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10 Things You Shouldn't Do In Las Vegas
What happens in Vegas stays in  does it?A� Certain laws (like against cocaine possession) seem like no-brainers, but this is Las Vegas we're talking about. So, since ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse, you might want to read up on Las Vegas statutes before your next visit. It's also a good idea to check your bags and pockets. Just in case.
Have fun in Vegas, but keep in mind that...
1. Prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas. While Nevada is the only state in the USA where prostitution is legal,it's not legal everywhere, and this includes Clark County, home of Las Vegas. If you're driving through Nevada to get to sin city, you might be interested to know that Washoe, Douglas, Lincoln, and Carson City are the other counties that have outlawed ladies of the evening. Fliers and ads featuring escorts and nudes may suggest the availability of sexual services, but be warned: if you're robbed or assaulted by these companies while seeking illegal sex, the police are unlikely to help.
2. You have to be 21 to gamble. This doesn't mean you have to be 21 to step foot inside a casino, but it does mean those under 21 must keep out of gaming areas, stick to designated paths in order to pass through them, and are basically banned from gambling at any time under any circumstances. Casinos are very strict with their rules in order to keep their licenses, and they constantly check for IDs. If you are caught you could be escorted out of the gambling area, off the property, or even fined and arrested, depending on the offense.
3. The drinking age is still 21 years old. You may legally buy a drink in Vegas at the stroke of midnight PST on the date of your birthday, but there's no guarantee you'll be able to get into a bar or club before that moment. You cannot buy alcohol for anyone under the age of 21, as "corrupting a minor" is an arrestable offense. Most establishments that serve food and alcohol will allow someone underage to eat there, especially if accompanied by an adult, but they are not allowed to drink. There are under-21 clubs that don't serve alcohol.
4. Walking and driving with alcohol. Bars are allowed to stay open and serve alcohol 24/7, so many people do their drinking indoors. While it's technically in the law books that you cannot drink in public, this rule is rarely enforced (except in cases of disorderly conduct). Given that liquor stores are typically open 24 hours a day, it's not uncommon to see people walking down the street with open containers of alcoholic beverages. What's not accepted in Vegas is drinking and driving. DUI laws are strictly enforced, and can result in a minimum of one to three days in jail, thousands of dollars in fines, and a temporarily revoked license.
5. Smoking? Yes, no, and maybe. All floor-spaces inside large casinos, strip clubs, and no-food bars allow smoking, but you do have to be 18 to buy cigarettes. Any place that does serve food, however, like a restaurant or certain night-clubs and bars, does not permit smoking. If are caught smoking in a non-smoking area, you'll probably be asked to leave but could face a fine.
6. There's a curfew for minors. If you're under 18, you're not supposed to be out alone (i.e., without an adult or guardian over 21) in public from 10pm-5am Sunday through Thursday, and midnight to 5am Friday night through Sunday morning. The exceptions are for minors coming home from an event, meeting or public entertainment (e.g., a concert), coming home from work, engaged in parent-improved interstate travel, or on an emergency errand. Along The Strip and for the blocks on either side, the curfew starts at 9pm Friday, Saturday, and all legal holidays.
7. Those tricky taxis. You should always be on the lookout for drivers trying to take you on a "long haul" without your permission (i.e., the longest route from A to B), and you should always say no to "high flagging" (where the cab doesn't run the meter but cuts a deal instead) since this voids the vehicle insurance for the ride. For the most part, you probably won't run into these shady practices, but the one thing you will notice is that it's illegal in Las Vegas for cabbies to drop off and pick up passengers along the Strip. The only way to get a taxi along the Strip is to go up to a hotel and have them call one for you (you'll have to tip the concierge). It's also illegal to enter a cab without sufficient fare, so either be sure you have the cash on hand, or make sure your cab company is one of the two that accept credit cards.
8. Love and Marriage and Divorce. Las Vegas is famous for its many quickie weddings, and used to be just as famous for quickie divorces. However, nowadays you must be a resident of Clark County for at least six weeks before you can file your divorce forms, which will take a minimum of six weeks before being finalized. Keep in mind that Nevada is a community property state, which means you and your spouse will split your assets and debts equally. This is why it's a good idea to get a prenuptial agreement before you get married. Considering the amount of drunken weddings that take place, it's a good thing fairly simple annulments are available to anyone who got married in Nevada or where either spouse lives there. Annulments aren't guaranteed and must typically be filed for soon after the wedding. Grounds include: "underage, intoxication, insanity, blood-relatedness, and significant material misrepresentation." Getting married, on the other hand, is much easier. It only requires that the two adults be over 18 and not related. You can even be 16 as long as a parent or guardian is present to consent. Divorced parties must provide proof of finalization of their divorce. Finally, the $55 license fee must be paid.
9. Counting cards is no good. The act of counting cards using only your brain is not in and of itself illegal. However, if casinos suspect you of counting cards, either mentally or through trickery such as teamwork or gadgetry, they are legally allowed to kick you out and revoke your winnings. As private establishments they can refuse service to anyone for any reason. Casinos also tend to share information on card counters with other casinos, so once you are caught in one, you are unlikely to be allowed entry in another. In Nevada, casinos can detain and question people suspected of cheating, but cannot force them to pose for photographs. Since casinos are the main Vegas industry, you may not get much help from police if caught cheating.
10. Illegal drugs. As the name implies, if a drug is illegal in the US, you can't do it in Vegas. If you do take drugs in Vegas, you may be in for some of the harshest penalties for drug use in the US. Cocaine is illegal everywhere to buy or sell, and possession is a felony. "Softer" drugs like marijuana are allowed for medicinal use, and possession for non-licensed individuals may result in a misdemeanor rather than a felony, but even for marijuana there's a mandatory minimum sentencing guideline.
Now, even if you follow all these rules in Vegas, there are still plenty of ways to have fun and get in trouble. To ensure that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, you might want to subject your friends to a confidentiality agreement.

Make Money Winning on Slots, Part 2
Just a Reminder
All slot machines underneath the flash and spin are the same. They run on mathematical formulas that ensure the casino will make a profit. The casinos, which are in business to help you lose your money, do what they can to keep you playing. The odds are the more you play the more money they will take from you.
Poor Slot Players Lose Consistently
The average slot player has bad habits which reduce his chance of winning. There are no doubt more, but three are common.
First, he sits down at a slot machine without considering the likelihood of increasing the chance of his going home a winner. The best choice is a machine that will give you winnings often enough to keep giving you the casino's money. Location, discussed in Part 1, is important, but so are other factors. If a machine advertises a large jackpot and you know the slot is set so the casino will come out ahead, it stands to reason that the machine will, over time, pay out less per spin or pay off fewer times.
Slots usually give the largest payout only when you play the maximum amount. Information on the face of the machine tells you this, so it's not a secret. Playing the maximum gives you the best odds, usually. Therefore, if you play a nickel at a time, the odds are working against you. On the other hand, the maximum on a nickel machine with three reels and three horizontal rows means each spin costs 9 times 5 cents, or at least 45 cents. On a five dollar machine, the maximum is usually ten or fifteen dollars
All slot machines are basically the same in construction. The cost of repairing and maintaining a penny and a five dollar machine is about the same. Because the extra money is available and the casino thinks you will lose anyway, machines that cost more to play often pay a higher percentage of winnings than lower cost slots.
Foolish Money Management
Second, watch most people play and you will see that they basically ignore any strategy for winning. Remember, over time, the odds are against you. It's a loser's habit to put money in and play until it's gone. If they win on some spins, they just keep playing. You hear him say, "I'll just play this down before we go to supper." 'Play it down' means he knows he will lose it all because he has already signaled his intention to play until he does.
Handling Your Loses
People who are addicted to gambling need more help than this brief article can provide. Most of us have a pretty good idea about how much we are willing to lose.
Third, to win enough to play with the casino's money and no longer with your own, may require you to bring enough money to sustain some losses. The need to have enough funds versus the need to be prudent with your bank account is a balance that only you can decide.
Money Management Is the Key to Success
Winners can lose, but they lose less often because they manage their money. And when they win, they go home with their winnings. The secret is managing your money.
Let's suppose you put 100 dollars in a one dollar slot machine and, playing the maximum, which on this machine is five dollars, on the first spin wins 30 dollars. You are now 25 dollars ahead ($30 - $5 = $25). If you collect the 130 dollars from the slot, put 25 dollars away and start with 100 dollars again, you will have something to go home with even if you lose the entire 100 dollars.
Eventually, if you win enough and put your winnings away, you will be playing entirely with the casino's money. A reasonable rule is if you win more than your bet, put the winnings away.
If you play one penny on a penny machine, consider you are playing for entertainment and don't worry too much about winning and losing.

An Introduction to Online Gambling
Whether you are novice or a veteran to gambling, it is imperative that you know as much about rules and strategy to optimize your chances of coming out ahead. Although gambling should always be looked at as entertainment and not as a source of income, that doesn't mean you should throw away your hard-earned money. Investing the time to learn the basic rules and advanced strategy will go a long way to increasing your chances of having a fun and profitable gambling session.
Before you start gambling for real money you should take the time to read the rules enough times to know the game inside and out. Without a solid understanding of the basics, you won't be able properly grasp advanced strategy. Finding a good gambling guide that will walk you through the basics can be an arduous task, but they do exist if you have the patience to search for them. Once you have a working knowledge of the rules the best thing you can do before jumping into strategy is to play a few games at an online casino (in free mode of course) to test your understanding of the fundamentals of the game.
Once you have learned the essentials, the next step is to delve into learning the optimal strategy. At the end of the day the house always wins, so unless you derive some sort of pleasure in giving your money away, it is imperative that you learn the optimal strategy for whatever game you are playing. Some games, such as roulette and slots, have no optimal strategy per se since you cannot directly influence the house edge, but there are other strategies you can employ to protect your bankroll.
Strategies are generally more involved then the basic rules of the game, so it is equally important to practice before you decide to play for real money - while you may pick up the rules fairly quickly, strategies can be very complex, particularly a strategy that gives you the optimal chance of winning. Once you feel confident enough in your play-style, it is time to put your knowledge to the test.
Any decent casino guide will have supplemental articles from a variety of topics designed to augment your overall knowledge of casinos or specific games. There is only so much information that can be crammed into the rules and strategy explanations - articles serve to tackle specific subjects that might not necessarily be pertinent to rules or strategy, but still provide valuable information.
For online gaming, it is very important that you find the right online casino to play at - respectable online casino guides will have objective reviews to online casinos, and good webmasters will only vouch for casinos that they have played at personally. There are a ton of dishonest online casinos out there which is why it is so important to do your research. A good online casino guide will give you all the information you need to become a better gambler, and provide you with in-depth, unbiased reviews.
Whether you are a beginner or a veteran to the gambling world, you can easily augment your knowledge of gambling with a little time and effort. You can think of it as an investment - when it comes to maximizing your potential profit when gambling, knowledge is of the utmost importance.

How to Win Your Bets
Although we all recognize that there are as many ways to lose a bet as there are to win one, as a species, we almost always bet to win. Even losing does not discourage us because we tend to think that the next bet will be a winner. This is why bettors can rapidly get carried away and even become addicted to gambling.
The real truth is that it is frequently a coin toss as to whether you are going to win or lose. It is also true that there are some very specific things you can try to tip the odds to your advantage. So, let's look at trying out a few winning techniques. I'm not saying that anybody should take up gambling who is not already leaning in that direction. I am just saying that if you are planning to gamble, do whatever you are able do to augment the possibility that you will win more frequently than you lose.
The other thing to keep in mind is that individuals don't travel to Las Vegas or Atlantic City solely to win cash: They go there to enjoy themselves. If you can't enjoy yourself gaming, then I recommend that you stop betting and do something else as an alternative that enlivens you and causes you to grin. While no system is flawless, the following tips will assist you in winning more than you lose and that, in itself, would appear to be a lot of fun.
Wagering, unlike the stock market or real estate, should not be considered an investment but, rather, a source of fun. Gambling is not a way to try to support yourself. Bet for fun and only for fun.
Don't get emotional and risk great quantities of cash. Keep your bets little and then, when you lose (and you WILL lose sometimes) there won't be as much of a sting. I once walked into a casino in Las Vegas with only $10 in my pocket. I left the remainder of my cash in my hotel room on purpose. I turned my $10 bill into a paper pail of two hundred nickels and passed the next four hours playing the slots. My aim was to continue until all the coins were gone, simply to discover how long I could make that pail of nickels last. I hit a few small jackpots and could thus milk out my nickels for four hours. I had a lot of enjoyment for my $10!
If you are one of the few lucky individuals who hits an enormous jackpot, be pre-disposed to walk out with your winnings. Have a strategy, in advance, to dictate your actions in such an event. I had a friend who won a one hundred thousand dollar jackpot. He was so overwhelmed that he came to believe he could not lose. By the end of the night he had lost every penny. The sad thing is that $100,000 would have altered his life for the better.
Now, I can't prove this scientifically, but it appears to me that there is such a thing as luck. Bet with the lucky winners. See if you can duplicate their luck. You don't need to make gigantic bets. Just bet the way the winners are betting and more often than not, you will end up ahead.
Use your natural psychic gifts. The first hunch you receive is more often than not the correct one. Do not change your mind.
See if you can pick out patterns that are occurring in the moment. Decide to bet on numbers that seem to be coming up repeatedly. Keep a written record so that you will know for sure that a pattern actually exists. Try to keep your emotions in check.
Finally, do not bet the "favorites" or so-called "winning numbers" since they have a way of letting you down. Instead, weigh the odds and work at improving your judgment.
As I stated before, these are not techniques that always will be triumphant. It's just that, over time, they almost always win more than they lose. Have fun!
A� 2011 Robert M. Gillespie, Jr.

Chase Your Losses and You Will End Up a Street Beggar Chasing For Alms
The most fatal of all gambling mistakes I've found out in my research is when a gambler increases his bets the moment he starts to lose. This kind of gambler who commits this mistake is what I call the "chaser". At the start, a chaser usually bets small. If he comes into winning hands, or just about even, he continues betting small, never changing the amount of his bet. But be aware, because late in his playing, when he starts to lose, he suddenly becomes a big bettor. The more he loses, the bigger his bets become. A chaser is a stubborn gambler.
In my casino experiences, I have encountered plenty of chasers and I'll share to you one of these experiences. It was early evening and I was playing Blackjack when a tough-looking man arrived. He had bodyguards in tow as he was a big businessman in town. His presence was imposing. He sat at a small Baccarat table and started playing. He smoked big cigar, and he had a very loud voice. Not any sooner the other players with him drifted away. You would know he was winning by just listening to his laughter - loud as a thunder. As he continued to win, the louder his holler became. A crowd stood behind snooping on his every win. When the shoe was over, he stood up and roared, "Is this all you've got? Ha, ha, ha. Give me your biggest table, I am hot tonight." He seemed to shout on purpose so others would envy his winnings.
He was escorted to a big Baccarat table, one with a high limit, just as he wanted. The snoopers followed. As there was no other player so he had the table all to himself. However within the first hour the holler receded. All that you would hear from him was his sweat hitting the floor. He stumbled upon a losing streak and his winnings vanished immediately. His face changed, from a jester to a monster. He was desperate to win, and in desperation, he was increasing his bets.
But the losing pit seemed bottomless. He would lose 8 times in a row and win once, lose 9 times and win once, lose 7 times and win once, repeatedly. He even lost twelve times in a row twice. As he kept on losing, he kept on increasing his bet. Then he went really deep. Someone called his wife, and when his wife arrived, she sat beside him. But his wife could not do anything as her husband was very stubborn. The wife just watched as her husband poured in millions to the casino.
Then he requested the pit boss to change the dealer. (Remember that this casino disallowed players to deal.) Every time he would lose, a new dealer would turn up. Dealer in and dealer out, until there was no available dealer anymore. At times after the man peeked on his cards and knew he would lose again, he would tear the cards apart. The casino just tolerated him. Eventually he stopped. He realized there was nothing that he could do anymore to win back his losses. He had played for about 10 hours and lost 2 million pesos. As he walked to the door, he looked very meek and tired. He was humbled by his losses.
This kind of gambler I call the chaser because he chases his losses with the hope of getting even. In my opinion, this is the gambler that losses too much. Why chasers continue betting this way when it only gave them misery is beyond me. Chasers are generally successful in their fields. They are good in business, in their professions, or in figures, but when it comes to gambling they are toddlers.
I wonder why they do not take time to review their gambling style. They do not seem to know it is their "chasing" that made them sink. Whoever told them to bet this way must be a big loser him self. It is not difficult to analyze why "chasing" is a mistake. This kind of betting is exactly the opposite of what I advocated. I would rather that gamblers chase their winnings and not their losses. In chasing the losses, the gambler risked losing a big amount just to win a few. I have tried it at home and it is the fastest way to lose. What is saddening is that casinos are full of chasers.