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Daily double

Posted by Nicolae on November 11th, 2008 under Wagering guide
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A daily double is a type of wager offered by horse and dog racing tracks. It requires bettors to select the winners of two consecutive races. Because of the increased difficulty of picking two straight winners, wining daily double bets often pay off at relatively high odds.The daily double was the first [...]

Big and small

Posted by Nicolae on September 19th, 2008 under Dice games Guide, Rules, games
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Big and small is a dice game of pure luck. It is a popular gambling game in China and is still offered in some casinos in Asia, notably in Macau. A variation is the common casino game Sic bo.
Rules
The game is played with three dice. Traditionally, the dice are placed on a [...]

Blackjack rules

Posted by Nicolae on July 9th, 2008 under Blackjack, Blackjack Guide, Rules, games
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Blackjack hands are scored by their point total. The hand with the highest total wins as long as it doesn’t exceed 21; a hand with a higher total than 21 is said to bust. Cards 2 through 10 are worth their face value, and face cards (jack, queen, king) are also worth [...]

Satellite tournaments

Posted by Nicolae on June 30th, 2008 under Poker, Poker tournaments Guide, Sport, Tournaments
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A satellite tournament is either a minor tournament or event on a competitive sporting tour or one of a group of such tournaments that form a series played in the same country or region. The term is most commonly used in reference to minor professional or competitive junior tennis.In professional tennis, [...]

Poker tournaments

Posted by Nicolae on June 25th, 2008 under Poker, Poker tournaments Guide
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A poker tournament is a tournament at which the winners are decided by playing poker, usually a particular style of poker.
Contrast this to a ring game, where the game is ongoing with no formal structure to determine a single winner in a certain length of time.
Entry fees and prizes
In a typical tournament, [...]

Daniel Negreanu wins 4th World Series Of Poker Bracelet

Posted by Nicolae on June 15th, 2008 under Poker, Tournaments
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Now 4 years ago designed the Player of the Year, Daniel Negreanu win the first place in the $2,000 Limit Hold’em game, $204,874.
Daniel Negreanu (’Kid Poker’) (born July 26, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional poker player with four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour [...]

ECOOP II, the European Championship of Online Poker

Posted by Nicolae on May 8th, 2008 under Online Gambling, Poker, Tournaments
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This championship starts in May and it is managed by Titan Poker, a thrilling online tournament series where skilled poker players compete for a share of millions of dollars over an action-packed ten days.
The first ECOOP was in December 2007, when they gave away $2,500,000.
The ECOOP II will run from the 23rd of [...]