Archive | Baccarat

26 November 2007 ~ 4 Comments

Casino Royale: The Poker versus Baccarat Debate

So I rented Casino Royale, the new James Bond 007 movie. If you haven’t seen this movie yet and you’re a James Bond fan, you have got to get your ass to Blockbuster, Netflix, or Hollywood Video and get your hands on this rental (you can pick it up widescreen, fullscreen, or Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray makes [...]

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21 November 2007 ~ 2 Comments

4 Ways to Maintain the Winning Edge While Playing Online

Rest When you’re winning just keep riding that winning wave. But if you start losing, stop and rest up. Use your time to do relaxing things like hitting your bed to take a power nap, watch some television, or get a snack. If you think of it like if you’re a computer, you’re “resetting yourself”. [...]

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13 November 2007 ~ 3 Comments

The Baccarat Primer: How to Get Started in Baccarat

Did you know “Baccara” in Italian means zero? And since the worst hand you can have in Baccarat is zero, well, it makes for an unusual choice for the name of the game. By the way, it’s spelled B-A-C-C-A-R-A-T. Not bacarrat. Or baccarrat. Or back-a-rat. History of Baccarat Baccarat is thought to have been brought [...]

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04 November 2007 ~ 20 Comments

Johnny Chan Academy: Casino Dealer School

Who’s Johnny Chan? He’s a professional poker player, born in Guangzhou (Canton), China in 1957 and now living in Las Vegas, Nevada. His name in Traditional Chinese is 陳強尼. Yeah, I’m international like that. He’s got 10 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, two WSOP championship titles (1987 and 1988) and founder of online casino [...]

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12 October 2007 ~ 7 Comments

The Myth of the Bad Hand

There’s really no such thing as your favorite hand or your worst hand. It’s all in your mind. That thing between your ears. The brain. The noggin. The dome. The psyche. I’m not saying you’re crazy. A lot of us have weird things that we do, say, or think about. We may not say them [...]

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