Posts Tagged ‘winning’

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 [...]

Lottery machine

Posted by Nicolae on October 6th, 2008 under Lottery Guide
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A lottery machine is the machine used to draw the winning numbers for a lottery.Early lotteries were done by drawing numbers, or winning tickets, from a container.
In the UK, numbers of winning Premium Bonds (which were not strictly a lottery, but very similar in approach) were generated by an electronic machine [...]

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 [...]

Beginner’s luck

Posted by Nicolae on September 15th, 2008 under Gambling terminology
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When someone with limited experience achieves better than expected results it is referred to as beginner’s luck. The term is most often used in reference to a first attempt in sport or gambling. For example, if Mike beats veteran golf player Joe in his first game, Joe might attribute this to beginner’s [...]

Betting strategy

Posted by Nicolae on September 10th, 2008 under Wagering guide, strategies
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Betting strategies or betting systems are approaches to gambling intended to increase the odds of winning.
Independent Events
The following betting strategies have been recorded as being applied to games which operate on independent events. For such games, the odds of a particular outcome are identical for every bet played. No such strategy can [...]

Play mahjong

Posted by Nicolae on June 21st, 2008 under Mahjong, games
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View from a player going to discard a tile in an ongoing gameplay.
Players may read the name of the discarded tile out loud.
The flower tile on the left should be replaced by a tile from the dead wall promptly.
Each player is dealt either 13 tiles for 13-tile variations or 16 tiles [...]

Football pools

Posted by Nicolae on June 9th, 2008 under Football (Soccer), Sports Betting, Sports betting guide
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Football pools, often referred to as “The Pools”, are competitions based on predicting the outcome of association football matches set to take place in the coming week.
British Pools
Several different companies such as Littlewoods, Vernons, Zetters and Brittens have organised similar games, the most famous of which was historically known as Treble [...]

Poker room general rules

Posted by Nicolae on May 23rd, 2008 under Bonuses, Casinos, Poker, Rules, online poker
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The most popular poker games offered in casinos:

Texas hold ‘em
Seven-card stud
Omaha hold ‘em,

in ring game (cash game or live-action game) and tournament formats.
For the poker table seating, most casinos apply the rule first-come, first-served. Some poker rooms allow the use of the phone to ask to be placed on a list. If there [...]