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Chinese Games - Pai Gow |
20.08.2003 |
Maurice Blanchard Gamble Tribune
Do not confuse it with Pai Gow Poker. Pai Gow Poker is a game created in California to get around gambling laws played with a deck of regular cards and very elaborate rules. Pai Gow means "make nine" and it is the original version of Baccarat or Chemin de Fer...
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Sic Bo - three dice game (For beginners) |
06.06.2003 |
Sic Bo is a game somewhat like roulette in that there are many places on the table to place bets. And somewhat like craps as it practices dice.
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SIC BO Tips & Strategies |
05.06.2003 |
Dillon McNuggets Gamble Tribune
... If that number comes up on any one of the dice, the sic bo player is paid even money ...
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Learn to play Fan-Tan |
18.04.2003 |
Maurice Blanchard Gamble Tribune
Fan-Tan is a Chinese gambling game based on guessing the number of beans in a pot. The card game Fan-Tan may have been named for it but is in no way similar to it.
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Chinese gambling - Sic Bo |
28.03.2003 |
Maurice Blanchard Gamble Tribune
We are quite used to the game of Craps, that uses two dice. It's challenging enough to find winning strategies with two dice, considering all dice combinations. How about an interesting game that uses three dice? The combinations would be much more intriguing, wouldn't they?
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Mah-jongg. Popularity of Ancient Chinese Game Grows in U.S. |
04.03.2003 |
Players shuffle and turn over tiles before beginning a new round in a mah-jongg tournament at Whiskey Creek Country Club in Fort Myers, Fla.
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Mah Chang: The Game and Its History |
21.02.2003 |
Some three thousand years ago, according to the legend, there was a fisherman named Sze who lived on the shores of the East Chien Lake near Nignpo. There were many fishermen who lived about the shores of East Chien Lake, but Fisherman Sze was more enterprising than the rest, for he decided that more fish could be caught from a boat than by standing on the shore...
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The Gambling Games Of The Chinese In America. ORIGIN OF THE GAMES |
07.02.2003 |
At present the people practice the game as a profession. They borrow the characters from the Thousand Character Classic, of which eighty are chosen and arranged after a new plan, ten characters forming one division, which the people are permitted to purchase for more or less (for whatever they please.)
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The Gambling Games Of The Chinese In America. PAK KOP PIU: The Game of White Pigeon Ticket |
07.02.2003 |
Dillon McNuggets Gamble Tribune
The drawings take place every night. Between 9 and 10 o'clock the pak ko piu sin shang, as the manager of the lottery is entitled, lets down the wooden shutters, locks himself in his cage, and is prepared to sell tickets for the drawing that takes place that evening.
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Gambling chinese games. FAN T’AN: The Game of Repeatedly Spreading Out. |
07.02.2003 |
Dillon McNuggets Gamble Tribune
Two men are required to run the game. One of them, called the t’an kun or "ruler of the spreading out," stands by the side of the table which corresponds with the "one" side of the tablet, while the other, called the ho kun, whose office is that of clerk and cashier, sits on his left.
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Gambling History and Tradition in China. Games of Skill and Chance |
12.12.2002 |
Maurice Blanchard Gamble Tribune
Some words about Chinese gambling games - Mah Jong, Pai Gow, Fan-Tan, Belankas, Sic Bo...
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Chinese game:
Gambling History and Tradition in China. Part 2 |
09.12.2002 |
Maurice Blanchard Gamble Tribune
Although gambling was prohibited in China throughout much of its history, it was nevertheless fairly widespread. Gambling was especially concentrated in the coastal regions under the Qing dynasty...
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Chinese Game
Gambling History and Tradition in China. Part 1 |
06.12.2002 |
Maurice Blanchard Gamble Tribune
It has been said many times that the Chinese are a nation of gamblers. The stereotype is deeply embedded in not only western attitudes toward the Chinese, but in Chinese perception toward themselves. It is supposed to be because of this inclination to gambling that an entire genre of film, unique to the region, has grown around master gamblers. Which brings us to a question which has been asked many times: Why do the Chinese love to gamble?
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