Posts Tagged ‘Video’
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 30th, 2008 under Gambling terminology
Tags: auction, basket, bidders, chance, charity, Chinese auction, Events, fundraising, items, raffle, silent, tickets, Video •
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A Chinese auction is a type of auction (actually a combination of auction and raffle) that is typically featured at charity or other fundraising events.In a Chinese auction, bidders are not prospective buyers (as in the conventional English auction). Instead, they buy tickets, which are essentially chances to win items. Bidders may [...]
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 October 26th, 2008 under Gambling variants
Tags: card, casino, casino war, deal, games, going to war, house advantage, House Edge, links, Poker, ranks, references, strategy, ties, Video, War •
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Casino war is a casino card game based on the children’s game of War. The game is arguably one of the most easily understood casino card games, but it also has a relatively large house edge compared to other games.The game is normally played with six standard 52 card decks. The cards [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 24th, 2008 under Russian roulette
Tags: Antonis Syros, Astrid Uytterhaegen, Clinton Pope, Evan Below, incidents, John Hinckley, Johnny Ace, notable, Rashaad, reality, Russian roulette, Samantha Goodson, Sean Jones, Video, William Shockley •
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Reality
On December 24, 1954 the American blues musician Johnny Ace shot himself to death in Texas playing Russian roulette in a dressing room before a concert.
John Hinckley, Jr. was known to play Russian Roulette, alone, on two occasions (although neither time he pulled the trigger was the bullet in the firing chamber). [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 24th, 2008 under Poker, Poker hands Guide
Tags: 5 of diamonds, 7-card, 9 of diamonds, aces and eights, adapting, band, black suits, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, books, bullets, dead man's hand, deadwood, five-card draw, games, hand, HBO, Las Vegas, Motörhead, movies, murder, Poker, popular culture, Rockabilly, series, songs, Stardust, television, two pair, Video, Wild Bill Hickok •
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In poker, the dead man’s hand is a two-pair hand, namely “aces and eights.” The origin of the name is the five-card-draw hand held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his murder, which is accepted to have included the aces and eights of both of the black suits (sometimes considered [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 18th, 2008 under Gambling Media, Gambling addiction, Gambling industry, Legislation, News, Online Gambling, UIGEA, United States
Tags: 141 domain names, Advertising, block users, blogosphere, bourbon, Forfeit, Franklin County Circuit Court, gambling, Gambling Domains, horse racing, Internet Gambling, judge, Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, Kentucki, KY, media, Online Gambling, owners, residents, Rules, sites, Thomas Wingate, tobacco, Video, websites, whiskey •
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Although Kentucky’s culture is generally considered to be Southern, it is unique and also influenced by the Midwest and Southern Appalachia. The state is known for bourbon and whiskey distiling, tobacco, horse racing, and gambling.
The biggest day in horse racing, the Kentucky Derby, is preceded by the two-week Kentucky Derby Festival [...]
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 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 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 [...]