Posts Tagged ‘open’
Posted by Nicolae on October 28th, 2008 under Wagering guide
Tags: auction, backgammon, basketball, betting, bidding, Calcutta, Calcutta Auction, contest, contestants, golf, horse race, March Madness, NCAA, open, parimutuel, payoff, pools, tournament, Video, wager •
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A Calcutta Auction is an open auction held in conjunction with a golf tournament, horse race, or similar contest with multiple entrants. It is popular in Backgammon and is currently enjoying rising popularity for NCAA Basketball pools during March Madness.Bidding for each contestant begins in random order, with only one contestant [...]
Posted by Nicolae on August 7th, 2008 under History, Sport, Tennis Guide
Tags: Alex Ryden, deuce, History, International Tennis Hall of Fame, James Van Alen, jeu de paume, love, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, open, Pyle, quarante, quinze, racquet, royal tennis, tennis, trente, Wimbledon •
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Tennis has a long history (deriving from the ‘jeu de paume’), but its establishment as the modern sport can be dated to two separate roots. In 1856, Alex Ryden, a solicitor, and his friend Batista Pereira, a Spanish merchant, who both lived in Birmingham, England played a game they named “pelota”, after [...]
Posted by Nicolae on July 25th, 2008 under Poker, Poker betting
Tags: call, capped, check, check his option, cold calling, fold, heads-up, links, live big blind, muck, open, opening, out of turn, overcalls, players, poker betting, poker game, pot, raise, reraise, smooth calling, string raise •
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Players in a poker game act in turn, in clockwise rotation (acting out of turn is a breach of etiquette and can negatively affect other players). When it is a player’s turn to act, the first verbal declaration or action he takes binds him to his choice of action; this is [...]