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A bet is a bet is a bet

It’s all relative, depending on your income. A Michael Jordan or a John Daly can afford to plop down a large bet without feeling a lot of financial pain. Well, at least Jordan, anyway. How good can Daly’s finances be if he writes a song titled “All My Exes Wear Rolexes”? For us average muni players, that would be “All My Exes Wear Timexes.”

It’s still the same pressure, though. You had better know what you’re doing when you gamble. Let’s face it, you’re a bad golfer or you wouldn’t be on this Web site. You’d be on GoodGolfer.com or something, and bad golfers rarely win bets from good golfers, even with handicaps. Ninety percent of bad golfers think Nassau is an island. (Yes, I made that statistic up.)

My uncle invited a visiting single to play on his private golf course. The stranger was one of those good golfers and suggested a dollar a hole to my uncle, who accepted. When the round ended, my uncle was up four holes, and his gracious opponent handed him 0.

Had my uncle known a dollar meant 0 in the gambler world, he would have lost every hole. Pressure.

(Thus the subtitle, why a dime isn’t 10 cents. A dime’s a thousand dollars. A dollar is a hundred, and a nickel is 500 in betting circles. Now you know.)

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Golf gambling: The terms

Let’s keep this simple and explain just a few bets:

Nassau: The front nine is worth , the back nine is worth and the 18th hole total is worth . When your opponent “presses” during the round, a new bet runs concurrently. If they keep pressing, the money can build up quickly, and the bad golfer usually folds from the pressure. A good golfer will usually wait for a long dogleg par 4 with water down the right side before pressing. Don’t fall for it. Just say, “No.”

Bingo Bango Bongo: No it’s not an Elvis movie; it’s a points bet. A player wins points for first on the green, a point for closest to the pin when all balls are on the green and a point for being the first to hole out. Most points win. The convoluted bet is best known for turning a four-hour round into six hours.

Sandies: My favorite. You get up and down for par from a green-side bunker, and you win or from your partners. This bet entices greedy players to purposely hit into the bunker for the chance at a sandie, though I rarely have to try to land in a bunker.

There are many more types of golf wagering games, but most are as confusing as Tiger’s tax return, so I won’t list them.

No one really knows for sure if gambling on golf is illegal, but I assume it’s not when you see all that money exchange hands at the Police Benevolent Association scrambles. But illegal or not, I’ll risk making a bet now.

I bet a dime (10 cents, not ,000) that despite their age difference, Charles Axel Woods and Sophia Mickelson will someday marry and create offspring of phenomenal golf ability. I’ll bet another dime the two continue the Woods-Mickelson tradition of not speaking to each other.

Recommended Golf Clubs:

Taylormade Golf Clubs
Mizuno Golf Clubs
Titleist Golf Clubs

Steve Wynn

The third serious player on the market of gambling entertainments in Las Vegas and Macao. Steve was born in 1942 in Connecticut. Unlike Kirk and Sheldon, Steve received very good education, according to American standards – he graduated from Pennsylvania university. Steve had to engage in private business straight after graduation. His father, the owner of the network of bingo clubs in the west of the U.S., died when Steve was still a student. The son continues his business. Steve’s career in “big” business starts in 1967. Having saved some money, he buys a small share of the casino-hotel “Frontier” in Las Vegas, where he moved for permanent residence together with his wife. Having no funds to build his own casino, Steve gets acquainted with the owners of the already existing casinos and offers them his services in renewal of their business. His first project was reconstruction of the casino «Golden Nugget». Steve transformed the absolutely ordinary casino into a luxurious institution, which immediately became a great success with the players. Having showed himself and earned a pretty penny, Steve decided to invest money into buying shares of other Vegas casinos, in order to reconstruct them as well. The following major project is renovation of the casino «The Mirage». According to Steve’s conception, it was to become the most outstanding, rich, elite casino of Las Vegas. He intends to found there a big park and an artificial volcano, and make the best rooms and hotel service in Vegas. Steve bets on luxury. Despite apprehensions of the partners (the project was very expensive), he managed to embody his ideas. «The Mirage» became and for a long period remained the most prestigious casino of Las Vegas, bringing huge profits to its owners.

After this project Steve’s name enters the history of the world capital of gambling. However, Steve does not rest on his laurels. Conversely, he becomes thoroughly engrossed in a new reckless venture. Developing his conception of a “luxurious casino”, he totally changes the casino-hotel «Bellagio»: an artificial lake, an internal greenhouse, an art gallery with canvases of great painters, expensive boutiques and restaurants. Enormous diligence, multiplied by talent, made Steve one of the richest people in Vegas, the owner of casinos. In 2000 he sells «The Mirage» to the company «MGM Grand», which after this purchase changes its name to «MGM Mirage».

Wynn spends most of his money on building a new institution, which opens in April 2005 on the site of «Desert Inn». The new brainchild of Steve is called «Wynn Las Vegas».

Apart from interests in Vegas, Steve invests funds into conquering the Asian market. In the short-term perspective it is planned to open the casino «Wynn Macau». Steve’s activity has brought him 2.1 billion dollars, which allowed him to occupy the 365th position in «Forbes» world rating.

Stanley Ho

The wealthiest representative of gambling industry in Asia who for more than 30 years was the single ruler of this industry in Macao. Stanley was born in 1921 in Hong Kong. His great-grandfather was a Dutch Jew who married a local woman. The Ho family was one of the most renowned and influential in Hong Kong. But Stanley was not able to make use of the wealth of this family. His father went bankrupt, when Stanley was a student. Due to financial break-down his two brothers committed a suicide, and his father renounced his family and left Stanley with two sisters and mother. Despite all hardships, he successfully graduated from Hong Kong university and mastered three languages. Stanley started his career in a trade company, located in Macao. Outstanding business skills and proficiency in several languages allow him to become a shareholder of the company at the age of 21. Ho received his first fortune as a result of a very unpleasant accident. Stanley was responsible for sea trade. During one of the voyages the ship with Stanley, who carried a great amount of money, aboard was subject to an armed attack. Stanley, practically on his own (many of his fellow employees were killed) stands against the gang and returns both the money and the ship. The company duly appreciated the courage of their employee and rewarded him a bonus of one million! In 1943 Ho invested his million into construction industry, his new company is located in Hong Kong. At this time the city undergoes a real construction boom, and Stanley receives very decent dividends from his business. But his ambitions are not limited to construction business, together with his partners he wins the tender for the monopolistic right to open gambling institutions in Macao. Stanley won the tender with the sum of only 410 thousand dollars. For many years Ho’s company becomes the monopolist of Macao gambling market. Stanley invests all his money and skills in this company. By 1972 he owns 9 casinos, including casino-hotel «Lisboa», one of the most beautiful casinos of the world.

In the 90-ies Ho extends beyond the borders of Macao and opens 9 casinos on the Philippines, however, as a result of a conflict with the president of this country, he had to renounce his Philippine business. Apart from the casino, Ho owns many betting operators and totalizators. In 2003 the budget of Macao by 30% consisted of revenues from the activities of the companies that belonged to Stanley. His business provides work to more than 10 thousand people. In 1998 Ho becomes one of the first living inhabitants of Macao, in whose honour the local street was named. But earlier or later everything comes to an end. Ho’s idyll ends in 2000, when Macao authorities decide to cancel monopoly for gambling industry. Since 2002 Ho has to share gambling industry with American “sharks” – Wynn and Adelson, who immediately used the chance to become familiar with Asian market. Presently Stanley Ho’s fortune is 6.5 billion dollars, he has the 84th position in the «Forbes» world rating.

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The a lot more players in their syndicate the greater investing energy they will have, therefore achieving extra entries into the Countrywide lotto or Euro Millions. A rapid suggestion if you haven’t already recognized, you should cap the total of gamers in any one particular syndicate, the much more individuals the more you will have to share.

One thing price thinking about in advance of becoming a member of or forming a syndicate even thou you will be taking part in with get the job done colleagues. Copies of this signed arrangement have to be presented to all gamers of the lottery syndicate and the authentic reserved in a safe and sound spot.

You need to declare in your agreement the system for how the prize-winnings will be used or divided amongst the members.

There is a multitude of factors to think about when becoming a member of or administrating a Uk Nationwide Lotto or Euro Millions Lottery Syndicate. It is doable to come across on the online a much less complicated way to cooperate in or in fact operate your own person Syndicate. With no Agreements tying you in, your numbers will be consequentially placed into the lottery draws. Members of the eLottery Syndicate Program acquire 88 Lottery Lines for the countrywide lotto any week in the direction of equally draws. Members in this lottery syndicate perform with a substantial 733% elevated possibilities.

eLottery also run a Euro Thousands and thousands Lottery Syndicate, equivalent to the Nationwide Lotto. Numerous gamers recognize that they win typical prizes than in contrast to when they play the normal way.

Working with a mathematically intended muti win syndicate process players jackpot odds for the National Lottery are just one in one.9 million. Perform the Euro Lottery with this process and gamers can assume to see odds of 1 in three to win a dollars prize and have 3600% greater jackpot odds.

Gamers can easily go to a site to watch a quantity of statistics about this method for a range of video games. The administration also planned Euro lottery “Tremendous Draws” that come about two times any 12 months and submit prizes money in the sector of a hundred million. Each Euro-millions ticket now has a raffle fashion ticket quantity printed on it. All you have do do is be the lucky player to match this raffle ticket number. There is a downside to this, the total price of a Euro-millions ticket has enhanced from ?one.fifty to ?2.00.

So what does this have to do with the E-lottery?

These modifications have elevated the value of a E-lottery Euro-hundreds of thousands Syndicate placement massively, this is for the reason that the selling price of a Euro-hundreds of thousands Syndicate ticket price remains the very same. Meaning as a ticket holder you will now get 36 chances to win the share of the Millionaire Raffle as effectively. That is effectively 36 raffle tickets for the cost of ?5.00.

The E-lottery also promise you to match each star numbers, that means you only need to have to match the primary numbers to win a prize. This is for the reason that of how this clever multi-win syndicate is run. previous prizes have been a brand new Mini vehicle.

The organisers of the UK National Lotto and Euro Millions lottery state that twenty five percent of jackpots are won by lottery syndicates. But organising a syndicate can be more trouble than it is worth unless you get it right.

The traditional syndicate is usually made up of a group of family members or work colleagues who club their resources together each week and buy a number of lottery tickets between them. Any winnings being shared out between the syndicate members.

The first problem usually encountered by the syndicate leader is trying to collect the lottery money each week. This can result in a lot of time wasted in chasing other syndicate members for their cash.

Another problem for the syndicate leader will be that of having to go out and queue up to purchase the tickets every week – more time wasted. And woe betides him if he forgets to do this, especially if the syndicate numbers come up on that particular week.

On the other hand, if the syndicate does have a big win one week, there is always the possibility that the leader might abscond with all the lottery winnings or at least not share them out with the other syndicate members.

Then there could be a downside for winning syndicate members. If the syndicate manager purchases the tickets, any winnings are paid to him and only him. It is the syndicate leader who then has to split up the winnings and ‘gift’ them to the other syndicate members.

By receiving this ‘gift’ of lottery winnings from the syndicate manager, the syndicate members might well become liable for inheritance tax if the winnings are considerable. The last thing that you want is for the taxman to take a wedge of your winnings, especially as lottery winnings are tax-free to the winning ticket holder. So do ensure that you have a legally binding contract drawn up from the start (available for the lottery organisers) showing how the money is to be shared out in the event of a big win.

On the plus side, being part of a professional lottery syndicate will undoubtedly boost your chances of a big lottery win. This is especially so if the syndicate has enough members to cover enough numbers to guarantee a certain amount of correct syndicate numbers even before the draw has taken place.

This is perfectly possible to do, but requires quite a bit of work on behalf of the syndicate manager, possibly more work than he would be prepared to take on in fact, as it involves a long stint at the lottery terminal buying tickets all in the correct order.

The only way around this is to (legally) program a computer to automatically buy the tickets online in the correct order, and to do this every week without fail whilst ensuring that winnings are distributed fairly to each syndicate member on time, every time.

A syndicate such as this has a much better chance of winning a big cash prize when compared to buying a single ticket from a retail outlet – and doesn’t cost much more to do so.

With all the interest in texas holdem poker, home poker games and special poker tournaments are a great way to enjoy the challenge of a lively poker table full of friends, family and other players.

In this part 1 of a 6 part article series, we’ll cover a few tips to lighten the load of playing host for a poker tournament.

Part 1: Where To Host Your Poker Tournament.

If you’re going to host a poker game, your poker tables have to go somewhere. Most home games are just that… at a player’s home. However, bars, clubs, restaurants, even some public buildings, will often welcome a pre-planned poker tournament, and often provide an area free of charge. Check local ordinances. Keep in mind poker for money is illegal in some areas, but just playing for free can still be exciting and fun. These establishments want customers, especially during their slow periods, and the players are customers. A poker game table is better than an empty table, and you can provide the poker table tops and the customers. Some have private rooms. This can also be easier for the host as they provide the service and refreshments for you, at no cost to the host. This can create affiliate relationships between the tournament host and the establishment. The customers, the tournament entrants, have value, especially during slow periods. Assure the merchant that you are an organized group.  That you have all the poker chips, playing cards (maybe even the poker table tops) to conduct a timely and orderly tournament. This could offer up some co-promotional publicity and advertising opportunities. Our online Poker Shop will have the supplies you’ll need.

Hosting a home tournament also works best with some pre-planning. With the right poker table and chips, poker is just that much better.

If you set up a roaming home game, folding poker tables where the legs fold up are almost a necessity. There are several less expensive poker table tops available as well as poker furniture that easily converts into a poker dining table. Eat then Play. These are beautiful poker game tables, but most are not very portable. They are more like poker furniture.

In this article, part 1 of 6, we see home games and tournaments don’t necessarily have to be at home. There are many options. In part 2 we’ll discuss poker tables and poker table tops. Now that you have a place you need a good surface to play poker on, the felt. There are several options as we’ll see.

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