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Thanks to the presence of smartphones in so many of our lives today, it is becoming difficult to define what makes a typical gamer. Of course, it may have never been completely fair to say there was a 'typical' gamer, but there were certainly many sections of society who did not play video games. Now with the smartphone, the people who do not game are in the minority.According to stats from entities such as the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) in the United States and the Internet Advertising Bureau in the UK, anyone who games on their mobile can be categorised as a gamer. They may never have touched a games console per se, but they are still playing video games at the end of the day. The choice of games that you can play on a mobile phone is huge. Whether you choose social media games such as Candy Crush or Threes, or you prefer to play gambling games such as bingo, roulette, poker or blackjack, you can find games to suit any interest on a mobile. Real money games are a relatively recent addition to the mobile gaming platform. Up until a few years ago, if you wanted to play bingo or casino games online you could only do so at a laptop or desktop computer. And when smartphone gaming apps began to really get popular there seemed to be quite a long period where casino, bingo and other gaming sites hadn’t made the switch to mobile.Now, though, it is a different story. Go onto any cash gaming site such as 32red bingo, Vic's Bingo and Cheeky Bingo and you will find that many of their games are available to play on a mobile. If you play online bingo at 32redbingo.com or any of the other major sites, you can use the same login to play on the mobile or on a desktop, so it is ideal for when you want to play sitting on the sofa, on the bus or out and about somewhere.The UK's Internet Advertising Bureau quizzed 4,000 people about their online and gaming habits. Its 2014 report included a list of the most popular gaming types. At the top, with 33% of respondents playing them were trivia, word games and puzzles. Next came action/shooter games (18%), followed by gambling games, role-play and sports (10% each). These were followed by simulation (8%), driving (5%) and fitness or music games (3%).The same survey showed that 25% of respondents played on their smartphones every day and

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Fact: I am not a gambling man. Whenever stakes are set down for something, I find it very hard to resist, and so I deliberately keep away from gambling to ensure that I do not run myself into trouble. In fact, the most I could say I had done would be playing a few card games with my friends; although the stakes usually involved alcohol rather than money. However, throughout my life I have met many people who I have grown close to who do gamble quite regularly – either online at gamevillage.com or in their casino. Any experiences that they have ever told me about have generally been positive ones (when you ignore the stories about losing, that is), and have made the games seem quite interesting to me.What grabs me the most about these tales is how riveted everybody involved seems to be. Gambling like at cleopatra-slot.co.uk really seems to pull a, often huge, group of relative strangers together, in their quest for the grand prize. The fact that the prize could be won at any moment, with each card or roll of the die being just as likely to bring you that win as the next, leaves the entire audience on edge. Every single card that gets turned over could potentially be your ticket to the grand prize, and each contestant knows this, leaving the entire room feeling tense, but excited. The entire room is usually filled with groans and moans, or cheers or excitement, as hands break down or triumph.Fortunately, this high level of tension and excitement is slightly diffused when each card is turned, with the inclusion of a little bit of 'banter' between competitors. And sometimes it is even possible to play games like free monopoly slots via websites like monopolyplusslots.com without cost.Although this hardly occurs during high-stakes games, where everybody puts on their most serious and impenetrable poker faces, the lower end games usually feature a little joking around, which is welcomed by most of the players, and you are more likely to see somebody asking if you fancy a game of blackjack than a room full of tuxedo-clad, stony-faced businessmen. This little touch is not only necessary to let off some of the tension in the room, but can be considered a time-honoured tradition, something