Casino : quand le jeu devient une entreprise

Casino : quand le jeu devient une entreprise

Dreaming in numbers

Dreaming in numbers: "In Nature by Numbers, a short movie by Cristobal Vila, inspired by, well, numbers and nature, Vila animates the natural existence of Fibonacci sequences, the golden ratio, and Delaunay triangulation."

Gallant act earns 'gentleman' record lottery

Gallant act earns 'gentleman' record lottery: "MANILA - An act of gallantry paid huge dividends for a 'humble gentleman' who won 17 million dollars in a Philippine lottery after letting a woman jump a queue and buy what would have been his losing ticket."

Un plan secret ...

Un plan secret pour légaliser le poker en ligne aux États-Unis? par Prince Poker - LE GRAND CLUB: "Si le titre de cet article peut apparaître farfelu, la tentative de passer une loi incognito légalisant le jeu en ligne semble néanmoins bel et bien réelle selon ce que rapportent à la fois Bloomberg.com et le Wall Street Journal."

Calculatrice de statistiques de poker | Statistiques de poker

Calculatrice de statistiques de poker | Statistiques de poker: "Voici une calculatrice de statistiques pour le poker Holdem et autre. Elle vous permettra de calculer vos probabilités au poker en fonction du nombre de joueurs, de votre main, de celle des autres et du flop. A utiliser sans modération pour augmenter votre expérience au Poker !"

Two Plus Two Poker Forums - View Single Post - Request to Pokerstars: Please change your collusion policy

Two Plus Two Poker Forums - View Single Post - Request to Pokerstars: Please change your collusion policy: "Please rest assured that we do not tolerate automated players (bots) on PokerStars. We have an extensive arsenal of detection tools in order to ensure that each player is a human being."

Online gamblers spend $9,903

Online gamblers spend $9,903: "An estimated 86,000 adult Quebecers spend an average of $9,903 apiece each year gambling on the Internet.

That's what an independent academic study released yesterday concluded -as Loto-Quebec ramps up preparations to launch its own brand of online gambling before Christmas to compete with a plethora of offshore and unregulated sites.

Quebec's online bettors are largely unmarried males under age 44 with much more pronounced penchant for puffing pot than other gamblers, the study indicated."

Jonathan Duhamel devra partager ses millions

Jonathan Duhamel devra partager ses millions: "Le champion de poker Jonathan Duhamel devra partager les 9 M$ qu’il a empoché lundi soir aux États-Unis. Le nouveau champion mondial devra céder prés de la moitié de son prix au trésor public américain ainsi qu’aux gouvernements fédéral et provincial même si les gains de loterie et de jeux ne sont pas imposés au pays."

Malgré les appels au moratoire, Loto-Québec lance son casino internet | Louise Leduc | National

Malgré les appels au moratoire, Loto-Québec lance son casino internet | Louise Leduc | National

Border blunder costs gambler $20,000 in casino winnings

Border blunder costs gambler $20,000 in casino winnings: "Border blunder costs gambler $20,000 in casino winnings"

Really funny stuff - Dubai and Las Vegas: Then and Now (6 pics)

Really funny stuff - Dubai and Las Vegas: Then and Now (6 pics): "You’ll see comparative pictures of two world’s famous cities: Dubai and Las Vegas.It’s crazy how time flies and how the two cities aroused from the desert."

10 favourite place in Las Vegas

10 favourite place in Las Vegas: "I’ve been visiting Las Vegas for more than four decades, seen casinos come and go (some blown sky high). I’m not much of a night owl or high-roller, but I have my own kind of fun. Here’s my personal favourite things to do in Las Vegas."

Martingales et autres illusions

Martingales et autres illusions: "Voici un article tiré du journal La Science, 1998, qui explique scientifiquement l’inutilité des martingales."

Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator!

Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator!: "It is really hard to win the Mega Millions lottery. So hard that it can be difficult to comprehend what long odds confront its players."

BPS Research Digest: That's not a poker face, this is a poker face

BPS Research Digest: That's not a poker face, this is a poker face: "What does your poker face look like? If it's the traditional, stern, emotionless expression, you may want to consider practising a new one. Erik Schlicht and colleagues report that a friendly, trustworthy face is more likely to influence your opponents, leading them to think that you've got a good hand - that you're not bluffing."

Art

"For my self directed study I chose to investigate luck. I have explored the psychology behind gambling, the element of play, the chance, the taking risks, the faith that you can beat the odds. These are a few selected pieces..."

The conservation of luck - Telegraph

The conservation of luck - Telegraph: "In the first of a new series, Ian Stewart, a professor of mathematics at Warwick University, takes a look at how we perceive luck and chance."

American woman wins lottery for a fourth time - Telegraph

American woman wins lottery for a fourth time - Telegraph: "An American woman has been named the luckiest lottery winner in the world after scooping her fourth multi million pound jackpot."

YouTube - It *could* just be coincidence

YouTube - It *could* just be coincidence: "This video shows how probability theory is sufficient to explain even seemingly remarkable coincidences."

Barstool Sports: Greatest Moments In Gambling History

Barstool Sports: Greatest Moments In Gambling History: "Greatest Moments In Gambling History"

10 Gamblers Who Beat The Casino - Top 10 Lists | Listverse

10 Gamblers Who Beat The Casino - Top 10 Lists | Listverse: "10 Gamblers Who Beat The Casino"

Online Casinos News - Gambling Online Magazine

Online Casinos News - Gambling Online Magazine: "Roulette computers often leave the casino connoisseur in a heady spin. But Richard Marcus explores how, or in fact if, you can make a real casino killing."

Online Casinos - Casinos - Gambling Online Magazine

Gambling Online Magazine: "Robert Blincoe meets a man whose ‘no-lose’ roulette system works sufficiently well to earn a book deal and a ban from a major casino group"

YouTube - EPT Berlin Robbed by 6 armed men, live stream recording. Pokerstars version of rush poker?

YouTube - EPT Berlin Robbed by 6 armed men, live stream recording. Pokerstars version of rush poker?: "EPT Berlin Robbed by 6 armed men"

Price is Right: Unfortunate odds. [VIDEO]

Price is Right: Unfortunate odds. [VIDEO]: "Price is Right: Unfortunate odds"

Les plus gros joueurs du poker en ligne

Les plus gros joueurs du poker en ligne: "Le poker en ligne est devenu un passe-temps planétaire, générant l'an dernier 4,8 milliards de dollars en revenus pour les entreprises de jeu."

How we blew the Lotto: A gold Robin Reliant. Action Men. New knees. The unlikely ways winners spent their millions | Mail Online

How we blew the Lotto: A gold Robin Reliant. Action Men. New knees. The unlikely ways winners spent their millions | Mail Online: "What would you buy if you won the lottery? It's a question everyone has pondered.

Here, the Mail speaks to 11 winners to find out what they spent their cash on - including a girl who bought her two sisters breast enlargement operations."

The Fact$ and Figures of Gambling

The Fact$ and Figures of Gambling

Mayor 'bans' Barack Obama from Las Vegas for sins against the city - Times Online

Mayor 'bans' Barack Obama from Las Vegas for sins against the city - Times Online: "The list of people banned from Las Vegas is a litany of dishonour. But among the swindlers, fixers and mobsters — many of their mugshots displayed on the Nevada Gaming Commission’s website under the heading Excluded, Wanted & Denied — is a new and rather unlikely name: that of Barack H. Obama, of Washington."

Slot-machine gamblers are hard to pin down | Education | The Guardian

Slot-machine gamblers are hard to pin down | Education | The Guardian: "Why are gamblers such a difficult subject for academic study?"

56m EuroMillions win is biggest ever UK lottery jackpot - Times Online

56m EuroMillions win is biggest ever UK lottery jackpot - Times Online: "A Briton has become the country's biggest lottery millionaire after winning a 56 million pounds EuroMillions jackpot.

The winning ticket holder, who has come forward but is yet to be named, will share a prize of 113 million with another ticket bought in Spain.

The win comfortably eclipses the 91 million split between two winners last November."

Millionaire gives away fortune which made him miserable - Telegraph

Millionaire gives away fortune which made him miserable - Telegraph: "Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his 3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy."

Jeux en ligne - Une pétition pour stopper Loto-Québec - Actualités - MSN CA

Jeux en ligne - Une pétition pour stopper Loto-Québec - Actualités - MSN CA: "Des opposants au projet de Loto-Québec, qui veut ouvrir, dès septembre, des jeux en ligne sur Internet, lancent une pétition sur le site de l'Assemblée nationale du Québec."

The Real Casino Royale: gangsters in a class of their own - Telegraph

The Real Casino Royale: gangsters in a class of their own - Telegraph: "'It was like robbing Fort Knox and the Bank of England at the same time – just a lot easier,' says Bobby McKew, a former gangster who was involved with one of the most outrageous scams ever perpetrated on London's high society. Over the course of two years in the Sixties, in an elegant Mayfair private members' club, some of the wealthiest people in Britain were swindled out of millions of pounds, thanks to a gambling con known as 'the Big Edge'. Presiding over this audacious scheme was the club's owner, John Aspinall, a social climber and charismatic man about town."

Youths prefer Web betting

Youths prefer Web betting: "Young adults - a key growth sector for Canada's gambling industry - are very interested in such 'technology driven' options as online gambling, which is not yet legal in Canada, an industry conference heard yesterday."

Dealing With Card-Counters

"Casinos are the only businesses which make money by beating their own customers at games of chance. The operators of lotteries and parimutuel betting do not care who wins or loses. With casinos, however, the house cares very much who wins. The casino participates as a player covering the bets of the other players in every hand."

Education: Applied Mathematics - TIME

Education: Applied Mathematics - TIME: "A sucker with a 'system' is always welcome in Reno, where gambling is legal. One day last month two young amateur gamblers strode confidently into Reno's gaudy Palace Club. They were armed with a bankroll of $120 and a 'scientific' theory cooked up between classes at the University of Chicago."

Holy Craps! How a Gambling Grandma Broke the Craps World Record - TIME

Holy Craps! How a Gambling Grandma Broke the Craps World Record - TIME: "It sounds like a homework problem out of a high school math book: What is the probability of rolling a pair of dice 154 times continuously at a craps table, without throwing a seven?

The answer is roughly 1 in 1.56 trillion, and on May 23, Patricia Demauro, a New Jersey grandmother, beat those odds at Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa. Demauro's 154-roll lucky streak, which lasted four hours and 18 minutes, broke the world records for the longest craps roll and the most successive dice rolls without 'sevening out.' According to Stanford University statistics professor Thomas Cover, the chances of that happening are smaller than getting struck by lightning (one in a million), being hit by an errant ball at a baseball game (one in 1.5 million) or winning the lottery (one in 100 million, depending on the game)."

Gambling Study: How Winning at Poker Causes Greater Risk - TIME

Gambling Study: How Winning at Poker Causes Greater Risk - TIME: "You can learn a lot about gambling if you're willing to analyze 27 million hands of online poker. Don't have time for that? No worries; sociology doctoral student Kyle Siler of Cornell University has done it for you. His counterintuitive message: the more hands you win, the more money you're likely to lose — and this has implications that go well beyond a hand of cards."

For sale for 1,000: gadget that means you'll never lose at roulette again | UK news | The Guardian

For sale for 1,000: gadget that means you'll never lose at roulette again | UK news | The Guardian: "Using hidden device 'does not count as cheating'
System can give 100% advantage over casino"

Sexton’s Corner, Vol. 31: Archie Karas, ‘The World’s Biggest Gambler,’ Part 1 - Gambling Blog

Sexton’s Corner, Vol. 31: Archie Karas, ‘The World’s Biggest Gambler,’ Part 1 - Gambling Blog: "Can you imagine anyone driving to Las Vegas in 1992 with $50 in his pocket, then borrowing $10,000 to start playing $200/400 razz and seven-card stud, and in six months, running it up to a $17,000,000 fortune shooting pool, playing poker, and shooting dice? Then, instead of cashing out, he decides to gamble sky-high and runs his bankroll to over $40,000,000, before losing it all back by 1995? Meet the biggest gambler in the world, Archie Karas. You’re about to take a journey down memory lane to the most legendary high-roller story that ever happened in Las Vegas. Be sure and fasten your seat belts!"

Bookie refuses to pay out 7 million on snow bet - Yahoo! News UK

Bookie refuses to pay out 7 million on snow bet - Yahoo! News UK: "Bookmaker Ladbrokes is refusing to pay out more than 7 million pounds to a man who gambled on a white Christmas across the UK, as the bet was accepted by mistake."

Blackjack Insider Newsletter - articles, advice, and store

Blackjack Insider Newsletter - articles, advice, and store: "I’ve been going to casinos for nearly 40 years and I’m not broke. On the contrary, casinos have been very good to me. What I’m about to do is share with you what games I’ve played, what strategies I’ve used, where I play the games, and other tidbits from someone who has been around the block a few times when it comes to casino gambling."

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