If you only have a dollar, the best slots for you to play are the penny slots. Playing the dollar slots with only one dollar gives you only one spin. Stretch out your dollar and search out a good penny machine. Look for ones with random jackpot bonuses on top of the regular bonus for the machine. This will increase your playing odds somewhat.

You should also play all the lines on your penny slot. This increases your odds because it will qualify you for more jackpots. You don’t have to play the max bet on each line, just play each line. Find games with 15-25 lines and your cost will be low per spin.

Rags to Riches is a 20-line progressive slot from Cryptologic. One bet per line is enough to qualify for the 500,000 EURO jackpot. Another one is the 20-line Lotto Madness Video Slots from Playtech.

Winning at blackjack with only a dollar would not be an easy feat. First off it would eliminate pretty much every land-based casino, because they have a minimum bet of $5. So you would have to find a private game or one online. Even once you did find a game where you could make a one-dollar blackjack bet, you will usually have a 53% chance of losing that dollar on the first deal.

If you do win the first hand you’ll have to win at a rate much higher than the usual. To amass enough cash to consider your session a win, you would have to win at a 2:1 rate for an extended period of time. I suggest that you quit the game if you turn your one dollar into ten. Gaming requires a bankroll so you don’t go broke if you experience a run of losing hands in succession.

Any self-respecting basketball fan knows the Boston Celtics have started the season a perfect 7-0. However, a winning record doesn’t always translate to big profits for bettors wagering on the spread. Until now, as the Celts are also a perfect 7-0 ATS.

The Celtics haven’t exactly been knocking off the best teams in the league, though. In fact so far Boston has had it pretty easy with six of their seven games against teams from the East. The only Western Conference squad the Celtics have faced so far this season is the Denver Nuggets, whom they easily dispatched 119-93 as a 6-point favorite.

Next up on the Celtics’ schedule looks like another easy cover, versus the 1-7 Miami Heat. Their biggest test may come right after they cool off the Heat, when they face the current second-best team in the East, the Orlando Magic. If the Celtics can keep covering against Orlando the only eventual roadblock might be the elite teams from the West. Boston doesn’t play Dallas until January and San Antonio until February.

When I’m placing a $1 bet, I want a big bang for my buck. I want some entertainment value, the kind you can only get by bragging at the water cooler about how you picked some ridiculous long shot that paid off. Nobody needs to know how much the bet was for, of course. Looking at this week’s NFL slate, I’m eyeing the moneyline on the Washington Redskins to beat the Dallas Cowboys straight up.

This ‘Skins team is a tough nut to crack at 5-4 SU (2-5-2 ATS). Three losses were against quality opposition, and they split a pair with the Eagles. The running and defense are there, in theory, to keep the score close – although the last four games have gone over. And developing QB Jason Campbell is capable of pulling a big game out of his hat, like his three-TD performance this past Sunday against Philly. Dallas could have a fight on its hands.

The weekend is upon us. Time to loosen up that tie and blow off some steam with a $1 bet just for the hell of it.

Check out the business props and you’ll find this gem: When will the price of oil surpass $100 a barrel? The price of light sweet crude was US$95.46 a barrel at Thursday’s close, up from about $50 in January.

The futures markets at Intrade don’t seem too keen on the price topping the $100 mark before year’s end. At press time, there was no trading on any contract on or over $85, and the last price on that contract was $40 – suggesting a 40 percent chance.

This aforementioned $100-a-barrel prop includes choice of “Dec 28th or later” at 9-1 odds. Considering the over/under for the closing price on Dec. 31 is $102.75, with either side priced at –120, the 9-1 bet seems like an absolute bargain. I’ll buy that for a dollar.

Craps is a game where you get a little more for you buck. The game offers near-even odds if you stick to pass line bets, and has a variety of other odds bets if you so desire. The game provides you with a way to earn bets at near-even odds while at the same time giving you numerous opportunities to hit bigger-odd bets you can really cash in on. This puts you into situations where you can have numerous bets where certain rolls will pay you multiple times.

The game also offers an excitement level that’s unrivalled on the casino floor. A busy craps table on a streak of good rolls is the loudest spot in the house. There’s just something about the attitude of the game that no other game provides. Craps is by far the most exciting game to win at in any casino.