Racino

February 17th, 2009

Racino is a portmanteau for a combined race track and casino. In some cases, the gambling is limited to slot machines, but many locations are beginning to include table games such as blackjack, poker, and roulette.In 2003, Joe Bob Briggs described the economic motivation of race track owners to convert into [...]

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Ten and a half

February 10th, 2009

Ten and a half is a card game with rules very similar to blackjack. The game is popular in China and is usually used for gambling.
Rules
The rules are very similar to blackjack, with the following exceptions:

A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 are worth their face points. J, Q and [...]

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Spanish 21

February 1st, 2009

Spanish 21 is an increasingly popular variant of blackjack owned by Masque Publishing, Inc. “Unlicensed” (but equivalent) versions may be called Spanish blackjack.Spanish 21 uses the following rules:

The game is played with six or eight decks dealt from a shoe. Each deck is a standard poker deck with the tens (but not [...]

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Online casino games and bonuses

January 27th, 2009

Games offered
A typical selection of games offered at an online casino might include:

Baccarat
Blackjack
Craps
Roulette
Slot Machines
Video Poker

Signup bonuses
Many online casinos offer signup bonuses to new players making their first deposit. These bonuses normally match a percentage of the player’s deposit with a dollar maximum, and almost all online casino signup bonuses require a minimum [...]

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Oicho-Kabu

January 26th, 2009

Oicho-Kabu (おいちょかぶ) is a traditional Japanese gambling game similar to the Western games blackjack and baccarat. It is typically played with special kabufuda cards. A hanafuda deck can also be used, if the last two months are discarded. (Western playing cards can be used, if the face cards are removed from [...]

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Seven twenty-seven

January 24th, 2009

Seven Twenty-Seven is a vying game similar in some respects to poker, and often played as a “dealer’s choice” variant at home poker games. It uses the same equipment and betting system, but the value of hands does not use traditional poker hand rankings, either high or low. Rather, only the sum [...]

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MindPlay

January 14th, 2009

MindPlay is a technology designed to monitor blackjack players’ actions while playing in a casino.Monitoring a person’s play traditionally is done visually, by the dealer, floorperson, pitboss, and the eye in the sky (video surveillance). If one of these observers notices something unusual in a person’s play, they will do what they [...]

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Online casino

November 28th, 2008

Online casinos, also known as virtual casinos or internet casinos, are online versions of traditional (“brick and mortar”) casinos. Online casinos enable gamblers to play and wager on casino games through the Internet.Online casinos generally offer odds and payback percentages that are comparable to land-based casinos. Some online casinos claim higher [...]

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Crimp

November 12th, 2008

In gambling terminology a crimp is a bend that has been intentionally made on the corner(s) of a playing card to facilitate identification.A card cheat will typically bend some of the important cards during the game. Below are just several of the most popular examples.
In poker, for instance, a cheat may crimp [...]

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Double Exposure Blackjack

November 2nd, 2008

Double Exposure Blackjack is a variant of blackjack in which both the dealer’s cards are revealed to players at the start of the hand. Knowing the dealer’s hand provides significant information, and without rules modifications would be advantageous to the player.The main rules changes to provide the casino with the advantage are [...]

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Double Attack Blackjack

October 20th, 2008

Double Attack Blackjack has very liberal blackjack rules and the option of increasing one’s wager after seeing the dealer’s up card. This game is dealt from a Spanish shoe, and blackjacks pay only even money.

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Slang names for poker hands

October 7th, 2008

In poker, players may often use slang terms for particular types of hands. Though most are recent neologisms, others date to poker’s antiquity. All such slang terms typically connect a common concept (from life experience or storytelling) to the hand, in order to more easily characterize its general status relative to [...]

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Chinese Blackjack

October 4th, 2008

Chinese Blackjack is also known as 21-point, ban-nag (Cantonese) or ban-luck (Hokkien). It is a gambling game played in South East Asia which bears similarity to conventional Blackjack.The game uses one or two 52-card deck(s), playable by any number of players. One of them is to be a dealer, or they may [...]

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Top Gambling News, September 23th, 2008

September 23rd, 2008

Get real on web gambling
Kansas City Star, MO
Rick’s Gambling & Tourism column in today’s Star Business Weekly looks at the US’s untenable position in the worldwide on-line gambling industry. …
State cracks down on Net gambling
Kentucky.com, KY
By Jack Brammer FRANKFORT — Kentucky is commandeering 141 domain names of Internet gambling sites in [...]

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Countermeasures against blackjack card-counters

September 18th, 2008

Counting cards in blackjack has become substantially more difficult as a result of casino countermeasures. The most common is the use of more decks, which decreases the player’s advantage, but even in the few remaining single- and double-deck games, dealers will often shuffle prematurely or unusually frequently to defeat a suspected [...]

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History of blackjack card counting

September 3rd, 2008

American mathematician Dr. Edward O. Thorp is considered the father of card counting. His 1962 book Beat the Dealer (ISBN 0394703103) outlined various betting and playing strategies for optimal blackjack play. Although mathematically sound, some of the techniques described no longer apply as casinos took counter-measures (such as no longer dealing [...]

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MIT Blackjack Team

August 27th, 2008

The MIT Blackjack Team, as the name suggests, was a group of students and ex-students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who attempted to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide. The team and its successors operated from 1979 through the beginning of the 21st century.
The plan and operation
Blackjack gives the house a low statistical [...]

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Card counting

August 15th, 2008

Card counting is a card game strategy used to determine when a player has a probability advantage. The term is used almost exclusively to refer to the tracking of the ratio of high cards to low cards in blackjack, although theoretically card counting can be used in some other card games.
How card [...]

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Fremont Hotel and Casino

July 25th, 2008

The Fremont Hotel & Casino is a hotel and casino located in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada on the Fremont Street Experience. It is one of the casinos owned by Boyd Gaming Corporation. The hotel provides 447 rooms and the casino offers 32,000ft² of space.
History
The Fremont hotel opened on May 18, 1956 as [...]

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Blackjack strategy

July 10th, 2008

Basic strategy
As in all casino games, the house has a statistical advantage over the players that will play itself out in the long run. But because blackjack, unlike other games, has an element of player choice, players can actually reduce the casino advantage to a small percentage by playing what is known [...]

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