Posts Tagged ‘Casinos’
Posted by Nicolae on October 27th, 2008 under Casino Guide, Casinos
Tags: card counters, cards, Casinos, cheat, cheaters, firm, gambling, Griffin Book, Griffin Investigations, listing, mark, photos, pictures, profits, slot machines, surveillance •
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The Griffin Book is a listing of known or suspected gambling cheaters and advantage players published by Griffin Investigations, a firm that monitors casinos. Those listed may be anyone perceived as a threat to the casino’s profits, including card counters, people who mark cards and those who try to cheat slot [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 17th, 2008 under Advertising, Gambling Media, Gambling industry, Society
Tags: Advertising, bets, bookmakers, Casinos, gambling, gaming, links, lotteries, media, operators, promotion, sporting events, television, Video •
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Gambling advertising is the promotion of gambling by casinos, lotteries, bookmakers or other organisations that provide the opportunity to make bets. It is usually conducted through a variety of media or through sponsorship deals, particularly with sporting events or people.
Although not as highly regulated as tobacco advertising and alcohol advertising, in [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 13th, 2008 under Casino Guide, Casinos
Tags: Casinos, cheating, collusion, combat, Eyes in the Sky, False Deals, False Shuffles and Cuts, fraud, Hand Mucking, illegal, Introducing Previously Marked Decks Into Play, jurisdiction, Marking Cards During Play, methods, Nevada, Pastposting, Proper Procedure, references, Rules, sanctions, slot machines, Software, statutes, Video •
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Cheating in casinos refers to actions which are prohibited by a casino’s rules. Cheating is usually illegal but the exact sanctions will depend on the jurisdiction in which the casino operates. In Nevada, cheating in a casino is a felony under Nevada law. In most other jurisdictions, specific statutes do not [...]
Posted by Nicolae on September 27th, 2008 under Casino Guide, Casinos, Rules
Tags: ABS, cage, casino, Casinos, chips, coins, collecting, colors, counterfeiting, currency, dealer, denominations, discs, environment, establishments, exonumia, future, gambling, gaming, high stakes, History, links, metal, money, multicolor, numismatics, official, pieces, plaques, plastic, reasons, security, serial numbers, set, slot machines, standard, station, table games, theft, token, tokens, types, US, Video •
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One dollar chips from various Las Vegas casinos.
Casino tokens are small colored metal or plastic discs used in gambling establishments.
There are two main types of tokens used in casinos: multicolor tokens of various denominations called chips, used primarily in table games; and metal token coins, used primarily in slot machines. Some [...]
Posted by Nicolae on September 19th, 2008 under Dice games Guide, Rules, games
Tags: advantage, Asia, banker, bets, big and small, bowl, Casinos, China, dice, gamblers, gambling, game, high points, house, low points, luck, Macau, no skill, plate, players, Rules, Sic bo, table, three, winners, winning, zones •
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Big and small is a dice game of pure luck. It is a popular gambling game in China and is still offered in some casinos in Asia, notably in Macau. A variation is the common casino game Sic bo.
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The game is played with three dice. Traditionally, the dice are placed on a [...]
Posted by Nicolae on September 7th, 2008 under Rules, Slot machine Guide, Slots, games
Tags: Casinos, Japan, Nagoya, organized crime, pachi-slo, Pachinko, pachinko parlors, pinball machines, players, prizes, slot machines, steel balls, tokens, video slot machine, winnings, yakuza, パチンコ •
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Pachinko (パチンコ) is a device used for amusment and prizes and is related to pinball machines. Although originally strictly mechanical, modern pachinko machines are a cross between a pinball machine and a video slot machine. Pachinko is said to have been invented sometime after World War II in Nagoya, though the [...]
Posted by Nicolae on September 3rd, 2008 under Blackjack, Card counting, strategies
Tags: Al Francesco, basic strategy, Beat the Dealer, Blackjack, calculators, card counters, card-counting, Casinos, Darryl Purpose, David Layton, documentary film, Dr. Edward O. Thorp, History, Jess Marcum, Joe Bernstein, Ken Uston, Las Vegas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, players, systems, The Greeks, The Hot Shoe, Tommy Hyland •
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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 [...]
Posted by Nicolae on August 25th, 2008 under Casino Guide, Casinos
Tags: Black Book, casino games, Casinos, cheaters, Gaming Control Board, gaming industry, gaming regulations, Griffin Book, links, organized crime, players •
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“Black Book” is the nickname frequently used to refer to a list of persons who are unwelcome in casinos. The name comes from the fact that the persons listed in the “book” are essentially “blacklisted”. The term can refer either to such a list officially maintained by a particular Gaming Control [...]
Posted by Nicolae on August 21st, 2008 under Roulette and wheel games Guide, games, strategies
Tags: analysis, bets, betting strategies, Casinos, doubling, gamblers, martingale, maximums, minimums, roulette, system •
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Originally, martingale referred to a class of betting strategies popular in 18th century France. The simplest of these strategies was designed for a game in which the gambler wins his stake if a coin comes up heads and loses it if the coin comes up tails. The strategy had the gambler double [...]
Posted by Nicolae on August 16th, 2008 under Blogs, Gambling Media, Gambling industry, Top Gambling News
Tags: 2008, Atlantic City, August 16th, basketball, Business, Casino Gambling Web, Casinos, clandestine, Class III, Colombian, FARC, guardian, Hillsboro Times Gazette, International Herald Tribune, Investigations, lawsuits, Machine, Medical News Today, Ohio, Online Casino Advisory, players, rescue gambling deal, reservations, scam, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sun-Sentinel, Times of India, Toledo, Top Gambling News, Xi Zhou, Xinhua, blogosphere, company, FBI, illegal clubs, Nevada, University of Toledo •
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Americans Spending, Gambling, Saving
Medical News Today (press release), UK
The studies cover the buying habits and emotional well-being of spenders, the demographics of gamblers and who is at risk for trouble, the strategies people …
Rescue gambling deal by working with both pari-mutuels and Seminoles
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL
We could do nothing, and eventually the federal [...]