Posts Tagged ‘players’

Double Exposure Blackjack

Posted by Nicolae on November 2nd, 2008 under Blackjack, Blackjack Guide
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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 [...]

Bridge

Posted by Nicolae on November 1st, 2008 under Bridge
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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 [...]

Skill With Prizes

Posted by Nicolae on October 25th, 2008 under Slot machine Guide, Slots
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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 [...]

Basset

Posted by Nicolae on October 22nd, 2008 under Lottery card games
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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 [...]

Button Men

Posted by Nicolae on October 21st, 2008 under Button Men
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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 [...]

Description of the housie game

Posted by Nicolae on October 19th, 2008 under Bingo, Housie, Rules
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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 [...]

World Poker Tour Walk of Fame

Posted by Nicolae on October 15th, 2008 under Gamblers, Poker
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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 [...]

Point shaving

Posted by Nicolae on October 14th, 2008 under Sports betting guide
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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 [...]

Biribi

Posted by Nicolae on October 11th, 2008 under Gambling variants, games
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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 [...]

Quiz machine

Posted by Nicolae on October 9th, 2008 under Slot machine Guide, Slots
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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 [...]