Started with a $2500 scrapper that I won playing blackjack.
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"Blackjack all day long," Eldredge tells PEOPLE with a laugh.
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It's very unique, and like blackjack it took 21 years.
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It turns out she actually won playing blackjack, not poker.
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Blackjack was used for about two years, according to Petrucci.
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Then, somehow, your friend cannot lose a hand of blackjack.
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Christophe Claret made a two-sided blackjack and roulette watch in 262, and a Gaming Watches series that replicated card games like poker, baccarat and blackjack on the dials; each was priced at about $19993,21999.
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At the blackjack table, always split aces, eights and nines. 5.
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I decided to wish to win money at the blackjack table.
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The only person you're playing against in blackjack is the dealer.
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But video game blackjack hasn't ever been done right in my recollection.
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So let's talk first about those rules, the absolute basics of blackjack.
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The whole structure was almost hidden by a grove of blackjack trees.
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She also plays her favorite games, solitaire and blackjack, on the grandPad.
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He compared it to lowering the minimum bet at a blackjack table.
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BTW ... we're told they were posted up at $500 minimum blackjack tables.
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But to confirm our suspicions, we went to the leading blackjack expert in the world -- Jeff Ma -- a former member of that MIT blackjack team that inspired the book, "Bringing Down the House" (which later became the movie "21").
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Affleck, 43, was not completely banned from casino, however, just the blackjack table.
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The Blackjack slumped to the ground, a marionette whose strings had been cut.
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You can insure your blackjack hand in case it's not your lucky day.
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I'm GLAD that blackjack table just took half my paycheck—fuck it all!
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The late-night host suggested that blackjack is a type of poker. Nope.
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I would run a little blackjack game at one of the lunch tables.
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These questions were easily more compelling than playing blackjack or watching the live band.
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In his nightmares, Washington Nationals manager Dusty Baker sits down at the blackjack table.
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Vector can play blackjack with you, which is an excellent showcase of the screen.
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Blackjack, which also included custom-made parts, was initially built by hand in 2014.
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The ruinous thrill of other forms of gambling — sports betting, blackjack, poker — just wasn't there.
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They became increasingly complex: one that would play blackjack, one that played seven-card stud.
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After that, Ali is out looking for Josh and finds him at the blackjack tables.
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The objective in blackjack is to get a set of cards whose sum is 21.
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But sports betting differentiates itself from, say, blackjack in one crucial factor: the human element.
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He said he plans to head to a luxury resort to relax and play blackjack.
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Billboards advertising single-deck blackjack and sporting books pepper I-15, the city's main artery.
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Woodard testified that Shull had driven the handle end of the blackjack into each eye.
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Macdonald has had long runs of compulsive betting on poker, craps, blackjack and sports book.
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Once we decided on simulating a blackjack game, the next challenge was filling the grid.
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Carton started inviting neighborhood kids over to bet on the Intellivision's roulette, craps and blackjack games.
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They like to play blackjack in the casino, where the croupiers conduct their games in Mandarin.
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No, this isn't an Antarctic casino resort, it's Chris Evans playing "Frozen Blackjack" with Jimmy Fallon.
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Now that you know the rules, let's talk about how blackjack is actually played in practice.
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Or her brother, who made a living in Las Vegas playing blackjack from a memory system.
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He confided that he figures he's one of the 10 best blackjack players in the world.
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The county clerk and treasurer shuffled the deck, then fanned them out like a blackjack dealer.
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Then, by the Gergel book's account, Shull rained blows on Woodard so ferociously the blackjack broke.
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He also continued to play roulette, as well as blackjack, in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
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" Luhnow went on to make an analogy: "In blackjack, the house has a half-percent advantage.
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We finally settled on creating a puzzle that simulated a blackjack game between player and dealer.
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That title belongs to the Russian-built " father of all bombs," also called "Blackjack" by NATO.
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And my life at the blackjack table can shed light on what the Atlanta Falcons did wrong.
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You can play a hand of Blackjack with Vector, but it's not as fun without the betting.
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In fact, collectively, over $142 billion was lost in 2014 alone, according to a report by blackjack.
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It's a viable blackjack strategy in terms of the math and the way the odds work out.
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A Timex Blackjack Watch and a St. Louis Cardinals cap with a vintage logo completed the look.
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Oddly, the example that first gave me the idea (JACK BLACK/BLACKJACK) didn't make the final version.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "Poet, Author, Exile, Blackjack King" — that's how the gaming website Casino.
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As he mentioned, we discussed numerous other spins on a blackjack theme before settling on this one.
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For more than 15 years, the MIT Blackjack Team traveled the world earning a fortune by card counting.
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It contains more than 135,000 square feet of games, including Poker, Blackjack, Ultimate Texas Hold'em and slot machines.
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The future Batman was banned from playing blackjack at a Las Vegas casino amid reports of card counting.
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My rig here at home is a Rode NT 1000 mic, through an Onyx Blackjack, into Hindenburg Journalist.
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These applications purportedly offer decentralized versions of everything from financial services, to healthcare, to blackjack and music platforms.
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In the second experiment, participants watched the same clips, indicated how aroused they were, and then played Blackjack.
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Four years later, I was a 20-year-old blackjack dealer living in the corn wastelands of Iowa.
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They were married by an overweight Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas after winning $300 at the blackjack tables.
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I'm Dieter Bohn, noted typoist and reviewer of Samsung phones since 2006's Samsung Blackjack Windows Mobile smartphone.
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The Vancouver startup is planning to bring a live host to scheduled 15-minute poker, blackjack and bingo tournaments.
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Dealers sat behind blackjack tables, shuffling cards again and again while waiting in vain for gamblers to sit down.
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Don't expect to walk into a casino and clean up at every Blackjack table after mastering this technique, though.
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Randle was also arrested in November 2015 after allegedly becoming violent during a blackjack game, reported the Washington Post.
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Britain said it had also scrambled Typhoon jets to monitor two Russian Blackjack bombers which flew near British airspace.
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Whenever you're playing blackjack, you operate under the assumption that the card you can't see is probably a 10.
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From there, I met with a coder, and we created games such as blackjack, ningo, and most recently fights.
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The retired forward-turned-shouty-commentator once tipped a casino worker $25,000 (Barkley had just won $700,000 at blackjack).
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Although the roulette and craps are computerized, the casino offers blackjack and poker, and the slots machines are hypnotic.
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The investigation, dubbed "Operation Blackjack" by authorities, was primarily centered in Pasco County, Florida, which is just outside Tampa.
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He recalled turning to blackjack and eventually developing a gambling addiction so serious that winning and losing became irrelevant.
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General Manager Jeff Luhnow, who often makes blackjack analogies, understands that sometimes, the cards will not flip his way.
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For three decades, federal legislation has allowed the tribes to operate casinos dominated by slot machines and blackjack tables.
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The 2008 film "21," about a team of mostly Asian-American blackjack players, was cast with mostly white actors.
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There, the local police chief, Lynwood Shull, bludgeoned him with a blackjack, gouging his eyes and permanently blinding him.
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Casinos generally aren't worried about these people the way the are blackjack card counters or players smuggling in loaded dice.
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If you'd like to sharpen your memory skills—hey, it could be handy at the blackjack table—head to memocamp.
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There's a branch of Holland Casino at the airport offering roulette, Blackjack and slot machines daily from 6:30 a.m.
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" Jac Vanek (center): "When I was 23 I went to Vegas and ended up at a high roller's blackjack table.
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I played five hands of blackjack with Warren hovering Oz-like behind me and — drumroll please — I had no luck.
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" One of the hosts at the blackjack table hooted with derisive laughter, yelling at them, "You ain't got no guns!
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When you sit down to play blackjack, the only person you're playing against is the dealer, who represents the house.
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In fact, collectively, more than $142 billion was lost by gamblers in 2014 alone, according to a report by Blackjack.
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Founder Frederick Smith became so desperate that he bet the last of his company's money on blackjack in Las Vegas.
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In the main gaming room, Salle Europe, you can find Blackjack, Texas hold-em poker, and English and European roulette.
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If you do decide to play for hours, consider blackjack, where the odds are at least close to 50-50.
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When people make risky decisions, like doubling down in blackjack or investing in volatile stocks, what happens in the brain?
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"Billy was quite at home working on that material," said his friend Alex Simmons, the creator of the "Blackjack" comic.
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That's not even an impressive blackjack record over eight hands, especially if you're counting cards the way the Patriots do.
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End the trip with a few rounds of blackjack or pamper yourself with a spa treatment at the Peppermill Reno.
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I enjoy solving and constructing game-related crosswords, and thought he might like to collaborate on a blackjack-themed puzzle.
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The original iPhone, for example, felt light-years ahead of the Samsung Blackjack with Windows Mobile I'd been using before it.
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In these digital days, to think about play means moving beyond Parcheesi boards and the phalanxes of Las Vegas blackjack tables.
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It's the spot for blackjack, showgirls, pre-wedding mayhem, musical residencies, epic club scenes and even more epic elderly slot playing.
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That legislation allowed federally recognized Indian tribes to offer casino-style games like slot machines, blackjack and roulette on tribal land.
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In the coming months, it will also be grounds for things like a ladies-only blackjack league and a book club.
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There are 412 slot machines and a variety of table card games, including Heads Up Hold'em, Caribbean Stud Poker, and Blackjack.
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Snyder then walked over to a blackjack table, where a dealer paid out the entire amount in 670 gray $5,000 chips.
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Mudry's hospice bed was placed next to a $10 blackjack table, and he drank his Coors Light while his niece looked on.
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Any resemblance to the industry I first covered is purely a function of the consistent rules of slots, blackjack, craps and roulette.
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Even for a show that deals in death like it's blackjack at a casino, this season's The Walking Dead premiere was shocking.
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With the confidence normally required to intimidate opponents in a game of poker or blackjack, Holzhauer plays fast and with no hesitation.
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"I downloaded that card-counting app and then I didn't do it because Ben can't play blackjack in Vegas anymore," says Damon.
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Haha yes, it's definitely thankless, and a little bit like going to a casino with your savings and playing blackjack every weekend.
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Early PCs such as the Radioshack Blackjack line one wall and newer consoles such as the PS2 and N64 line the other.
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They could be games where single players go against the house, cooperative games like blackjack, or player versus player games like poker.
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Real life is not at all like blackjack, and yet the same faith in process crops up in even the messiest realms.
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She also notes the relevance of one of her previous studies on regret studies in which participants played a variation of blackjack.
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Soon, Ms. Vincent was mobile — and independent — with her walker, playing blackjack and Bingo, attending church and visiting Belmont Village's beauty salon.
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In 2011, when Ai was detained by the Chinese authorities, the Blackjack community in the United States rallied around its esteemed member.
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Play a hand of blackjack at the Casino de Monaco in Monte Carlo, one of the most luxurious casinos in the world.
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DARPA's Blackjack satellites — expected to launch in 2021 — are small and relatively inexpensive, seemingly taking a page out of the commercial playbook.
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But even after Shadow met Laura, she pretty much remained the same miserable blackjack dealer with the same penchant for inhaling insect repellant.
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And it's because every game gets a central component wrong: The key to blackjack, the thing that makes it interesting, is the betting.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday it had scrambled Typhoon jets to monitor two Russian "Blackjack" bombers which approached the United Kingdom's airspace.
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Trusting others works better in general, but like Don Johnson at the blackjack table, having the edge doesn't mean you'll win every hand.
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When he took on Jimmy Fallon in a game of "Frozen Blackjack" and endured having his pants filled with ice like a champ.
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In short, if your goal was actually to win money, your chances would be much better at the blackjack table in a casino.
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He planned on spending a quiet night in New Jersey, where he lives with four Presa Canario dogs (Mowgli, Blackjack, Khan and Ares).
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It so appears that besides being an internationally acclaimed Chinese dissident artist, Ai is also celebrated as a "Blackjack Guru" among card players.
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But unless Mr Smith brings in fresh executives, and then listens to them, his days at the business blackjack table should be numbered.
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In fact, we even thought of doing something with JACK BLACK/BLACKJACK (along the lines of Ed Sessa's masterpiece from earlier this month!).
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Chief Shull jammed the ends of his blackjack into Mr. Woodard's eyes, at one point striking him so violently that the stick broke.
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We'll be doing lots of Periscoping questions and you might even get to see one of us lose money at Blackjack in real time!
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It's very hard to sit down at a poker table or a blackjack table where you lose eight or nine out of 10 hands.
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After all, if you follow basic blackjack strategy, the house advantage against a player using the basic strategy can be as low as 0.16%.
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It would make virtual blackjack a whole lot more interesting and in line with the way things tend to work in a real casino.
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Lorenzo is now tweeting unambiguous come ons to Octagon girls while White is gambling away thousands on his phone in hands of online blackjack.
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He could argue that the Russians flagrantly challenged the Monroe Doctrine by sending two Tu-160 Blackjack strategic nuclear bombers to Venezuela last month.
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It's a seven-story, smoking-allowed establishment full of slot machines and blackjack tables, built on desolate farmland belonging to the Tachi-Yokuts tribe.
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I decided to go and check out all these numbers — and play a few of my own, because I'm something of a blackjack addict.
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The animating idea there was teppanyaki, sizzled on flattop steel grills set into big half-moon tables that cooks stood behind, like blackjack dealers.
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In its early days, as the firm flirted with bankruptcy, he saved it with a lucky wager at a blackjack table in Las Vegas.
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Elizabeth Warren did her best Michael Scott "Boom Roasted!" impression at one point, doling out insults like a skilled Vegas blackjack dealer tosses cards.
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Lawmakers have cleared the way for blackjack, roulette and other casino games in the country, approving legislation that removes a longstanding prohibition against gambling.
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Clinton also swept the caucuses in the casinos, which drew predominantly Latino workers on a break from their jobs as blackjack dealers, cooks and housekeepers.
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At a caucus at the famed Caesars Palace, blackjack dealers, pit bosses, cooks and housekeepers excitedly declared their support for the former secretary of state.
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There are the batting cages, mahjong, a secret casino with blackjack and poker, drone races, and more fun minigames to sink dozens of hours into.
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One couple all but ordered me to go hang out with blackjack dealer Charlie Jenkins because they liked his off-color jokes and hilarious cheating.
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Last year's Rangers won at the blackjack tables for two straight hours hitting on 211 only to lose it all back with the same strategy.
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It's good to understand those finer points of the rules if you want to get serious about blackjack gambling, but they're irrelevant to this discussion.
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In the top floor casino, thousands of pounds change hands every second as roulette wheels spin, slot machines tumble and gamblers crowd around blackjack tables.
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Between the 24-hour buffets and blackjack benders, some R&R in the sun is the best way to recuperate from all the sensory overload.
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"We had a blackjack game in Atlantic City with a weak dealer," recalls Bobby Sanchez, known as the Bullet, a frequent playing partner of Grosjean's.
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Earlier this year, Mr. McBride was playing blackjack in an Australian casino, on a break from acting in a new "Alien" movie for Ridley Scott.
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The Belgian Air Force is policing Baltic airspace as of September 222; on Tuesday, it intercepted two Russian Tu-210 Blackjack supersonic, nuclear-capable bombers.
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So, like a terrible boyfriend or a degenerate gambler with a new blackjack system, let me tell you why things will be different this time.
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Upstairs, people may be breaking even at blackjack in a zombie trance, but everybody who has a perch at Seiobo's tasting counter is wide awake.
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GM also had a special "lair" to house Blackjack at its Michigan proving grounds and did a lot of testing with the vehicle at night.
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GM, according to Petrucci, learned a lot about the driving dynamics of a mid-engine vehicle from Blackjack that carried over into the production vehicle.
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But sports bettors are less valuable than other types of online-casino gamblers, like blackjack players, which operators will pay as much as $1,000 for.
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Where to watch: Amazon Video Okay, so this one is very loosely based on a true story — but the MIT Blackjack Team was a real thing.
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For example, on every score sheet, there's a space for players to cross off each letter as it's played — kind of like counting cards in blackjack.
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The style is overwhelmingly sleek and cheeky, drawing a younger, millennial set looking for a glamorous, irreverent alternative to the standard blackjack tables and buffet experiences.
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There's a relatively simple approach that can give you a slight advantage over the dealer when playing Blackjack, and this site can help you master it.
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The Canucks are taking out a line of credit, smacking the blackjack table and screaming at the dealer when his showing 6 turns into a 21.
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All video games I've encountered deal with blackjack in the same way: Win or lose, your bet resets to the minimum once a hand is over.
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Is blackjack just a minor piece of Red Dead Redemption 2, something that no one has to engage with and a bunch of players probably won't?
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TMZ Sports obtained pics and spoke with witnesses who saw Messi hitting the roulette table and playing some blackjack at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.
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Three gentlemen in the corner are playing blackjack, drinking a bottle of Blue Label Johnnie Walker, overlooked by a detailed copy of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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Everyone is wearing a mask, including the croupiers, waitresses and security guards -- who happen to vastly outnumber the scattered customers gambling at blackjack and roulette tables.
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Rates for online bingo players can go as low as $0003 and fees for blackjack and other online casino players can go as high as $2000,215.5.
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But the decision to allow blackjack, roulette and other table games into Japan opened up a potentially enormous new market for casino operators around the world.
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"I was actually sitting at the blackjack table at the Wynn and it just felt like I was on a boat," Alec Ventresca told CNN affiliate KLAS.
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The Blackjack programme, which is run by the Pentagon's far-out research shop, DARPA, envisages putting military sensors onto commercial satellites that cost less than $6m each.
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The robot can now play you in a hand of blackjack, tell you the current weather, perform currency conversion, and do much, much more than Cozmo could.
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Has anyone ever had a bad blackjack run only to have it end with splitting 218s a bunch of times with the dealer busting for J-Bug?
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Before accepting the money, Cipriani says, he repeatedly reminded Hanson that blackjack is a game of chance—there was a strong possibility he could lose it all.
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Down below on the gaming floor, ringed by wall-mounted TV monitors silently showing a sporting event, slot machines chirped and crowded blackjack tables buzzed with action.
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The Swedish firm has recently signed contracts with casino operators in the United States, Britain and Spain and is producing online games ranging from blackjack to roulette.
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Her mother is a blackjack dealer at Caesar's Palace, one of the mega-casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, while her father works in housekeeping at another.
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Ernest once allegedly leveled a gun at his wife's face and then Williams's face, threatening to kill them both, and cracked Patricia's skull with a lead blackjack.
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Others see rising voter frustration over how Alabamians wind up padding the budgets of other states when they cross borders to buy Powerball tickets or play blackjack.
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Sitting at a blackjack table, clad in a silver lamé minidress and a sable fur, Ms. Wood was "stuffing her winnings into a gold egg," he wrote.
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Outdoor space: The 40 acres are filled with open pasture and woods, where live oaks, post oaks, blackjack oaks, mountain juniper and a bit of cedar grow.
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My mother is a blackjack dealer who taught me that mathematics and statistics were necessary to excel in a job that was crucial to feeding her family.
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Whether you're talking about slot machines, blackjack or roulette, the odds always favor the house, and a well-conceived, well-run gambling hall should consistently make a profit.
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When it's your turn in blackjack, the one house card you can see is as much of an influence on what you do as the cards you're holding.
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New York Giant's running back, Saquon Barkley is spreading his good fortune -- literally -- by passing out hundred dollar bills like they were playing cards at a blackjack table.
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Las Vegas tourists, on the other hand, have money to burn and all the time in the world, at least once they get tired of the blackjack tables.
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The Sevilla Biltmore Hotel Casino has no limit on any wager in any game and recently two Americans won $59,700 in two hours there at the blackjack table.
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When he goes to a casino now, his blackjack sessions aren't certainties, but Lacob has far better odds of succeeding at them than anyone else at the table.
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In junior high school, he ran a makeshift casino out of his parents' living room, using the roulette and blackjack features available on Intellivision, the early gaming console.
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Live blackjack isn't a new thing, however with the advent of game streaming and the immense popularity it seems to bring, the game lends itself to the medium.
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Frank: If I were a betting man — and I am, but only at the blackjack table — I'd put a decent sum of money on Democrats' taking the House.
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I strategically measure my insulin to keep my sugar as low as I can get it without going too low, like a life-or-death game of blackjack.
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Of course, there's no reason you can't get away to Vegas now and take a second trip in 2018, especially if you've got some experience at the blackjack tables.
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LONDON/PARIS, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it had scrambled an unspecified number of Typhoon aircraft to monitor two Russian Blackjack bombers which flew near British airspace.
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Sure, it can tell you the weather, dance to music, and play blackjack, but it's not going to keep you enthralled for hours or help you be more productive.
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I came to the iPhone in late 2009, a year after the App Store's launch, with the 3GS, having held onto a Samsung Blackjack as long as I could.
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There, among the endless blackjack and craps tables and photo opp stations, the luckiest moviegoers in the galaxy would begin to attempt to discuss what they had just seen.
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That "Bray Wyatt" is some sort of mystical southern shaman rather than just Windham Rotunda, the son of longtime pro wrestler Mike Rotunda and the grandson of "Blackjack" Mulligan.
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Cipriani told me that he thought Hanson was staking him in blackjack: he'd have to pay back the principle, but anything he made, he'd give to families in need.
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Weaving their way through revelers at Blackjack tables and beauty salons promising non-surgical face lifts, DEF CON expects at least 25,000 attendees by the end of the weekend.
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Chance Morris, also known as "SodaPoppin," has been streaming himself playing live blackjack—where a dealer deals oversized cards to people playing online via webcam—for over a year.
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The world-renowned dissident artist, who is celebrated in the gambling community as a "Blackjack Guru," explained the story behind the lawsuit in a New York Times op-ed.
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Players even considered holding a series of fund-raising blackjack and poker tournaments to lobby the US government to impose trade sanctions against China if Ai is not released.
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The meetings were known as Dealers, because the presenter would sit like a blackjack dealer in the center of an imposing circle of computer scientists reclining in beanbag chairs.
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"It's a big piece of our history," Petrucci said, adding Blackjack likely will be added to the automaker's expansive historical vehicle collection at the GM Heritage Center in Michigan.
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Notwithstanding his Instagramming, according to USA Today several employees and customers of Las Vegas' Planet Hollywood casino spotted the Cleveland quarterback eating at Heart Bar and later playing blackjack.
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Both men and women were more likely to say they would make riskier decisions — having sex without a condom, making an unsafe gamble in Blackjack — when they were more aroused.
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The government has made clear: Private, consensual gambling is a crime, and public funds will be spent on prosecuting it.. What about a friendly game of blackjack at your home?
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Spud Webb wiped the casino floor with a bunch of sports stars in a blackjack tourney Wednesday night -- but the best part ... all of his winnings are going to charity.
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Bruce: Michael Bolton gets a little bit of credit though, because he was in a band called Blackjack back in the day with Bruce Kulick, the guitar player from KISS.
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The investigation, named "Operation Blackjack," lasted more than three years and included state and federal prosecutors, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Pasco Sheriff's Office.
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Inside, cocktails are dispatched from a custom-made blackjack and roulette table, where gamblers can trade in winning chips for drinks mixed with Kaffir lime oil or bacon-infused whiskey.
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Targeting locals was the idea of the brothers' father, Frank Fertitta II, who rose from blackjack dealer to part owner of a 5,000-square-foot casino, which opened in 1976.
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"I think it's important when you're successful, the waiter, the waitresses, the blackjack dealers, they work extremely hard, they don't get a great salary," Barkley told Conan O'Brien in 2014.
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LAS VEGAS — The slot machines and blackjack tables are filling up again at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, a golden tower on the southern end of the Vegas Strip.
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The first computer games emerged as early as the 2600s, but the '290s is when the ball really started rolling with programs for things like chess, tic-tac-toe, and blackjack.
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Crist signed an agreement in 2007 that gave the Seminoles the right to add games like slot machines, blackjack, and baccarat, in exchange for a slice of the tribal casino profits.
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But voters in Nevada -- including a ton of lower-wage workers like taxi drivers, blackjack dealers, chambermaids and food servers -- chose Clinton, who favors a smaller increase to $12 per hour.
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If anything, he'll be a Golden Knight during the season and a blackjack dealer in the offseason from 2017 through 2036 or whenever the Las Vegas team folds or relocates. 2.
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The short version (my story from December tells the more detailed version) is that Hanson gave Cipriani $2.5 million to launder and Cipriani lost it at the blackjack tables, possibly intentionally.
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Belgian Air Force F-16s scrambled to intercept two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack supersonic, nuclear-capable bombers, accompanied by two Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker fighters over the Baltic Sea on Tuesday.
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NEW ORLEANS — It wasn't just cocktails on Bourbon Street or lucky breaks at the blackjack tables that contributed to the buoyant mood of the deal makers who gathered here last week.
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A month later, Mr. Trudeau mocked Frank Sinatra's alleged ties to organized crime and had him, in one strip, threatening a casino blackjack dealer if she shuffled the cards before dealing.
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For example, 23A, a "Casino gambler's resolution?" relies on a huge winning streak at the blackjack table, or a coldblooded wave of old magazine recycling — whatever will CLEAN OUT THE HOUSE.
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The classic example came when his extremely wealthy father bailed out his casino by purchasing $3.5 million worth of chips at a blackjack table and then left the casino without gambling.
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Charles Barkley -- one of the most famous high-roller blackjack players in the world (he's won and lost MILLIONS over the years) -- gives his take and it seems like awful advice!!!
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You can play a hand of Blackjack with Vector, which is a little more impressive as the bot plays dealer while its glowing eyes are replaced with a simple set of cards.
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The Canelo Alvarez party train continues ... and Mexican singing legend Luis Miguel has hopped on board, playing blackjack in Vegas with the boxing star after that beatdown of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr!
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Not in the way his father, Blackjack Mulligan, or most other cowboy wrestlers had been—he kept the big fists and the ability to take a beating, but that was about it.
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The goal in blackjack, at least the way I play, is to stay afloat and keep betting conservatively until I go on what's called a "run," a consecutive series of winning hands.
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Pacman Jones not only cheated at the blackjack table before his February arrest ... he also smacked the hell out of an officer's arm -- and it's all on video obtained by TMZ Sports.
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But Maureen is so weighed down by her own addictions (to cigarettes, booze, pills and violence) she's punishing herself as much as the creeps she clobbers into insensibility with her trusty blackjack.
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A tally that he made, before his trial, of his activity at the tables indicated that his wagers on blackjack, during a period of eighteen months, totalled more than a billion dollars.
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The same goes for a game like blackjack, in which your chances are consistent, the dealer's behavior is printed right on the table and everyone agrees on what makes a good outcome.
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Alicia Bakken, 25, who labored over a green felt blackjack table at a "dealer's school" in a storefront in Monticello earlier this month, said the county was finally on the way up.
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Before that, the state had only licensed so-called racinos, which are connected to racetracks and feature video lottery terminals — similar to slot machines — but no table games like blackjack and craps.
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The rooms themselves are free, but patrons more than pay for their stays at the blackjack table: The more you're willing to spend in the casino, the better the room you're given.
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My role in the casino was to take care of the commission, like if we have blackjack and the dealer wins, I'm the one who comes and collects the house cut, 10 percent.
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Wyatt (real name Windham Rotunda) is the son of Mike Rotunda (best known for his run as IRS, the wrestling tax man), the nephew of Barry Windham, and the grandson of Blackjack Mulligan.
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You've packed your sunscreen, bathing suits, and a few hundred bucks you've been squirreling away to use for your can't-miss blackjack system while your spouse and child are asleep in the room.
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Ivey's alleged strategy is actually quite genius -- it's called "edge-sorting" and it's kind of like card counting in blackjack ... in the sense that it gives the player an advantage over the house.
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In addition to blackjack and roulette, the casino features an occasional fight club, in which upstanding folks pair off and beat each other bloody as their fellow burghers wager money on the outcome.
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Picture a mood-lit Las Vegas casino, at first glance indistinguishable from any other pleasure palace on the Strip: salarymen hunch over $250 blackjack tables as waitresses with plunging necklines circle the floor.
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Not only that but it was only $5.99, making me feel a little better about the time I planned to spend (and money I would probably lose) later that night at the blackjack table.
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A lot of the patrons recognize us as the characters we're cosplaying, and we joke that we're really getting into character because R's character would absolutely be as good at blackjack like they are.
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"We can confirm that RAF quick reaction alert Typhoon aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth scrambled to monitor two Blackjack bombers while they were in the UK area of interest," a Royal Air Force spokesman said.
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Red Sox 23, Dodgers 23 | Boston leads series, 33-23 BOSTON — Modern baseball, with its luxury tax leveling the playing field, is increasingly won in the margins, like card counters at a blackjack table.
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Near the bar, Mr. Serrano had set up a blackjack table rescued from the defunct Trump Plaza in Atlantic City; boxing jackets from big-ticket bouts, and a case of colognes ("Success by Trump").
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Manfred exerted his power and proved to Luhnow that baseball follows the same fundamental rule as blackjack: You can ride a hot hand for a while, but the house always wins in the end.
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The bottom line: Casinos are already installing fancy gaming machines and new equipment that allows blackjack dealers to accommodate dozens of gamers, where until now they have been able to deal only to a handful.
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Sources tell us the Golden Boy booked the White Horse in Pasadena last weekend for Anna Valencia's 30th ... decking the place out in a casino theme, complete with blackjack tables and chips featuring her face!!
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Habitat loss and gain for trees the Great Smokey MountainsEastern hemlock and most maples, which like cool weather and moist soils, will lose habitat dramatically, while most hickories, Black cherry, and Blackjack oak will proliferate.
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As an undergraduate at Irvine, Lacob took a calculus class from Edward Thorp, whose 1962 book, "Beat the Dealer," proved that a blackjack player could gain a slight edge on the house by counting cards.
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Charles Barkley is proving to LeBron James he's got NO money problems in Vegas anymore -- ballin' out with more than $100k in chips at a blackjack table in Vegas this weekend ... TMZ Sports has learned.
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After studying film and playing professional blackjack, the younger Ai came to international attention in 2006 through his blog on the platform Sina Weibo, which mixed commentary on art and architecture with anti-government rants.
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However, air traffic control audio reviewed by CNN showed that the responding military aircraft, operated by a pilot going by the call sign "Blackjack," did report seeing a flock of birds while in the air.
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Hammond told parliament he plans to increase the so-called Remote Gaming Duty paid by overseas operators who offer online casino-type games such as blackjack to 21 percent from its current level of 15 percent.
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There aren't many other places in Vegas where you can enjoy a front-row perch above the famed Bellagio fountains in a contemporary room that's more than just a place to crash in between blackjack bets.
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There's "Would You Rather," which is a game exactly like it sounds and pretty mindless, but somewhat enjoyable when I played during a late drive home after a long day at work, and hands-free Blackjack.
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In January, a US E-3 aircraft, two F-22 fighter jets and two Canadian CF-18 fighter jets similarly "positively identified" two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers entering the Canadian Air Defense Identification Zone.
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And because — and because it was Nevada, he also picked up votes from blackjack dealers, Cirque du Soleil, and that one guy sitting alone at the prime rib buffet muttering 'How am I gonna tell Marjorie?
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There is no armed version of the ScanEagle, but Insitu, the division of Boeing that makes the drone, also makes the RQ-21A Blackjack which is an optionally armed drone used by U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
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After meeting with Blackjack Foley (David Straitharn), and using that robotic Senator Joe Scolari to their advantage, they present Charles with two options: sell Chuck out and his upstate property near the new casino will be worthless.
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After a few fumbles, he learns how to be a caretaker on his terms, getting the kids to do chores by cutting off their Wi-Fi access and teaching them to play blackjack using cookies as chips.
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Air Traffic Control audio reviewed by CNN revealed that a pilot using the callsign "Blackjack" was able to quickly determine that there did not appear to be an aircraft in the area that posed an immediate threat.
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At night, the club offers a massive venue, 45 VIP gaming tables with blackjack, baccarat and other table games, and an LED centerpiece developed by lighting designer Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting, who has designed stages for Coachella.
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If, for example, a whale from China wants to play a variant of blackjack in which the dealer has to hit on soft 17, the casino, especially if it is struggling, will sometimes adjust to please the whale.
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If you're looking to master programs like Python, check out the Complete Python Bootcamp and learn to create games like Tic Tac Toe and Blackjack, use Object Oriented Programming, create GUIs in the Jupyter Notebook system, and more.
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"We can confirm that quick reaction alert Typhoon aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Coningsby scrambled to monitor two Blackjack bombers while they were in the UK area of interest," a Royal Air Force spokesman said in a statement.
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According to the reviewer, the skill had said: "If you enjoy card games, you can say 'OK Google, talk to 21 Blackjack'…" The skill was then promptly rejected because you can't say "Google" in an Alexa app, you see.
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My character had moved onto a more customized mech, but the Blackjack was still a good skirmisher in Samnite's capable hands, gnawing away at targets from the fringes of the battle and maneuvering to focus on their weak points.
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NATO jets have had a number of high-profile encounters with Russian warplanes, as recently as January, when a pair of Tu-160 Blackjack nuclear bombers were intercepted by Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoons as they approached British airspace.
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In 2007, Apple's mobile competitors were the Samsung Blackjack, which had a 2.2 inch screen; the Blackberry Curve 8300, which had a 2.5 inch screen; and the Nokia N1383, which had a 2.6 inch screen, according to Apple Insider.
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"I'm down here to vote against Trump," said Estraya Ingel, a middle-aged blackjack dealer in the Centennial Hills neighborhood of Las Vegas, where the city's sprawl tapers into the former horse ranches and scrub brush of rural Nevada.
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There's no feeling quite analogous to sitting with several strangers at a blackjack table and razzing the dealer as he sweeps away all of your chips after he has had an outrageous stroke of good luck against long odds.
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Table hosts who deal blackjack, baccarat, craps, and poker are fighting to strike down the current tipping policy, which requires them to forfeit fifteen percent of gratuities earned and give them to their immediate supervisors, who disburse it among themselves.
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His wish to sip a beer one last time at Bally's while hanging at a blackjack table came true on Tuesday thanks to staff at Complete Care at Green Acres and his hospice case manager at Visiting Nurse Association Healthgroup.
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After raging his face off Saturday, the Champ took his celebration to the MGM Grand blackjack tables Monday -- and while Canelo looks focused on his cards, "El Sol De Mexico" is all smiles seated right next to the big winner.
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These cards — which were successfully funded on Kickstarter — are lightweight, waterproof, and durable, giving you the opportunity to play poker in the pool, blackjack on the beach, Texas Hold'em while you skate a slalom or Gin Rummy in a whale's tummy.
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The other available jobs were dealing blackjack and making beds and cleaning floors at one of the three gigantic Vegas-style casinos that now shimmered in neon above the freeways, yet another of the city fathers' plots to save Detroit.
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To access the site, you typed your user name in the blank field, waited for a slot to open and then found yourself in the main chat room, where you could challenge people to a round of blackjack, keno or billiards.
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Examples include the blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas casino, the nurse at a hospital renowned for its cancer treatments, the audio technician on a movie set, the engineer who advises companies worldwide on the best way to extract oil.
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Among other criticisms, the complaint says that Dentist Games for Kids, an app for children 8 and under in the Play store, showed ads for adult casino games with names like Blackjack 21: Blackjackist and Double Wins Slots — Free Vegas Casino.
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Thanks to the coronavirus and the shutdowns needed to fight it, people across professions now face months of lost wages: bartenders, musicians, bouncers, baristas, blackjack dealers, home health aides, waitstaff, retail workers, and flight attendants, to name just a few.
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If you're feeling a little grimy from the previous night or need to soothe your hurt pride from losses incurred at the blackjack table, take solace in the knowledge there's a wealth of natural beauty and interesting side trips at your disposal.
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The goal of dice control, he explained, is to alter the odds of landing a seven from one in six to one in 6.23 rolls, the point at which shooters gain an advantage equivalent to that of card counters at the blackjack table.
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The difference between the D.F.S. high roller and the blackjack whale, of course, is that the whale is trying to take millions from a multinational casino corporation and not from the honeymooners from Fresno who are betting away at the $5 tables.
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SOON AFTER the new year in 24.6 Shane Smith, co-founder of Vice Media, enjoyed an epic run at the blackjack tables in Las Vegas, and spent $24.5,218 of his $260m winnings on dinner and booze with his buddies, according to media reports.
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For gamblers who really can't pass up a blackjack table or a favorable point spread, the game is less about the money won and lost (although that's the part that tends to ruin lives) and more about chasing the neurochemical high of winning.
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In one of the movie's central sequences, the protagonist, Firdaus (her name, derived from the Arabic word for "paradise," is only said once in the movie), played by the filmmaker's sister Tinka Menkes, plies her trade as a low-stakes blackjack dealer.
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If the mood struck, you could walk into a nearby casino and place a bet on the game you were about to attend or just kill time at a blackjack table—an option chosen by many—until it was time to enter the arena.
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"Ultimately though, in broader, more subjective terms, it is capitalism itself that is threatened by the ongoing Martingale strategies of central banks," Gross said, referencing the bettor strategy of doubling down bets in blackjack with the idea that ultimately a winning hand will come along.
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The other day, one my best pilots—who went by the callsign "SAMNITE" and who spoke over the radio in a bright, no-nonsense Irish accent—was at the helm of the old family Blackjack that your character receives at the start of the game.
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So I made a hybrid from a blackjack felt and a roulette felt, and I made up a very simple game to start with, giving full license to the 14 TAP kids to invent their own rules and ways of interacting with the public.
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I've had my brief encounters with the hopefulness of luck; I've carried around rabbit's feet as a kid and made wishes on shooting stars, dropped money on lottery tickets and Las Vegas blackjack tables, every time thinking this would be the moment my luck changed.
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FLIGHT ATTENDANTS HAVE HIGHER CANCER RISK THAN GENERAL POPULATION, STUDY SUGGESTS Mudry&aposs death came nearly a week after he and his family visited Bally&aposs Atlantic City so the 71-year-old retired Teamster could drink a cold beer and play a few hands of blackjack.
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The daughter of overprotective parents from Bensonhurst, she left the claustrophobia of home for Las Vegas, where she worked as a cocktail waitress and went to bed with musicians and blackjack dealers until her roommate had a nearly fatal back-alley abortion, which initiated a feminist awakening.
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It's too big, everyone there is distracted by potential blackjack winnings, and trying to get noticed or launch at CES is akin to holding a poetry reading in the middle of a rock concert: nobody is paying attention and you actually may annoy more people than you reach.
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Photo: Tom Caswell (Gizmodo)When it ships in October (pre-orders start now on Kickstarter), Vector will only be able to tell you the weather, give you standard facts like how many ounces are in a cup, take photos, set timers, and play a handful of games, including blackjack.
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I polled a number of NHL players yesterday and all said they believe participating in the Winter Olympics is important... The NHLPA now has to make the next move in this heads up game of blackjack being played between the NHL's owners and its biggest asset, the players.
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Some 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands hold lotteries, at least 43 states have casino-style gambling, more than 20 allow card games like poker and blackjack, and most allow betting on horse and dog races, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
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The Shawn Carter Foundation Gala, which takes place Friday and Saturday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, will include a blackjack tournament in which Williams is set to participate and a performance by Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys, who is married to Dean.
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Mr. Asher said he learned to count cards in blackjack at age 10, was working at a racetrack in Delaware, where he grew up, at 16, and, after practicing law in New York, left the profession and opened his own sports book; he later sold it to William Hill.
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Resorts World, which is rushing to train 600 dealers in blackjack, craps, baccarat and Pai gow, and hire 1,2100 employees, may be the first billion-dollar project to move up its opening date, to mid February from March 000, in order to be ready for the Chinese New Year.
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If you don't spend more time in Deadwood than it takes to lose $40 at the Blackjack table, you might come away with the false impression that no one lived here in the old days without finding themselves at one end or the other of a Colt revolver.
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One woman showed me some printed out security camera stills that she said showed real aliens playing blackjack in a casino (I'm fairly sure they were actually just bald men, who I sincerely hope are not aware that their image is being used as proof of alien life).
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"Some could go really far and say even if you send a text message to a casino customer in another state and you are saying 'Come play blackjack this weekend here's a deal,' arguably you can say that is information that assists in the placement of a wager," she said.
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" Even after Piazza started making big money — he was making $6 million by 1999 and earned $15 million in 2004 and 2005 — he maintained a conservative money mindset: "Today, if I go to Vegas, which is very rare, I'll take out $500, maybe play some blackjack, maybe a little poker.
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And, with over 5,000 distinct cultivars, no other bloom has a wider range of colors, from the slender white-and-crimson viridiflora Flaming Spring Green and the raspberry-striped Hemisphere to the peony-like, double-fringed claret-red Belfort and Blackjack, a single flower the color of a half-healed bruise.
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These guys who are professional bettors—they won't even sit down at a Blackjack table because they know that the odds are 49 percent in their favor, and they won't do anything unless they have more than a 50 percent edge because they know that eventually, over time, that they're going to lose.
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In public, he's going way off script, trashing Republicans he blames for getting in his way for the past eight years, even if that leads him into tricky territory, as when he seemed to conflate blackjack and poker in an extended card-game metaphor he tried out at the microphone in Las Vegas.
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There was one person, however, that even Vanguard's fixed-income team considered in a class of his own and thus worth paying for: Bill Gross, who co-founded Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) in 1971 after a conventional career in finance and risk, plus a brief professional foray onto the blackjack tables of Las Vegas.
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In "World Series: Red Sox Outmaneuver Dodgers, and Finally Outdistance Them," Billy Witz writes about how Boston managed to defy Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw to beat Los Angeles in the first game: BOSTON — Modern baseball, with its luxury tax leveling the playing field, is increasingly won in the margins, like card counters at a blackjack table.
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Or rather, this seems to be the case for Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott, who spent Thanksgiving together in Palm Springs, CA. Two months after they announced they were "taking space apart," the two were spotted playing blackjack, poker, and grabbing drinks at the Agua Caliente Casino with other members of Jenner's family, including Khloé Kardashian.
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Bender's "bite my shiny, metal ass" (+21), mischievous spin on the word "neat" (+22), "yeah baby, I know it" (+213), and insistence that he'll make his own version of a thing "with blackjack and hookers" (+22) don't have as much portability to everyday conversations as the professor's "good news, everyone" (+22) or being "technically correct, the best kind of correct" (+21).
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Before Shadow met Laura, she was a miserable blackjack dealer whose only real comfort was her nightly ritual when she'd get home late, climb into her hot tub, and bring herself to the brink of asphyxiation by liberally spraying insect repellant (the titular "Git Gone") in the few inches of space between the hot water and the hot tub lid.
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On Thursday, the British air force (RAF) scrambled two of its Typhoon fighter jets to escort two Russian Blackjack bombers that had entered airspace designated as an "area of interest" by the U.K. The two bombers reportedly flew around Scotland and down the west coast of Ireland before being intercepted by the French military, who escorted them down the coast of France and over to Spanish military.
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VINGT-ET-UN, known to Americans as blackjack, is a card game in which players must decide whether the value of the two-card hand they are dealt is likely to be enough to beat the dealer's unseen hand, or whether they should risk going bust by adding to it, one card at a time, as they seek to get as close as possible to a permitted maximum of 21 points.
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