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Casino Pictures
A good rule to paste in your hat is never to play for money with one-way cards, i.e., cards whose backs bear pictures or designs that are not symmetrical from top to bottom. During play, a cheat can arrange such a deck so that high cards are right side up, low cards upside down. I know it sounds obvious, but card cheats know from experience that the obvious device is sometimes the one least likely to be suspected. Most players dismiss this idea, if it does occur to them, as too obvious and primitive a device to be used. Therefore the cheat, well aware of this, sometimes uses it; and a quick shuffle, after turning half the pack end for end, will destroy the arrangement and the evidence if anyone shows any sign of suspicion.
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Casino Roulette Gambling
Roulette Wheel Gambling
When you think of gambling, what do you think of first? I think of the Roulette wheels at Monte Carlo. How many movies have been made showing beautiful people placing bets on the layout and watching the wheel turn?
Roulette is really a very easy game to play. It requires very little skill, a little bit of knowledge of the betting options that are available to you, and special Roulette chips. The reason for the special chips.
The Casino Wheel
The wheel itself is a very carefully made, very delicately balanced wheel which is divided into thirty-eight even compartments, or pockets. Thirty-six of these pockets are numbered individually from one to thirty-six and are colored either red or black. There are eighteen of each color. The remaining two pockets are colored green and are numbered zero and double zero.
The Layout
To allow you to place bets, the provides a playing layout with zero and double zero marked in green, and the thirty-six numbers marked in their respective colors, in three columns of twelve numbers each. Bets on this area are called inside bets. There is an area outside the thirty-eight numbered boxes which allows for betting on odd (all the odd numbers), even (all the even numbers), red or black (all the red, or all the black numbers). There is also an area for betting on the first, the second, or the third set of twelve numbers (one through twelve, thirteen through twenty-four, or twenty-five through thirty-six); the first or second set of eighteen numbers (one through eighteen, or nineteen through thirty-six); and even an area for betting on complete columns. Bets on these areas are called outside bets.
Casino Terms
Did you happen to notice that in describing the betting and the payoffs I mentioned the layout, and outside the layout? Any bets made on the zero, the double zero, the numbers from one to thirty-six, or any of their various combinations are referred to as inside bets . Any bets made on the areas that are outside of the layout are referred to as outside bets. These terms are important to the novice, or small player. A Roulette table that requires a five-unit minimum bet will allow five separate bets of one unit each on any of the inside variations, but will require a full five-unit bet on any of the outside variations. The signs on the tables indicating minimum and maximum bets will stipulate this rule.
Bets and Odds
Did you happen to notice that in describing the betting and the payoffs I mentioned the layout, and outside the layout? Any bets made on the zero, the double zero, the numbers from one to thirty-six, or any of their various combinations are referred to as inside tips. Any bets made on the areas that are outside of the layout are referred to as outside bets. These terms are important to the novice, or small player. A Roulette table that requires a five-unit minimum bet will allow five separate bets of one unit each on any of the inside variations, but will require a full five-unit bet on any of the outside variations. The signs on the tables indicating minimum and maximum bets will stipulate this rule.
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