Standard layout for craps (without Big 6/8)
Players can place or buy individual numbers (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10) by placing their wager in the come area and telling the dealer, “place the 6″ or “buy the 8″. Both are bets that the number will be rolled before a 7. Place [...]

LAS VEGAS – Struggling with an economy that has gouged gambling profits and cut casino companies’ ability to borrow, MGM Mirage hopes to keep expanding its international hotel and casino empire and fattening its profit — but have other companies foot the bill.

quarter
To win a quarter of a pot, usually by tying the low or high hand of a high-low split game. Generally, this is an unwanted outcome, as it seldom wins enough money to cover the amount bet during the hand.

The clock is ticking toward a Monday deadline for Governor Charlie Crist to reach a potentially $150 million deal with the Seminole Tribe to expand gambling in Florida, one that Crist is likely to meet.

The mayor of Las Vegas and the mayor of Reno are upset with the NCAA. The two leaders sent an angry letter to the organization because of a new rule that stops championship games from being played in any state that allows gambling on a single game.

BUENOS AIRES -(Dow Jones)- The Argentine government is working on plans to allow online gambling throughout the country, presidential Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez said Wednesday.

Living Conditions
In many of the countries where there are large greyhound race tracks with gambling, the dogs live in kennels at or near the track or by their trainers.
In the United States, the kennels are indoor crates stacked two levels high, with the females usually kept on the upper level, and males on [...]

Over the past decade, online gambling has expanded to become a multi-billion dollar business. There are over 2,000 gambling sites worldwide; however, none of these sites are based in the United States as, the U.S. possesses stringent gambling laws. Most notably, in 2006, the U.S. Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

Gamblers who are looking to stretch their gambling dollars in the midst of a sour economy have confounded American Indian nations in Wisconsin and state budget writers alike. As a more frugal clientele cuts into casino earnings, the money paid to the state under gaming compacts dwindles.

Warren — A handful of people ticketed during a raid this week on a suspected illegal gambling operation declare they’re innocent, but police say a six-month undercover investigation may prove otherwise.

The unseen cards principle states that to calculate the probability (from the point of view of a player about to act) that the next card dealt will be among a certain set, he must divide the number of cards in that set by the number of cards he has not seen, regardless [...]

Following a six-month investigation, Warren police said, they used a search warrant to access Ryan Palace Social Club, where they discovered 41 people gambling plus cards, chips and nearly $26,000 in cash.

British Columbians who log onto a government-owned gambling website will soon be able to bet thousands of dollars a week on lottery tickets, sports events and a number of online games.

French Piquet deck
Piquet is a card game for two players. It is considered by many to be one of the best two player card games. Pronounced “pee-kay” in France, it is usually pronounced “picket” in English speaking countries.
Piquet is one of the oldest card games still being played. It originated over 500 [...]

The Seneca Gaming Corp. reported a quarterly loss of $82.7 million in its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the first quarterly loss since the gambling operation began in 2002, when it opened its first casino in Niagara Falls.

During play—that is, from the flop and onwards—drawing probabilities come down to a question of outs. All situations which have the same number of outs have the same probability of winning. For example, an inside straight draw (e.g. 34 67 missing the 5 for a straight), and a full house draw (e.g. [...]

MADAM Poh Choo Hwee recognises the desperate behaviour of hard-core gamblers. And the 58-year-old should know, given that her grandmother had operated an illegal gambling den out of their three-room shophouse at Geylang. Having known of horror stories where businessmen squandered their entire fortune on gambling, the mother of three grown children had then resolved [...]

The founder of the online gambling site BetOnSports.com pleaded guilty on Friday to federal racketeering conspiracy and other charges, concluding years of investigating and prosecuting a case in the complex world of offshore sports gambling.

Availability error, related to the gambler’s fallacy, is the distortion of one’s perceptions of reality due to the tendency to remember one alternative outcome of a situation much more easily than another.
For example, if surrounded by slot machines people are more likely to continue feeding money into their machine, because they [...]

Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) — Gary S. Kaplan , the founder of the now-defunct Internet gambling firm Betonsports Plc who was indicted in 2006 for violating federal laws barring wagering, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges.