If you own a Macintosh or Apple “Mac” computers, you may have noticed how often online casino software is incompatible with this operating system. The explanation is simple actually and the solution is easy. I will tell you about two of the best casinos that I know of that are completely compatible with the Mac.

The story starts with why you can’t play online casino games on your Macintosh OS. The developers of this software designed their system around Windows. The reason is there are many more people using Windows than Mac, even though many more people are starting to switch. The developers of this software are starting to make versions available for Mac and even Linux. Most casino software doesn’t work because of the file types. Windows uses the “.exe” executable file extension to their applications and programs whereas the Macintosh uses a different setup.

Many people swear by their Mac as having better security than Windows. If you own a Mac, you may be surprised to know that the reason why security seems to be so good with the Mac is because computer hackers are more interested in targeting Windows because most people have that OS. There are too few people with a Mac for them to bother switching to a different coding and hacking style for the Mac! This is most certainly going to change in the future as more and more people switch.

OK, enough with the technical stuff, you are here on this blog looking for compatible Macintosh casinos online. CasinoMax

This topic is interesting for anyone who has never been to or played roulette at any casino. There are some massive differences between playing roulette or any other casino game online vs driving out to your local casino. Land based casinos and online casinos both have their advantages and disadvantages.

The biggest advantage of playing over the internet is the fact that you don’t have to travel anywhere and you can actually gamble in your own home. That means no dressing up or driving for miles to get to a casino so you can play roulette. That same benefit is also a disadvantage though. Roulette is one of those “social” types of casino games, meaning you will miss out on meeting people and getting out of the house. It just depends on what type of person you are. Playing online can be great if you are sick of loud or drunk people.

Another advantage of playing at home is you can be doing anything else like chatting on facebook, watching TV or cooking up food. You also don’t need to think about etiquette. Another boon is the fact that many online casinos have a much wider variety of games. This is important because some American based casinos only have the American roulette wheel, which has those bad odds I keep talking about.

Still, even with the convenient online software, many people would prefer going to Las Vegas obvious. Vegas would have the ideal selection of games and extremely high betting limits, resorts and all the other great benefits. The problem is most people live 100s or even 1000s of miles away and Vegas is usually reserved for annual vacations. It’s costly even to just go to Vegas, not to mention having enough money to gamble for awhile. This is why online casinos are great for times when you just want to gamble every now and then.

Here are a few great online casinos with many different variations of roulette. CasinoMax and Cherry Jackpot

I took another trip down to the local land based casino again and tried out a roulette system I wrote about a few days ago. This time I tried out the Labouchere betting system. This is the one where you write down a series of numbers and cross them off after you win, or add the total of both sides of the series and add it to the end if you lose.

I made a list of numbers in order from 1 to 10 before even heading out to the casino and I used $5 denomination chips, so it was getting up towards high roller figures. I made a promise with myself that if the numbers add up and the series starts getting numbers like 20, then I would quit, just in case a bad night was happening.

So The first bet I made was with the number: 1+10 = 11 chips, or $55. I won this and marked off the 1 and 10 and added the next ones in line, 2 and 9 for another $55 bet. I was happy that I won 3 in a row. I was doing the common red vs black outside bets on the European roulette wheel for the best odds possible. Basically I lost a few and won a few and my series number never got above 13. All it would have taken was 5 wins in a row to complete the series and I would have won around $275 in about a half hour or so. I was on the roulette table for less than one hour and I walked away with over $400 in winnings, some of which came from other bets as well. All my numbers were crossed out and that was it.

This just shows how these betting systems and risk management strategies win in the short term and why it pays to walk away when you are ahead. Other than that, I played on nickel and quarter slots for about 3 hours and came out $50 on those, so this was a great profit and a great night to play!

According to the UIGEA or the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, you may be surprised to know that it is not illegal. Basically, this law only applies to online gambling or casinos games, like roulette, that can be played over the internet. The players themselves are safe from receiving penalties and fines though.

Essentially, this law applied to the banks and credit card agencies like MasterCard, Visa, Neteller, ect. These companies are the ones that are targeted by the Anti-Gaming laws. The objective was to limit online gambling by cutting off the flow of money between customers and casinos. We all know that it would be against the US constitution to ban gambling to US citizens. As I stated in an earlier post, the government is beginning to reverse this law because of public outcry.

You may have noticed that this law is trying to work around the constitution in a sort of loophole by not directly punishing it’s citizens for wanting to gamble online. All they are doing is making it much harder for them to play by putting a squeeze on the money flow between customer and business, via payment methods. There are still plenty of other ways to deposit funds, but it won’t be nearly as easy because the major companies are being cracked down by this law. It is so inconvenient for some casino businesses to set up a system to accept the many smaller transaction companies that they just decided not to accept US players.

If you are located in the US, there are a couple great internet casinos of high quality to check out. A great one is CasinoMax

There are two very similar types of roulette bets that most people don’t know about but you hear them once in awhile at the roulette table. Actually, they aren’t very special but they sound arcane and use words in the usual gambling “slang” language. As you may have guessed, they are just bets based on the red or black colors on the roulette wheel.

People look at the table and see alternating colors along with numbers. You can actually see a connecting series of red colors, known as the Red Snake. There is also a series of black numbers that are connected to make up the Black Snake (sort of). Basically when you announce or call out these snake bets, the croupier will usually know what you are talking about.

I found a great picture on Wikipedia to illustrate which numbers to select in order to make a “Red Snake”. The numbers included in this bet are: 1, 5, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 23, 27, 30, 32 and 24. Note that this doesn’t really improve your odds or anything, but it’s just peculiar type of bet to try and mix up the table a little bit. This is more part of the socializing and entertainment going on at the table. Though some people tend to use this for better luck. It just depends on how you are feeling and if you think this bet will be good. Most importantly, this bet is very convenient to the croupier because they know exactly what the snake is. It is much better announcing this bet rather than naming off each number one by one!

Note that the Black Snake really isn’t official. Many people assume that since there is a red one, there must be an opposite black one. Notice that you cannot make a correct snake out of the black spots in the same shape as the red ones. For that, you would probably have to call out the numbers one by one, which could be annoying and tedious for the dealer. I would probably stay away from the black snake unless the dealer knows what to do here since there is no one way to do it like the red one.