If you have never been into any gambling portals yet, you probably would want to be doing that soon. Why? For a start, it will save up a great deal of time for you, by no longer having to do extra surfing and googling, jumping in and out to websites and blogs only to search for an info.

Now the question is, which gambling portals are worth visiting? Considering there are hundreds  of them out there to choose from.

In this post let me introduce you  to Online Casino Report . The first thing that impressed me most about this portal was the amount of their rich media content. They even have some weekly editions about gambling news, like the following for example:

Their rich media contents show us how persistent they are in having a commitment to run and manage their business. You may find many gambling news, forums, articles and blogs out there but I doubt it you would find any that is as unique as Online Casino Reports.

However don’t get me wrong like “oh it’s only some rich media contents”. Other than that, you can also find a lot of valuable information that you may not find else where.   Plus, the “must have feature” that every other portals have got to have too, is the review section.

The Reviews

This review section is a part of the directory that you can access there. You can browse and search from the 0 to Z list and find all of the online casino games available all over the world. So it is not like a cheap review from some websites where they have 10-15 reviews giving the highest affiliate commission.

The reviews are posted by the Online Casino Reports team. We all know that a team’s reviews are usually more objective than an individual review.   The reviews come in detailed reports, such as casino software fairness, payouts, security issues,  bonuses and customer service support.

For some people who don’t like reading them to long, that won’t be a problem there. You can just see the scoring from 1 to 5 stars on them directly.  And if you want to add something on that, you can just give them any comment on it.

The Service

The Online Casino Reports are not just reviewing online casino games only, but they also help us finding the best bonuses we can get from them. In their service section, you will find a ton of bonuses such as  no deposit bonuses, top games bonuses, and others. Go have yourself a visit, because there’s no way I can’t list them all in here.

The School

OK, this one may sound a little bit ridiculous for some of you, but they really do have a school section in that portal. The section is like a guidance for people who want to learn how to play online casino in the right way. By the time you graduate from that school, you could become a pro gambler

So there, a little sneak peak I can share you about Online Casino Reports, Have fun visiting the portal!

Playing poker is simple. all you have to do is win more pots and avoid losing more money by folding. You can put enormous amount in the pot to scare people with better card to fold. You can increase your winning by increasing the bets so the pots is getting bigger. and so on, all of them look simple, aren’t they? But to be honest, they won’t work as easy as it sounds. Try playing free online poker game in Facebook or other place with real human playing online then you will find the real poker is not like that simple.

one of the most popular free poker game in facebook

This is why although I like poker the most compared to other  in family of card games,  I won’t recommend people to play it for making money. Its not because nobody making money, in fact there are many professional poker players out there. Its because poker is a game where people mostly drained out their own money and keep losing it no matter what they have done to improve their game play. There are several points that people often forget about poker :

1.  NO DEFINED ODDS

Ok, the first one is the major reason here.  If you and I play black jack game just both of us, we can say  you and I  have 50:50 odds of winning. But this kind of rule won’t work in poker. If there are 4 people playing poker on one table, the odds for winning is not 25% for each of them. Because there isn’t any defined global odds of winning, its hard to say which strategy or game plan we can use for winning more money here.

For the same reason too, we can not set target how many that we want to win from poker. For example in Blackjack, Baccarat or Roulette, we know the odds of winning we can imply House of Money strategy, and decide to stand up or walk home after winning certain amount of money. But no way you can do that in poker. If you have done it and succeed, its just a pure luck. When you come to poker table with motivation like “I have to win $ xxx today so tomorrow I can pay my credit card bill or house rent”, that time I think you already half way to lose all your bank roll.

2. TALENT & EXPERIENCE

Because we can’t use any strategy game plan on poker, so its all come back to the person who play it. The odds of winning will depends on the talent and experience each of the players. Amateurs think that they can win if they have good cards or get the big combination at least like flush or full house. The fact is people who win more money are not always the one who have better cards more than the others. Players can make fortune only relying on simple card combinations like two pairs or threes too.  So the major difference between amateur and professional players lies in playing the game for the long run with many rounds.  Professional players know well how to minimize their lost and maximize their winning.  To do this, you really need experience,  and now  the question is how many you will have won or you will have lost in order to gain those experiences.

Playing poker need those two, talent and experience. Talented people without experience will lose some of their money. Experience player without talent, well they are the cash cow that keep giving their money to the pro players =)) believe me, many people keep playing poker although they keep losing their money. Do you want to be the cash cow  or you already become it? If you are already become “cash cow” try to stop playing this game. I will say this harshly but its true, experience player without talent won’t be a professional poker player and will  keep losing money from the game.

3. STRONG MONEY MANAGEMENT

Because there is no odds, and we need to manage playing for many rounds, money management will be the issue here. A high emotional person and lack of discipline one won’t manage getting the money here. If normal gambling only need you to have a good proper bank roll, but in poker it won’t be enough. you can lose them all in just one game. You will need to browse and googling a lot learning many tips about setting the bank rolls.

There will be time time when you know this is a bad day and you lose all your bank roll. When that time occurs, its just a bad day, don’t even think you have to revenge it tomorrow. Even professional experienced player have this bad luck too. So you will need to estimate budgeted loses and set them into your bank rolls.

Those are 3 points I want to tell about poker. I prefer recommending other games except poker if you want to make gambling as a living

Some people are having difficuly in choosing online casino because they want to open an account and play only at the best online casino. There are many factors that determine the best online casino, some of them are quality of customer service, gaming software, security, sign up bonuses, and promotions. Valuing  these factor is not easy and can make you irritated. So people usually take a short cut by seeking direct reference and recommendation.

You can take your friends  as the source of reference and recommendation by asking them which online casino they play at. If you don’t have any reliable friends who play online casino, you can search through google using specific keywords such as “best online casino” , “online casino review“, “online  gambling“, “how to pick best online casino” , or any other keywords you can pick. However I don’t recommend these ways because usually due to limited information you can’t compare them all and end up at the online casino which can give referrers highest bonus for a new sign up.

The most recommended way  is looking for reference on 3rd party sources or websites which can give insight not only one, two or three online casinos, but a lot of them. Not only many reviews, ability to analyze and describe in the reviews should be deep, sharp, and accountable.

Which Reviewer Should We Pick?

There are many reviewers out there who declare themselves as the best, but from all those reviewers I personally recommend Gambling Review for there reasons:

1. Accountability, they are one of the oldest gambling review site with more than a decade experience. They are not anonymous reviewers just like other, in fact you can know Rick Bauer and Jeremy Schrute as the contributors in about me page.
2. Information and database, like I have said before, they do not give review about three the best or top five online casino, but they have been reviewing every casino not limited to online casino only. you can read the offline casino issues on Gambling Review too.
3. Guidance, they give  beginners guides for someone who is not familiar with online casino for free while some sell it on ebooks. Not only that, you can download free online casino games there for a try out and practicing. This guidance is not limited for beginner only, because they shared some strategies in betting and playing which can help increasing your odds for winning.
4. Knowledge and database. This is the most interesting part. They share knowledge about casino and gambling games. They have information and rules about many games, starting from classical medieval card game baccarat up to the popular slots machine game. So don’t get surprise if they look like a gambling wiki site.

This is what I can share up about 3rd party online casino reviewers. I hope you can pick your best online casino from Gambling Review recommendation.