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King High is a new poker-style strategy game available exclusively at Cyberslotz. King High is played with 4 decks of cards prior to each round of play. A user must place chips on the layout, betting on what they expect will happen with the next card in the sequence, and also betting on the overall poker pot (i.e. all 5 cards together). Payouts are determined by the types of bets made, and their respective odds.

The basic rules for King High at Cyberslotz are as follows:

1) Player places a POKERPOT bet at the beginning of a round of 5 cards, and then presses the DEAL button to draw the next card.

2) An optional RUN bet may be placed before (and ONLY before) the first card is drawn. A RUN bet is won when 3, 4 or 5 consecutive HIGH or LOW cards are drawn. ACE is low. Before each individual card is drawn, additional bets can be made.

3) A HIGH bet is won if the card drawn is 8 to KING. A LOW bet is won if the card drawn is ACE to 6. A SUIT bet (i.e. Diamonds, Hearts, Clubs, Spades) is won if the card drawn matches the dealt suit.

4) A SEVEN bet is won if the card drawn is a 7.

5) After 5 cards are dealt any winning POKERPOT jackpot hands are paid.

The King High game layout looks complicated at first, but its actually a very easy game to play. If you enjoy strategic gambling games, King High may well be a game for you! It’s EXCLUSIVE to Cyberslotz – you can’t play it anywhere else.

Cyberslotz, the UK online slot machine specialists, have just launched a new slot machine, called Ramesses Riches. With an Egyptian theme, Ramesses Riches offers minimum and maximum bets of 1p and £10 respectively, and a top prize of £24,000.

There are 25 lines to bet on, and a lot of treasure to be won! Typical egyptian symbols (such as beetles and kings) make up the paytable, but the real wins come during the Free Spins Feature. When you get at least 3 Ankh scatters in a row, 4 free games are awarded, with all prizes tripled! And, the feature can be re-triggered. There are some BIG payouts possible on Ramesses Riches – for brave and patient players. Will it be your lucky day – or will the treasure’s curse prevail?

Play Ramesses Riches exclusively at Cyberslotz. And don’t forget that Cyberslotz offer all new players a £50 cash match bonus!

Back in April, Betfair Casino ran a limited time offer where they gave new players 5GBP of risk free cash to try out the casino – with NO DEPOSIT necessary! Well, it was so successful that they’re doing it again RIGHT NOW, until the end of June 2008! Yes, if you ACT NOW, you can trial the Betfair Casino totally RISK FREE. Try out the games, and keep your stake and winnings! You must wager the equivalent of 20 times the amount of the bonus on the Betfair Casino before it can be withdrawn, and stakes on Zero Roulette do not count. (See other Terms and Conditions at the Betfair Casino website when you join).

Betfair Casino has an awesome selection of games: various blackjack and roulette games, craps, pai gow, slot machines, and more. You name it, they’ve got it! And they are a very well established company, with an excellent reputation. The games are fair, and you can win! Please take this opportunity to get some FREE MONEY from Betfair Casino and WIN! If however you’re not initially lucky, you can then go on to make a deposit if you wish, and get a 100% match bonus of up to 50GBP! This is a generous offer as the playthrough requirements are just 30 times the BONUS. This gives you a great chance to win even more! Send me an email at admin@howtobeatthecasinos.com and tell me how you get on!

Las Vegas is still the gambling mecca of the world; it’s still the city of sin and the city of lights; it’s still like Disneyland for Adults; and it’s still the entertainment capital of the world. There’s so much going on at any one time in Las Vegas, that it’s hard for anyone to keep up! Based largely on the collection of Las Vegas and gambling related emails which flood my inbox every day, I’ve prepared this brief rundown of just some of the events / promotions / entertainment options available in Las Vegas during June 2008.

Las Vegas Entertainers, June 2008
(Note: thanks to VegasResource.com for the original list). Want tickets to Las Vegas events? I highly recommend PurchaseTix Event Tickets.

1 =Best In Show – Orleans Arena
3-22 =Elton John – Caesars Palace
4 = Nonpoint, the Exies, Deepfield, Under the Flood – Mandalay Bay
4-6 =Damon Wayans -The Orleans Showroom
4-8 =”High School Musical” – Planet Hollywood
5-8 = George Carlin – The Orleans
6 = “Making the Band 4 — The Tour” – Palms
6 = Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes – MGM Grand
6 = Augie T – Cannery
7 = Tanya Tucker - Terrible’s Primm Valley
7 = Paul Rodgers - Cannery
6-7 = Earth, Wind & Fire – Las Vegas Hilton
6-7 = Ray Romano and Kevin James – The Mirage
6-8 = The Lovin’ Spoonful – Suncoast
7 = L.A. Guns – Sunset Station
7 = Sex Pistols – Hard Rock
7 = Dethklok and Metalocalypse, Chimaira, Soilent Green – Mandalay Bay
8 = Peter Murphy – Mandalay Bay
11-12 = Jim Belushi and the Sacred Hearts Band – The Orleans Showroom
12,14 = Stone Temple Pilots – Palms
12-18 = Rodney Carrington – MGM Grand
12-15 = George Carlin – The Orleans
13 = Kem – Boulder Station
13 = Unwritten Law – Hard Rock
13 = Marc Cohn – Green Valley Ranch
13 = Erykah Badu – Mandalay Bay
13 = Panic At the Disco, Motion City Soundtrack, the Hush Sound, Phantom Planet – Palms
13-14 = Johnny Mathis – Las Vegas Hilton
13-15 = U.S. Olympic Team Trials – UNLV Thomas & Mack
13-15 = Day in the Life John Lennon Anthology concert – Suncoast
14 = Patty Smyth & Scandal – Boulder Station
14 = Ted Nugent – Mandalay Bay
14 = Grand Funk Railroad – Green Valley Ranch
18-20 Trisha Yearwood – The Orleans Showroom
19-July 16 = David Copperfield – MGM Grand
19-22 = Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus – Orleans Arena
20 = Camila – Hard Rock
20 = Pepper – Hard Rock Hotel
20 = Crosby, Stills & Nash – Red Rock
20 = Mel Tillis – San ta Fe
20-21 = Michael Bolton – The Orleans
20-22 = Lorna Luft – Suncoast
21 = Anita Baker – Terrible’s Primm Valley
21 = The Spinners – Cannery
21 = Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Halfway to Hazard – Mandalay Bay
21 = George Michael – MGM Grand
23 = George Benson – Green Valley Ranch
24 = Ani DiFranco – Hard Rock Hotel
24-July 20 = Bette Midler – Caesars Palace
25 = Snoop Dogg – Terrible’s Primm Valley
25-27 = Kool and the Gang – The Orleans Showroom
26 = Mark Knopfler – Hard Rock Hotel
27 = Gym Class Heroes, The Academy Is, Cobra Starship, Tyga – Hard Rock
27 = Smash Mouth - Hard Rock Hotel
27 = Sammy Kershaw – Santa Fe
27 = Weird “Al” Yankovic - Henderson Pavilion
27-29 = Clint Black – The orleans
27-29 = ‘A Tribute to the Diamonds’ – Suncoast
28 = Oak Ridge Boys – Texas Station
28 = Herman’s Hermits with Peter Noone and the Turtles – Cannery
28 = Pacquiao vs. Diaz - Mandalay Bay Events Center
28 = Boston, Styx – UNLV Thomas & Mack
31-Aug. 3 = Don Rickles – The Orleans Showroom

Of course if you’re going to Las Vegas, there’s a lot more to see than just the shows (and the casinos they are playing in). Have you heard about the Las Vegas Power Pass from Visiticket? The Las Vegas Power Pass includes admission to over 20 of the top Las Vegas Attractions, and can save you you up to $500 in admissions and discounts. Available in 1, 2, 3 and 5 consecutive day durations, the Las Vegas Power Pass can also help you to skip the line at many locations – saving you HOURS of queuing.

Las Vegas Power Pass attractions currently include:
Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art in Las Vegas
Galaxy Neonopolis 11 Movie Theatre
Hoover Dam Tour from Las Vegas
Jillian’s Las Vegas – Bowling
Las Vegas Fashion Outlets Shopper’s Shuttle
Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Las Vegas Zoo
Liberace Museum
Madame Tussauds Las Vegas Interactive Wax Experience
Popovich Comedy Pet Theater (featured on America’s Got Talent)
Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat
SPEED-The Ride and Cyber Speedway of Las Vegas
Star Trek: The Experience™ at the Las Vegas Hilton
The Adventuredome Theme Park at Circus Circus
The Eiffel Tower Experience at Paris Las Vegas
The Roller Coaster at New York New York Casino Hotel

And here’s the best part: you’ll ALWAYS receive a discount on the pass prices if you book via the links in this blog (i.e. here’s a link!). It’s an exclusive negotiated offer for our Beat the Casinos blog readers!

There’s a few interesting Las Vegas Casino Promotions also occurring in June 2008. Here’s just a sampling of some of the offers I’ve received recently: Firstly, The Las Vegas Hilton are letting ladies drink free in their Tempo Lounge during June 2008 (men can also drink free there if playing blackjack), and also giving ladies lots of other discounts and offers. Details are in the image below:

Secondly, the Tropicana Hotel Casino Las Vegas is letting guests who book a Sunday – Thursday night room before August 28 enter its Roll for Gas promotion. Guests are given four dice to roll at check in, and the prize given depends on that dice roll. It’s a free chance at a funbook (worst case) or $100 of Free Gas (best case). Details are in the image below:

I hope you’ve found this Las Vegas June 2008 round-up useful. Feel free to let me know your thoughts at admin@howtobeatthecasinos.com.

Cantor Casino are an established brand that’s been around for a very long time. Licensed in Malta, they’re safe to play with, and very professional. Their main audience is probably UK casino players, however they offer casino accounts to individuals all around the world (with some exceptions). Cantor Casino offers a unique INSURANCE proposition for ALL of their players - with no premium required!

Here’s how it works: Join up to Cantor Casino, and satisfy their initial bonus play offer conditions. From that point onwards, play at least 500 hands of any of their games (except Financial Odds) during the month, and earn 15% cash back in case the house wins over the month. Cash back awards are accrued and credited to your account on the 1st of the following calendar month.

So, let’s say you deposit 100GBP, and win 500GBP. You’re up 500GBP for the month - congratulations! If you lose your 100GBP, you’re down 100GBP for the month – but on the first of the following month, 15GBP will be placed back into your account! This is a unique insurance offer from a unique casino – come and play at Cantor Casino today!

Back in April, Betfair Casino ran a limited time offer where they gave new players 5GBP of risk free cash to try out the casino – with NO DEPOSIT necessary! Well, it was so successful that they’re doing it again RIGHT NOW, until the end of June 2008! Yes, if you ACT NOW, you can trial the Betfair Casino totally RISK FREE. Try out the games, and keep your stake and winnings! You must wager the equivalent of 20 times the amount of the bonus on the Betfair Casino before it can be withdrawn, and stakes on Zero Roulette do not count. (See other Terms and Conditions at the Betfair Casino website when you join).

Betfair Casino has an awesome selection of games: various blackjack and roulette games, craps, pai gow, slot machines, and more. You name it, they’ve got it! And they are a very well established company, with an excellent reputation. The games are fair, and you can win! Please take this opportunity to get some FREE MONEY from Betfair Casino and WIN! If however you’re not initially lucky, you can then go on to make a deposit if you wish, and get a 100% match bonus of up to 50GBP! This is a generous offer as the playthrough requirements are just 30 times the BONUS. This gives you a great chance to win even more! Send me an email at admin@howtobeatthecasinos.com and tell me how you get on!

After a long wait, “21 – The Movie” has been released in cinemas around the world. It’s been out in the USA for a month or two, but has only been made available in other countries during the last month. For those unfamiliar with the storyline, this is basically the cinema version of the book “Bringing Down The House“. The book and movie are about the famous MIT team that beat blackjack (for a while), and in doing so changed the way that casinos played the game forever.

Jim Sturgess is in the lead role as Ben Campbell, a mathematics nerd at MIT who’s recruited by faculty member Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) to count cards in Las Vegas casinos every weekend, as part of a secret student blackjack team. Each weekend the team flies to Vegas, bankrolled by MIT backers, and take hundreds of thousands of dollars from the casinos via card counting at blackjack. Ben’s a bit of a geek, not popular with the girls – until he starts playing blackjack and winning thousands. You might say that he’s a bit like Will Hunting, who then becomes James Bond. It’s probably very shallow – but a girl once told me “There’s nothing more attractive than a man with money” – so perhaps this is a universal theme!

The strategy of the card counting followed by the MIT team is simple: through a “team play” device, one player of the team watches a table and waits for a high count (for the table to “warm up” with lots of high cards left to be played), and then signals the other team players to join in. At this time the high roller comes and plays and takes big money away. When a table is “cold” they place very low bets, or simply don’t play at all. Casinos these days are sadly well aware of team play, and act quickly to stop it. Can card counting in blackjack work? Yes – read my articles: “Blackjack Card Counting – Hi / Lo System“, and “Blackjack for Card Counters“. How have most casinos navigated around this potential risk to their cash reserves? By introducing Continuous Shuffle Machines (CSM’s). Read my article: “Card shuffler – friend or enemy“.

Here’s the reality: you’re more likely to get barred from casino playing for card counting than for any other LEGAL activity! Yes, card counting IS legal. But the casinos don’t like you having even a perceived edge on their game, and can ask you to leave. Card counting these days is however considered less of a threat to casinos – as many casinos now use continuous shufflers to overcome card counters. Those few remaining casinos that use normal hand dealt / shuffled shoes have only marginal penetration of the shoe of use to a card counter. The casinos are well aware that they can lose BIG MONEY to skilled blackjack players, so they’ve made protection of the game a priority.

21 The Movie is good fun to watch, with a few surprise twists along the way. If you enjoy movies with a gambling theme, you won’t be disappointed. Just ensure that you don’t follow the movie storyline and try to establish your own “MIT Blackjack Card Counting Team”. These days, that approach simply won’t work – the casinos are onto it. You can still make money from blackjack, but its as much about luck as skill these days – which suits the casinos just fine: they’re very lucky! Want to play blackjack now? A range of blackjack variations are available at: Cantor Casino, Virgin Casino, Betfair Casino, and Cyberslotz. Good luck!