Guys have their poker nights and now you can do the same with the gals. Here are some tips to hosting your first ladies poker night.
Not everyone knows how to play so make sure that you explain the rules before you begin. You’re also going to want to have some fun food and since it’s ladies only- you may want to add a girlish touch with pink poker chips and plates.
Good luck!
from Yahoo! News:
LAS VEGAS - Nevada gambling regulators have warned casinos in the state about a card-counting program that works on Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPod Touch that illegally helps players beat the house in blackjack.
Card counting itself is not illegal under Nevada gambling laws, but it is considered a felony to use devices to help count cards.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board sent a memo to casinos last week warning them of the program.
In blackjack, certain card counting techniques help players determine when they are likely to win a hand and adjust their bets accordingly.
Nevada learned of the program from gambling regulators in California, where officials at an Indian casino found customers using it and tipped state authorities.
Nice one buddy… you’re parents might murder you.
A 16 year old boy from Granada has generated a debt of 48,000 € using his parents credit cards on an internet virtual casino.
The Spanish Federation of Rehabilitated Gamblers, FEJAR, spokesman, Jorge Barroso, says that the boy ran up the debt on the parents credit card, and such things are common as nobody from the casinos sees or checks the age of who is playing. He said it was getting so common as to be ruining some people’s lives forever.
He also warned about the amounts now being spent by some children on their mobile phones, especially if Internet was present, with bills of 300 or 400 € a month not uncommon, and some children already suffering from deformed hands from sending so many text messages.
Latest data showed that the amount gambled on the internet in Spain is up five-fold since 1997 and will reach five billion €. The FEJA thinks that as many as five percent of the Spanish population could have a problem with gambling.
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(PRWEB) March 25, 2008 — In the April issue of Men’s Vogue, Michael Kaplan visits the 12th annual Blackjack Ball in Las Vegas, where the world’s most skilled blackjack players very discreetly convene to imbibe and talk shop, leaving Las Vegas’s gaming tables unmolested for an evening. All told, they have taken north of $100 million out of the casinos across town by implementing techniques like card counting, hole carding, and shuffle tracking. Kaplan spends some time with John Chang and Mike Aponte, two major players from the MIT blackjack team made famous by the book Bringing Down the House, now adapted into the film 21 (with Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne and Kate Bosworth) in theaters March 28.
Chang’s wife, Laurie, on his careless record-keeping:
Some years ago when she was helping John pack for a move, she found more than $100,000 in random chips scattered around his house inside glass jars and old storage boxes. When she voiced incredulity at the high-stakes loose change, John simply told her, with a shrug, “I thought I was a little short.”
Chang has taken so much money from casinos that he’s occasionally resorted to dressing up as a woman to hide his identity:
“Cross-dressing worked in the Bahamas and in Illinois,” says Chang, who has a wrinkle-free baby face…”But at Taj Mahal, in Atlantic City, they were looking at my hands. An Asian host came over and whispered in my ear, ‘We know who you are’….I had to run around the casino in high heels and make sure they weren’t following me.”
Chang, on why he doesn’t simply abandon gambling for a straight career:
“In MIT and in the corporate world, being Asian is viewed as a slight negative,” he says. “You’re viewed as a nerd. There’s a social stigma. You’re not likely to be the CEO of a company. In blackjack, it’s the opposite.” Because casinos stereotype Asians as compulsive gamblers and because the mostly Caucasian surveillance personnel have a hard time distinguishing one Asian from another—Chang’s nationality has brought him longevity. It’s given him what those in the game call “positive EV” (expected value) and turned the art of beating casinos into his life’s work. “My teammates used to tell me that I was so lucky, that I could get away with so much more than they could. My act is not particularly good, but this past weekend I watched some Asian players who weren’t counting or anything—and they looked more suspicious than I did.”
Aponte would love to sit back down at the tables again but he’s just too well-known:
Aponte was recently counting cards in a St. Maarten casino. He was a few hands in before he spotted a familiar face in the pit. “This guy made eye contact and I immediately recognized him as one of the floor people from the $250,000 trip to Puerto Rico. Following a quick run up to surveillance, he came back down and told me that I wouldn’t be able to play blackjack there. Then he took me to lunch and asked me to sign Bringing Down the House for him.”
The April issue of Men’s Vogue is available on newsstands now. For more from this article go to www.mensvogue.com.
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Orlando, FL (PRWEB) March 18, 2008 — Over the last decade, the game of poker, specifically Texas Hold ‘Em, has become a whole lot more than just a game of cards. To this day, millions of dollars have been won from a plethora of poker tournaments internationally, and so much attention has arisen from these championships that even ESPN highlights such events regularly, such as the World Series of Poker. Indeed, poker has shuffled its way into quite the spotlight. And, of course, with any game, a slew of methods for game play have become not only unique, but also a niche that players dedicate themselves to. One of these methods has grabbed much interest from poker players around the world: the donkey.
INews Imagen real life and in poker, donkeys are stubborn. In the realm of poker, though, they refuse to fold bad cards and deliver powerful kicks when they win on the river with any two cards. Somehow or another, the poker donkey will gamble against ridiculous odds and still hit their miracle card, in turn bringing great frustration to others. Some players have made donkey their style of play, relishing in a seemingly endless supply of luck.
In turn, even the Internet is reflecting the craze, even Full Tilt Poker has a donkey avatar which you can select to represent yourself while playing online. New companies are opening left and right that cater to poker donkeys, such as DonkeyGear.net. Whether you’re a donkey yourself or the conservative type, a variety of apparel and poker T-Shirts are available that encompasses the possibilities of fashionable and comedic designs on their website.
Donkey Gear was founded by a group of poker fanatics that have one simple goal: to provide others with fashionable poker apparel and quality poker accessories conveniently and appropriately. Offering poker shirts and poker accessories for every enthusiast, Donkey Gear certainly has found an avenue that is bound to capture attention from the world of poker - and now their taking it online. Donkey Gear just launched their online store as of Monday, March 17, 2008.
It’s not just T-shirts too, other companies have sprung up following the Donkey playing style - they’ve even formed new brands of bottled water such as Poker Water. Certainly, no matter how you approach poker, it’s becoming easier and easier to approach it in style.
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