To mix the deck by spreading the cards face down on the table and mixing them up. A dealer may wash the deck before shuffling.
weak ace
An ace with a low kicker (e.g. four). Also “small ace,” “soft ace,” “ace-rag.”
whipsaw
When a player is caught in the middle between two raisers and must call each bet because of the pot odds. Compare to “crossfire”.
window card
An upcard in stud poker. The first window card in stud is called the “door card”.
wired pair
A “pocket pair”.
wrap
In Omaha, the term for an open ended straight that consists of two board cards and three or four cards from a player’s hand. An example would be a player holding 345A with the board 67K is said to have a “wrap” as any 3, 4, or 5, or 8 will make a straight. A hand of 4589 would also be a wrap draw, but would often be refered to as a “big wrap” due to twenty cards making the straight as opposed to thirteen in the first example.
Full Sail University, an entertainment media institution near Orlando, Florida, is proud to announce it was recently named one of the top 50 undergraduate Game Design Programs out of 500 evaluated by The Princeton Review, created in partnership with GamePro Magazine. (PRWeb Mar 4, 2010)
Appolicious, Inc. a social networking website for iPhone app and Android app users, today released three new features: the Appolicious Facebook App, the Twicker twitter-enabled ticker, and the Appo.me App Shortener. (PRWeb Mar 5, 2010)
The Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling Has Launched Their Newly Redesigned Website, Featuring News, Information, and Resources About Problem Gambling in Washington. This Comes Just In Time For National Problem Gambling Awareness Week, March 7-13, 2010. (PRWeb Mar 7, 2010)
A new tax reform bill in the Senate is bringing I-gaming back to light, as discussed in a new report from I-gaming consultancy BolaVerde Media Group. (PRWeb Mar 8, 2010)
Just as prices for collectible comics are rocketing to new highs with the sales of two comic books for $1 million each, longtime comic collector and roleplaying-game trailblazer Stewart Wieck unveiled a new comic-auction site called GetSlabbed.com. (PRWeb Mar 9, 2010)
A popular network rendering controller for Lightwave, Maya, Modo, Messiah Studio, 3DSmax, XSI, Digital Fusion, After Effects, Cinema 4D, Blender, 3Delight and more has been updated with over 10 new features - Including support for 'LightWaveHC 10' and 'Houdini'! (PRWeb Mar 10, 2010)
The S-Network Global Gaming Index℠ (TICKER: WAGR) will add two new components, effective 6:00 PM (ET) Sunday, March 21, 2010. One stock will be deleted from the index, changing the number of index components to 57. (PRWeb Mar 10, 2010)
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Playcast Media announced today at the Game Developers Conference partnerships with some of the video game industry’s top publishers including Atari, Capcom, Codemasters and THQ, as well as independent publishers/developers DDI, Strategy First and Zushi. Playcast Media delivers high-quality console-free video gaming directly through existing Cable and IPTV set-top boxes and is the first gaming-on-demand technology for Cable and IPTV in the world. (PRWeb Mar 10, 2010)
A punchboard is a game board, primarily consisting of a number of holes which was used once for lottery playings.
History
Punchboards were originally used in the eighteenth century for gambling purposes. A local tavern owner would constuct a game board out of wood, drill small holes in it, and fill each hole with a small piece of paper. After a patron buyes the punchboard, he would puncture one of the holes in the paper with a nail. If the game piece contained a winning number, the patron won the prize.
Decline in use
In the nineteenth century, gamblers eventually drilled into their own holes (they knew where the big money was, because they made the board). The punchboard’s use started to decline.
Popular again
In the late 1800s, a new type of punchboard was introduced. This one involved putting paper in both the front and back of the hole (to help prevent operators from cheating). These new punchboards became popular to buy at drugstores, and they were sold with a metal stylus. The punchboard soon became increasingly similar to today’s lottery tickets.
Soon, the punchboard became cheap and easy to assemble, and the industry flourished. Noted gambling author John Scarne estimates that 30 million punchboards were sold in the years between 1910 to 1915. He also estimates that 50 million punchboards were sold in 1939 alone, during the peak of their popularity.
After the war
After World War II, use of the punchboard as a gambling tool began to decline because many people started to frown at its gambling-like nature, and the punchboard was outlawed in many states. However, the use of punchboards for advertisement were starting to gain popularity. Many companies started hiding goods such as bottles of beer and cigarettes inside punchboards. Zippo lighters reportedly sold more than 300,000 lighters through punchboard advertising between 1934 and 1940.
Larceny
People have been cheating on punchboards ever since they were first invented. Many operators know where the big prize holes are; they used to create punchboards with very few holes so they could easily track the big money.
Other gamblers could make a dirty deal with the costumers: give the costumer a “map” of where the big prizes are on the punchboard. This came to prevention by the use of serial numbers: the costumer would present the slip to the operator, and if the serial numbers matched, the costumer was declared a winner.
Other references in popular culture
The movie The Flim-Flam Man starring George C. Scott involved the use of illegal gambling through punchboards.
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Developed more than 20 years ago for the Commodore C64, an updated Giana Sisters arrives as a cutting-edge iPhone App that embraces its 80s charm. (PRWeb Feb 24, 2010)
