How Casinos Guard Against Cheats
Using techniques to gain an advantage is not cheating. For example, card counting is not a criminal activity, especially in games like blackjack and baccarat. However, just like restaurants reserve the right to admit or bar admission, casinos can ban customers who they believe are using advantage play.
Gaming Trivia
Some Relatively Unknown Facts About Gambling
Gambling has existed in some form or the other for centuries. Indian history has references of betting games as early as 3000 BC. Even Chinese history offers evidence of gambling in 2,300 BC. With a 4,000 year old history, gambling has its share of little known facts. These make you wonder about the love people have for this form of entertainment.
China’s Baccarat Connection
Macau and the Chinese phenomenon are increasingly becoming destinations for every lover of casino games who would like to try their luck, and bankrolls at big fortune. Most of the high-rollers venturing out here are lovers of baccarat.
Playing Poker: A Lot About Understanding Strategy
Poker in its many forms has always been the cynosure of all those eyes that have ever frequented casinos and play houses to rake in moolah and rule supreme over this chosen one of card games. However, there have been famous instances when a player ruling a table lost badly while going for the bigger bets – done in by the sharks.
Casino Industry Treated Differently from the Entertainment Industry
Yes, we have all heard the old bugbear of how gambling is bad for society. However, gambling is nothing but a common noun belonging to a larger family of more respectable relatives like ‘games of chance’, ‘betting’, and ‘probability.’ Yet,
No Casino is an Economic Island
In 2007, Macau overtook Las Vegas in revenues. More than 50% of Macau’s economy is based on gambling. The island boasts of 33 casinos that operate under a government franchise. Attention to this little hub of economic prosperity has undoubtedly led to the Chinese cabinet passing the Offshore Islands Development Act,
Is Sri Lanka the Next Asian Casino Hotspot?
Ever since Las Vegas Sands’ Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson expressed his desire to have a beach head in India, speculations are rife that this might spell a bounty for the island nation that lies southward of the country.
The Philanthropic Side of the Gaming Industry
According to a survey conducted by the American Gaming Association (AGA), every year, the gaming companies spend thousands of hours and more than US$100 million in charitable donations. Philanthropic efforts towards children, the destitute, food to the hungry and cleaning the society are some of the initiatives taken up by the online gaming industry to give back to the community. So,
Craps – The Most Exciting Casino Game You Will Ever Play
A piece of gaming news that made a lot of headlines recently was about New Jersey based Patricia Demauro, who set an astounding new world record for the longest ever Craps roll at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City. Her roll went on for 4 hours and 18 minutes, leaving behind the previously held record of 3 hours and 6 minutes by a mile and a half. This reminded me, though not as glamorous as some other casino numbers, what an exciting and fun game Craps can be.
Roulette for the Uninitiated
Roulette is a true casino classic. It has been an integral part of the casino gaming culture since time immemorial. It probably is the most visible, and definitely one of the most romanticized casino games in the world. Roulette has always been associated with glamour and class, and its place in popular thought as a symbol of casino culture, is unmatched by any other gambling activity.
Rakesh Wadhwa. Ever since, I was a school boy, I knew India was on the wrong path. Socialism was just not what we needed to get ahead. Government controlled our travel; government controlled our ability to buy and sell; and government controlled our freedom to move our money. My life has focused on the inherent rights people have. When I was in college, I never understood, what the governments meant by their "socialistic attitude". If people are free to buy, sell and move their capital themselves without any restrictions by state, then the welfare of people is inevitable & hence the countries they live in will become wealthy. The government has no right whatsoever, to point a finger at me or my business. I am not a revolutionary. I just want to light up my cigarette and not get nagged about it. I believe in non-interfering attitude to attain more. 
The Bastiat Award is a journalism award, given annually by the International Policy Network, London. Bastiat Prize entries are judged on intellectual content, the persuasiveness of the language used and the type of publication in which they appear. Rakesh Wadhwa won the 3rd prize (a cash award of $1,000 and a candlestick), in 2006.
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