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The clock is a ticking and 2009 is almost here. We are less than 24 hours away from seeing the Big Apple in New York drop or if you live in Georgia seeing the Peach drop in downtown Atlanta. Everyone needs to make a New Year’s resolution and see how far in 2009 you get to that resolution.

I think 2008 was an ok year for me, but I do have bigger plans for 2009. I think money is my main concern and I do hope I make more money in 2009 than 2008. My New Year’s resolution will be that for right now and I may come up with a few more before midnight gets here tonight.

I plan to travel to Cherokee, North Carolina to bring in the New Year. Spending a little time gambling at the casino up there is a good way to start a New Year. Especially if I luck up and win a lot of money. Now that would be the perfect way to start off any year as far as I am concerned. Just be thankful we made it through another year and let’s hope that 2009 goes as smooth as possible and we can still be here to ring in the 2010 year; which will be here before you know it.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Up there in the mountains of North Carolina is a little casino nestled between the Smokey Mountains. It’s located on a Indian Reservation in North Carolina and it takes a little over 2 hours to get there from my house. I like having a casino that close and its a good thing that there isn’t one closer than that. If I could gamble everyday, I probably would be doing that and I would be broke all the time. I’m already broke all the time, but a casino located any closer to me than the one in Cherokee, North Carolina; I really would be broke.

I had great success my first trip there and at one point I had $1900 in my pocket. This is pretty good considering I only brought $130 with me to gamble on. I didn’t manage to make it home with that much, because after I won, I did give some of it back by gambling more. I did manage to get home with $1500+ and that was a great feeling. I have gone a couple of times sense then, but still haven’t had the success like I did that first time. As of right now, me and a few friends are planning a trip there on New Year’s Eve. We will get to the casino in North Carolina around 9 that evening and stay past midnight gambling the night away. I hope I get lucky and a slot machine will reward me with another nice payoff or two. It would be a great way to start the 2009 year, if I can manage to go up there and win a $1000 payout or more.

Have you gone to the casino in North Carolina before? Please let me know if you have made a trip to North Carolina and how much did you win? I spoke to two different people that won about $700 on two different penny slot machines. I like the 1 cent and 5 cent slot machines. You get a chance to play longer and you can win nice payouts from them too.

If your kids own a gaming system and you was looking to get them a new game this year, I have a list of some of the most popular video games on the market right now. These games are hot and its the ones video gamers want to play the most. If you find yourself in the dark when it comes to video games; don’t feel bad because you’re not alone. Here is a list you can copy and take with you to the video game store, so you can pick up some of the games your children will love the most. They may be a couple of adults on your shopping list that would enjoy playing some of these games.

1. Saints Row 2

2. Dead Space

3. Far Cry 2

4. Fable 2

5. LittleBigPlanet

6. Guitar Hero World Tour

7. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

8. Fallout 3

9. Tom Clancy’s Endwar

10. Resistance 2

11. Gears of War 2

12. Valkyria Chronicles

13. Mirror’s Edge

14. World of Warcraft: Wrath of Lich King

15. Left 4 Dead

You can certainly earn some brownie points with the kids this year if you can find enough money to buy a couple of these games. I know Guitar Hero is a very popular game and the Guitar Hero World Tour will be just as popular I’m sure. Tom Clancy’s Endwar is another video game that I hear a lot of buzz about and this may be another good choice to throw in the shopping cart. I think video game sales are going to do fine this year, despite the tough financial times most of us are having right now. The video game generation is here and they aren’t going any where no time soon.

I still have very good memories of heading off to the arcade to play Pac Man and it was the best thing in the world to do at the time. You can go play several variations of the game online and save your quarters. I couldn’t find enough quarters in the early to mid 80’s when the game was so popular to play. Luckily we can all play PacMan today without having to give up our change.

Just save this blog post to your favorites and you can go play your favorite Pac Man games anytime. I have included all kinds of Pac Man games below and you can just click on the link below and start playing. You don’t have to download anything and just control Pac Man with the arrows on your keyboard. Have fun and enjoy playing all of these Pac Man games below:

Pacman

Ms. Pacman

New Ms. Pacman

Baby Pacman

Burgerman Pacman

Munchyman Pacman

Super Mario Pacman

Deluxe Pacman

Sonic Knuckles Pacman

Pac’s Jungle Trip

Pac Jack

Exteme Sketch Pacman

Pacman Remake (good game)

Colorful Pacman

Pacman War

Pumpkin Pacman (fast Pac)

Pac-Pong Pacman (works like Pong)

PacXon Pacman (very fun, just like Tron)

Sonic Pacman

Anti - Pacman (your the ghosts; catch Pacman)

Try all of these great Pacman games. I like play several of these games and the one where your character is fast are my favorites. The Tron game use to be a lot of fun to play and now you can play a version of that in PacMan style! Anti Pacman was pretty coool and gives you a chance to be the ghosts as you track down Pacman.

What is your favorite Pacman Game? I love Ms. Pacman and I think most will agree that was the best PacMan game to ever come out. The classic PacMan is fun too and many loyal Pac Man fans will still claim the first one is the best one. It has been fun to play some of these other Pacman games that have all different types of graphics and themes! Don’t forget to save this page to your favorites and you can quickly access your favorite style of Pac Man Game. Have fun and enjoy!

While cleaning out my desk today, I found some casino receipts that I cashed out in 2007. One was for 1,250 dollars and another one was for 650 dollars. I won both amounts on the same lucky machine in Cherokee, North Carolina. It was the most I had ever won at a casino and really the only time where I left a casino with more money than I went in with. So it is possible to earn money from a casino, but it’s not the way you want to make a living. The best way to earn money is still the old fashion way of just going out and getting a job. You never want to take money into a casino that you need for paying bills or just buying your next meal with. The casinos will get the best of any gambler at the end of the day and it doesn’t matter how lucky you are. Winning at a casino is not likely for anyone and a lot of gamblers need to realize this before they go off blowing their weekly pay checks they worked so hard to earn. It did bring back some good memories when I found those casino receipts and I wish had that much money now.

Learning to play blackjack online or in real life can be a lot of fun. I think most people know how to play, but very few can play really well or at least give their self the best chances of winning. If you would like to improve your game a bit, be sure to check out BJStats.com for some lessons. They offer great advice and tips for beginners or even for good players that just want to notch up their blackjack game. Blackjack is a simple game of trying to be closer to 21 than the dealer or the house. A face card is worth 10 points and you can use the ace for 11 points or 1 point. The rest of the cards in the deck are worth the same as their numeric number on the card. A true blackjack is getting dealt a face card with an ace on your first two cards. You can still get 21 in a variety of other ways that equal 21 for a maximum score. The key is not to go over 21 and many blackjack players beat their self trying to improve their score. The best blackjack players in the world know how to take another card or know when to stop. The dealer always has the advantage because they can keep taking cards until they beat your score, but they must do so without going over 21. Blackjack is a tricky game, but it really isn’t about luck. They are proven strategies and tips that help players win over the long run. BJStats.com is an excellent website to help you out with a lot of these tips and tricks and you will begin to see instant results; when you start playing blackjack with the help of BJStats.com.

Online Bingo is a lot of fun to do and is more fun than or as much fun as playing it in person. It has grown in popularity over the years and a lot of die-hard Bingo fans are getting their cards daily online these days. Now finding some of the top places to play Bingo really isn’t that hard and you can find the best places to play and reviews at Online Bingo Sites. They will help guide Bingo Players everywhere to the best places to win and holler Bingo online. Before you go out and try to find your own place to play, see what places Online Bingo Sites suggests first. This can save you a lot of time and energy looking for a place to play Bingo and you will have the chance to try out more than just 1 Bingo site.

I use to play Bingo a lot locally at the different places in my hometown. The main attraction was the cash they gave away and that’s what got us there in the first place. After playing a few times, I saw that I actually enjoyed the game of Bingo and wouldn’t mind playing just for the fun of it. I like the competition factor and trying to beat out others in Bingo and there are places online that offer Bingo just for fun. If you like to win money and want something from your Bingo playing skills, you will see many of the online Bingo places are like the real thing. You can win real cash money playing Bingo online and when you get through playing you don’t have to worry about driving home in the dark. If you enjoy playing Bingo and never tried it online before, you must give it a try today. You will quickly learn that it’s just as much fun online as the places you normally play Bingo. Just head over to OnlineBingoSites.net and see the different Bingo Games that are going on right now!

I use to think that after a machine hit (paid out a nice prize) it wouldn’t hit again anytime soon. I am thinking in new ways now and I think it’s better to find the hot machines. If you’re at the casino and you find a machine that is letting you win, be sure to stay with that machine. I have won big prizes of 500 dollars or more and once I have won a big prize like that, I have learned that it is best just to stay on that machine and wait for it to pay off big again.

Now I’m not sure if an online casino would work the same way or not. For those of you that like to gamble on the internet, it might be best to stay with the companies you’re having the most luck with. So try a few different online places that you can gamble at and if you find one that lets you win some real money, which might be the online casino you will want to stick with. Just remember that if you hit big on a machine or at an online casino, it doesn’t mean you can’t win again. Be sure to let me know about your lucky stories and perhaps you have found a slot machine before that would just not let you lose.

People that are just learning to turn on a computer or work their way around the internet, might have notice the advertisements for online gaming and online casinos that are all through the World Wide Web. If these interest you and you would like to get started with one, please be sure to follow some basic steps before you spend any money or sign up to one of these online casinos. An Online Casino Guide can get any beginner or first time player off to a good start to maximize their winnings and all the fun they can be having with online casinos. Even people that have been playing for awhile could pick up some tips and basic knowledge on how the online gaming industry works. I think a guide like this will help to inform everyone better on the way online gaming companies work. Taking a little time now to sit down and seeing what an online casino guide can offer you, can save you a lot of time and money down the road. So if your ready to get started and you want to see what all the fuss is about with these online casinos, please just take a moment now and see this great beginner’s guide that has been specifically designed with you in mind. CasinoNewbies.com has everything you will want to know about the online casinos and you will even learn some new stuff that you wasn’t aware of, so please be sure to check out the guide first! Good luck on all the new casinos you sign up for and most of all, make sure you’re having fun!

Where do you go to play poker online? If you have any good suggestions, please leave a reply and let me know. If you’re trying to find a good place to play cards online; then I might have a good suggestion for you. Online Poker is so big right now and you see advertisements for it everywhere on the internet these days. The reason that you see so many advertisements is because it is more popular than ever and there are a lot of poker places that are competing with each other to find new members to sign up. So with all of the choices out there, how do you know that you are picking one of the best ones available? Well it’s a good idea that you start with a poker rating guide and this will help you gain some insight on some of the best places to play at on the computer. Online Poker Rooms.org is an excellent guide to find places online that play poker. Their guide will also help you with strategy, news, tips, advice and information on the WSOP too! To get all of this valuable information first would be a good idea before you take that first hand from the dealer. The review guide that Online Poker Rooms.org provides will also have plenty of information on the best poker rooms, tournaments and even information on poker software downloads! I know the poker tournaments are what I like best. I’m sure a lot of this is because of all the people playing Texas Hold’em these days on television. A lot of people watch these poker tournaments on television and it gets them wanting to play too, so they login to the computer and find where a poker tournament will be happening soon. If you haven’t ever tried to play in an online poker tournament before, you should really give it a try. You can win real money playing online poker and there is also some cash you can win in the poker room tournaments. So if you came in search for a good game of poker, be sure you check out the review guide first, so you will know where to play poker at for the most fun and excitement.

Online gambling is very popular these days and why shouldn’t it be. The ability to place real money bets from the comfort of your home and the opportunity to win real money back is a lot easier than traveling to real casinos. People do win money from the online casinos and that is the reason many keep coming back to gamble online. So where should you gamble online at? What casinos are the best? Which online casinos can you trust? All of these are great questions and its important that you figure out some of these things before you start placing any bets online.

You can do a search for “online casinos” with any search engine and get back tons of results. You will quickly learn that there is not a shortage of online casinos that is available. The hard part is trying to find out which ones are the best, since they are so many to choose from. If you want to find a good Online Casino, then please go check out Gamblecraft. This is an online casino guide that has a lot of good information about online gambling. If you want to know which online casinos have the best odds of winning or which ones have the best casino bonuses, you will want to get started with Gamblecraft first! Money is too hard to come by and we always want the most for our hard-earned dollars. So getting started with the best online casinos first, is the best way to maximize each dollar for fun and the opportunity to win even more real money. If your ready to start wagering online, just don’t be in a hurry and taking the time to find the best casinos now, will be the better time you will have later with your favorite online casinos.

I am someone that likes to pick up a deck of cards from time to time. One of my favorite card games would have to be spades. It’s real simple to learn and most can be taught the basics of spades in about 10 minutes or after a couple of games. The really good spades players and the ones that have tons of strategy for the game, learn those over several thousands of games and they can’t be taught as quick. It seems most spades players have different opinions on things and the way they like for the game to go. One of the best ways to play spades is with 4 people and having teams of 2, where each player gets 13 cards dealt to him/her.

Finding a good partner to play spades with can be tough and it’s important that you work as a team or you won’t be maximizing your hand or your partner’s hand. Something as simple as leading off with a certain suit is important and if you know your partner is out of that suit, you want to make sure he/her gets a chance to win books or tricks with their spades. A book or a trick is given to the team that has the highest card out of the 4 played. Whoever starts the round will play any card in their hand and the next player must play that suit. This goes for all of the other 3 people after the first card is played and if you don’t have that suit, you may then throw a spade which trumps the round then and can only be beat with a higher spade. You must be out of the suit to play a spade and if you have a card in the matching suit you must lay it down.

Now if you have a partner that leads off the game with an Ace and you don’t have any cards in that suit, you may play something other than a spade. If you don’t have the first card that is laid down to start a round, you can throw anything that you like. So if your partner throws an ace, you know they should win the trick or book, so it gives you the chance to throw off one of your lowest cards in your hand or you might want to throw a card that you don’t have many left in that suit, so you can be one card closer to cutting that suit with spades.

If you have 3 other people that you know and can get them together for a spades game, but sure to do that sometime. We have sat up all night and played for hours and hours a game of spades that would go to 500, 1000 or if we had a lot of time to play we have been known to play to 5000 before. Depending on the rules will determine how you keep score in spades, but the most common way is that a book/trick will equal 10 points for everyone that you and your partner bid. So before the first card is played each person tells how many books/tricks they think they can get. So if a team bets 5 books/tricks, they will get 50 points for achieving that. They will earn 1 point for each book they get over that, but if they get 10 tricks in a game, they must go back 100 points. So it forces teams to try and bid their hands properly, but if you bet too high and don’t get your books, you will lost whatever you team bet. So you could lose 50 points if you and your partner only got 4 or less books that game. So since you can go backwards on the scorebooks, a game to 1,000 will usually last for about 3 hours and a race to 5,000 can start in the evening while it’s still daylight outside and there is a chance you will still be playing when the sun comes up the next morning.  Get with your friends and challenge them to a game of spades and remember there is no table talk allowed in spades, so if you know you can win a book or want to suggest a card that your partner should lead with; it’s not allowed in spades and the no talking rule in spades, is what makes the game so fun!

I haven’t sat down and played poker with the boys lately. I have been very busy trying to do so many other things online; I just haven’t found time for it. So many great opportunities exist online today and I’m trying to take advantage of as many of them as possible. I have probably bitten off more than I can chew, but will try to worry about that later.

I would like to get with the fellas and play a good card game with them sometime. We haven’t played poker in awhile and I think it would be fun. We play all sorts of games when we get around the card table. We will play 5 card draw, Texas Hold’em, Dr. Pepper, Queens and Fours wild (but we call this game something slightly different…lol) and will even sometimes just play rummy. We have the most fun playing some version of poker, but rummy and even a little spades game with partners can be fun too. We don’t really gamble for big money or nothing, but just use our pocket change for the weekly poker game. I have made more than 50 dollars, when a lot of people would play and a lot of people had a lot of pocket change. Normally a winner from one of our card games would be in the 10 to 15 dollars area. It’s just fun to play and when you add a few nickels and dimes into the game, it makes winning seem better than just winning for pride. We do talk some junk at our poker games and I’m sure it would be very entertaining to an outsider watching us play poker.

We normally set up a card game for around 7 or 8 in the evening on a Friday or Saturday Night. Once we start playing, there is no telling when we might stop. We have seen the sun rise up in the morning on many occasions, so a poker game for us is an all-nighter or can end up that ways sometimes. If you like to get around the poker table and shoot the bull with your friends, be sure to tell me some of your best poker stories. Also, feel free to let me know about any other versions of poker you might play at your weekly card game.

You don’t see poker on the tube as much as you did a few years back. It seems Texas Hold’em and games like that are losing their steam. The poker world has created some superstars and they are still big tournaments going on, it just seems the tv producers are not putting them on the air as much. I guess there is just so much you can sit and watch a poker game on tv.

I never did get caught up in the craze on television, but do enjoy playing local poker tournaments around my hometown. It’s illegal for us to win cash in Georgia, so most of the places around here that do it, pay out in house cash. House cash allows you to buy food and drinks; so it’s like going to buy a meal at a restaurant and you get to play poker too. I have won a couple of the tournaments, but I’m really just an average poker player. My biggest win was a tournament that had 24 players in it and I took home first that night. That was a big night for me and as far as the local poker tournaments around here go. The weekend poker games with friends are fun too, but for anybody wanting to learn more about poker from tv, might have a hard time finding it these days.

If you’re searching for a good online casino or maybe you’re just looking for something fun to do; see if an online casino is right for you. For most of them you can use real or play money and compete with others online in a variety of different games. I really like the card games and tend to lean toward them when I go to online or real casinos.

The Golden Palace Casino is one of the best ones you can find out there. You have probably seen their advertisements a few times, if you spend a lot of time online. If you don’t stay online much, give them a try and you will be coming on the computer more often. I remember seeing a big boxing match that was on one of the Pay Per View channels and several of the boxers would have a temporary tattoo of the Golden Palace Casino on their bodies. So they spare no expense when it comes to advertising their product. If you have ever spent any time at the Golden Palace Casino you would see why. It really is a lot of fun and a good way to sit back and try to win some money!

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If you like to gamble online and would like to join with an online casino that you can trust, check out the ones at Dex Casino. They do reviews on a lot of the online casinos, poker rooms and gaming sites that you find on the internet today. For over 5 years now their team has been signing up to these online casinos and through their own experience and seeing first hand at how they operate; they have some valuable knowledge they can pass along to you. They know which ones you can trust and which online casinos have the best customer service. Anytime you’re putting your financial information on the internet or having to use real money online, you want to take all the precautions necessary and make sure you don’t lose any real money to some of the crooks out there. It just takes 1 or 2 bad people to ruin the fun and enjoyment that you can get from an online gambling site, that you can do from the comforts of your own home. Take the worry out and check out the places that Dex Casino recommends. Not only will you find the places online that you can trust, but you will also be getting the ones that their staff enjoyed the most too! Go have fun and enjoy your gaming experience online and most of all, GOOD LUCK!

How I miss my days of playing Texas Hold’em with the boys. Me and a friend use to go out and play poker at a restaurant. It was pretty fun to do and really didn’t cost a lot either. You would pay $10 to get in and they would let you buy more poker chips for $5 up until 9 PM. Once that time came, they would make an announcement abou the last buy-ins. Most of us would usually buy more chips if we needed them or not. Just so we could play Texas Hold’em in the wee hours of the morning. Most of these poker tournaments would last past midnight.

Now it is illegal to gamble in the state of Georgia, like it is for most states in the U.S.. So the way they would do it, is to give away food vouchers for your entry fees. You would be playing for a bar tab basically and it was ok to pay with vouchers like this and would be considered illegal gambling if cash was paid to the winners. If I remember correctly I think they just paid the top 2 players and the final prize to the winner would be based on the number of people that played in the poker tournaments. Sometimes we would start these tournaments with only about 5 or 6 people playing and sometimes we would have as many as 25 playing. I won a few of these tournaments, but really only one big one. There was 24 players in the one big tournament I won. This might not seem that big to you, but for an amateur poker player like myself, it was quite an accomplishment to beat 23 other players out of a poker game. I couldn’t miss that night and my hands were just really good and I had no part in the tournament win. There was no bluffing or magical bets I made to pull off the win, I just kept getting good hands over and over. There was always someone that would stick with me and that was key to me winning it all. If everyone would have been more patient and waited until my luck ran out, they could have beat me on my inexperience. I think that is the biggest key to winning in poker and especially for a Texas Hold’em poker tournament, is to just be patient. Wait for those hands to find you, but try your best to always see the flop!

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Do you like to play poker? I know a lot of people would be lost without their weekly poker game they have with friends and family. The internet has opened up a whole new avenue for the die-hard poker players out there. More and more people each day are learning about online poker. The game that has been around forever is continuing to grow by all the people that are rushing to the online poker rooms to play against people in other states and countries.

Bet365 is dedicated to serving all of its poker players to some of the best poker you can find on the computer. They have a secure online environment that poker players can rest assure knowing that their financial information is safe. You can use one account to play poker with or you can take advantage of some of the other services they offer; like a sportsbook betting area or their online casino. They have created a place that any gambler out there will love. So if you’re searching for a place to show off your poker skills at, be sure you look at Bet365 and you will see they have everything that a poker player or fan will love. Go open up your account today and start showing the world just what type of poker skills you have. Be sure to come back here and let me know how you fared against the other players at Bet365! Good Luck!

Do you like to gamble online? Certain laws and regulations have put restrictions to online poker and other popular games like that, but there are still millions of people that do it each day and it’s probably something that is here to stay. We all like to win a little money every now and then and online gambling gives us that chance from the convenience of our homes. I enjoy playing a lot of the online games that you can win real money at. Some games just give you points and high scores and there is just so much satisfaction that you can get out of things like that. When you can win real money, is when you really have something to show for your efforts.

Texas Hold’em and 5 card stud is a couple of my favorite poker games to play online. I can spend hours just sitting back and playing those two popular poker games. Poker is a game of strategy, but it also helps to have a little luck on your side too. Most people make the mistake by staying with their hands too long and there is no shame by folding early and living to fight for another hand. Patience can’t be stressed enough in the game of poker and those that have a lot of patience can usually be the ones that will stick around the longest. You do have to take chances from time to time and go with that gut feeling, but try to play off your opponent’s aggressiveness and this strategy will keep you at the table longer than most.

Another fun thing to do online is Bingo. Feel free to check out some of the great places you can play bingo online. You can relax your strategy in bingo and just root that your numbers come out in bingo. So if you get too stressed out in your online poker games; just give Bingo a try!