Roulette is, in my opinion, best game to play where you can turn blind luck into a great casino story to tell your friends.

Recently, my family dragged me down to casinos of Atlantic City. I'm not going to lie to you - I wasn't feeling very lucky and would've much preferred to stay home. Since I was 'forced' to go, my goal was to go into hiding, play slow and steady, kill time and grind it out until my folks were ready to come back home. I thought I had everything covered.

Well, I spent a little time at $10 craps tables, but mostly I played $20 pai gow and then some $15 blackjack. I couldn't for life of me get anything going and instead of treading water, I was bleeding money whole afternoon. After about 4 hours I was down $435, which could've been worse but it was obviously far from result I wanted.

I was close to broke and ready to go home as I met back up with my family. Suddenly I had a crazy idea. "I have to do one more thing before we go. I've gotta go to roulette table." My family gave me an indifferent shrug and followed, as they're mostly slot players and all table games are Greek to them.

The plan was to throw down a few more bucks and try to get back all money I lost in one shot. I went over math in my head as I walked over to roulette table. I was down $435, so I knew a $40 bet at 11-1 could get me back to even. Hopefully.

I found a roulette table and gave $40 to dealer, to which she handed me 8 red nickels. I reached and put all chips on '28 Street'. (It's a three number bet - either 28, 29 or 30 would win for me.) The dealer spun, I stood near roulette wheel, and prayed!

The ball slowed down and bounced around wheel for several tense seconds as I rooted for one of my three numbers. It popped into number 2 and stayed there for a moment - and then dropped into number two slots over.

Jacks Or Better This game is generally regarded as best game to start out with when learning video poker for first time. The basic idea in this game is to get a pair of Jacks or higher and it is a fairly simple goal, especially for amateur players. Something many players forget, however, is that merely getting a pair of Jacks won’t really win you any money, except exact money that you put into machine initially. So real fun starts when you start getting higher ranking hands!