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Community card poker

Nicolae Sfetcu — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:49:33 +0000

About the time of World War II, many modern poker games used community cards (also called “shared cards” or “window cards”), which are cards dealt face up to the center of the table and shared by all players. In these … Read More

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Petits-Chevaux

Nicolae Sfetcu — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:46:58 +0000

Petits-Chevaux, French for “little horses”, is a gambling game played with a mechanical device consisting of a board perforated with a number of concentric circular slits, in which revolve, each independently on its own axis, figures of jockeys on horseback, … Read More

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Bau cua ca cop

Nicolae Sfetcu — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:15:55 +0000

Bau cua ca cop is a Vietnamese gambling game using three dice. The six sides of the dice, instead of showing numbers one through six, have pictures of a fish, prawn, crab, rooster, calabash gourd and stag. Players place wagers … Read More

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Yahoo spurns Microsoft last offer

Nicolae Sfetcu — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:30:31 +0000

Like I said in a previous post, the strategy of a big company like Microsoft to buy a big company like Yahoo!, cannot be based on a simple offer only. It takes into consideration multiple denies of the targeted company, … Read More

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Poker jargon – B

Nicolae Sfetcu — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:35:55 +0000

baby A low-ranked card, usually used in lowball games. Also “spoke” when between ace and five. backdoor A draw requiring two or more rounds to fill. For example, catching two consecutive cards in two rounds of seven-card stud or Texas … Read More

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Roulette and wheel games

Nicolae Sfetcu — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:46:23 +0000

Roulette is a casino and gambling game (Roulette is a French word meaning “small wheel”). A croupier turns a round roulette wheel which has 37 or 38 separately numbered pockets in which a ball must land. The main pockets are … Read More

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Mahjong equipment

Nicolae Sfetcu — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:59:34 +0000

Basic equipment: chips, tiles and dice. Mahjong houses provide a convenient venue for Mahjong old hands. This is a typical scene of Mahjong house in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Mahjong, can be played either with a set of Mahjong tiles, … Read More

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