of the Bears (led 20-0 but lost 29-23) and Titans (led 21-7 but lost 31-28) and to a lesser extent the Vikings, Seahawks and Chiefs understood your pain this weekend. If you have never tried betting on First Half lines you are missing a valuable tool from your wagering arsenal. That is the topic for this week’s column. I will focus on the NFL for today but please note that most of what you read today will be directly applicable to college football as well. Books offer first half wagering for the simple purpose of increasing handle. The more you bet, the more (hopefully) the book earns. There is not much secret in how First Half lines are derived - generally it just the pointspread for the game cut in half with a half-point to full-point adjustment against the favorite. For example, the Sunday Night Falcons-Bengals game had a pointspread of –7.5 and a First Half spread ...

The internet offers variety of options to the fanatic or lazy bingo players who want to enjoy this game from their comfortable homes. Whether you cannot go through a day without playing or you are too lazy to get out and play, here you can read about the benefits of playing online. Convenience and Simplicity: Online gaming enables you to play 24 hours a day and 7 days a week without having to get up from your favourite chair. It means that you can forget about the long waiting time between one game and the next. It also means that you can say goodbye to crowded, noisy and smoky bingo halls. With the option of playing this game online, you can play on your own time and on your own conditions. However, this does not imply that playing through the internet is necessarily a solitary habit. One of the main advantages of playing online is the chat feature. While in the conservative version, social interaction is limited to your local community, in the online version you can interact with peo...

T he dramatic growth in Internet backgammon over the past decade and a half come a fashionable youth leisure activity, appears in large part to have been propelled by the popularity of backgammon gambling, yet those with a broader knowledge of the backgammon story realize that backgammon online has developed according to the tradition of the game, rather than as a dramatic new departure. Backgammon gambling has a long history, and its appearance in an online format represents a continuance of this tradition. True, many people start to play backgammon when they are still children. It is common for children to get introduced to the game from their school friends or family. A backgammon set with the familiar backgammon board, dice and counters is soon purchased from pocket money, or a birthday present, and in a short while the child picks up the backgammon rules and starts developing their backgammon skills. At this stage the game is usually played for the entertainment value alone. Howe...

River Belle Casino was established in 1997 and for over a decade has built itself a superb industry reputation and a following of loyal players. River Belle has a old world Southern American theme but this should not confused with the up to date gaming and top technological features offered by this site. River Belle is available in five languages – English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese. This site is part of the prestigious Belle Rock Entertainment group and has the additional advantage of being backed by the industry leading software group, Microgaming. This site is fully licensed by the government of Gibraltar, is a fully functioning member of the Interactive Gaming Council (IGC) and – as an added bonus – carries the eCOGRA Safe and Fair seal with pride. Software and Games As part of the Microgaming family, River Belle Casino can offer its players over 300 games to choose from – one of the biggest selections available. Players can play the games for free to get a feel for th...

Blackjack is a casino card game that has graced the tables of casinos from East to West for hundreds of years. Originally, the earliest form of the game of blackjack was developed in the French casinos in the 1700s. The original name of the game is 21, or in French, “vingt-et un,” which is the number each player hopes to be dealt with either the outcome of breaking even, or winning against the house. Making its United States debut in the 1800s, it was a legal gambling game in all venues until around 1910. The blackjack game began to be referred to as blackjack for the optimal hand that every player wishes, strategizes or calculates for, which is receiving the ace of spades and the jack of spades. This is the blackjack! To play a game of basic blackjack, a standard deck of 52 playing cards is used. The number cards maintain their value of two through ten. Each of the face cards – jack, queen and king also are valued at ten. The four aces from the four suits of cards have either th...

Gambling in the last century has become a global phenomenon. From a pastime to a full fledged industry, gambling has seen the ups and the downs of the gamblers as well as the countries. Gambling can be conveniently called as one constant phenomenon happening throughout the world. Glamorous gambling was earlier confined to the hottest spots of all Las Vegas. But as a matter of fact gambling had long back crossed the boundaries of United States of America and had secured its footing in many other countries of the world. Today one may come across a gambling extravaganza at the most unexpected places. No one had ever heard of a small country Aruba. But it has come up as a great destination for the gambling lovers. Set up in a exotic coastal location Aruba offers from five star hotels to top spas for the gambling freaks. The relaxation in the age for playing games at Aruba has made it an even more sought after destination. Apart from the sun, surf and sand California is fast becoming a got ...

Have you thought of 'bluffing the bluffer' in poker and casino rooms online? well the trick is (that's if you can afford it at the time) to watch for receding bets from a potential bluffer from the flop to the turn. He or she may open the play with a raise and commit themselves to the round. It's best to call them for this bluff if the player is either first or second to call. To call from this early position is usually a call of confidence something done with top end cards or pocket pairs. Most of the time though the call is based on top end cards as there are more combination's of these (10-J-Q-K-A) x four suites and these are the types of hands pre-raised in poker the most. Granted the player could hold these top end cards that player may open with a large bet on the flop even if the cards flopped are small,(their futile attempt to scare you off your hand!)note through for this type of play it's handy to hold mid connectors and suited if possible, I play 5-6,...