Posts Tagged ‘dealer’
Posted by Nicolae on November 13th, 2008 under Bridge
Tags: auction, bidding, boards, Bridge, contract, deal, dealer, dealing, deals, denomination, duplicate, game, hands, laws, Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge, phases, play, players, rubber, Rules, scoring, strain, trumps, World Bridge Federation •
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Two partnerships of two players each are needed to play bridge. The four players sit around a table with partners opposite one another. The compass directions are often used to refer to the four players, aligned with their seating pattern. Thus, South and North form one partnership and East and West [...]
Posted by Nicolae on November 2nd, 2008 under Blackjack, Blackjack Guide
Tags: Blackjack, Bob Stupak, cards, casino, dealer, Double Exposure Blackjack, players, Rules, Video •
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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 [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 16th, 2008 under Craps, Gambling terminology
Tags: 6, bets, boxcars, Craps, critical failure, dealer, dice, each die, freight train, Freight Train from Hell, game, high side, midnight, probability, rolling, table, terminology, Video •
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Boxcars is the outcome of rolling the dice in a game of craps and getting a 6 on each die. The pair of 6 pips resembles a pair of box cars on a freight train. In modern parlance, it refers to such a roll in any game involving 6 sided dice which are [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 4th, 2008 under Blackjack, Blackjack Guide
Tags: 15 Points, 21-point, Ban-Ban, ban-luck, ban-nag, Blackjack, checking for, Chinese Blackjack, dealer, dealing, gambling game, House Rule, players, point counting rules, turns •
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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 [...]
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 21st, 2008 under Poker, Poker terminology Guide
Tags: antes, bets, big blind, blinds, cards, cost, dealer, flop-style, fold, forced, games, hold 'em, Omaha, placing, players, Poker, rounds, small blind, term, Texas •
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The blinds is a term used to describe the two forced bets posted by players to the left of the dealer in flop-style poker games.
The blinds exist because Omaha and Texas hold ‘em are generally played without antes, allowing a player to fold his hand without placing a bet. The blind bets [...]
Posted by Nicolae on September 8th, 2008 under Baccarat Guide, Rules, games
Tags: baccarat, Banco, banker, cards, chemin de fer, croupier, dealer, gone bank, players, stakes, winner •
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Six full packs of cards of the same pattern are used, shuffled together. The players seat themselves round the table. In the centre is a basket for the reception of the used cards. If there is any question as to the relative positions of the players, it is decided by lot. The [...]
Posted by Nicolae on July 10th, 2008 under Blackjack, Blackjack Guide, games
Tags: Arnold Snyder, basic strategy, Blackjack, casino games, dealer, doubles, drawing, early surrender, gaining, hole-card, methods, next card, normal surrender, players, resplitting aces, Rules, shuffle tracking, strategy, tables, techniques •
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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 [...]
Posted by Nicolae on July 6th, 2008 under Poker, Poker jargon
Tags: D, dark, dead blind, dead hand, deadwood, deal, deal twice, dealer, dealer's choice, declare, decloak, deep, deuce, deuce-to-seven, discard, dog, dominated hand, donation, donk, donkey, door card, double through, double up, double-ace flush, double-board, Double-draw, double-flop, down to the felt, downcard, drag light, drawing dead, drawing live, drawing thin, drop, dry pot, dump, dumped, duplicate, poker jargon •
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dark
Describing an action taken before receiving information to which the player would normally be entitled. I’m drawing three, and I check in the dark. Compare to “blind”.
dead blind
A blind that is not “live”, in that the player posting it does not have the option to raise if other players [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 20th, 2008 under Mahjong, games
Tags: Bamboo suit, banker, board, bone tiles, Character suit, Charleston, chips, Circle suit, computer, dealer, dealing, dice, Dragon tiles, equipment, Flower tiles, Game Wind, kards, Mahjong, Mhing, players, playing cards, Prevailing Wind, setting up, tiles, wall, Wind, Wind tiles •
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Basic equipment: chips, tiles and dice.
Mahjong houses provide a convenient venue for Mahjong old hands. This is a typical scene of Mahjong house in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Mahjong, can be played either with a set of Mahjong tiles, or less commonly, a set of Mahjong playing cards (sometimes spelled ‘kards’ to [...]