Gambling includes all casinos, sweepstakes, bets in bookmakers, lotteries and, of course, television quizzes, sweepstakes and intellectual games. All games in which there is any winning should certainly be classified as gambling.

Let's look at some of them more specifically:

Slot machines are a fairly simple type gambling. The machines have a program that determines the winning percentage. In most cases, the amount that a gambling establishment is willing to give is very small. By staying too long for such entertainment, the player reduces the chance of winning.

There is nothing difficult about playing against bookmakers. Luck and intuition are the main levers in achieving success.

Card games for money should certainly be classified as gambling. This kind of entertainment has existed for quite a long period of time and is successfully developing in many countries around the world. On this moment card games occupy one of the first places in the ranking of the most popular gambling games.

Lotteries have become firmly established in our country, with the advent of Soviet power, and do not lose popularity. This entertainment has existed for 6 centuries and claims to be a veteran of gambling.

For many, gambling serves as a way to get rid of negative emotions and escape from the harsh realities of reality.

There are a great variety of gambling games. The ones that have been listed are a drop in the ocean compared to the actual number of games that exist in the world. For some people, gambling is not only entertainment, but also a way to earn money. There is a category of people who devote all their free time to gambling.

Today, online slot machines are in great demand and their popularity is much higher than other gambling games available to the general public. The reason for this increase in popularity is not difficult to explain. It lies in the fact that the player has the opportunity to play right at home. In the atmosphere that is most familiar and comfortable for him.

The opportunity to earn money by playing games also leads to an increase in the popularity of this type of gambling. Sitting in a comfortable chair behind the monitor screen, the player can be completely confident that he will not be disturbed by his neighbor sitting at the table on the next chair. However, such conditions are not to everyone's taste.

There are still a significant number of players who would never trade the gaming halls for a home environment. Indeed, in a huge number of cases, it is the negative home environment that brings people to the casino. When playing games of chance, people get a storm of emotions and liberation from the hardships of everyday hustle and bustle.

However, behind the veil of temptations that shroud gambling, we should not forget about the negative side of this entertainment. Unfortunately, addiction to the game leads some of its participants to ruin or, less tragically, to the loss of large sums of money.

You need to understand that you won’t always be able to win and you should stop in time. Not everyone is capable of this. It is these people who fall under the influence of passion and cannot stop until they empty their pockets to the last penny.

Here, in fact, short review the most popular gambling games. This article should help you understand whether you should start gambling or not. Draw a conclusion for yourself what goal you are trying to achieve when starting the game. Set your priorities.

If this should become a means of earning money for you, then you should not rush headlong; for players like you, it is important to act measuredly, thinking through each subsequent step.

We present a list of virtual gambling games. In the list you will find: slot machines, roulette, craps, card games, lotto, bingo, scratch. Here you will learn about the most popular gambling games, their names, principles, types and rules. Our site has collected the best information, and all games can be played for free without registration, right on the site.

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Online slot machines - these are virtual and original demo versions of slot machines from real casinos, executed in Flash technologies and html5 format, which makes it easy to launch the game without downloading, online from a computer or mobile devices - phones, iPhones, Androids, tablets. Most of gaming slots, used only in online casinos. The very concept of a slot machine (slot machine) is a gaming machine box, consisting of three or more rotating rollers with symbols and graphic images, which are gradually immobilized into a play line or lines to form combinations of symbols for which the bet is multiplied.

Cards - games using playing cards, characterized by a random initial state, to determine which a deck of cards is used. Video pokers (videopoker american poker 2), Blackjack, Baccarat, Poker, Fool, Solitaire - all this is card gambling.

Roulette is a gambling game that has a playing field with 36 numbers on which bets are made and a drum, where on a rotating wheel with numbered cells, a ball rolls in the opposite direction, launched by the croupier or by a mechanism (electronic automatic, pneumatic roulette) the ball falls into the cell with a number - forms a winning number. The main types of roulette games are European, American and French roulette.

A gambling game, the elements of which are a rotating drum with balls numbered from 1 to 90 or 75, depending on the type of game, and game cards consisting of 9 cells in three rows of five random sets of numbers each (5 cells of 5 rows in the American option with 24 random numbers). The first player to fill the entire playing field is the winner and says “bingo”. Also, each matching row of numbers horizontally brings a win, after matching which the player pronounces “line”.

Craps is a gambling game of dice, using six-sided dice. Craps is played on a special table with betting fields. The player's task is to predict the sum of numbers that will appear as a result of one throw. Each participant in the game throws the dice in turn; the one who makes the throws during one round is called the shooter. The shooter is replaced in case of loss. The game has several formats, you can play against the casino and there is also an option available in which participants play bets among themselves. The number of participants varies from two to twenty.

Scratch is a game of chance with an instant win, which is determined by erasing the protective film of the playing field, the so-called scratch card (from the English scratch - scratch). Each scratch card has its own winning conditions - matching the pictures or numbers on different playing fields with the specified amount in monetary units.

A wide range of Lotto games online for free and without registration on the licensed resource of free gambling entertainment Knopki. Online versions of this gaming entertainment were highly appreciated by players who prefer a “solo” game to traditional lotto in a company.

Keno is a game of chance number lottery with 80 balls. ANDThe player marks up to 20 numbers out of 80 on a lined sheet of paper and gives it to the agent, who certifies the numbers and issues a confirmed ticket. Afterwards, 20 balls with numbers from 1 to 80 are written randomly out of a special device. The goal of the game is to correctly guess which numbers will fall in a line.

Some games are usually called gambling. Such games, although they involve the participation of two or more players, ultimately come down to the confrontation of players with random events.

The term “gambling” is of French origin, literally meaning “game of chance.” In pre-revolutionary Russia, a modified form of the phrase was more often used - “game of chance” (from the French jeu de hasard).

The main interest of gambling lies in its outcome. The process of the game and the skill of the players fade into the background here (in ordinary games the opposite is true).

As a rule, winning in a gambling game is associated with the payment of material rewards. It is this circumstance that attracts the attention of players to them.

Gambling can be games using playing cards (poker, baccarat and others), dice, slot machines, their electronic emulators and other devices.

Theoretical foundations of gambling

The outcome - loss or victory - in gambling is entirely subject to the laws of random variables.

Analysis of these results over “long” distances allows one to derive patterns that allow gambling organizers to always remain “in the black.”

Photo 1. Many people associate gambling with playing cards.

At the same time, there is no deception as such on their part.

It’s just that some events (combinations of cards or dice, a ball hitting a particular cell, a combination of symbols in slot machines, and so on) occur more often than others, and the approximate frequency of such events can be calculated mathematically.

Photo 3. Gambling can become a serious problem for a person suffering from gambling addiction.

Such people are called gambling addicts, and the dependence itself – gambling addiction(or - gambling addiction).

People suffering from psychological addiction to gambling experience the following symptoms:

• decreased self-control,
• emotional instability,
• excessive absorption in the game,
• complete indifference to others,
• depressive state.

Particularly severe forms of gambling addiction can lead to attempts to settle scores, affecting the physical condition of a person, leading to asthenia and neurasthenia.

Attitude towards gambling

The legislation of most countries provides for measures aimed at curbing the spread of gambling, establishing various forms of control over this area, including criminal ones.

As a general rule, participation in such games by minors is prohibited.

Photo 4. In most countries, only persons who have reached the age of majority are allowed to gamble

Criminological studies reveal a clear relationship between the widespread prevalence of gambling in Russia and the increase in the number of crimes in the economic sphere (tax evasion, legalization of criminal proceeds, maintenance of brothels, theft by embezzlement or appropriation, and others).

At the same time, courts in a number of countries make very contradictory decisions regarding the status of gambling, elevating some of them to the category of sports.

An example is the New York Federal Court decision regarding poker, in which, according to the court, chance plays minor role, and the outcome of the game largely depends on the skill of the players.

In January 2017, the London Court of Appeal refused to recognize bridge as a sport.

Previously, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made attempts to include sports bridge as an independent sport in the program of individual world-scale competitions held under the auspices of the IOC (Beijing, 2008).

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