While a few people are full-time professional poker players, most have to balance a day job and evening outings to play poker matches. You may spend many of your breaks at work reading up poker books or browsing websites to watch game strategies.

If you play poker professionally, you are your own boss, so only you decide when to take a day off. Secondly, the most successful professional poker players live extraordinary life. Quite often, they can travel all around the world and work from almost any place on earth.

Both Australians and New Zealanders use the term pokies  to describe what the rest of the world refers to as slot machines . But as all Aussies know, slot machines actually originated from Australia.

Gaming Machines (Poker Machines, "Pokies")\n\n The RNG produces an entirely random result - for each and every spin. Every spin is entirely independent of spins that have gone before (or spins that may come after) and there is no way of playing any machine that can influence the RNG in any way.