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There are several types and forms of gambling. Most wide
known and common forms of gambling includes gambling
on horse races, sports betting, scratch cards betting,
arbitrage betting and staking systems. Apart from this
there are regular casino games. These have a variety of
games which are available in casino. They also do have
different forms:
beatable and unbeatable games. There are also some non
casino games and fixed odd gambling as other forms of
gambling.
Forms of casino gambling:
Beatable casino games, as the name suggests when played
with proper strategy, an elegant gambler can create a
positive mathematical expectation. The various beatable
games are: Poker, Blackjack, Video poker, Pai Gow Poker
and Tiles, Sports betting, Horse racing, Slot machines.
Unbeatable casino games have a negative anticipation.
Gamblers as a group will be defeated in the long run,
except they cheat. Some of the unbeatable games:
Baccarat, Craps, Roulette, Keno, Casino war, Faro,
Pachinko, Sic Bo, Fan-Tan, Let It Ride, 3-card Poker,
4-card poker, Red Dog, Pyramid Poker, Caribbean Stud
Poker, Spanish 21, Texas Hold'em Bonus Poker
Non casino and Fixed odds gambling games:
Some of these types of gambles are played for
entertainment without stakes. The major non casino games
are: Bingo, Lottery, Mahjong, Dead pool, Dice-based,
Backgammon Liar's dice, Passe-dix, Hazard, Threes, Pig,
Mexico, Card games, Liar's poker, Bridge, Basset,
Lansquenet, Piquet, Put, Coin-tossing, Head and Tail,
Two-up, Confidence tricks, Three card monte, Shell game,
Carnival Games, The Razzle, Hanky Pank, Penny Falls,
Six-Cat, The Swinger, The Push-up Bottle, The Nail
Joint, Con Games, Put and Take, The Smack, The Drunken
Mitt. Fixed-odds gambling often occur at or on the
following kinds of events: Horse racing, Greyhound
racing, Football matches, Golf, Tennis, Cricket,
Baseball, Basketball, Ice hockey, Rugby, Snooker, Motor
sports, Boxing, Darts. additionally many bookmakers
offer fixed odds on a number of non sports associated
outcomes, for example the course and extent of movement
of various financial indices, whether snow will fall on
Christmas Day in a given region, the winner of
television competitions such as Big Brother, election
results, and so forth. Interactive forecast markets in
addition present trading on these outcomes, with shares
of consequences trading on an open market.
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