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Blow Off Steam Without Guilt – Online Bingo Is Here!

Everyone has stressful days, and anyone that tells you that they have a stress-free life is really trying to pull your leg. Everyone has something that they are dealing with whether they tell you about it or not. If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to acknowledge that moments in your life where you’re stressed out. You have to acknowledge the moments where you really can’t do anything but sit around and wonder when it will all pass you by. And of course, that’s the thing to remember — no matter what, these days of stress and strain will pass and brighter days are always around the corner. You just have to make sure that you’re focusing on the bigger picture from start to finish.

So, where does that leave us from an entertainment standpoint? Well, if you really want to have fun, have a chance to win some extra money, and even meet new people there’s really only one place that you need to go: to the online bingo hall!

Now, we know what you’re thinking — bingo isn’t necessarily the hip, shiny new game. Bingo’s been around for a long time, and is usually associated with senior citizens. However, the new face of bingo is here, and a lot of younger people are playing bingo. Bingo is also popular with women — so guys, if you’re looking to blow off steam and make some new female connections; you might want to spend more time at the bingo table than first expected.

Another thing that you want to remember is that bingo is also something that anyone can play. You don’t have to be brilliant to play bingo, and that’s something that we like. Our regular everyday lives demand so much of us that it’s nice to play something that really doesn’t demand a thing from us.

If you’re worried about the rising cost of entertainment, bingo is friendlier on the wallet than you might think. Even if you’re a regular casino goer online, you don’t have to contribute much to your online bingo account in order to play. The bingo rooms usually pride themselves on being able to offer some affordable prices, which means that you can literally play for hours on end without draining your account.

Meeting new people is also a great thing — there are usually bingo players that meet up at all times of the day and night, so you’re never that far off from meeting someone.

Will you really have the opportunity to blow off steam? If that’s what you want to do, then it’s definitely going to be there for you. You just need to make sure that you stretch your current thoughts about entertainment and give bingo a chance. You never know — once you sit down and really start playing bingo, you might just be surprised at how much fun it really is! Check it out today!

Rediscovering The Joy of Poker

By Martin

Poker is something that people often play in “waves”. Sometimes they will feel like they’re running hot and there’s no way that they can lose. You’re on a roll and the world feels like it’s starting to actually give you a break for a change. This is a good place and state of mind to be in, but it’s been our experience that it doesn’t last forever. You will eventually start feeling like there’s no way that you can possibly get anything done, and you will ultimately feel like you should stop playing poker. So you leave poker for a while, thinking that someday, somehow, you’ll go back to playing poker. Your friends are still playing poker, and they miss you. Of course, they respect your decision to leave poker for a little while, but there’s going to come a time where you pretty much have to decide whether you’re going to sit on the sidelines forever, or come back with a mighty roar.

Of course, when you haven’t roared in a while, you might find that your “voice” is a little hoarse, so to speak. You might find that you really do need to step back and really look at what’s going on in the world of poker. You might need to figure out how to navigate through poker in a different way. It’s not like you will always win — that would be hard to pull off. Even the professional players that we all know and love have losing streaks. They don’t run off from poker, never to be heard from again. They dive into poker and play hard, taking breaks as needed. They also brush up on their skills and practice hard. You’ll actually find that professional poker players are some of the hardest working players out there. They don’t give up easily at all, and they don’t let their ego get in the way of the game.

Can you rediscover the joy of poker? Absolutely! One way to do that is to get into freeroll events. Casinos love throwing up freerolls because it’s a great teaser move. You’re going to eventually deposit more into the game, and you’ll keep playing. It’s also a very casual way to see where your skills are at since your departure. If you’re rusty beyond belief, don’t worry about it. You can always develop your skills again. You just have to make sure that you focus on the bigger picture and push from there.

What about those casino bonuses? Can you get those even if you’re not new to the world of poker?

The answer? Absolutely! If you are new to the casino, you can qualify for a bonus. Of course, you will want to make sure that you read the fine print but there’s nothing stopping you from at least checking it out, right? Go on and get back out there. Poker is a fun game that has a great mix of challenge and luck. Have fun!

Why Play Keno Online

By Martin

Mixing up your casino gameplay is the best way to avoid boredom. It goes without saying that boredom is clearly the enemy here, right? Right! When you’re bored, it feels like life is just passing you by. Instead of getting worked up about finding things to do, you can always explore other casino games.

Now, we tend to focus a lot on poker and blackjack, but that doesn’t mean that you have to. We love those games, but sometimes even we have to decide that enough is enough. It’s nice to know that you will be able to expand your world outside of just poker and blackjack, even though they are pretty popular. This exploration of options actually brings us to the world of keno, believe it or not.

Keno is not a casino game that you see online as much, but that is quickly changing. Casino gamblers are a large group with diverse tastes, and casinos are always refining things so that they can keep on top of the game.

Keno is actually a very straightforward game. There is a pool of 80 balls that determine the final results. Online casinos will use computer programs to draw the balls out, and they will go out onto the main board. Gamblers make their bets and mark the numbers they think the balls will come up as. In live casinos, the balls come out of a tube and land on the board in certain places so you know which number is which. Online is a little more automated, but the concept is still the same.

You win money based on how many of your numbers match up. The more numbers, the higher you win. There are defined pay tables, but they vary from casino to casino.

Why do we like keno? It’s a lottery game, which means that you don’t have to have any special skills to play. If you’re looking to take a break from strategy games, keno is definitely an option to pursue. It’s possible to make money from keno, but we’re more focused on entertainment before anything else. Being aware of the options out there can make your casino play a lot easier.

Just with any other game, where you play matters. Keno can be a social game, which means that this is a great opportunity to make some friends and have an even better time than you were expecting. Why not check it out today, while it’s still on your mind? You’ll be glad that you did!

Poker Shame

By Martin

The most common emotion that people try to project is sadness, or disappointment. The truth of the matter is, whether you’re willing to admit it, or not. All people like sympathy, and a free pass; and that’s no different at the poker table. People know that they’re being watched, and they know that what is being watched for is emotion and expression. (You always have to remember that most of the time you are dealing with somebody whose perception of emotion and expression is engrained in them by movies and television, and therefore exaggerated.)

Because of this, that’s what they’re thinking YOU are looking for, and people tend to animate (or now that you know better, over animate) themselves in a way that tries to lure you into putting your money in, when they know they’re ahead.

Sadness is one of a few unique emotions that has no universal tells. Sadness in every human being is different. So when you see it, how do you tell if its genuine? Well its real simple. All you have to do is ask yourself, how ridiculous does this person look right now?

If the answer is, everyone looks like that when they’re sad then they’re probably faking it. They may be very slightly irritated, or a bit unhappy, but they are not vulnerable! The reason for this is, when a person becomes overwhelmed with sadness, their conscious view of themselves is at its weakest point. That leads to the inability to control the facial muscles, and allows them to move freely and at random (random to the person, not necessarily the situation.)

Its natural for somebody’s brain to tell the body in this situation to try to attract as much comfort as they can, from anywhere they can. While on the other hand, somebody faking it is going to show the movie expressions. You may see eyebrows raise without being drawn together, wrinkling the forehead, accompanied with enlarged puppy dog eyes. You may see the mouth curl down making a sad face, and what I’ve found to be a solid giveaway is, when somebody is projecting this and sees another person looking, they’ll look down, or purposefully break eye contact. THESE kind of people are trying to draw as much sympathy as possible, but without attracting a lot of attention by projecting what they’ve seen as socially acceptable sad behavior (aka movie sad).

This happens by default, because their perception of themselves is active trying to put together the perfect combination of expressions, and they don’t want to project one that will make them look foolish. (It’s a human ego thing, nobody looks bad on purpose.) The bottom line is, nobody is going to be in a hand if they’re legitimately sad. If a person can’t control the muscles in their face when they’re sad, they sure as hell aren’t going to be able to play poker.

Shame on the other hand, is a little different. You WILL see this at the poker table, and it can be very valuable, especially if you’re paying attention to WHEN you see it, in relation to what cards are out on the board. This can help you narrow hand ranges down, and guess whether a person was drawing or not so that next time you know that they’re willing to draw for X amount of the pot, and bet larger.

You’ll usually see this when somebody is really reaching for a draw and it misses, or at the end of the hand when they just couldn’t let go of the good starting hand. This occurs whether they have to show their hand or not (Sidenote: A rule players aren’t commonly familiar with is, whoever has the last aggressive action(last person to bet or raise only), has to show their cards first, or concede the hand (muck) and you don’t unless you intend to challenge it(or they muck)) The most common time I see the projection of shame is when a person turns over a pair of aces or kings, with 2-9 for their kicker. They know that’s a joke to even turn over, and vs. somebody whose been betting or calling/raising the whole way its usually beat. The people who muck most likely missed a draw, or had top or 2nd pair on the flop that obviously didn’t hold up after the remaining 2 cards. [Read more…] about Poker Shame

Poker Guide – Micro Expressions

By Martin

Anger vs. happiness motion in the mouth area, was a good example of how similar movements can have meanings that are polar opposites. This should also prove the importance of being able to distinguish the slight differences between them. It is also just as important to realize that not all movements can be categorized into basic, easy to interpret feelings.

Every little curl and twitch means something different, and every combination of them together, further increases the possibilities. The reason I say this is so important is because often when first exploring the use of this skill, its common for a person to make a critical ‘error’ when trying to read the micro expressions of another person.

This isn’t because that person is an exception, or the information they’d learned was wrong or misinterpreted when you read it. Its because you don’t have all of the information.(Don’t feel bad, nobody can acquire, understand, and put to use, everything, all at once.) You probably noticed, I put the word ‘error’ in quotes just now, and that’s because the specific ‘error’ I’m talking about is completely avoidable.

For lack of better words, I’m going to call this type of error ‘filling in the blank.’ Here’s a scenario where this happens. You’ve decided that you want to try to learn to read people’s emotions through the micro expressions, and you’ve spent a little time researching how a few of the basic emotions show on the face. You’ve tested it out on a few friends, or family members with a fair amount of success and decide to have a seat at the table and give it a whirl. It doesn’t take long before you become involved in a hand where you are heads up preflop with an opponent, he 4 bet under the gun, everyone folded to you on the big blind. You are hold As Kc and decide to finish the bet and see a flop. Heres your chance! You think as you watch his face closely as the flop comes out. Nothing, not a single movement on his face. You look down and see that the flop is 7h 4h 2c, and hasn’t helped you, and you check to the raiser. He puts out a bet of about ½ pot, and you decide the flop was weak enough to call it with 2 over cards, and you look back at him to watch his face when the turn card comes out. This time you see movement. One corner of their pressed together lips curled upward(one side) for just a fraction of a second. You do a quick rundown in your head of what you learned, or researched so far.

**Here is the error** “I only saw one corner curl, but that probably doesn’t matter.” WRONG. “Well… it kind of looked like….” WRONG. (Most common} ”Curling lips in general means happy or angry.“ WRONG.

The correct, and hardest thing to do in this instance, is to recognize that you are dealing with an emotion you ARE NOT YET FAMILIAR WITH. This is literally a science and you can’t generalize the information by as I called earlier, filling in the blanks. Just to show you why, lets finish this hand using the more common, of the ‘error’ approaches listed above.

You decide its either happy or angry, and you didn’t see teeth, so you come to the conclusion, he’s happy, so that card must’ve helped him! You then look down to see a 3 of hearts. Normally a blank, but there are now three hearts on the board, and you don’t have any in your hand. You check to him, and again, he puts out a half pot bet. Now your line of thinking has changed, you think hes happy, and a bet that size is surely just trying to get value, so you fold. When you fold, you proudly turn over AK to justify your pre and post flop calls, and ability to get away from a monster hand. But right after, your opponent laughs and turns over Ax10x, also not holding any hearts. You immediately feel your stomach knot and can’t believe all the time you put in learning about facial expressions, just cost you money. [Read more…] about Poker Guide – Micro Expressions

Poker Anger

By Martin

By now(hopefully) you’ve come to realize, that when you see an opponent with cards is happy, you should probably get out of the hand. Or at the very least, proceed with extreme caution, because they’re surely on the make. Now that you’ll have a little easier time spotting this when it happens, I want to distinguish the difference between happiness and anger, in relation to the mouth.

Now, anger is not to be confused with discontent. When a player is discontent at the poker table, its usually accompanied by the feeling of being beat. (I’ve described this as ‘dread’) and its something every player will experience at some point. Whether the reason is because of a bad run of cards, multiple losing sessions, or problems in your personal life; that sneak out from the back of your mind when you aren’t in a hand. It instills the feeling that you have no luck, or just aren’t meant to come out on top.

Anger, is usually accompanied with the feeling of what I categorize as ‘subtle-rage’. They aren’t flipping out, causing a scene, but he’s decided at some point in, or before the hand that they’re going to take somebody’s money.

These players are often mistaken for being or getting ‘aggressive’ and since to remain aggressive, you have to open your hand range and its usually presumed, that ½ or most of the time, that they are getting out of line.

But anger doesn’t just magically show up. It festers, and they’ve been waiting for a premium(to their range) hand to release it. This can cause you to be baited into calling large raises with marginal hands, just because of your position in relation to them, or misread on their mood. Or it can cause you to be intimidated out of the hand.(Which you should never allow to happen.) When whats really going on is, the opponent is just irritated by another player’s(or your) play whether collectively, or just in one hand. Once that’s seeded in their mind; its only a matter of time before they’re going to feel the need to intervene, and try to teach somebody a lesson. It’s important to be able to HONESTLY evaluate your hand here.

Pre-flop is the only part of poker where I believe you need to play the cards, before you play the player. For example, theres no reason to call 67 suited to a 5bet+, preflop at a cash game. I don’t care if you ARE on the button. You are essentially going into the hand with 67 vs. at LEAST one face card, or a pocket pair. Let it go, and wait for a better SITUATION. Its not that 67 suited is a horrible hand, its just more likely to be beat when facing a raise like that **by somebody who is angry**. I’m not telling you to allow yourself to be pushed around. Although an exemption to this would be in a tournament, there are a lot of other factors to consider, and you may or may not want to see a flop. But that’s only because of the TIME constraints that you have to deal with in a tournament.(rising blinds)

Now that you know why you need this information, I’m going to tell you how to find it. I’ve already explained how to find ‘happy’ in the mouth area. You would think anger would be a lot easier to see, but that’s not the case. Due to sunglasses, and hats, a good portion of the giveaways from the nose up are usually hidden or obscured.(for instance, *from the nose up*, a player with a hat and sunglasses is more prone to look confused, or as if he’s analyzing the hand when hes actually fuming. This is because the band of the hat restricts some of the movements in the forehead, and the nose pads on the sunglasses is constantly inducing a slight downward pull due to the weight of the glasses, thus restricting motion between, and at the edges of the eyebrows.) So where do you look? The same place you look to find ‘happy’. The mouth. [Read more…] about Poker Anger

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