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Is it gaming or gambling?22 October 1999
Dear Mark, Depends on the prejudiced authority.My bias, Steven, is that of an irreverent syndicated gambling columnist and player advocate-hence, it's gambling. My dear friends who still work in the gambling industry in upper-management have an intoxicated partiality toward gaming.
But this juicy morsel crossed my desk
compliments of Bob G., a reader of the Traverse City Record-Eagle
. Bob sent me an Associated Press article written about the literary
folks at Lake Superior State University. The school has an annual list
of misused, overused and useless words and phrases it wants to banish
from the English language. Lake Superior releases this list each Jan. 1
after gathering thousands of submissions nominated from academia,
business, journalism, politics, the military and sports. On their 22nd
annual list is gaming. Comments: Gaming. Used to seduce people
into thinking they're not really gambling. Jeff, you play in the world casino, Wall Street; doesn't your industry have an aphorism, "Be a bull or a bear, but never a hog?" Like many, many other players, Jeff, you exhibit signs of poor money management. And money management, my friend, is really nothing more than character management. To truly become a winning player you have to first know when to get up and walk.
Dear Mark, A "horn" bet is a one-roll proposition wager which is a combination of any craps (2, 3, 12) and a bet on the 11. It pays off according to the individual payoff for each number, less the three chips that were lost. Do I recommend said wager? NO. Craps offers two kinds of one-roll bets-hopeless and wretched. Although proposition bets have seemingly lofty payoffs, the house edge is way to high too waste your hard-earned money on them.
Dear Mark,
In gamb-lingo, I've heard the term monkey
used two ways. 1. A sucker. 2. A face card.
Dear Mark,
The worst wager on a crap game, or any
table game for that matter, is the "any seven" bet on the dice table.
This one-roll proposition bet has a house edge of 16.7%. Recent Articles
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