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			<title>VP 101: Which Book, Which Software = CV?</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:46:38 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[OK, it's now time for me to delve into VP--so the questions are: 
 
1. What's the first book I read? 
 
2. What's the VP equivalent of CV? 
 
Best regards, 
 
FD]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>OK, it's now time for me to delve into VP--so the questions are:<br />
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1. What's the first book I read?<br />
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2. What's the VP equivalent of CV?<br />
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Best regards,<br />
<br />
FD</div>

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			<title>Reno-multiple decks</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:39:34 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Who has the best multiple deck shoe games in Reno?  I'll be going there in March and all I've been able to read about here are single deck games which I have no experience at playing.  I would much prefer to play multiple deck games if there are any places that over good rules.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Who has the best multiple deck shoe games in Reno?  I'll be going there in March and all I've been able to read about here are single deck games which I have no experience at playing.  I would much prefer to play multiple deck games if there are any places that over good rules.</div>

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			<dc:creator>21gunsalute</dc:creator>
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			<title>The S.E.X. Blackjack System vs. The Princeton Blackjack System</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:15:27 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I am new at card counting, and am trying to master my first method- I was wondering if any of you know either of these books, and if so, which one do you think I should learn first? A friend of mine has both of these books, and doesn't mind giving me one of them to me... Thanks for any advice :) I...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I am new at card counting, and am trying to master my first method- I was wondering if any of you know either of these books, and if so, which one do you think I should learn first? A friend of mine has both of these books, and doesn't mind giving me one of them to me... Thanks for any advice :) I am looking for a good introductory technique (not too difficult, etc)..</div>

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			<title>Fox News does it again.</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:05:56 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Last week it got caught showing fake footage at a rally in Washington that they reported had 40,000 participants, while the Capitol Police estimated it was closer to 2,000. 
 Yesterday, they were reporting on a Sarah Palin book signing and the huge crowd it had gathered. So they show video of a...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Last week it got caught showing fake footage at a rally in Washington that they reported had 40,000 participants, while the Capitol Police estimated it was closer to 2,000.<br />
 Yesterday, they were reporting on a Sarah Palin book signing and the huge crowd it had gathered. So they show video of a campaign rally from 2008, under the banner- &quot;This just in&quot;. Not content to show the thousands who did turn up, Fox had to make it look much larger than it really was.<br />
 Then they referred to disgraced Republican Congressman Mark Foley as having been a Democrat.<br />
 Fair and Balanced, eh?<br />
 I guess it comes from the top as Ruppy Murdoch recently made the snide remark that NY's legally bling Govenor has trouble seeing the big picture.</div>

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			<title>My first Blackjack hand!</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:34:18 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA["What!", I hear you exclaim, "Are you telling me that after all that talk, and all that caution, and all those words of wisdom, and all that self-restraint, he's gone and done it anyway?" 
 
Ok, ok, guilty as charged, but chaps, be reasonable, give a guy a break; I'm only human. Besides, I've been...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>&quot;What!&quot;, I hear you exclaim, &quot;Are you telling me that after all that talk, and all that caution, and all those words of wisdom, and all that self-restraint, he's gone and done it anyway?&quot;<br />
<br />
Ok, ok, guilty as charged, but chaps, be reasonable, give a guy a break; I'm only human. Besides, I've been practicing now for 5 months without actually playing a single 'real' hand.  I'm practicing every moment I get; when I get into bed, my wife pulls out and reads a book while I sit next to her counting down deck after deck (all this prior to the 4 hours of passionate love-making that usually follows, of course).<br />
<br />
C'mon now! I *can* count down a deck in under 30 secs and although that may not mean much, I *do* know basic strategy, and at the end of the day, I had only partially achieved what I had set out to do on Monday, which was to guage what the reality of it was. True, I had scouted a casino and I was shocked at how unprepared I was, but I still had no idea whether I'd be able to think on my own two feet, recall basic strategy, make the right plays etc. if actually doing it myself. Lets face it, cut the bull, I wanted a bit of action - I wanted to try out what I'd learned and I needed some encouragement.<br />
<br />
So last night following a few drinks after work (o-oh), I headed off to Napoleons again but this time with my expectations managed. I'd buy in for £100 and play BS. After all this time, I had to prove to myself I could at least do this. Since my episode on Monday, where I was forgetting BS due to trying to count, I had gone back home and checked my BS play - and I played it flawlessly. I knew I could do it. 1/2 an hour after setting off, I arrived.<br />
<br />
The casino was not as packed as it had been on Monday, which was good as I've never thought losing one's virginity was a spectator sport. However, I was still a little hesitant. I observed for a little while including what I thought was a bit of a sad affair. There was a table, £50 min, sporting the Lucky Ladies side bet, which was occupied by a single gentleman. He could have been anyone's grandad. Actually, to be honest with you, I'd say he looked a bit like a tramp. However, he was betting 2 x £1000 chips on every hand, and losing almost every time. With trembling hands (due to age, or disease, not nervousness), he'd gingerlingly place his bets, then watch as the cards and chips were swept away by the young, fast dealer. He was attracting attention from the casino bosses; of course he was! He was giving a fortune away! When his chips ran out, he'd pull out a new wad of notes from his crusty old coat, which were tightly sealed in a yellow plastic bag (from a bank, no doubt), hand them over to the dealer, and the whole process would repeat. He handed several of these wads over and he wasn't even offered a drink.  He was playing like a man with death sentence. He never spoke. He never looked up. A few moments later, it was over. He picked himself up and left. It left me feeling pensive.<br />
<br />
But enough of that. Back to story at hand. I circled the tables again and noticed a new shuffle on a table with only 1 other player at it. This was it. I sat down trying to look natural  (y'know, the way you try to look natural when you feel all eyes are one you), took (fumbled) £100 out of my wallet and lay it on the felt. (Oh my God!) Game on.<br />
<br />
With the shuffle finished, I was handed 20 red chips. I put one down and waited ... and waited ... The dealer mumbled something. &quot;What's that love?&quot;, I asked. &quot;Are you playing?&quot; she replied motioning towards the betting circle. D'oh! Without realising, I'd only gone and placed my bet inside the box on the felt that listed the 21+3 paytable! (what a berk!). I casually repositioned it, ahem, sorry, wasn't paying attention (unfortunately by now there were a few people watching).<br />
<br />
So, after all this time, what *was* my first hand? My first ever Blackjack hand, after 5 months of practice and reading?<br />
<br />
Bam, Bam, Bam ... I draw 7,7, she has a 3. I keep calm. (&quot;Seven and seven, split to seven&quot;). I place another chip. Split. Bam, bam. I draw a 2 and 7 on my sevens. (&quot;don't deviate, you know what to do&quot;). I put down another chip. Split. Bam, bam. A 5 and a 4 are drawn on my 7's. She moves to the rightmost hand. &quot;Eleven&quot;, and waits for my play. (&quot;double on 11, 2 thru 9 (ENHC)&quot;). I double, draw a face card. &quot;Twenty One&quot;!!.  She moves to my next in a blink. &quot;Twelve&quot;, she calls, (&quot;12, stand 4 to 6 else hit&quot;, she has 3), I motion a hit; draw 6. &quot;Eighteen&quot;. I stand. Now for my last hand. &quot;Nine&quot;, she calls (&quot;9, double 3 to 6, like A,6&quot;). I lay another chip and double; draw a 5, &quot;Fourteen&quot; (&quot;Damn! Ok, 14 - stand 2 through 6&quot;, she's got a 3, it's low but don't deviate, remember your training, grasshopper). I stand.  Her go now. Bam, she draws a 10, Bam, she draws a face - and busts! Yeah! I was up 5 units!! What a thrill!<br />
<br />
After that, I put my original 20 chips aside (not to be touched) and played with my winnings. Following that, it came easy. BS flowed and there was no more thinking; I relaxed, and with BS to back me, I played with confidence, no hesitation. I played through 3 shoes and even got a natural mid-way through the second. Glanced at the time. My god, time flies, gotta go. Ok, one last hand. Bam, bam, &quot;Blackjack&quot;. Way to go!!<br />
<br />
After that, I cashed in my chips, I was 6 units up, £30. I also knew I had been lucky. I went out the door, took the train, got home went straight to my PC and ordered CVBJ at around midnight, London time last night.<br />
<br />
Now the real work begins.</div>

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			<dc:creator>Lbarea</dc:creator>
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			<title>Aria</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:04:23 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Conspicuous by its absence, is _any_ report on playing conditions at ARIA in Las Vegas. 
 
The casino opened 4 days ago. 
 
Or did it ?</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Conspicuous by its absence, is <u>any</u> report on playing conditions at ARIA in Las Vegas.<br />
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The casino opened 4 days ago.<br />
<br />
Or did it ?</div>

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			<title>Investing in casino stocks.</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:56:04 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Is there a good source of information or specialized brokerage for information concerning casino stocks? I'm interested in stocks or gaming mutual funds if they exist. Thanks for any info.:joker:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Is there a good source of information or specialized brokerage for information concerning casino stocks? I'm interested in stocks or gaming mutual funds if they exist. Thanks for any info.:joker:</div>

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			<title>Playing with Amateurs/Beginners</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:54:46 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Good Morning all, how does everyone deal with playing at a table with other players that do not understand the game. Nothing frustrates me more than when you sit at a table and you have some college kids boozing it up and burning cards off. I know the simple answer is to move tables however where I...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Good Morning all, how does everyone deal with playing at a table with other players that do not understand the game. Nothing frustrates me more than when you sit at a table and you have some college kids boozing it up and burning cards off. I know the simple answer is to move tables however where I am there are limited tables and often long waiting.. <br />
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Thanks</div>

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			<title>The Occult Origins of the American Nation</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:29:02 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Some real American History.  zg 
 
*THE OCCULT ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN NATION 
  
By Dr. Harrell Rhome  
www.gnosticliberationfront.com 
Copyright ©2009 All Rights Reserved.* 
 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Some real American History.  zg<br />
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<blockquote><b><font size="4">THE OCCULT ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN NATION</font><br />
 <br />
By Dr. Harrell Rhome <br />
<a href="http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com" target="_blank">www.gnosticliberationfront.com</a><br />
Copyright ©2009 All Rights Reserved.</b><br />
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<img src="http://gnosticliberationfront.com/occult_origins__of_the_american_revolutioni_files/image002.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><br />
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In spite of the ready availability of information found online as well as in libraries, like other neglected topics in so-called &#8220;history books&#8221;, the real origins of the United States are ignored and/or misrepresented.  One must have the skills (now rare, no longer taught in the schools) of critical thinking to research, find the facts and separate them from outright lies and misstatements.   Many books contain little more than untruths, repeated again and again.  The answer can be as complex and arcane as you want, but it&#8217;s pretty simple.  It&#8217;s all about the money! <br />
 <br />
&#8220;Many times, academic researchers will &#8216;adjust&#8217; the information they find so that it can be published.  For quite often publishers will take only the data that fits the current beliefs and theories.  The reason being that only that which is &#8216;politically correct&#8217; will be accepted and sell.  This often happens with history.  In reality, this has been going on since the first histories were written down.  History was made to fit into the accepted legends and myths rather than to objectively express what has occurred.  Then as time goes on, the talks became accepted and &#8216;adjusted&#8217; to fit the current belief structure promoted by those in charge to fit the prevailing practices.&#8221;  Alexander S. Holub, The Gospel Truth, The Heresy of History, 2004.<br />
 <br />
Naturally, with the Internet Information Revolution, we are in a new era of publishing.  Hence, alternative ideas and theories are more available.  But in spite of that, many Americans don&#8217;t appreciate being told that the things they learned as school children &#8211; and later taught their children &#8211; were, at best, a bunch of highly embellished and thoroughly cleansed folktales.  Those who try to look at the facts and write about them are most often resented and ignored.  Needless to say, bestselling authors, publishers and columnists do not want to be seen in this light, hence the facts are suppressed.  In most cases, they are simply ignored and remain unmentioned. <br />
 <br />
OUR FREEMASONIC FOUNDING FATHERS.<br />
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<img src="http://gnosticliberationfront.com/occult_origins__of_the_american_revolutioni_files/image004.jpg" border="0" alt="" /> <img src="http://gnosticliberationfront.com/occult_origins__of_the_american_revolutioni_files/image006.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><br />
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Let&#8217;s start in the beginning.  We are, more often than not, told that we are a Christian nation, founded on solid Biblical principles, but this does not hold up under scrutiny.  Far from it!  Practically all the key figures in the colonial separatist movement were Freemasonic occultists.  If they publicly practiced a religion other than that, it was usually philosophical Deism and/or ultra liberal semi-Christian Unitarianism and Universalism.  Even then, none were ever known as regular churchgoers.  Religion, as expressed in various Christian creeds and confessions, means utterly nothing to devout Freemasons, especially at the levels of the higher adepts.  They see themselves as above all of that. <br />
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MORE- <a href="http://gnosticliberationfront.com/occult_origins__of_the_american_revolutioni.htm" target="_blank">http://gnosticliberationfront.com/oc...evolutioni.htm</a></blockquote></div>

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			<title><![CDATA[here's the shuffle]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:20:09 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>I tried my very first shot at shuffle tracking a couple days ago.  I had wonged out and wonged back in (NMSE) and was waiting for the last few hands of the shoe to be dealt and I noticed the last few hands were majority faces or aces.  So I tracked them through the shuffle, as best I could, and...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I tried my very first shot at shuffle tracking a couple days ago.  I had wonged out and wonged back in (NMSE) and was waiting for the last few hands of the shoe to be dealt and I noticed the last few hands were majority faces or aces.  So I tracked them through the shuffle, as best I could, and ended up possibly cutting them to the second deck.  I guess it worked, because I ended up wonging out pretty soon - lol!  Didn't make any money though.<br />
<br />
So here's the shuffle.<br />
<br />
It's something like cut, riffle, strip, riffle, cut, riffle.  Decks are broken into a bunch of slugs and combined in sort of a criss cross pattern.  Is this a tough shuffle?  Sometimes they use two riffles.</div>

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			<dc:creator>Meistro</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Taser gun used on 10-year-old girl who 'refused to take shower']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:46:25 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[*Taser gun used on 10-year-old girl who 'refused to take shower'* 
A police officer used a Taser stun gun to subdue a 10-year-old girl in her own home. 
  
By Nick Allen in Los Angeles  
Published: 12:12AM GMT 19 Nov 2009 
 
The officer had been called to the girl's home in Ozark, Arkansas, by her...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><b><font size="3">Taser gun used on 10-year-old girl who 'refused to take shower'</font></b><br />
A police officer used a Taser stun gun to subdue a 10-year-old girl in her own home.<br />
 <br />
By Nick Allen in Los Angeles <br />
Published: 12:12AM GMT 19 Nov 2009<br />
<br />
The officer had been called to the girl's home in Ozark, Arkansas, by her mother because she was behaving in an unruly manner and refusing to take a shower.<br />
In a report on the incident the officer, Dustin Bradshaw, said the mother gave him permission to use the Taser.<br />
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MORE-  <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6602043/Taser-gun-used-on-10-year-old-girl-who-refused-to-take-shower.html" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ke-shower.html</a></div>

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			<title><![CDATA[Société Générale: 'Get Ready for Global Collapse']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:25:05 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Société Générale is one of Europe's biggest and oldest banks.  zg 
 
*Société Générale tells clients how to  
prepare for potential 'global collapse' 
**Société Générale has advised clients to be ready for a possible "global  
economic collapse" over the next two years, mapping a strategy of...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Société Générale is one of Europe's biggest and oldest banks.  zg<br />
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<b><blockquote><font size="4">Société Générale tells clients how to <br />
prepare for potential 'global collapse'</font></blockquote></b><blockquote><i><b>Société Générale has advised clients to be ready for a possible &quot;global <br />
economic collapse&quot; over the next two years, mapping a strategy of defensive <br />
investments to avoid wealth destruction.</b></i><br />
 <br />
<b>By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | Telegraph.uk<br />
Published: 6:12PM GMT 18 Nov 2009</b><br />
<br />
In a report entitled &quot;Worst-case debt scenario&quot;, the bank's asset team said state rescue packages over the last year have merely transferred private liabilities onto sagging sovereign shoulders, creating a fresh set of problems.<br />
<br />
Overall debt is still far too high in almost all rich economies as a share of GDP (350pc in the US), whether public or private. It must be reduced by the hard slog of &quot;deleveraging&quot;, for years.<br />
 <br />
&quot;As yet, nobody can say with any certainty whether we have in fact escaped the prospect of a global economic collapse,&quot; said the 68-page report, headed by asset chief Daniel Fermon. It is an exploration of the dangers, not a forecast.<br />
<br />
Under the French bank's &quot;Bear Case&quot; scenario (the gloomiest of three possible outcomes), the dollar would slide further and global equities would retest the March lows. Property prices would tumble again. Oil would fall back to $50 in 2010.<br />
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MORE- <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/6599281/Societe-Generale-tells-clients-how-to-prepare-for-global-collapse.html" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/e...-collapse.html</a> </blockquote></div>

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			<dc:creator>zengrifter</dc:creator>
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			<title>How well do you know your poker hands?</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:18:38 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[How well do you know your poker hands.  Assume a normal 9 player game.  Write down answers.  Answers are below.  (Don't cheat) 
 
Which hand is favored when you're heads up against another player. 
  
1.AsKs or QdQh 
  
Flop: 2s 5h 8s  If you think As,Ks is better choose the first option in the...]]></description>
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Which hand is favored when you're heads up against another player.<br />
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1.AsKs or QdQh<br />
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Flop: 2s 5h 8s  If you think As,Ks is better choose the first option in the poll, if not, choose the second option<br />
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2. inside straight flush draw on the flop with you holding 3,4 spades or AsAh<br />
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3. 10,10 or AK suited<br />
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4. KhKs or Qd,8d  flop is 6d, 7d, 8c<br />
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5. 6h, 2h or Ad,Ks  <br />
   flop is 6d, 2d and Kd     <br />
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1. A,Ks<br />
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4. q,8d<br />
5. Ad, Ks<br />
6. pocket 5's</div>

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			<title><![CDATA[Gandhi's Grandson Labled 'Antisemite']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:19:02 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Next month LB (some Zzone readers know who that is) will travel to India as the guest of Arun Gandhi, the great Gandhi's grandson.   
 
Arun Gandhi was attacked aggreesively and labled anti-semite for his 400-word op-ed in the Washington Post last year, leading to his resignation from the MK Gandhi...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Next month LB (some Zzone readers know who that is) will travel to India as the guest of Arun Gandhi, the great Gandhi's grandson.  <br />
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Arun Gandhi was attacked aggreesively and labled anti-semite for his 400-word op-ed in the Washington Post last year, leading to his resignation from the MK Gandhi Peace Initiative he has chaired for years.  Arun Gandhi's words are not different then those of progressive Israelis and Jews worldwide.  zg<br />
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<blockquote><font size="3"><b>Washington Post - <a href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/arun_gandhi/2008/01/jewish_identity_in_the_past.html" target="_blank">Jewish Identity Can't Depend on Violence</a></b></font><br />
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Jewish identity in the past has been locked into the holocaust experience -- a German burden that the Jews have not been able to shed. It is a very good example of a community can overplay a historic experience to the point that it begins to repulse friends. <br />
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... The Jewish identity in the future appears bleak.<b> Any nation that remains anchored to the past is unable to move ahead and, especially a nation that believes its survival can only be ensured by weapons and bombs. </b><br />
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MORE-  <a href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/arun_gandhi/2008/01/jewish_identity_in_the_past.html" target="_blank">http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/o..._the_past.html</a><br />
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<b><font size="3">Tehran Times - Gandhi grandson falls victim to Zionist lobby</font></b><br />
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Arun Gandhi became the victim of hate propaganda and was left with no choice but to submit his resignation on Friday to the board of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence based at the University of Rochester. <br />
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Arun Gandhi had taken a peace mission to Palestine and had met Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat just 10 days before his death. He had met Israeli leaders as well, and later sat in silent protest against the construction of what he described as the &#8220;apartheid wall&#8221; by Israel to block the Palestinians in segregated quarters. <br />
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Mr. Gandhi said <b>he had come in the line of fire since thenwith a particularly virulent arm of the Jewish lobby in the U.S.</b>  launching a concerted campaign against him. &#8220;I forget their name, but <b>I call them Zionist Nazis</b>,&#8221; he said. <br />
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MORE-  <a href="http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=162111" target="_blank">http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=162111</a><br />
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<b>Mary Sparrowdancer comments in Rense -</b><br />
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<b><font size="4">Arun Gandhi To Speak On Rense Radio</font><br />
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By Mary Sparrowdancer</b><br />
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<b>Arun Gandhi has spent his life embracing and teaching the path of nonviolence that was followed by his grandfather,</b> Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi.  In 1987, Arun Gandhi and his family came to the U.S., where he and his wife (now deceased) would found the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.<br />
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It is perhaps inevitable that anyone addressing nonviolence will eventually be <b>asked to give an opinion on the state of Israel, the &quot;Jewish only&quot; state created on land taken from Palestinians in 1948. </b> Israel was established on Palestinian ancestral lands with the use of extreme violence and apartheid, and it maintains itself on those lands with extreme violence and apartheid.  Israel contends that all of its acts, including the taking of Palestine, are justified because of the &quot;Holocaust.&quot;<br />
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 In January, 2008, Arun Gandhi was asked to comment on the future of the Jewish identity on the Washington Post's religious blog, &quot;On Faith.&quot;  Some of his comments included suggestions that <b>&quot;Jewish identity in the past has been locked into the holocaust experience,&quot; </b>and he suggested that they move beyond this.  &quot;Any nation that remains anchored to the past is unable to move ahead and, especially a nation that believes its survival can only be ensured by weapons and bombs.&quot; <b>His commentary ended with a warning that Israel and the Jews are the biggest players in a dangerous culture of violence.</b><br />
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The essay resulted in an unusually large number of reader comments (over 400 posts although some were duplicates), and included among them were several intelligent debates between readers, showing that <b>people are moving beyond the stereotypical mindset presented by the mainstream media that portrays all Palestinians as terrorists, and all Israelis and Jews as perpetual victims simply trying to defend themselves. </b> People are finally asking questions about the reasons for the violence in Israel/Palestine.<br />
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By far, however, <b>the majority of comments were from primarily anonymous, outraged, pro-Israel individuals who left brief posts that consisted of little more than insults and name-calling. </b> Gandhi was (predictably) labeled an &quot;anti-Semite,&quot; because no one can criticize or even comment on Israel's long history of violent atrocities without being branded with this worn-out epithet.  He was also called a &quot;nazi,&quot; &quot;hateful,&quot; &quot;racist,&quot; and his family was insulted as well for having suggested that Jews are engaged in violent activities that are dangerous.<br />
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One hopelessly unschooled pro-Israel blogger went so far as to state, <b>&quot;Israel has probably done more in the last 50 years to improve the lot of the average Palestinian family, through advances in medicine and technology, than all the Arab country governments put together.&quot; </b> <br />
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MORE-  <a href="http://www.rense.com/general81/gandhi.htm" target="_blank">http://www.rense.com/general81/gandhi.htm</a></div>

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			<title>Fraudster or not?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hi Guys, 
  
Does anybody here have any experiences with Mark Howe and his wares? I'm trying to figure out if the guy is a fraudster or not.:confused: 
  
Cheers 
  
Harry.]]></description>
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Does anybody here have any experiences with Mark Howe and his wares? I'm trying to figure out if the guy is a fraudster or not.:confused:<br />
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Cheers<br />
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Harry.</div>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:33:59 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>No this is not the Bible study group, just a catchy title. 
 
How I lived without the Casino Verite program for 20 years playing this game with heart and soul I do not know. 
 
More than just learning how to improve my play I just caught a major error in my play that I have overlooked all this...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>No this is not the Bible study group, just a catchy title.<br />
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How I lived without the Casino Verite program for 20 years playing this game with heart and soul I do not know.<br />
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More than just learning how to improve my play I just caught a major error in my play that I have overlooked all this time.<br />
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The table .....for dealer hitting soft 17..... are skewed on the hit/stand table from what is a normal step ladder kind (sort of) progression.  This alone is worth what 200, 700 how many dollars in understanding moreso than EV.<br />
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Mr Qfit was kind enough to straighten me out on this matter.<br />
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I love this game and love the CVBJ also.  Thanks Qfit.<br />
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I thought of something to add to this post and dont want to post again and seem like a post bore.<br />
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According to Uston the modifications for H17 include dropping 12-16 vs. 6 from -1,-5,-8,-12,-14 to the lower values of -9,-10,-15,-21,-23 so it would take even more low cards in the deck to get down to the point you would try and improve against 6 with H17 rule in place.  I would think since the dealer had a better chance of improving his up 6 with H17 you would be ..... more.... likely to try and improve that 12-16 than less likely.  What am I missing here?</div>

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			<title>First field test for the XM-25.</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:18:58 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>This is the Armys new super-weapon, which is supposed to be issued in 2012 
 
  If successful, it will literally change the battlefield.  
 Issued one per squad, the XM-25 is a combination mortar, grenade launch and heavy machine gun, all in one. 
 Heres how it works. A patrol comes under enemy...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>This is the Armys new super-weapon, which is supposed to be issued in 2012<br />
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  If successful, it will literally change the battlefield. <br />
 Issued one per squad, the XM-25 is a combination mortar, grenade launch and heavy machine gun, all in one.<br />
 Heres how it works. A patrol comes under enemy fire. The enemy is behind a wall 400 yards away,shooting with a sniper rifle. The M-16s are almost worthless at that range, but the XM-25 gunner simply points his gun at the wall and the weapons computer gives the walls distance as 403 yards and its height as 5 feet.  Pushing a single button the gunner release a projectile that travels 404 yards and at a height of ten feet explodes a shell containing 300 ball bearings traveling 300 MPH in a radius of some ten feet straight down, killing everything in a twenty foot circle behind the wall.<br />
 In the case of close in fighting, it can program the shells to explode as close as three feet from the weapon, and fire its twenty round clip in under ten seconds.<br />
 It's highly effective up to 700 yards, almost double  the extreme range of todays weapons. It's estimated it will increase the fire power of a single rifle squad by 500%.<br />
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			<title>Ruin this!</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:39:21 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>I have played about the same game for the last 10 years and never been down more than 250 units.  I would have to lose what I have won the last 6 months ( 500 units) plus another 500 units to consider hanging it up for a while.  This is a replenishable bank.  For all intents and purposes I am...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I have played about the same game for the last 10 years and never been down more than 250 units.  I would have to lose what I have won the last 6 months ( 500 units) plus another 500 units to consider hanging it up for a while.  This is a replenishable bank.  For all intents and purposes I am working with a 1,000 unit roll, correct?<br />
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I should have no problem betting 1% of my roll as my max bet or 10 units and I go 2% quite often.  Full Kelly betting is your adv in percentage in relation to your bankroll though which could be 5% at times.<br />
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I am thinking I want to start seeing greater losses to prove I am betting optimally.  Other members have urged me to lighten up and enjoy the game but want to step in the dark water just a little deeper.:devil:<br />
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I could start collecting more data, run sims, or visit the local witchdoctor?</div>

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			<title>what is the craziest move you have made at the table?</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:01:54 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[since I am a rather new player, I don't have too many crazy tales to tell.  I have doubled for less w/ 12 against 12, split 10's and doubled 10 vs 10 (once only for both of the last two plays, there are a few other times I could have done it but I'm still working up the nerve).  What is the...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>since I am a rather new player, I don't have too many crazy tales to tell.  I have doubled for less w/ 12 against 12, split 10's and doubled 10 vs 10 (once only for both of the last two plays, there are a few other times I could have done it but I'm still working up the nerve).  What is the craziest move you have ever made?  Hitting hard 17+ etc?</div>

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			<title>betting hard at low true counts</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:38:43 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>does anyone bet hard at tc 1.5 and 2?  Like 5-10 units?</description>
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			<title>Profit Report Revisited</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:34:18 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[So Sonny said "Since you are not willing to discuss your system there is no reason for this thread to continue. This thread will now become just another dead thread in the voodoo forum. Just another thread about a guy with a magic system who couldn't deliver the goods. We should rename this forum...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>So Sonny said &quot;Since you are not willing to discuss your system there is no reason for this thread to continue. This thread will now become just another dead thread in the voodoo forum. Just another thread about a guy with a magic system who couldn't deliver the goods. We should rename this forum the graveyard.&quot;<br />
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I don't get it. <br />
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Maybe Ken will agree with you for re-naming the forum. Ask him. What rules did this thread violate? Was anybody threatened?  Anybody doing anything other than expressing opinions?<br />
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Isn't naming the forum &quot;Voodoo&quot; prejudicial enough for you? Why not re-name it something more neutral like &quot;Progressive Betting Systems&quot;?<br />
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I don't have a freakin clue what you are talking about. A guiy who only wants to post some &quot;voodoo&quot; results?<br />
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Maybe we should rename &quot;Card-Counting&quot; &quot;If you can add 1 +1, you will win money forever&quot; or &quot;Posting here makes you a Feared Card-Counter&quot;.<br />
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Maybe re-name &quot;General&quot; &quot;Mostly Ploppies post here becasue otherwise they'd know the answer&quot;.<br />
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And, if you ask me, re-name &quot;Advanced Strategies&quot; &quot;Advanced Voodoo plays&quot;.<br />
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Why isn't &quot;voodoo&quot; given even a wider latitude of bulls*it since, after all, it's &quot;VOODOO&quot; for God's sake.<br />
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By DEFINITION it assumes -EV. Why bother getting upset about someone who has won for a long time and, perhaps, believes he will win for longer too? The only question left to answer is how often and how long will an x unit roll last?<br />
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Stan Dev defines &quot;long-run&quot; as 500,000 hands. He'd (sorry she'd) be laughed out of CC playing a game with an N0 of 500,000 hands.<br />
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And good for you all for realizing it's a -EV betting system. DUHHHH. Any of you AP guys care to address for how long he might likely be ahead?<br />
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I never see anyone, except ZG in that thread, making the point of asking the lilihood of being ahead after a certain length of time.<br />
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Right. A guy with a &quot;magic system who can't deliver the goods&quot;. You don't know his system. You don't know his roll. You don't know jack. All you know he is ahead for some period of time betting somehow.<br />
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What, you scared to death after he promised to post his next month's results, they'd be positive too and you'd have no way of measuring the chances of that?<br />
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Let threads die out naturally from lack of interest by anyone of posting a reply. <br />
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Or close them if they are insulting.<br />
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I'd love to know what rule of this site was violated by the &quot;Post results&quot; thread.<br />
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Just wasn't aware of the &quot;magic system&quot; rule or the &quot;I haven't posted a reply soon-enuf yet&quot; rule.<br />
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BEA utiful. Close a thread that by definition cannot win in infinity becasue a guy has not proven the obviously impossible.<br />
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What he is proving, is that betting systems have a place in life over fixed periods of time in order to increase the probability of finishing ahead more at the expense of losing more infrequently.<br />
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What is wrong with that?<br />
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Or he would be, had he been given the chance. No doubt he is by now yet another poster who will never bother to post here again for having been prevented from expressing his opinions and/or results.<br />
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Shame. Shame. Shame.<br />
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Reopen the damn thread, silly as it may be.<br />
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I'm beginning to think ZG is right in thinking (I think he thought lol somewhere) a moderator's time is better served otherways than banning threads.<br />
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Sorry, Sonny - this has just been galling me for a few days now.<br />
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You tell me your reasons and I'm listening.<br />
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Either way, no big deal. You have a tough job and I respect that. And I will always respect what you say either way. You have helped me out many times in the past and that can never change.<br />
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Maybe I missed something thruout the thread that prompted your closing of it.</div>

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			<title>DD profit vs. 6D</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:18:28 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Hope yall dont mind all the posts but the game is on my mind alot and I am a knowlege junkie.  I dont know if any studies have been done but I bet this one is pretty simple.  Aside from the edge in DD I would think for AP players DD would have a much better profit margin if played exactly like a 6D...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Hope yall dont mind all the posts but the game is on my mind alot and I am a knowlege junkie.  I dont know if any studies have been done but I bet this one is pretty simple.  Aside from the edge in DD I would think for AP players DD would have a much better profit margin if played exactly like a 6D as far as conforming to index plays and betting ramps.<br />
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I dont think you could say; okay instead of 1% EV you have 1.2%EV with DD by virtue of the edge differential (data approx).  There would in my guess; be a much more significant advantage to the DD game because it is always refreshing itself and providing more chances to attack.  The 6D game can go very positive and then hopefully gently leak out the high cards in a steady flow to give you a sometimes very healthy return but it is a much more stagnant creature by nature.</div>

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			<title><![CDATA[CSM's]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:26:28 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Iv just got a few questions about these, i know that i shouldnt be playing on tables with csm's but thats the only bj tables at conrad (there are no other casinos around). there are 6 decks. 
 
1. do these machines only shuffle the hands after each round ? 
2. do the cards get put to the back or...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Iv just got a few questions about these, i know that i shouldnt be playing on tables with csm's but thats the only bj tables at conrad (there are no other casinos around). there are 6 decks.<br />
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1. do these machines only shuffle the hands after each round ?<br />
2. do the cards get put to the back or mixed in with the 6 decks?<br />
3. does this machine make it too difficult to track cards?</div>

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			<title><![CDATA[Mystery of Death Valley's gliding rocks]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:42:23 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[*The real rolling stones: Mystery of Death Valley's gliding rocks 
 
By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE 
 
Last updated at 5:17 PM on 18th November 2009* 
 
These extraordinary pictures reveal a bizarre event that is puzzling the science world - rocks that glide across the desert. 
 
Amid the eerie silence...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><b><font size="3">The real rolling stones: Mystery of Death Valley's gliding rocks</font><br />
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By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE<br />
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Last updated at 5:17 PM on 18th November 2009</b><br />
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These extraordinary pictures reveal a bizarre event that is puzzling the science world - rocks that glide across the desert.<br />
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Amid the eerie silence and the 50C heat of California's Death Valley these giant boulders appear to move smoothly - and unaided - across the desert.<br />
The rocks, some as heavy as 17 stone, edge along in bizarre, straight-line patterns across the ultra-flat surface of the valley. They can travel more than 350 yards a year.<br />
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<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/18/article-1228844-073EFC40000005DC-381_634x686.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><br />
<i><font face="Arial Narrow"><b>Er... how did that get there? One of the extraordinary <br />
moving rocks leaves a track through Death Valley</b></font></i><br />
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Scientists believe the phenomenon is caused by a coming together of specific weather conditions.<br />
<br />
Studies suggest a combination of 90mph winds, ice formations at night and thin layers of wet clay on the surface of the desert all help to push them along.<br />
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Read more + more images: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1228844/These-stones-really-ARE-rolling-Mystery-Death-Valleys-eerie-moving-rocks.html#ixzz0XFXVS0Ij" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...#ixzz0XFXVS0Ij</a></div>

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			<description><![CDATA[Here's one for you IBMer's: 
 
When you hook your computer up to the internet in your hotel room, provided by casino you're staying at, can they monitor your emails on Yahoo, see if you've visited sites like this, etc? 
 
Best regards, 
 
FD]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Here's one for you IBMer's:<br />
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When you hook your computer up to the internet in your hotel room, provided by casino you're staying at, can they monitor your emails on Yahoo, see if you've visited sites like this, etc?<br />
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Best regards,<br />
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			<description>I am going to take the actual edge of a game in more serious consideration. 
 
Is their a hard number you could equate to pen express in terms of edge.  Many time we see the cut card vary from 1.5 to 1 in 6d and I have seen DD as high as 90% sometimes. 
 
Could you put a number on other players in...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I am going to take the actual edge of a game in more serious consideration.<br />
<br />
Is their a hard number you could equate to pen express in terms of edge.  Many time we see the cut card vary from 1.5 to 1 in 6d and I have seen DD as high as 90% sometimes.<br />
<br />
Could you put a number on other players in expressed in terms of edge.<br />
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Thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge fellow gamblers.:laugh:</div>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:33:19 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[After running a cvcx sim to see what my results could be with these parameters,  
5/6d, heads up, $50min, 1-12 spread, 1/2kelly, it gives us numbers in the CE column which I don't understand what they represent. 
 
Putting RoR aside, for example: 
 
with a total & trip BR of 10k I get (-270) for CE...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>After running a cvcx sim to see what my results could be with these parameters, <br />
5/6d, heads up, $50min, 1-12 spread, 1/2kelly, it gives us numbers in the CE column which I don't understand what they represent.<br />
<br />
Putting RoR aside, for example:<br />
<br />
with a total &amp; trip BR of 10k I get (-270) for CE  (for those wondering RoR is 51.7%)<br />
<br />
with a 50k total and 10k trip br I get a +52 for CE. (RoR is 3.7%)<br />
<br />
What do the values of CE represent and what does it do for us to know them?<br />
<br />
Thanks <br />
<br />
BJC</div>

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			<title>My first casino visit</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:25:31 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Last night I made my first trip to a casino. Well, it turned out to be of a reconaisance mission in the end. Let me explain further, but first, a little about myself. 
 
I first got into all of this about 6 months ago when I came across a link on a web page which promised to show you how to make...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Last night I made my first trip to a casino. Well, it turned out to be of a reconaisance mission in the end. Let me explain further, but first, a little about myself.<br />
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I first got into all of this about 6 months ago when I came across a link on a web page which promised to show you how to make £££'s in online casinos. It was a free link and in it it explained the Martingale progression system as applied to red/black betting on the roulette. I understood that roulette outcomes were independant from each other, however, with a background in IT with a minor in simulation, I also knew that random number simulators are also not truly random, hence, the red that I would be piling my chips on had to come up sooner or later (as confirmed by my demo play). I practiced, drew up progression charts, probability charts,experimented, started learning about odds, house edge etc. and finally bit the bullet and had a go. To cut a long story short, I was up 50 one minute, down 150 the next and quit when had recovered a little. It wasn't working. <br />
<br />
Then I started looking at Blackjack. Had a few go's, won a bit, lost more and then I started thinking. Surely, these were not independant trials; the probability of not busting by hitting was dependant on the exact composition of my hand (back then I thought BJ was all 1D, shuffle between hands and I was the only player as it was an online flash game).<br />
<br />
So I started working out the probabilities by hand. It was complicated to say the least, and after a while I said to myself, &quot;surely someone has done all this before!&quot; I did a search on &quot;Blackjack&quot; on Google and a door to a whole new world opened up before me.<br />
<br />
And so I started reading, and reading and reading a bit more. Did the Gamemasters' lessons (was chuffed when he personally answered emails I sent him), started counting down decks, memorized basic strategy (I searched endlessly for Advanced strategy once!), counted a bit more, then started practicing with BJ games on the internet e.g. The free demo online casino games.<br />
I knew by then that counting did not apply because the decks were reshuffled between hands, but I was practicing anyway. Read BBIB, changed HiLo to Red 7, read Blackjack secrets, changed back to HiLo and figured that I could keep count pretty well.<br />
<br />
But there was something nagging at me all this time. I didn't know what it would be like at a *real* casino.  I had been to casinos before, but with no interest in any of the games, I hadn't taken part. I had never actually observed a BJ game at a casino before, hence I knew my experience was lacking.  I was paying heed to that advice given on this forum about the distractions of a real casino; the lights, the people, the fast dealers, the conversations etc.  Moreover, as I have already mentioned on this forum, I just love the casino stories and the ploppie tales - I wanted to see this for myself. Besides, how difficult could it be? I could kinda keep count at home if somewhat slowly, and I didn't see the need to be able to count down a deck in 25 secs; I'd just count as the cards were being dealt! In any case, I thought that there would be no substitute for real world exprience, I was prepared to pay for it (i.e. Lose the lot) and lets face it, I wanted to try out my newly developed skills. I'd be able to get in quite a few hands at a £5 min. table.<br />
<br />
So, last night after work, a little tired but armed with £300, BS and I18 (didn't know these off by heart but could work them out), I took the underground to Leceister Square, London and visited Napoleons, as recommended here (by newbee I think). Found the joint and went in.<br />
<br />
I had decided to have a good look before indulging, so I stood by a table and watched.  Well what can I say? What a shocker! Advantage player, my ar$e, more like disadvantaged player. Could I keep up with the dealer? Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam bam, bam, bam .... bam, bam .. bam ... Hand over (errrm, minus 1, minus 3, minus 4 ..... Eh? Where did the cards go?). &quot;Ok concentrate, concentrate&quot; I told myself, but it was of no use. Why was that guy standing? Oh, it's 16v3 and BS says to stand. I was forgetting my Basic Strategy!! God forbid should anyone try to talk to me! I kept observing, thinking that if I could prove to myself that I could count, follow BS with the distractions present, then I'd have a go, but as I said earlier, I was forgetting BS, so this wasn't going to happen.<br />
<br />
Then I remembered a signiture I'd seen on this forum, something along the lines of &quot;Tell you what, give me half your money, we'll go round the back, I'll kick you in the nuts and we'll call it quits&quot; and figured that for me to try this now was just to give my money away. So after an hour of watching and a beer I headed off home. Was I disapointed? Yes. Did I do the right thing? Definitely. Was it a waste of my time? Most definitely not! Would I give up? No, but I figured it'd take me a year of practice before I was up to speed.<br />
<br />
However, I did have a good time. That place was ploppie heaven. The gamblers there had no rhyme or reason to their betting or playing strategy. It was like watching betting at the roulette table, where punters pick up a bunch of chips and then deposit it randomly, a stack at a time, on different numbers, except that in this case these were other players betting circles. There were many ridiculous plays occurring; standing on bad hands against dealers good hands, doubling and splitting on a whim etc. Etc. Etc. (I'm sure you all know the score). On one occasion, a lady drew 2 face cards, and the gentleman next to her offerred to split them, to which she agreed, all this against a dealer's 10. There was also a lot of people betting on other players hands, again with this roulette mentality, stacking chips willy-nilly and then damning their bad luck. A real eye opener. Oh yeah, one other thing, judging from what I saw, in terms of heat and the casino personnel there, it looks like you can pretty much do anything you want - it ain't Vegas.<br />
<br />
So what did I take away from all this?<br />
<br />
1. When you think you are ready, go home, practice some more, and then maybe you might be.<br />
2. You are only afforded minor thinking time i.e your decisions must be all reflex.<br />
3. BS must be instinctive.<br />
4. Counting must be instinctive.<br />
5. Strategy variations must be instinctive.<br />
6. BJ at a casino for an AP must be instinctive.<br />
7. It is not enough to count as the cards come out, a glance at the table should yield the same result.<br />
8. Walk before you can run.<br />
9. Practice at a casino is useful and can be done without laying down a single chip.<br />
10. When I actually sit down and do it for real, I must prepare myself for the fact that doing is different from watching and I may be in for another shock, nevertheless, I think actual experience is valuable.<br />
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Oh, and one last one:<br />
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11. Tiredness doesn't help your game.<br />
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I'll keep you posted.</div>

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			<title><![CDATA[Meditation 'cuts risk of heart attack by half']]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One more benefit of TM (see ZGI).  zg 
 
*Meditation 'cuts risk of heart attack by half' 
 
Meditation is good for the body as well as the mind, scientists have  
discovered, as the practice significantly reduces the risk of a heart  
attack for people with heart disease. 
  
By Rebecca Smith,...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>One more benefit of TM (see ZGI).  zg<br />
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<blockquote><b><font size="4">Meditation 'cuts risk of heart attack by half'</font><br />
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<i>Meditation is good for the body as well as the mind, scientists have <br />
discovered, as the practice significantly reduces the risk of a heart <br />
attack for people with heart disease.</i><br />
 <br />
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor<br />
Published: 7:30AM GMT 17 Nov 2009</b><br />
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Patients with heart disease who practised Transcendental Meditation cut their chances of a heart attack, stroke and death by half, compared with non-meditating patients, the first study of its kind has found.  Stress is a major factor in heart disease and meditation experts say the technique can help control it.<br />
 <br />
Transcendental Meditation, practised by the Beatles and based on an ancient tradition of enlightenment in India, involves sitting quietly and concentrating to focus the mind inwards by silently repeating a mantra. The practice is said to induce inner peace by allowing thoughts to flow in and out of the mind.<br />
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MORE-  <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6581495/Meditation-cuts-risk-of-heart-attack-by-half.html" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...k-by-half.html</a></blockquote></div>

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			<description>If you were given $25 in free slot play, and were playing Jacks or Better, would you play at a .25 or .50 8/5 pay table or would you go to the $1 9/6 machine?</description>
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			<description><![CDATA[*American Enslavement 
 
By Jim Kirwan 
RENSE | 11-18-9* 
  
'American History was born in the chains of Slavery, where it grew and prospered to allow America and later on the United States, to become 'the richest nation on earth.' Slavery was not a side-show in America; it was the Main-Event.' 
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By Jim Kirwan<br />
RENSE | 11-18-9</b><br />
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'American History was born in the chains of Slavery, where it grew and prospered to allow America and later on the United States, to become 'the richest nation on earth.' Slavery was not a side-show in America; it was the Main-Event.'<br />
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&quot;America has been a slave-owning country longer than it has been a free one; and the legacy of slavery haunts us still.&quot; In 1530, a Dutch Trading company brought seventeen slaves with them, as company owned slaves, to found what later becameNew York City. By 1620 most of the people that came here, came from Africa and most of them were in chains. It was the plight of the indentured and the enslaved that created the massive 'new wealth,' enabled by &quot;free labor&quot; which distinguished the colonies and led directly to what made the United States the richest nation on earth.' (1)<br />
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Here we are four-hundred and seventy nine years later; on the verge of completing this circle that was begun in slavery and is about to return to slavery-but this time slavery is about to include the descendants of those that first used it to create their own positions in this society: This is the price that we will pay for failing to remember history; and for believing that we are immune to the responsibilities that history has so clearly shown the world, for the crimes against others that we have used and abused throughout our literal history. This is what the 800 new FEMA camps are for. Only this time the dividing lines within society that will not be forged on race, but will instead be class-based to enslave everyone who is not part of the new ownership society-ironically these people are the descendants of the same people that prospered under the original tyranny, only now they call themselves The New World Order (same as the Old World Order) only worse!<br />
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MORE-  <a href="http://rense.com/general88/ensl.htm" target="_blank">http://rense.com/general88/ensl.htm</a></div>

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			<description>I have been using the practice of never taking down your stack after a win.  I am finding that it does not really seems to hurt that bad and that often times I will get a couple extra wins on lower or negative counts with more up than I would have bet according to a precise formula. 
 
 Constantly...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I have been using the practice of never taking down your stack after a win.  I am finding that it does not really seems to hurt that bad and that often times I will get a couple extra wins on lower or negative counts with more up than I would have bet according to a precise formula.<br />
<br />
 Constantly taking down the stack after wins, even if only four chips to two, makes you look petty in my opinion.  Occasionally however if I have a real big bet out and the count just tanks in DD I will pull back but try to limit that action.<br />
<br />
I dont think it hurts too bad after payoff to swipe a couple of the lower denominations away if you have mixed color. (chips)<br />
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Although it is another topic I think I am going to get away from precise play and vary things up a little instead of 4 - 4 unit bets go 2,6,2,6.</div>

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			<title><![CDATA[Hey, what's going on?]]></title>
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			<description>If you can put a good construction on this, it would be a good idea to do so.  It looks bad, but hopefully it is out of context.  Aslan 
 
 
Need I say....what can I say.....and if                    so.....how many times.....does it have to be                    repeated.............???????       ...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>If you can put a good construction on this, it would be a good idea to do so.  It looks bad, but hopefully it is out of context.  <i>Aslan</i><br />
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Need I say....what can I say.....and if                    so.....how many times.....does it have to be                    repeated.............???????                    <br />
                                      <br />
                                                         <font size="4"><font color="black"><font face="Helvetica">Check                    out this latest picture from YESTERDAY, Veterans Day                    11/11/09  at the Ceremony in Arlington National                    Cemetery. I don't know whether the National Anthem is                    being played, or the Flag is going by, or WHAT, but EVERYBODY                    in the picture is either saluting or has his hand over the                    HEART.</font></font></font><br />
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                                       <font size="4"><font color="black"><font face="Helvetica">All                    except ONE.</font></font></font><font size="4"><br />
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</font>                                         <font size="4"><font color="black"><font face="Helvetica">Guess                    who.</font></font></font><font size="4"><br />
<br />
</font>                                                           <font size="4"><font color="black"><font face="Helvetica">I                    do not make this stuff up!</font></font></font><font color="black"><font face="Times-New-Roman"><br />
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			<description>This cracked me up.  Aslan:laugh: 
 
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			<description>I received the following by email this evening.  It de-idealizes the poor and brings some perspective to the debate.  I still have a special concern for the poor, but it made me think back to my days helping homeless people, and how I had to bring food, but not money that could be converted to...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I received the following by email this evening.  It de-idealizes the poor and brings some perspective to the debate.  I still have a special concern for the poor, but it made me think back to my days helping homeless people, and how I had to bring food, but not money that could be converted to alcohol and drugs.  Even with food, I was informed that some homeless people were selling the food I brought to obtain money for coke or crack.  <i>Aslan</i><br />
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We need more docs like Starner!<br />
                                                                                      <font color="blue">Short, sweet and to the                                  point... This should be on the front page of                                  every newspaper in </font>[COLOR=blue]America -in                                  large bold letters. This was a &quot;letter to the                                  editor&quot; in August                                  29th Jackson , MS newspaper. <br />
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                           <font color="black">Starner                                  Jones, MD is a seventh                                  generation Mississippian and wanted to                                  come back to Mississippi after                                  going somewhere else for college and medical                                  school. His extracurricular interests are                                  golf, hunting, fishing and college                                  football. <br />
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Dear                                  Sirs:</font><br />
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                                                                                                                              <font color="black">&quot;During                                  my last night's shift in the ER, I had the                                  pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny                                  new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, a                                  very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new                                  cellular telephone equipped with her favorite                                  R&amp;B tune for a ringtone. Glancing over the                                  chart, one could not help noticing her payer                                  status:  Medicaid. She smokes more than one                                  costly pack of cigarettes every day and,                                  somehow, still has money to buy                                  beer.</font><br />
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                                                                                                       <font color="black">And our                                  Congress expects me to pay for this woman's                                  health care? Our nation's health care                                  crisis is not a shortage of quality                                  hospitals, doctors or nurses.  It is a                                  crisis of culture - a culture in which it is                                  perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices                                  while refusing to take care of one's self or,                                  heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. A                                  culture that thinks &quot;I can do whatever I want to                                  because someone else will always take care of                                  me&quot;. Life is really not that hard.  Most of                                  us reap what we                                  sow.</font><br />
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                                   <font color="black">Don't                                  you agree?</font><br />
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                                                                               <font color="black">STARNER                                  JONES,                                  MD Jackson , MS</font></div>


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			<title>New mysteries of the Shroud of Turin</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Regardless of the Shroud's legitamcy, 3-D imagery analysis  
indicates that the person  wrapped in it was levitating.  zg 
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*New mysteries of the Shroud unveiled 
Body inside ancient linen 'levitated' while leaving image 
 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Regardless of the Shroud's legitamcy, 3-D imagery analysis <br />
indicates that the person  wrapped in it was levitating.  zg<br />
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<b><font size="4">New mysteries of the Shroud unveiled</font><br />
<font size="2">Body inside ancient linen 'levitated' while leaving image</font><br />
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Posted: November 15, 2009<br />
7:39 pm Eastern<br />
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A new video documentary about the Shroud of Turin makes a startling new claim about what some believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus &#8211; the body was weightless or levitating when it left the remarkable image.<br />
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In the DVD video &quot;The Fabric of Time,&quot; scientific experts using the latest technology are able to produce a three-dimensional holographic image from photographs of the shroud. What they reveal is nothing short of spectacular.<br />
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They show the image on the shroud is one produced not from a body lying on a stone slab, but rather an image of a weightless body, perhaps levitating above its resting place.<br />
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The documentary also calls into questions earlier findings about carbon dating tests that claimed the shroud dated back only to the Middle Ages.<br />
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:54:25 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Does anyone find themselves going 34567654567898787 etc. long after they are done playing?  Sometimes to music? 
 
How do you turn the numbers off?  I may be going mad.:laugh:</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Does anyone find themselves going 34567654567898787 etc. long after they are done playing?  Sometimes to music?<br />
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How do you turn the numbers off?  I may be going mad.:laugh:</div>

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			<description><![CDATA[Just returned from a day trip on Sunday, and I'm happy to report generally excellent penetration.  Somewhat dealer dependent, as always, but the observed average was surprisingly close to *1 deck* cutoff! :eek: From past experience, the average has been closer to 2 decks than 1, so I'm not sure if...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Just returned from a day trip on Sunday, and I'm happy to report generally excellent penetration.  Somewhat dealer dependent, as always, but the observed average was surprisingly close to <b>1 deck</b> cutoff! :eek: From past experience, the average has been closer to 2 decks than 1, so I'm not sure if it's the change of venue (this time I played mostly in the newer section of the old casino, where they just installed BJ tables earlier in the year) or something else.  In any case, I wasn't complaining.<br />
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As for the reported recent increase in heat, I didn't notice anything in particular, though I did adopt a few more camo plays than usual since I read the relevant post prior to going down there.  Still, I once jumped somewhat abruptly from $10 to $100 without so much as a &quot;checks play&quot;, so I am thinking that the new warning probably applies mostly to those with top bets in excess of $200.<br />
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Comps were generous - 30 points were added to my card for simply stopping by the Rewards Booth instead of the usual 15 - perhaps this signals a new increase in &quot;charitable giving&quot; during the tough economic times?<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Strange Promo: What's the value?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:40:29 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I recently got a strange promotion in the mail from Red Rock in Las Vegas. I haven't seen anything like it before... 
 
They've given me "Aces" that I can use whenever I want in a blackjack game. I figure I'll just wait for a decent count, nothing too obvious, and then I get to put down an "Ace" as...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I recently got a strange promotion in the mail from Red Rock in Las Vegas. I haven't seen anything like it before...<br />
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They've given me &quot;Aces&quot; that I can use whenever I want in a blackjack game. I figure I'll just wait for a decent count, nothing too obvious, and then I get to put down an &quot;Ace&quot; as my first card. The dealer will then deal me my second card.<br />
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Here are the rules...<br />
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- Free ace must be presented prior to the dealing of the hand<br />
- Blackjack with a free ace pays even money :sad:<br />
- Splitting aces is allowed, but only once<br />
- All other Red Rock game rules apply<br />
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So what might the value of this promo be? Any math geniuses out there?<br />
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I won't comment on how many of these I was given, what dates they're valid on, or the maximum amount I'm allowed to bet. I'm guessing those details might make me somewhat identifiable by Red Rock? I know, I'm paranoid.</div>

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