Author Archives: Nicolae Sfetcu

The term limit defines a betting of poker game. A limit game thus indicates to players that the amount and number of raises are limited, unlike the games in No Limit (open raise). Games using this betting system A limit … Read More

(Buddhist Cemetery (Tokyo, Japan), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JapaneseGraveyardTokyo.jpg) A cemetery is a group of monumental tombs sometimes attached to a place of worship. Funerary space that appears in the Middle Ages, it differs from prehistoric burial field that is not home to monuments, … Read More

(Bridge bidding box) Bidding and convention systems Combinatorial richness of the bridge allows to implement, in accordance with the rules, various techniques to communicate information, both in the bidding phase than that of the card play. These techniques are conventions … Read More

(Unirii Square in Central Bucharest, Romania, https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Over_unirii_square_2.jpg) Halfway through the eighteenth century the oriental traveler Evliya Çelebi wrote in his memoirs that the name of the capital city of the Romanian Country comes from that of the son of Gebel … Read More

(Vanitas Philippe, by Champaigne) Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning “remember you will die.” It means a kind of artistic creations of all kinds, but all share the same goal, to remind men that they are mortal and the … Read More

Lotteries In 1933 the French parliament authorised the establishment of a national lottery. Initially the profits were allocated to accredited public causes such as the war veterans’ retirement fund and assistance for victims of agricultural disasters. In 1979, the French … Read More

(The weighing of souls in the polyptych altarpiece of the Last Judgment of Rogier van der Weyden at the Hospices de Beaune, 1443-1452) The Weighing of souls (the Particular judgment) means the psychostasy in Christianity, and may appear in two … Read More

Taxes Gambling organizers, including operators of gambling money-winning machines, pay game tax in accordance with the following rules: Gambling organizers assess, return and pay game tax on their own initiative (self-assessment). Game tax is treated as an expense for accounting … Read More

Five-card draw is a poker variant, historically the most played in Europe. Game rules Five-card draw poker can be played from three to eight players. Not to lead to excessive distortions on the strong hands probabilities, and retain enough animation … Read More

(An artists representation of “Muhammed’s Paradise”. A Persian miniature from The History of Mohammed, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.) Extraordinary and immeasurable place reserved, according to the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition, to the pre-Islamic believers and pious Muslims in … Read More

In order to better understand what we mean by ‘crowdsourcing’ and to outline its scope more precisely, the first step is to define the peculiar features of this rather elusive concept. The term ‘crowdsourcing’ was coined by Jeff Howe as … Read More

The general simple rules have as exceptions four specific cases only: Insurance. If the dealer’s first card is an Ace, the player has the possibility to insure against the Blackjack. For this, the player pays half his original bet. If … Read More