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Strip Poker – Making A Boring Game More Hot!

January 14th, 2010
posted by admin 8:38 PM

First, you may want to know about the type of people that play strip poker. According to surveys the game is most popular amongst 18 – 30 year old males! Although as you’d expect, there are some females who play strip poker too! Students with more liberal attitudes are the most likely people to be found playing strip poker, indeed, in almost every university and college around the western world there is sure to be a student strip poker game at the weekend.

More mature adults do play strip poker too, although in general it is played in smaller groups of between four and six friends, often married couples play the game for amusement in the privacy of their own home.

Origins of strip poker.
There is very little information about the history of strip poker. It gained worldwide notoriety in the mid 1900s and through the fifties, sixties and seventies gained an increasingly large following, particularly amongst students and those under the age of 30. An exact date for the invention of strip poker is unknown, rumors suggest more liberal female poker players would remove items of clothing if they lost all their money and that drunken males would literally lose the shirt off their back. Some suggest strip poker was one of the first poker games, played before money was involved, although this not generally taken seriously.

Why do people play strip poker?
There are two main reasons why strip poker fans play the game.

1, It’s played amongst friends infrequently, nobody gets completely naked and it’s seen as good fun, perhaps played after an evening out where alcohol has been involved.

2, It’s played more regularly with sexual intentions. Swingers parties have been known to organize strip poker games as an “ice breaker” to the evening before moving on to more explicit past times. The game here is certainly not at the fore front of the players minds.

In each scenario, the emphasis is of a light hearted nature, whether it be the start of an evening of the ending, those willing to take part do so for the sheer fun of it.

Strip poker rules.
The basic rules of any strip poker game involve the losers removing items of clothing whilst the winners get to see their naked, or semi naked friends. Generally no money is involved and the game is always played in the spirit of good fun, although it is not for the prudish!

There are several ways in which a strip poker game can be organized, the most popular involves:

A minimum of four players.
A standard deck of cards (52 cards).
A good location to play at (a table with good visibility).

A simple poker game such as 5 card stud or Texas Hold Em is a great strip poker game. After the hand is over, the loser should remove an item of clothing. When one person is completely naked, they should re-clothe themselves and the game can start again. Needless to say, the worst poker players will be the ones getting naked most of the time, so guys, invite girlfriends who have little or no poker knowledge and girls, study up on poker before you accept an invitation.

Strip poker, so long as played in private with consenting adults is generally a legal past time worldwide, however, if you are unsure you should check up on your local laws before organizing a game.

Places to play strip poker.

Almost always indoors, the student dorm’ room or perhaps a couples home/apartment. If you are single and perhaps less inclined to be invited to a strip poker party of less willing to attend one, there are strip poker rooms on the internet too. These are almost always pay-per-view websites and you’ll be playing against a model one-on-one, if you don’t have a webcam then it’s not difficult to cheat, although we suspect the intention is for the surfer to see the beautiful model strip until naked.

If you do have a webcam then you may be able to arrange a strip poker game with your webcam friends, however, we advise caution! If your friends are more prudish in nature they may take offence to your suggestion.

Remember to enjoy yourself when playing strip poker. Do not take the game seriously and try and play it in good spirits. So go have fun.

Blackjack: Myth, Origins and Objective

April 10th, 2009
posted by admin 2:15 AM

Not many know about how blackjack was invented and there have been many rumours and suppositions about this game but here you will be able to read about all of them.

It is believed by many that it started in France and was called vingt-et-un which means 20 and 1 in French. Like most of the casino games we play today, the true origins may never be known.

The objective in Blackjack is to get a hand that totals or is as close to 21 as possible without going over 21. The dealer gives each player 2 cards. Then each player gets a turn to request more cards one at a time till the layer thinks that is the best hand they can get without going over 21.

The English name Blackjack was given to the game because in the French version of the game. If a player drew a jack of spades and an Ace of spades the player got an extra bonus. To get this bonus the jack of spades needed to be drawn first and the name blackjack was born from players screaming their desire for the Black Jack.

In the 1880s Blackjack made its appearance in America, and it grew very fast in popularity. It was not long before players realized the ease in which the odds of blackjack could be manipulated and that rules needed to be put in place to regulate these games. Instead of that all gambling was made illegal in 1910 and all gambling went underground. This is how the core of todays gangsters was formed.

Eventually because of the lawlessness and gangster activities the government decided it was smarter to legalize it and tightly control gambling.

At this point blackjack became by far the most popular gambling game of any casino. Many books were written by mathematicians on the subject of how to improve your odds at blackjack.

It got to the point where the casinos had to change the way the game was played because too many people thought they knew how to manipulate the odds into their favor and the casinos did not want that, but the real fact was that the mathematicians who came up with these techniques for beating the odds wrote them in a manner that only they and other math nerds could understand and most people who thought they understood the theories continued to lose money at the blackjack tables, and helped to build the world of legalized casino gambling what it is today.

The casinos came up with the idea of adding a second and third deck to the game to make card counting harder and totally change the odds back into their favor and lose the holes in the game that allowed them to change the odds in the first place.

Today people can play Blackjack in a legal casino or in one of the many online casinos that have popped into existence in recent years. Because people are still trying to find the method of winning blackjack easily, people are still writing books on how to win at blackjack, but unlike the mathematicians that were writing these books in the 50s and 60s todays books are being written by some people who just claim to have a system. Unfortunately today that is all you need to sell a book. Many people are paying tons of money for a blackjack system that is a book that tells you nothing and maybe a video showing you how to play blackjack. If you are looking to get rich and make enough to retire from Blackjack, do not opt for this game. Chances are the system you have is garbage and will lose you all your money.

Online Blackjack and Its Origins

February 16th, 2009
posted by admin 8:50 PM

The World Of Online Blackjack With the advent of the Internet we have faced numerous changes in the way of doing things. Everything you can think of was probably affected by the world wide web, and its constant development offers numerous new perspectives on things that were common in the past. The same goes for gambling. Just do a fast search online and you will get hundreds of online casinos where you can play virtually any casino game! With so many games to choose from, there are still some favorites that receive the most hits and are enjoyed by thousands of players online. And if taking names, there is nothing like online blackjack. Online blackjack has seen a very fast development and is now one of the most popular online gambling games, with its popularity constantly increasing. When playing online blackjack you get exactly the same playing experience and winning possibilities as in a real world casino, only that you can enjoy playing it 24/7 right at your home, regardless of where you live. Compared to the necessity of getting to a legal gambling site, finding a place to stay, and converting money to playing chips, online blackjack gives much more comfort to the player than land-based casinos. All you have to do is enter an online casino website, register and start gambling. Another advantage of online casinos is that you can find free online blackjack games on the web. This is a great way to learn playing blackjack or practice your skills without spending any money. In some cases online casinos will offer you bonuses in forms of virtual money that you can use when playing online blackjack and actually win! Imagine that in a land-based casino. Some History The original game of blackjack was created in the 17th, in France and was initially called “vingt-et-un” (twenty-one in French). Other names of blackjack were 21, pontoon, and California aces. The original French version of blackjack required the player to draw a jack of spades followed by an ace of spades in order to win. This is where the term blackjack originates from, describing the essence of the game. The French revolution has imported blackjack to the United States where it quickly became highly popular in casinos and gambling houses. Because blackjack involved both luck and skills to win the game was very popular among professional gamblers and serious players. But with the 1910 ban on gambling, the game was outlawed and forced to go underground. During this period blackjack was associated with mobsters and criminals. The seemingly simple rules of blackjack have made it very popular and lead to numerous winning strategies and techniques to be developed. There were numerous books written about it over the years and many movies used blackjack as the basis for their plot. Today, blackjack is found in casinos all over the world and with the commercialization of the Internet numerous online blackjack sites offer playing the game right at your computer.