Many casinos today pay blackjacks at less than 3: 2 at some tables.

Occasionally, in the case of ten-valued cards, some casinos allow splitting only when the cards have the identical ranks ; for instance, a hand of T-T may be split, but not of T-K.

Casino games can also be played outside of casinos for entertainment purposes, some on machines that simulate gambling.

In some casinos, there is no boxman ; the boxman's duties are shared between the dealers and a roving supervisor who covers many tables.

If a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 is thrown on the come-out roll ( i. e., if a point is set ), most casinos allow pass line bettors to take odds by placing from one to five times ( and at some casinos, up to 100 times ) the pass line bet behind the pass line.

Fire Bet: Before the shooter begins, some casinos will allow a bet known as a fire bet to be placed.

: Note: Individual casinos may pay some of these bets at different payout ratios than those listed below.

< nowiki >* Although coin tossing isn't usually played in a casino, it has been known to be an official gambling game in some Australian casinos </ nowiki >

Keno () is a lottery or bingo gambling game often played at modern casinos, and is also offered as a game in some state lotteries.

Most casinos allow paytable wagers of between 1 and 20 numbers, but some limit the choice to only 1 through 10, 12 and 15 numbers, or " spots " as keno aficionados call the numbers selected.

While some tribes have had success with gaming, only 40 % of the 562 federally recognized tribes operate casinos.

" Pot-limit and no-limit Omaha eight-or-better can be found in some casinos and online, though no-limit is rarer.

Pot-limit Omaha ( shortened to PLO ) is popular in Europe, online, and in high-stakes " mixed games " played in some American casinos.

In some casinos, such as the Golden Nugget and Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada, an extra " dragon hand " is dealt if a seat is vacant.

After some " cheat-proofing " modifications, the video slot machine was approved by the Nevada State Gaming Commission and eventually found popularity in the Las Vegas Strip and downtown casinos.

Recently, some casinos have chosen to take advantage of a concept commonly known as " tokenization ," where one token buys more than one credit.

In some cases multiple machines are linked across multiple casinos.

Gaming machines are found in casinos ( approximately one in each major city ) as well as pubs and clubs in some states ( usually sports, social, or RSL clubs ).

The city also has a university, several business districts and some major cultural facilities, such as museums, a national theatre, an opera house with a regional library and several concert halls and casinos.

While found in some land casinos, its popularity has declined, although it is featured at many casinos online.

Additionally, some officers were shown in Tapestry to visit casinos, particularly near starbases, and poker is shown on a number of occasions to be a favorite pastime of Enterprise-D crewmembers, though real money is never said to be part of the game.

Why, Holden said to himself, surprised at his own sudden insight, I'll bet some of those people who enter are just as happy as can be.

Further diacritics are used to indicate variations in the pronunciation of the consonants ( e. g. bet / vet, shin / sin ); and, in some contexts, to indicate the punctuation, accentuation, and musical rendition of Biblical texts ( see Cantillation ).

In most modern poker games, the first round of betting begins with one of the players making some form of forced bet ( the ante ).

A bet for value is in contrast to a bluff or a protection bet ( though some bets may have a combination of these motives ).

With a protection bet, some or all of them may fold, leaving fewer opponents and a better chance of winning.

In some cases a player with weaker tiles may deliberately attempt to attain a push so as to avoid losing the bet outright.

Lou Grant was teaching Ted Baxter how to bet on football games, and used Ted's money, as well as some of his own to bet on the hometown Vikings winning the Super Bowl.

At some establishments, the " reverse teaser " also exists, which alters the spread against the gambler, who gets paid at more than evens if the bet wins.

The traditional stories about Adandozan's rule ( which are retold, with some changing of names, in Bruce Chatwin's novel The Viceroy of Ouidah ) portray him as extremely cruel: he is said to have raised hyenas to which he would throw live subjects for amusement ; he is pictured slitting a pregnant woman's abdomen open on a bet to see whether he could predict the sex of the fetus.

In some games, even folding in turn when a player has the option to check ( because there is no bet facing the player ) is considered folding out of turn since it gives away information which, if the player checked, other players would not have.

Often this is either a single unit ( a one-value or the smallest value in play ) or some other small amount ; a proportion such as a half or a quarter of the minimum bet is also common.

The all-in player's pseudo-raise was really just a call with some extra money, and the third player's call was just a call, so the initial opener's bet was simply called by both remaining players, closing the betting round ( even though he must still equalize the money by putting in the additional $ 10 ).

Because it is a strategic advantage to go all in with some hands while being able to add to your stake with others, such games should strictly enforce a minimum buy-in that is several times the maximum bet ( or blinds, in the case of a no-limit or pot-limit game ).

Some common forms of collusion are: soft play, that is, failing to bet or raise in a situation that would normally merit it, to avoid costing one's partner or friend money ; whipsawing, where partners raise and re-raise each other to trap players in between ; dumping, where a cheater will deliberately lose to a partner ; and signalling, or trading information between partners via signals of some sort, like arranging their chips in a certain manner.

In no-limit tournaments, players will sometimes take this risk even early in the betting ; for example, in some no-limit Texas Hold ' Em tournaments, it is not uncommon for players to bet " all-in " before the flop.

In some games of chance, using odds against is also the most convenient way to understand what winnings will be paid if the selection is successful: the winner will be paid ' six ' of whatever stake unit was bet for each ' one ' of the stake unit wagered.

( ii ) The concavity of the utility function implies that the person is risk averse: a sure amount would always be preferred over a risky bet having the same expected value ; moreover, for risky bets the person would prefer a bet which is a mean-preserving contraction of an alternative bet ( that is, if some of the probability mass of the first bet is spread out without altering the mean to form the second bet, then the first bet is preferred ).

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

He is appreciative of the expert help available to him and draws these resources into play, taking care to examine at least some of the raw material which underlies their frequently policy-oriented conclusions.

Occasionally, Seigner draws some justly deserved laughs by his quick shifts from one personality to another.

Hogarth, for example, thinks that beauty consists of ( 1 ) fitness of the parts to some design ; ( 2 ) variety in as many ways as possible ; ( 3 ) uniformity, regularity or symmetry, which is only beautiful when it helps to preserve the character of fitness ; ( 4 ) simplicity or distinctness, which gives pleasure not in itself, but through its enabling the eye to enjoy variety with ease ; ( 5 ) intricacy, which provides employment for our active energies, leading the eye on " a wanton kind of chase "; and ( 6 ) quantity or magnitude, which draws our attention and produces admiration and awe.

This draws parallels with some sects of Hinduism who also do not consume pungent tasting foods.

The story of the Sword in the Stone has an analogue in some versions of the story of Sigurd ( the Norse proto-Siegfried ), whose father, Sigmund, draws the sword Gram out of the tree Barnstokkr where it is embedded by the Norse god Odin.

It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including extreme metal, industrial music, noise music and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk.

The 1997 – 98 campaign saw Newcastle finish in only 13th place and, despite Dalglish achieving some notable successes during the season ( including a 3 – 2 UEFA Champions League win over Barcelona and an FA Cup final appearance against Arsenal ), he was sacked by Freddie Shepherd after two draws in the opening two games of the subsequent 1998 – 1999 season, and replaced by former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit.

In addition to some language derived from the New Testament in the liturgy itself ( e. g., the Trisagion may be based on Apocalypse 4: 8, and the beginning of the " Hymn of Praise " draws upon Luke 2: 14 ), the reading of extended passages from the New Testament is a practice common to almost all Christian worship, liturgical or not.

It draws on some of the advanced baseball metrics developed by well-known sabermetricians such as Tom Tango and Mitchel Lichtman.

A loose convention of some in the United States and Europe draws the lower limit of a skyscraper at.

In doing so, she draws on Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology, leading some critics to categorize her work as soft science fiction.

Stepanich's Faery Wicca draws liberally on some degree of Irish mythology, from the author's interpretation of Celtic history, legend, pseudohistory, imagination, and a variety of non-Celtic sources.

While this article draws examples primarily from English, deixis is believed to be a feature ( to some degree ) of all natural languages.

Albatrosses and petrels are also now tourist draws in some locations, such as Taiaroa Head.

The Abolition of Work and Other Essays ( 1986 ), draws upon some ideas of the Situationist International, the utopian socialists Charles Fourier and William Morris, anarchists such as Peter Kropotkin and Paul Goodman, and anthropologists such as Richard Borshay Lee and Marshall Sahlins.

At least on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation, a homily, a sermon that draws upon some aspect of the readings or the liturgy of the day, is then given.

Usually, his turn is lost and he cannot play after he draws a card, though in some varieties, he can play the penalty card, or he is forced to draw until he gets a playable card.

Cymbeline also falls into this category to some extent, although that play draws strands of its narrative from some texts agreed on by modern scholars.

In the following years, Edith draws some pleasure from spending afternoons with Rena, the narrator's daughter, who is born in 1969.

But on some evenings, " Bredon " dresses up as a masked harlequin, and by various wild stunts draws the attention and company of Dian de Momerie-annoying Major Milligan.