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You Finger your chips. Stare at he table. The dealer tosses you your hole cards. Stare at the table You get rags. Stare at he table. You can't star at the table. You are compelled to look at the sultry blonde. She winks, you blush, and she knows you have zilch. "I don't consciously flirt," says Jennifer Leigh "Jennicide".

San Francisco Negro Died When His Four Aces Were Beaten

Special To The New York Times

San Francisco, Feb 28 - George Brown, A colored Janitor fell dead last evening in a poker game. In Company with several other janitors. Brown was in the habit of indulging in quiet games. In this one Brown held four aces, which he backed with what money he had. When another player exposed a strait flush Brown uttered an exclamation and died.

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The Seminole Tribe of Florida is about to start hiring workers for blackjack and other card games it plans to soon offer at its casinos, even though the compact with Gov. Charlie Crist allowing the games is being challenged in the Florida Supreme Court.

An Iowa company moved closer to building a new Kansas City casino Wednesday and the state Gaming Commission withdrew a proposed rule that would have allowed casinos to move within two miles without applying for a new license.

A plan to help New Jersey's struggling horse racing industry while protecting casinos from video gambling has cleared a hurdle in the Legislature.

The Assembly voted 76-0 on Thursday to approve having Atlantic City casinos give $90 million over three years to support New Jersey's horse racing industry.

Found interesting forum thread written by diceroller on Apr 26 2007, 09:07 PM

Long time lurker first time poster. Only reason I posted is to
hopefully have some of you degen's avoid the issues I am having with
BoDog and their payouts. Below is the email chain of communication I
have been having with them about 3 payouts. $2400.00 total. Not the
largest sum ever, but certainly not something to just write off as a
loss.

Read More on http://www.neverwinpoker.com/forums/content/Shooting-Off/37308/Bodog-Payout-s-are-Sheisty/

The president of the International Olympic committee, Jacques Rogge, has outlined measures the IOC is considering to tackle the potential threat of corruption associated with gambling.
In the opinion of Rogge, sportsbetting has the potential to be as damaging to the Olympic movement as drug abuse and he invited Lord Conlon to address an executive meeting of the IOC board in Lausanne in December. Lord Conlon is more famously known as the former Metropolitan Police commissioner in London, and was also the head of the International Cricket Council's anti¬corruption unit. His experiences whilst working with the cricket betting scandals of recent years is hoped to give the IOC the necessary insight to avoid any corruption at the forthcoming summer Olympics in China this year and London in 2012.

Do you think you're a good gambler? Okay, imagine this scenario. You're sitting in a hotel lounge. Nearby is a happy-sounding well-dressed group of people. One of them is a tall and lanky man who is especially fashionable; he has an easy smile and a smooth way with words. Gradually, you are drawn into his conversation. The two of you chat as he casually shells and eats the free peanuts at the bar. The subject gets around to betting, and before you know it, the man proposes that he can throw a peanut right over the top of the hotel. He'll do it for $500. Would you take that bet?
Let's say you're a very good golfer, and you meet the same man in a clubhouse. He says that he can hit a golf ball 500 yards. That is over one-quarter mile! And he'll do it for $1,000. Would you take that bet?
Admit it. You would be tempted to lighten the blowhard of his money. But if you took those bets, then you would lose.

Now let's say the count stays at +3 and we want to maintain the four-unit bet at $400, and at the same time dispel the appearance of card counting for our second player, who had just bet $150. This time he cuts that bet in half to $75. Now player number-one who had just dropped his bet to $50 steps it back up to $125, and players three and four remain at $100. So again we've bet our four units, but now player two is dismissed as a card counter, at least as far as anyone in the casino or surveillance counting down the deck along with us is concerned. Players three and four are the only ones who have not yet decreased their bets. So then on the next round if the count stays favorable enough to maintain the same bet, we have those two players drop back to $75, while the $50 difference is picked up by either player one or two.

The team lay low for several weeks. When they went back to work two months later in Atlantic City, they substituted one of the counters in the role of big player. Yet they encountered another casino countermeasure during their second playing session. This one differed from what had happened in Vegas. A pit boss came to the table after spying their new big player's purple chips in the betting circle. He said to him curtly, "Sir, we'd appreciate you taking your action elsewhere. I think you might too." A week later in Connecticut they met up with similar obstacles. Mississippi did not extend them red-carpet treatment either. Before long they came to the conclusion that their card-counting operation was in serious jeopardy. And then they realized it was over. The revered concept of team play conceptualized and made famous by Ken Uston and then legendary by the MIT team was in danger of becoming extinct.

"Curtis explained to them that they had to completely revolutionize the concept of team play."

The big player received the signal. He walked across the crowded Vegas casino to the blackjack table in the middle of the pit. In his hand were a fistful, of purple and black chips that he'd gotten off a craps table, the first step in camouflaging his skills as a professional card counter now in the role of big player. There was an open seat in centerfield, next to the $10 bettor who'd just signalled him in. The true count was a healthy +3 and nearly three of the six decks remained in the shoe, two of which would be played before the shuttle

By that time they had won $6,000, taking advantage of double-downs and splits in accordance with the true count. The big player's action seemed to draw no heat. The floorman had introduced himself, routinely rated his play and offered his availability in case the "high roller" needed anything.

There's still something which feels wrong about having to write an obituary for one of poker's all time greats. David "Chip" Reese, was certainly that - an epitome of all that is correct about poker. Chip Reese was a consummate professional, likeable and ruthless in equal measure, and his seat at The Big Game will be one which may never be filled.
Born 28'h March 1951, Chip grew up in Dayton, Ohio. As a child, he contracted rheumatic fever and was housebound for almost a year. During this time his mother taught him many board and card games, and it was this combined with Reese's sharp mind that made him a potent games player from a young age.

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Whage
1/16/2009 3:03 AM
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anastasia537
1/16/2009 3:20 AM
Is it not my constitutional right to hve the freedom of choice to play an exciting and fun game of poker if I choose? This is a country that was founded on freedom and what is gained by taking away my right to play online poker?

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