Online Gambling

If you’d like to show off your online backgammon skills — and put your money where your mouth is — then GameColony is the place for you. Throughout the day, GameColony offers various types of online backgammon games with real cash prizes. They offer both single and double elimination tournaments, played to various point levels. But your real money maker is playing heads up against other players. There are usually more than 100 players in the Main Hall, waiting to play online backgammon for real cash.

The way it works is that you purchase tickets via PayPal, use the tickets to enter tournaments in which you can win more tickets, and then cash out your tickets as cash via PayPal.

If you go to GameColony through a link in this blog, you’ll get $10 FREE to start.

If online backgammon isn’t your game, they have all kinds of other skill-based and arcade-style games that you can also play for cash and prizes. I’ll be highlighting some of the additional games in the coming days and weeks.

GameColony accepts players from most states. Players from the following states are barred from play at GameColony: AZ AR DE FL IA IL KY LA MD MO NY SC NV OH WA VT.

Three Card Poker (also called Tri-Card Poker) is a popular table game at many casinos. Most casinos, both online casinos and land-based casinos, have reasonable pay tables for winning hands. However, as with most casino games, it pays to shop around for the absolute best returns that you can find.

I’ve analyzed the Three Card Poker pay tables from over a dozen online casino software vendors. Eight of them offer the best pay tables — meaning the lowest house edge, and the best returns for the player. The Three Card Poker from these eight online casino software vendors has a 5.32% house edge, assuming that you play with Q6x or better, and fold otherwise. Here is the pay table to look for:

The eight online casino vendors with this Three Card Poker pay table are as follows:

• BoDog Casino also has a sports book and poker room
• BetOnSoft: Treasure Mile is a favorite of mine
• Players Edge: Tropical Cash Casino is where I play
• Proprietary #2: Only at Win4Real
• Microgaming online casinos: Loved these casinos, but they closed to US players
• BetSoft online casinos
• PlayTech online casinos
• Proprietary #1 online casinos

Good luck at the tables!

If you think that you’re better than most players at skill games like checkers, chess, backgammon, gin, cribbage, dominoes, canasta, and solitaire games, I have a great site for you. GameColony hosts both free and cash skill game tournaments, and players from 35 US States are eligible to play. (Players are barred from: Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, South Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Washington and Vermont.).

Here’s how it works:

1. Sign up for an account at GameColony — it took me about a minute, since all you need to provide is your choice of a screen name and password, and your birth year.
2. Use the free-play option to check out the games that they have to offer. You’ll want to get familiar with the games and the rules before you play for cash.
3. Fund your account using PayPal or a credit card for as little as $5.95. You get $Tickets in exchange for your deposit.
   • 5 $Tickets for — $5.95
   • 10 $Tickets for — $10.95
   • 25 $Tickets for — $26.95
   • 50 $Tickets for — $51.95
   • 100 $Tickets for — $103.95
4. Play the games either head-to-head or in multi-person tourneys for $Tickets. Approximately 85% of the $Ticket entry fees are returned to the winners.
5. Any time that you have more than 2 $Tickets, you can convert them back to cash and make a withdrawal back to your PayPal or credit card. Withdrawals in excess of your original deposit are sent to you as a check.

Good luck at the games!

The updated lobby at Intertops is focused on improved navigation:

• No more cascading menus
• Easier-to-find games
• Cleaner user-interface

Intertops has also added additional features:

• Game previews and descriptions
• Player & Casino favorites
• New games

Finally, they just released new slots that you’re sure to enjoy:

• Shopping Spree
• Shopping Spree II
• Triple Twister

Luck3 is a fairly new addition to The Online Casino Gambling Directory. They offer casino, poker, and other games and accept players from all 50 states in the US.

I just received word that they are offering $33 Free on any casino deposit on April 3, 2009. Now that’s a pretty cool deal!

(Note: The information present on this blog is intended for entertainment purposes only. Please check your local, state and provincial laws before you gamble online. If your local laws prohibit online gambling then we recommend you consider an alternative form of entertainment.)