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Floor managers, dealers and players present in the Grand’s poker room last Thursday all confirm that a severely intoxicated holdem player experienced great difficulty separating the similar yet distinct realities of online and physical poker.

The drunk, identified by casino staff as Michigan tourist Evelio Alderdice, first drew attention to himself by asking players to stop “hiding their numbers”. When pressed, Alderdice explained “I should be able to see their numbers, their chip numbers. They’re hiding them, that’s cheating. Waitress!” (more…)

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Gambling and superstition were made for each other. Did you see that guy at the roulette table with a rabbit’s foot hanging from a chain around his neck? Good luck for the gambler, bad luck for the rabbit.

Good luck also comes if you blow on the dice before you roll them. But what happens when it’s a woman who blows on a man’s dice? Remember the floating craps game in the movie Guys and Dolls?

A lady never leaves her escort
It isn’t fair, it isn’t nice
A lady doesn’t wander all over the room
And blow on some other guys dice.

Such an act is bound to bring bad luck.

Scientific research
More than a decade ago, two psychologists from the University of Laval in Canada, who researched the subject of superstition and gambling, invited participants to think aloud while gambling and observed that 70 percent of the verbalized perceptions were erroneous.

Some of the comments by gamblers were: “The machine is due; I need to continue”; “Here is my lucky dealer; I always win with him”; and “Today I feel good; it must be my lucky day.” Similar results were observed with all the different games, blackjack, roulette, lotteries and video lotteries.

Superstition geography
The Chinese can be very superstitious, especially when it comes to gambling. Some Chinese gambling superstition thinking and behavior have become essential parts of the Chinese culture and are popularly accepted by most of the population. (more…)

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Hollywood has had somewhat of an infatuation with Las Vegas, ever since such 1960s classics as The Cincinnati Kid (1965, starring Steve McQueen) and The Sting (1973, with Paul Newman and Robert Redford). Gambling-oriented movies have proliferated since the 1990s. We bring you a list of 10 of the best in that period (in order of year produced).

Casino (1995)
Based on the book of the same name by Larry Shandling and Nicholas Pileggi, this academy award-nominated film was directed by Martin Scorsese.

Robert DeNiro plays Chicago bookmaker Sam “Ace” Rothstein (based on the real-life character Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal), who is sent to Las Vegas to run casinos for the Mafia in the 1970s. With the help of Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) Rothstein secretly runs the casino operation while also being involved in a love triangle with wife and former prostitute Ginger (Sharon Stone), who remains in love with her pimp, Lester Diamond (James Woods). (more…)

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Don’t take gambling so seriously. Have a read, have a laugh and see the funny side of losing at poker.

Six guys are over at Stan’s house for their weekly poker game. Abe is having a bad run and keeps losing. Finally he decides to go for broke – all or nothing. He bets everything he has and loses over $500 on the hand. He clutches his chest, chokes, turns blue in the face and drops dead at the table. Showing respect for their fallen comrade, the other five complete the hand standing up.

Roberts looks around and asks, “Now, who is going to tell the wife?”

They draw straws. Don Smith, who is always a loser, picks the short one.

They tell him to be discreet, be gentle, don’t make a bad situation any worse than it is. Remember that Abe’s wife may not be so well, either.

“Gentlemen! Me, discreet? I’m the most discreet man you will ever meet. Discretion is my middle name, leave it to me.”

Don walks over to Abe’s house and knocks on the door. Abe’s wife answers and asks what he wants.

Don says, “Your husband just lost $500 playing poker.”

She hollers, “Why that no-good so and so! Tell him to drop dead!”

Don says, “I’ll tell him.”

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1. When your English professor says the author made his point; you ask if he pressed or not.

2. You show up early at the bakery to take advantage of the hot rolls.

3. You go into a 7-11 and ask to play the “don’t.”

4. You go to a hockey game and wonder what happened to the dealers and boxman.

5. When your kid says math “came easy” today, you ask if it was a 4,6,8 or 10.

6. When an ambulance passes with flashing lights, you assume someone hit a “hand pay.”

7. You go into a shoe store and ask if they have 4, 6, or 8 deck.

8. You hear the bible story where Lazarus is told to “Come out”, and you ask for a 2-way C & E.

9. You wonder if a salad shooter is really a gambling device.

10. When the bartender asks if you want a “double”, you say not against an ace.

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oh, casino employees work at night and they got their own jackpot to win…:::

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A successful businessman flew to Vegas for the weekend to gamble. He lost the shirt off his back, and had nothing left but a quarter and the second half of his round-trip ticket.

If he could just get to the airport he could get himself home. So he went out to the front of the casino where there was a cab waiting.

He got in and explained his situation to the cabby. He promised to send the driver money from home, he offered him his credit card numbers, his driver’s license number, his address, etc., but to no avail. The cabby said, “If you don’t have fifteen dollars, get the hell out of my cab!”

So the businessman was forced to hitchhike to the airport and was barely in time to catch his flight.

One year later the businessman, having worked long and hard to regain his financial success, returned to Vegas, and this time he won big. Feeling pretty good about himself, he went out to the front of the casino to get a cab ride back to the airport.

Well, who should he see out there, at the very end of a long line of cabs, but his old buddy who had refused to give him a ride when he was down on his luck. The businessman thought for a moment about how he could make the guy pay for his lack of charity, and he hit on a plan.

The businessman got in the first cab in the line, “How much for a ride to the airport,” he asked? “Fifteen bucks,” came the reply. “And how much for you to give me sexual favors on the way?” “What?! Get the hell out of my cab!”

The businessman got into the back of each cab in the long line and asked the same questions, with the same result. When he got to his old friend at the back of the long line, he got in and asked, “How much for a ride to the airport?” The cabby replied, “Fifteen bucks.” The businessman said, “Okay” and off they went. As they slowly drove past the long line of cabs, the business man gave a big smile and thumbs up sign to each driver.

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1. Never wink at the dealer especially if he’s the same sex.

2. Don’t bring your silver dollar yo-yo near the slot machines.

3. Don’t drink and gamble at the same time. Put the drink down first.

4. Know when it’s time to go home – when you’ve won too much.

5. Don’t call for a ball measurement after losing a roulette spin.

6. Don’t stack your slots coin tubs on top of the machine just to show off. (more…)

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Look, the only thing we have been talking here was online gambling staff. Let us take a little brake for a while.

If you think of owning your own casino, you can BUY A CASINO SHIP!!! Why not?

Don’t know where to get it? No problems, I got one for sale… well. almost for sale:

John Connelly’s President Casinos Inc. is in discussions to sell its St. Louis gambling vessel, the Admiral, according to an individual close to the deal.

Best known here as the patriarch of the Gateway Clipper Fleet, Mr. Connelly owns about a third of the publicly traded, St. Louis-based President Casinos.

The Casino Queen has operated on the East St. Louis (Illinois) riverfront since 1993, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis.

Mr. Connelly said he would sell the Admiral for $175 million and “not a penny less. The boat is well worth that.”-wohhhhh no. online casino results much cheaper!!!! But of course it is not so luxurous.

Few casino boats pictures:

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