Choosing which casino to play can be daunting. How can you locate the honest sites and weed out the bad guys? Instead of hacking your way through the jungle, follow the paths paved by other pioneers.

Several watchdog Web sites offer rankings, recommendations, warnings, and tips to maximize your online casino gambling experience. Check out their message boards in particular. Reading about others’ experiences — good and bad — with various sites can be incredibly helpful.

Fortunately, the vast majority of Internet casinos are safe to play, so it’s more important to know which places to avoid. (The watchdog sites cover those sites in their blacklisted section.) In fact, I have played at a number of cyber casinos and have been cheated only a few times. In almost every case, I could have avoided that aggravation if I had first visited a watchdog site before depositing any cold cash.

Just as financial planners advise you to diversify your investments, I suggest that you spread your gambling dollars among different casinos to help reduce risk. Even after you’ve done your homework and homed in on the best sites, divvy your money up among ten or so safe sites, instead of plunk¬ing $5,000 on one location.

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