Goes Heads-Up with Joe Sebok
“Guyana Watch”, so this is a tough one. I think I gotta go with being Corkin’d being worse. They both sound really bad. I mean, who wants to undergo anything in prison that involves being “corked”
Contact Intro: Let’s say you went through the rise and fall of the dot-com era. Four companies…four busts. via Wicked Chops Poker
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Interesting gambling facts:
- Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.
- In 1911, the state of California ruled that "draw" poker was a skill, and thus could not be banned under existing anti-gambling laws. However, "Stud" poker was still considered illegal at the time.
- When playing blackjack, always split Aces and never split 4's, 5's or Tens. You would be surprised at how many players split Tens. Why risk getting a lower hand when you already have a twenty value? Also note that at most casinos, you are not allowed to re-split Aces.
- The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.
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