The relation to hazardous games from country to country differs also as cultures of these countries differ from each other. It would be really strange to expect an identical position of the authorities and players concerning gamblings in the USA, and, say, in China. What are the basic patterns of behavior of players of different countries in gamblings?

The easiest way is to divide the countries by their relation to various casino games - in which country what games are of great favor and popularity and in which country which games are authorized. We believe, it is better to begin with slot machines - the most popular gambling today.

Yes, slot machines are the most profitable, and the most popular game in all casinos... Except casinos in Macao - the Asian capital of gamblings.

Strangely, neither American, nor the Australian giants of the gambling industry can impose to Asians, so to say, «universal values». For this reason in casino of Macao the most popular gambling for already ten-year time period is... baccarat! The correlation of profits of casino from slot machines and from baccarat is estimated 1 to 8, that is, baccarat in Macao has almost 8-fold overweight in popularity over slot machines.

In the rest world slot machines are the absolute leaders both by popularity and by degree of human annoyance by these «infernal machines». For example, in Norway slot machines can be met everywhere - from a casino and supermarkets, to - who could think - drugstores and filling stations! For this reason the authorities have decided to toughen regulation of gamblings, and, thus, in year 2009 the new law essentially reducing the legal locations of slot-machines will come into force.

In Great Britain casino slot machines are also very popular, however in this country the laws are rather severe, they restrict the mechanisms of work of game clubs having slots in their own way. For example, according to the current legislation, rates in slot machines in England cannot exceed 50 pence, and the single prize cannot be more ?35. The government has undertaken such steps to protect players from temptations of huge prizes which we can observe, for example, in progressive jackpots in huge casinos of the USA or Australia.

But, except slots there are a lot of interesting casino gamblings. Let's take, for example, a roulette - who does not know about this online gambling game? And meanwhile, the roulette is not too popular all over the world as you could think. Almost the only place on a planet where the roulette is on the wave of popularity is Germany and Austria. Here positions of roulette among casino games are hard-and-fast as nowhere else.

Separately it is necessary to mention Japan, as the country with one of the most original cultures, besides having its own view of gamblings. In Japan such variation of gamblings, as pachinko, and traditional slot machines with «a national technological highlight» are of great appreciation.

Pachinko is a simple game, something like pinball. By its essence pachinko is a slot machine, but without game wheels and paylines. The role of coins is replaced here with steel balls which are usually sold not far from the gambling hall. Game process is the following one: the steel ball is started on a game field by means of a special spring, then, under accompaniment of brightest video-drawing and sounding a ball begins the travel across the field, bobbing about various obstacles, and, as a result of gravity, gets into the loosing or winning hole in the bottom of a game field of the automatic machine pachinko.

Besides, in Japan there are also traditional slot machines - pachisuro - with nonconventional schemes of payments. The law obliges manufacturers of such automatic machines to pay out jackpot at least one time for a certain time interval. Therefore very often around such slot machines especially artful players are waiting when the slot machine will be ready to give the accumulated bonus prize. And if in the whole world such tactics can lead only to ruining, in Japan it really works!

Well and if to say about Russia, that, similar, that the most popular game of a casino here is a poker in all its aspects.