Sunday, August 30, 2009

Maryland Casinos

Maryland is an east coast state. Maryland casinos feature horse racing, but not gaming tables or machines. This state may be small, but it has quite a few popular and entertaining racetracks for horse racing enthusiasts to enjoy. The draw of Maryland casinos is that they offer betting in an otherwise non-gambling state.
Maryland is the 7th state and was admitted on April 28, 1788. Maryland is one of the smallest states in the U.S., with an area of 12,407 square miles. It is nicknamed the "Old Line State". In December of 2000 the population was recorded at 5,296,486. The issue of gambling is a heated one in Maryland. There have been attempts at legalizing all forms of gambling, but many people believe Maryland should remain more family oriented and keep gambling out. However, horse racing is still big throughout the state.Pimlico Race Course is located in Baltimore at 5201 Park Heights Avenue. It has live thoroughbred racing March through June on Wednesday through Sunday from noon to midnight. Racing is broadcast Sunday through Tuesday from noon to 8pm. There are four restaurants on-site.Ocean Downs is at 10218 Racetrack Road in Berlin. This track features harness racing from noon to midnight daily. There are four restaurants on site.Rosecroft Raceway is in Fort Washington at 6336 Rosecroft Drive. This horse track has harness racing Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 1am to noon. There are two restaurants at the raceway.
Laurel Park is located in Laurel on Route 198 at Racetrack Road. It has two tracks that broadcast and host live thoroughbred racing. The hours vary, with operations Sunday through Tuesday from 11:30am to 8:30pm, Wednesday and Thursday from 11:30am to midnight, Fridays 11:30 to 1am and Saturday 11:30am to 12:30am. There are six restaurants on site.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Poker Party Games

Rummy:

This is a good card game for people to start playing at your poker party games when they start to get tired of poker or just don’t feel inclined to bet on a game. Rummy is traditionally played with four to six players but you can get a game going with just two or three. Plus it’s a long lasting game so you don’t need to keep going on round after round unless you want too.

Set up these poker party games by dealing out seven cards to each player and putting the rest of the deck in the center of the table at your poker party games. This will be the deck you draw new cards from. Take the top card from the deck and place it face up beside the deck. The object of the game is to make matches of three like cards or three sequential cards in a deck. Each player gets a turn to place any card they want from their hand next to the card that’s placed face up and draw a new card from the deck. If another player wants cards from the discards they can pick it up, any other cards that are placed on top of it. When a play makes a matching set they use their turn to place it down on the table in front of them.
The first player to get rid of his or her hand is the poker party games winner. Count up all the matching sets to see how many points you’ve earned; one through ten is worth five points and court cards are worth ten, fifteen points for the Aces.Say you invite a lot of guests to your poker party games? You can use that large number of people to create separate categories of games. Silly games for the very young kids at the party and a special senior poker table for the elders at your poker party games. Go ahead and set up a tournament of seniors to see which of the older guests at the party have more of the skill of the game over their long years. Set an age requirement so the young folks at the party don’t try to get in on the game.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Tumbling Reels in Online Casino

Online slot games use various techniques to allow players a chance of winning additional credits without having to place any wagers. The most common methods are through the free spins the bonus round and the bonus game on the second screen. In the free spins bonus round players are allowed to spin the reels a number of times without having to place wagers but are entitled to the payouts. In the bonus came on the second screen the players are also able to win bonus credits without staking anything. Recently another method has been increasingly used in certain slot games that is called Tumbling Reels.

Apart from creating an opportunity for additional payouts, Tumbling Reels are also aesthetically pleasing. To see the symbols tumbledown and create new combinations a number of times adds to the pleasure of playing these online slot games. There is also an excitement created by the suspense of waiting for new winning combinations to form.

Cryptologic also offers a similar feature in its Casual Game Slots, though not under the name of Tumbling Reels. Its popular online slot Bejeweled is a prime example. Bejeweled scores over the slot games of WagerWorks because of two reasons. It allows vertical paylines in a 5 x 5 matrix and combinations need not be left aligned in the paylines. This results in greater winning combinations and more frequent dropping of symbols. When vertical paylines are replaced by the dropping symbols the visual effect is more fascinating. Another advantage that Bejeweled offers is that its symbols consist of brightly colored precious stones cut into different shapes. This also creates a more pleasing visual affect.