These days, pines and blackjack oaks with trunks "as thick as a man's leg" dot the fairways, Harris said.
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Mobile-phone users have also taken a shine to such games as Wireless Pets (about the trials of pet ownership), as well as such tried-and-tested time-killers as Hangman and Blackjack.
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New laws which came into force in Britain at the beginning of September allow the creation of licensed internet casinos where people can gamble on games such as poker and blackjack.
Instead of celeb-stalking or whiling away the hours at slot machines and Blackjack tables, 140, 000 like-minded gear-hunters will be prowling 1.7 million square feet of exhibit space to find never-before-seen phones, TV screens, chips and other devices that defy conventional gadget categorization.
The Q has already inspired competitors such as the T-Mobile Dash and Samsung BlackJack.
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They're the ones with the sleeves rolled up and the garters around their--and they're dealing the blackjack hands and stuff.
He also began taking classes in Japanese at the Japan Society and seeing a math tutor, with whom he worked on writing software for winning at blackjack and poker.
Shuffle Master, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, makes automated card shufflers for games such as blackjack and is trying hard to break into the videogame market.
Much about the new "Thief" will be familiar to fans, including Garrett's silent blackjack and the setting of The City, a mysterious steampunk metropolis.
Actually, it's more accurate to say that it's 95 percent BlackJack and 5 percent improvement, with a more inward-slanted, square d-pad that makes it considerably harder to accidentally hit the surrounding controls, and angled keys that offer an embedded numeric pad in the proper configuration (we appreciate what Samsung tried to do with the original BlackJack's every-other-key layout, but in practice, it just didn't work out).
Samsung's Blackjack II and Palm 's Treo 750 are two handsets that fit the bill.
Samsung's Blackjack II and Palm 's (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) Treo 750 are two handsets that fit the bill.
When hired, gregarious blackjack dealers and roulette spinners give new meaning to having a game face:They wish gamblers luck, directing them to machines and tables that have produced winners.
Lisette said that her mother was not a motel maid or a cocktail waitress but a blackjack dealer, and you had to be trained for that.
But finance is "quite different" he says, because blackjack has unchanging rules and measurable odds.
You can choose to put in games like blackjack, video poker and roulette, or add furniture and decorations.
The subject is playing blackjack as a business and the ways in which that might be good preparation for the business of making money on Wall Street.
You could read about it in The Big Player by Kenny Uston, Turning the Tables On Las Vegas by Ian Anderson, Professional Blackjack by Stanford Wong and Repeat Until Rich by Josh Axelrod.
Strangers in the night dance 'til dawn in this four-acre garden of earthly delights, featuring world-class DJs, swim-up blackjack, interactive performance artists and a private island.
Provably-fair bitZino, covered previously in this column, offers blackjack, video poker, roulette, and craps in a bitcoin-only environment.
Many cycles come and go, just as in the game of blackjack.
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Mr Vedral gives a good description of how Shannon's information theory can be applied to winning at blackjack or in buying shares (Shannon and his friends made fortunes in Las Vegas as well as on the stockmarket).
The prof has built a team of students who win fortunes in blackjack during weekend trips to Las Vegas and then resume life on campus as if nothing had happened, and his new recruit becomes the star player.
Two of its founders, Michael Wakin and Christopher Rozell, had just had a paper on card counting in blackjack rejected.
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You may not be able to count cards at the blackjack table, but counting historical trends of the stock market and discovering inflection points are not only legal strategies, they are essential to successful investing.
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Downsides include a relatively pokey 200MHz core, poor battery life (though nothing BlackJack owners can't relate to, we reckon), and -- yeah, we're starting to nitpick here -- the lack of a mirror next to the camera.
For example, in the game of blackjack, players may try to count cards to keep track of the deck and determine whether the dealer or the player has the probable advantage.
You know the odds are against you at a Las Vegas blackjack table, but there is always a chance that you can win, and that your decisions can affect your chances of winning.
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And Lefty himself was quite candid about the way he dealt with a man found cheating at blackjack.
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