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Doug Maag's fingers feel like they're frozen. The late-September night air on Isleta mesa has stiffened his knuckles and he fondles a worn deck of cards in a cramped employee breakroom to warm his fingers. He's due on the casino floor in 15 minutes. "People have a love-hate relationship with us," said Maag, a blackjack dealer at Isleta Gaming Palace. "They'll kiss us when they win and they'll

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I bet you 50 cents that your first card game was Old Maid or Fish. From there you moved to bigger and better things, even a little penny blackjack, right? Now of course you hit the big time, poker (where I come from, "bridge" is how you get to Brooklyn). But if you find yourself losing too much money or you're just bored with poker, try "TEGWAR," an original and challenging game created by author

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Last winter a Chicago clergyman preached a sermon on progressive euchre and astonished a church full of people by denouncing that mildly intoxicating game as "a snare set by Satan to lure Christian people to perdition." At that time progressive euchre had become a craze, says the Herald of that city, though for what reason would puzzle even one of its devotees to tell. Old card players who would

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Poker players of the world, beware! Next time you come to The Boot as a tourist, whatever you do, don't engage in a game of poker with the Italians. For in Italy, according to the homemade rules, a "full house" is inferior to a "flush." That's right, you heard the man correct. In Italy a "flush" beats a "full house" period, exclamation point! What does it matter that Hoyle, the card authority,

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They were dancing in the streets 10 years ago in Atlantic City, celebrating the new age in which the Queen of Resorts would strike gold. The dying city with a famous boardwalk opened its arms to casinos and the high rollers who would bankroll a renaissance, bringing visitors back to the beaches, trade to the merchants and jobs to residents. "What you're looking at here is probably the greatest

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You were dead wrong when you said gambling was not a viable way to make a living. A friend of mine uses a system based on calculus and consistently wins on the horses. Another friend uses a pocket computer when he plays roulette. By figuring out in advance the section in which the ball will fall and knowing the rate of decreasing velocity, he has a good edge and will win consistently. My game is

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One casino hotel is attempting to quicken the pulses of blackjack fans by reducing the number of card decks used at each table to four while gaming regulators are putting the final touches on rules for mini baccarat, the resort's first new game since gambling began in 1978. Both changes and the impending debut of high-stakes slot machines are designed to infuse at least in players' minds more fun

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Johnny Moss may be the best poker player ever. Some say he used to be and was for a very long time. Moss will-not contest the compliment except the use of past tense. He learned his trade growing up th that famous sporting town of Dallas, Texas. Moss used to sell newspapers for a penny on the corner of Commerce and Akafd. He delivered messages for the Mackey Postal and Western Union Telegraph Co

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The poker sharks of Las Vegas are scratching their heads over a stunning development in their series of world championship tournaments. One of the big-money tournaments has been won by a woman. And in another, a woman finished in fourth place. Because poker, at least at the shark level, has always been a male-dominated game, the professionals are asking why women are suddenly becoming a force. I

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The video poker machines are being used as gambling devices. A reporter twice won $5 at a city of Oswego bar after achieving certain scores on its machine. In three other taverns bartenders promised to pay the reporter cash if he achieved certain scores, and at three more taverns, the reporter saw bar patrons win between $10 and $25 cash by playing the machines. In Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania

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After more than two decades of taking money from amateurs, poker player Eric Drache has a simple definition for deciding who's a pro and who's not. "If you play and win, poker is a profession," Drache says. "Play and lose, and it's an addiction." Drache and a handful of others have won enough over the years to get to the top of their chosen profession. Yes, profession, they say, despite the

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Las Vegas. This gay and carefree desert city might lay just claim to being the country's luckiest. It never has had a depression and "even in the bleak years following 1929, Las Vegas never experienced anything more serious than acute growing, pains. Las Vegas has been a boom town for so. long it now accepts the condition as normal. Right now, it's almost a boom town. Boulder Dam is the answer to

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Havana, long claimant of the title of Monte Carlo of the western world, appears to be enjoying the greatest gambling season since the lush 1920s. The largest throngs since the fabulous "dance of the millions" years when sugar was high - more than a decade ago have been entering nightly Havana's lavish Gran Casino Nacional. The throttling of tourist travel to Europe and the crusade against

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SUPPOSE you sat down to play a game of bridge and your opponent turned to you before the cards were dealt and said: "I'm going to bid seven no-trump and make it." What would you do? Ask for another deck of cards. Right! But then, suppposing the assured one let you deal the new pack and cut the cards and even then you draw low cards and he and his partner held all the aces, kings, queens, jacks

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The CASINO of Monte Carlo has archives, not open to the public, a careful perusal of which gives an interesting picture of the Monte Carlo of the past with all its brilliance and fat dividends and of the Monte Carlo of today, which pays no dividends any more. I have already spoken of the many mistakes made in recent years by the present management, but I have left to this chapter the analysis of

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The bank night insurance policies being sold at ten cents is an excellent example of the evolution of gambling. People who feel that the constant agitation against slot machines, punch boards, raffle books, base ball tickets, bank night, screeno, bingo, and other forms of mild but nevertheless contagious forms of gambling, might give some thought to this. Bank night, in itself, probably could not

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Nevada casino operators like customers who trust to Lady Luck when playing blackjack. The player who depends on skill and wins might just be told to beat It. Depending on luck alone, the blackjack player Is likely to lose. Most clubs even welcome "system" players, either because the system doesn't work or the player hasn't learned it. But among the many "systems" there apparently are some which

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Grandma has foresaken the kitchen for the gambling table on Christmas Day in Nevada. "They do come out gaming," said Tom Schact, a keno supervisor at Harold's Club, one of the largest casinos in the state. "The, whole family comes, grandmother, father, mother and the older kids." Nevadans say the state's 24 hour-a-day, 365-days-a-year gambling industry never comes to a stop. If it ever does, a

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A prominent Englishman, well known in American circles, who has had the best opportunities for judging as to where gambling is prevalent writes exclusively for us the following article: New York, March 30. The crusade which has been inaugurated by prominent members of society here against the vices of the "submerged tenth" is to have its counterpart in a movement directed against the vicious

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The Casino company published a report of its receipts and expenditures. The report was delightfully obscure in most particulars, but still gave an inkling of affairs of the great gambling corporation. Since the year mentioned, however, no reports whatever have been made public, and the following information obtained through the assistance of a director in the concern, is the first opportunity the

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I am in Monte Carlo and have visited the famous Casino, where so many fortunes have been won and lost. But before I attempt any description, I wish to assure my friends that I have neither won nor lost any money. Monte Carlo and Monaco constitute a. principality, under the joint protectorate of France, Germany and Italy. Monaco is the capital of the principality, but the business is almost

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"I tried to rob a bank, I was tired of 15 years of lying, cheating and worrying over the misery I was causing my family by gambling. Now I know that I really wanted to get shot." "I took half the payroll, $1,100, and told my employees that the bank had made a mistake. I knew I Was wrong, but I thought I could domble the amount. I went downtown to shoot dice and lost the whole $1,100 in two hours.

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Four men anxiously watched the circing flies in a tense, smoke-filled hotel room. Below the buzzing insects were four sugar lumps,, each coated with a drop of honey, set in a neat row on a table. Suddenly, one of the flies zoomed lower, made a few tight circles, and landed on the second lump. "That's mine," one of the men exultantly crowed as he collected money from the three unlucky gamblers.

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There Is a way to break up the nation-Wide gambling ring. The American housewife can do It. She can succeed where the cops and politicians seem to have failed. And she can make a mint of pin money for herself in doing it too. How? Well my theory is simple. It Is based on taking the gambling out of gambling. You can't heat the horses, girls, but there is a possible way to beat the bookies. And If

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French gamblers are bolting $15 million they can shake the bank at Monte Carlo with a rival casino whose strengths : arc Las Vegas-type neon, a dose of vulgarity and "modern marketing techniques". The bettors are the men who have put up the money for the Casino Ruhl. The first ambitious, new gambling establishment built on the French Riviera in 50 years. If Monte Carlo sells itself on a kind of

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