Posts Tagged ‘players’
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 November 1st, 2008 under Bridge
Tags: auction, bidding, Bridge, card, chance, contract, game, links, partnerships, play, players, references, Rules, skills, strategy, trick-taking, Video •
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Players: 4
Age range: recommended for 12 and up
Setup time < 2 minutes
Playing time: WBF tournament games = 7.5 minutes per deal
Rules complexity; Medium
Strategy depth: High
Random chance: Low - high depending on variant played
Skills required: Memory, Tactics
Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill, and partly of chance, for four [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 25th, 2008 under Slot machine Guide, Slots
Tags: games of skill, luck, payout, players, questions, quiz machine, Skill with prizes, slot machines, SWP, The Crystal Maze, video games, Word Up •
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Skill With Prizes (SWP) machines are a subset of slot machines, in which the payout a player receives is dependent on a game of skill rather than just luck.One common type of SWP game is the Quiz machine - where a player has to answer a number of trivia questions to win [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 22nd, 2008 under Lottery card games
Tags: Alpieu, banker, Basset, Bassetta, Bassette, cards, Couch, Croupiere, Fasse, games, lottery, Masse, money, Paroli, Pay, players, Punter, Quinze-et-le-va, Sept-et-le-va, Soissante-et-le-va, Talliere, Trent-et-le-va •
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The game of Basset (in French Bassette, from Italian Bassetta) was considered one of the most polite games with cards, and only fit for persons of the highest rank to play at, on account of the great losses or gains that might accrue on one side or the other.The sums of money [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 21st, 2008 under Button Men
Tags: Button Men, Cheapass Games, dice, game, James Ernest, links, players •
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Button Men is a dice game for two players, invented by James Ernest of Cheapass Games and first released in 1999.Games are short, typically taking less than ten minutes to play. Each player is represented by a button of their choice. Buttons are metal or plastic discs, about 2–2.5 inches (about 5–6.5 [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 19th, 2008 under Bingo, Housie, Rules
Tags: balls, Bingo, bingo clubs, Both the fives, caller, combinations, description, Eyes Down, fifty five, full house, games, Housie, Line, Mechanised Cash Bingo, players, random number generator, RNG, tickets, twenty three, Two and three, Two Lines, winning •
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A typical housie/bingo ticket is shown to the right. It contains fifteen numbers, arranged in nine columns by three rows. Each row contains five numbers and four blank spaces. Each column contains either one, two, or very rarely three, numbers:
The first column contains numbers from 1 to 9,
The second column numbers from [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 15th, 2008 under Gamblers, Poker
Tags: ceremony, Commerce Casino, Doyle Brunson, film, Gus Hansen, induction, Invitational Poker Tournament, James Garner, links, literature, players, Poker, poker rooms, television, Video, Walk of Fame, World Poker Tour Walk of Fame, WPT •
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The World Poker Tour Walk of Fame is designed to honor those poker players who have played the game well at the highest levels as well as those who have promoted the spread of it through film, television, and literature. It was started in 2004.In February 2004, The World Poker Tour Walk [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 14th, 2008 under Sports betting guide
Tags: basketball, bribe, gamblers, match fixing, perpetrators, players, point shaving, point spread, popular culture, published, references, scheme, sports, Sports Betting, team, Video, wager •
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Point shaving, in organized sports, is a type of match fixing where the perpetrators try to prevent a team from covering a published point spread. Unlike other forms of match fixing, sports betting invariably motivates point shaving. A point shaving scheme generally involves a sports gambler and one or more players [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 11th, 2008 under Gambling variants, games
Tags: banker, biribi, cavagnole, game of chance, players, prohibited, references, tickets •
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Biribi, or cavagnole, a French game of chance, prohibited by law since 1837. It is played on a board on which the numbers 1 to 70 are marked. The players put their stakes on the numbers they wish to back. The banker is provided with a bag from which he draws a [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 9th, 2008 under Slot machine Guide, Slots
Tags: Amusement with Prizes, anti-payout, AWP, Big Break, board games, Bookworm, Cluedo game, Eyes Down, game shows, Goldenballs, Guinness Book of Records, itbox, links, London Underground, matching symbols, Matrix', non-quiz, players, programming, pubs, questions, quiz machine, Skill with prizes, slot machine, Spot The Difference, Sum Up, SWP, Total Film Quiz, Video, Word Up •
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A quiz machine is a type of slot machine in which the player must answer questions in addition to, or instead of, matching symbols. See also itbox. They are common in UK pubs, where they are often based on board games or game shows. In the UK these are “technically” termed “Skill [...]