All forms of gambling for pure chance are stacked in the house?s favour. And wherever there is a glitch for some reason or other ? it?s quickly ironed out by the house. And it?s this ?house edge? on which the whole city of Las Vegas has been built ? along with many other glamorous casino resorts around the world.

It?s a simple matter of weighing probabilities and getting enough people to gamble. If you get sufficient numbers, you will get the returns even on games like roulette where the house edge is only very small.

In recent years, of course, the rapid growth in all forms of gaming and gambling has been online. And the intense competition in the industry has seen companies dishing out ever-bigger welcome bonuses to try and entice us in. The reason they do so is down to the house edge ? and with online gaming, the numbers can be even better ? hence the intense competition.

So what all this should be telling sane gamblers is that the odds are well stacked against us ? so we should be playing for fun only ? playing games where a big jackpot is a possibility.

Some sites even let you play such games for free. For example, you can play bingo for free at costabingo.com, and be entered into the weekly ?Costa Crazy? bingo game each Friday night, which carries with it a guaranteed prize of ?10,000. Some other sites have similar free games and promotions, but this is the biggest one we know of at present.

There are many other games with Costa, bgo, 888 and many other providers that allow you to play for tiny stakes only ? but with the possibility of a jackpot win of some kind. These are ideal for those of us who enjoy the thrill of playing for a big stake, but who recognise that if we play on long enough, we will lose out. Remember; this is purely a numbers game for the providers so it makes no sense to try and beat the probabilities ? it?s impossible without simply getting lucky.

But if you enjoy the games anyway, there?s no harm in it. And bingo is a particularly good game to pass away the hours if you?re travelling but have a tablet or other mobile device with you ? as the hours fly by if you enjoy the games. And the possibility of a really big win keeps life interesting ? as long as you don?t seriously expect that to happen. It?s similar, in many ways, to playing the National Lottery in that you know the odds are well-stacked against you and you don?t particularly care ? but the possibility of that massive win keeps you coming back for more with a tiny stake each time.

So playing only those games you really enjoy ? and playing them for small stakes with the chance of a big win seems a sensible way to play when the odds will always be against you.