So your bags are packed and you’re ready to go to one of the biggest cities in the world, be it Madrid, Paris, Vegas, Macau, New York. Excitement is running through your veins thinking at all the sites to see, people to meet and off course nights to enjoy! No traveller to these cities will want to miss what the night has to offer ? clubs and off course casinos. Even if you are not a WSoP poker professional, trying your hand in the game will be an adventure on its own.
Poker is not only for the pros, it can be a fun, thrilling game even newbie’s like yourself can enjoy. Who knows? You might even walk away with some winnings! OK, before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s go through a quick list of some do’s and don’ts in these high class casinos.
First on the ‘to do’ list is analyze the games and learn their basic strategies. This isn’t one of those arcade games that doesn’t require much thinking and remember, you will be betting money so better know what you are doing. This learning should obviously be done before entering the casino. You can even try a lesson or two to make sure you really understand. Finding yourself at a table of experts who will gladly take your money is not a fun experience at all.
Another thing to remember is when it comes to stacking chips; make sure to stack the higher dominations at the bottom of the stack. This way, if someone grabs a few from the top and walks away, they will have taken chips with little or no value.
The list of don’ts is a longer one and on top of this list is to be careful with your actions. Yes, we understand it may be your first time and you are all excited and perhaps even a little tipsy but for your own sake, do not do anything that you don’t want caught on camera. Casinos are known to be full of hidden cameras waiting to capture cheaters.
If you do not already know this, laptops, books and maybe even more are not allowed at the tables. In fact even purses or pieces of paper can get you into trouble since they may contain information to help you with the game.
Lastly, just because the casino is loaded with cameras and security personnel doesn’t mean you can be careless with your belongings. These places are also usually very crowded making it impossible to eradicate all possibilities of theft.
There you have it ? whether you find yourself sucking at the game or winning, you will never really know unless you try and what better place to try than in a foreign city with nobody watching you?