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On Tap Bets NFL Week 3 Edition – On Tap Sports Net

Posted: September 26, 2020 at 7:00 am

Well, well, well Im new to the gambling writing world, but not to the gambling playing world. After a night where my Jordan Howard TD anytime and Dolphins Money Line bets hit, Im here to give you three bets I like ahead of NFL week three action. Lets go!

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are finally getting things together. After a disappointing week one loss, the Bucs rebounded and won in week two. This week, the Broncos are without quarterback Drew Lock, and Tampa is returning Chris Godwin after he missed last weeks contest. This will be the first time that Tampa has been at full strength on offense after Mike Evans missed week one against the Saints.

Its pretty easy to get excited about the Bucs here. Sure, could Denver keep it close like they did against Pittsburgh? 100%. That said, I think Tampa is a better team and Tampas defense is comparable, if not equal to that of the Steelers. Give me the Bucs on the spread. If it continues to drop and you can get it at -5 or -4.5, HAMMER IT.

Pick: Tampa Bay -5.5

Sunday Nights game will be a thriller as the always dominant Saints host the high-flying Green Bay Packers. For those reading who know me, the author, you know picking the Packers in anything is always a shot at my pride. That said, I think that after New Orleans lost to a Raiders team with a lot of unknowns, theyve shown they can be beaten. The Packers, on the other hand, look really good after two weeks.

Aaron Rodgers is on a vengeance tour after the front office refused to draft a wide receiver in Aprils draft. Instead, they took Rodgers heir apparent in QB Jordan Love and took a backup plan to RB Aaron Jones when they selected A.J. Dillon, showing that the organization was more concerned about the future than helping this current roster. Rodgers took that personally.

Rodgers has thrown for 604 yards in his first two games to go with six touchdowns and zero interceptions. He is playing at an elite level and is out to prove to the front office that they should have done more to help him in the offseason. Give me an angry Rodgers to shock the Saints, even in the Super Dome. If youre feeling really ballsy, you could even take the Green Bay moneyline.

Pick: Green Bay +3

This game is interesting. Dak is playing like his you-know-whats are on fire and hes on a tour to get paid. On the other side, Russell Wilson is playing at an MVP level with nine touchdowns in two weeks. It doesnt matter who wins this game, but it should be a high-scoring, competitive affair.

That said, give me the Cowboys on the spread. Im not saying theyll win, but I like the Cowboys to keep it close and make Russ look like the MVP that hes playing like. I think Dak comes out and pushes him, but itll be close no matter what.

Pick: Dallas +5

If I have more picks Ill tweet them on Sunday, especially as lines move. Follow me @rnldluce on Twitter and lets make some money. If I lose, you are allowed to heckle me.

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Kings and machines: Game of Thrones star’s daring transhuman adventure – The Guardian

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Humans and robots were first introduced to each other in a theatre. Karel apeks play RUR, which premiered in Prague in 1921, contained the first use of the term robot, and featured uncannily human-looking artificial people. So Mark OConnell tells us in his 2018 Wellcome prize-winning book To Be a Machine, an exploration of transhumanism, the belief that the human race can evolve beyond its limitations through technology and even thereby escape death.

OConnells book has now been adapted by the Irish theatre company Dead Centre into a stage show, co-directed by Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel, exploring the relationship between man and machine that has only become more vexed in the intervening century. And there will be no humans in the stalls. Instead, audiences watch from home, but have their faces pre-recorded and broadcast into the theatre on iPad screens placed in the seats, so they can be seen by Jack Gleeson as he performs the one-man show.

I spoke to OConnell and Gleeson, mediated fittingly enough by our laptop screens, about how they arrived at this premise. Over lockdown, the team were spitballing Covid-safe ideas that would mean they could still put on a theatre production in 2020. These semi-jokingly included performing to just a single audience member, like when Wu-Tang released that album that there was only one copy of, said OConnell.

The innovative format they landed on is more than a workaround forced by circumstance, though. Not to say that it was lucky, but the coronavirus situation dovetailed really nicely with some of the concerns of the book, said OConnell.

In the book, OConnell visits people at the heart of the transhumanist movement, in cryonics facilities and Silicon Valley conferences, and even in a coffin-shaped campaign bus of a transhumanist 2016 presidential candidate. But the stage show is less an adaptation of the events of the book than its ideas, such as self-alienation, the frailty of the body, the primacy of technology in our lives and our innate fear of death concerns that have only become more topical in the pandemic era.

How does the you that is presented on a screen relate to your physical, flesh and blood form? Where does your identity truly reside? Theyre ideas that can make you feel dizzy if you let them, and feelings that many of us have experienced through being beamed into the homes of friends and colleagues through machines over the past months. Gleeson and OConnell both speak about being familiar with alienation from the self. Gleesons image is associated with a character who could not be more different than the affable person speaking to me. He is best known as the sadistic villain King Joffrey on Game of Thrones.

That feeling of not recognising yourself, as Gleeson put it, is something OConnell also felt devising the stage adaptation. I got obsessed with how much time had passed since I wrote [the book] and how I was, in a lot of ways, a different person.

The stage show will consider transhumanism seriously, just as the book did. Its not just, Wow these guys are eccentric nerds, said Gleeson. Its a bigger meditation on things that we all feel, about how crappy our bodies are, and how mortal. And, ultimately, the desire to live forever can be traced back to our basic human wiring to fear death. Transhumanism is an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion and desire and impotence and sickness of the body, writes OConnell.

Is the answer to existential dread, made worse by a pandemic, to escape our bodies once and for all? OConnell feels the opposite. Ive been thinking about how effectively flattened so much of our lives are, by being online all the time. And when I think about what it might be like to be an uploaded consciousness, it just feels like a horrific version of that.

Being an uploaded audience member, however, is a choice we might have to continue to make as theatre-goers for some time. One of the main ideas in the show is that maybe you cant recreate that feeling of being humans together in a room listening to a story thats so ingrained in us as a species, said Gleeson. But in many ways, the team behind To Be a Machine (Version 1.0), as this first showing at the Dublin theatre festival is titled, feel that they have managed to produce something that is enhanced, rather than limited, by being online: a final product rather than a first version. For one thing, the show makes use of videography that would not be possible live.

I cant help but be hopeful that this show and others like it work. As long as we have been telling stories, we have been telling them about the desire to escape our human bodies, to become something other than the animals we are, writes OConnell in the book. And for the moment, being uploaded to a theatre crowd might be the best way to achieve that much-needed abstraction from ourselves as we consider the near future and our place in it.

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Can we resurrect the dead? Researchers catalogue potential future methods – Big Think

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There's no evidence of an afterlife. But there's also no proof that our medical death needs to be the end of our subjective experience. There's no proof that death is irreversible, or immortality impossible.

In fact, some researchers believe immortality isn't just possible, but inevitable.

Alexey Turchin, an author, life extensionist, and transhumanist researcher from Moscow, believes artificial intelligence will eventually become so powerful that humans will be able to "download" themselves or, the quantifiable information contained in their brains into computers and live forever.

It'll take a long time to develop that technology anywhere from 100 to 600 years, according to Turchin.

"The development of AI is going rather fast, but we are still far away from being able to 'download' a human into a computer," Turchin told Russia Beyond. "If we want to do it with a good probability of success, then count on [the year] 2600, to be sure."

That might be out of reach for modern humans. But downloading yourself onto a computer is just one potential route to immortality. In 2018, Turchin and Maxim Chernyakov, of the Russian Transhumanist Movement, wrote a paper outlining the main ways technology might someday make resurrection and, therefore, immortality possible.

The paper defines life as a "continued stream of subjective experiences" and death as the permanent end of that stream. Immortality, to them, is a "life stream without end," and resurrection is the "continuation of that same stream of experiences after an arbitrarily long gap."

Another key clarification is the identity problem: How would you know that a downloaded copy of yourself really was going to be you? Couldn't it just be a convincing yet incomplete and fundamentally distinct representation of your brain?

If you believe that your copy is not you, that implies you believe there's something more to your identity than the (currently) quantifiable information contained within your brain and body, according to the researchers. In other words, your "informational identity" does not constitute your true identity.

In this scenario, there must exist what the researchers call a "non-informational identity carrier" (NIIC). This could be something like a "soul." It could be "qualia," which are the unmeasurable "subjective experiences which could be unique to every person." Or maybe it doesn't exist at all.

It's no matter: The researchers say resurrection, in some form, should be possible in either scenario.

"If no 'soul' exist[s], resurrection is possible via information preservation; if soul[s] exist, resurrection is possible via returning of the "soul" into the new body. But some forms of NIIC are also very fragile and mortal, like continuity," the researchers noted.

"The problem of the nature of human identity could be solved by future superintelligent AI, but for now it cannot be definitively solved. This means that we should try to preserve as much identity as possible and not refuse any approaches to life extension and resurrection even if they contradict our intuitions about identity, as our notions of identity could change later."

Turchin and Chernyakov outline seven broad categories of potential resurrection methods, ranked from the most plausible to most speculative.

The first category includes methods practiced while the person is alive, like cryonics, plastination, and preserving brain tissue through processes like chemical fixation. The researchers noted that there have been "suggestions that the claustrum, hypothalamus, or even a single neuron is the neural correlate of consciousness," so it may be possible to preserve just that part of a person, and later implant it into another organism.

Other methods get far stranger. For example, one method includes super-intelligent AI that uses a Dyson sphere to harness the power of the sun to "power enormous calculation engines" that would "reconstruct" people who collected a sufficient amount of data on their identities.

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"The main idea of a resurrection-simulation is that if one takes the DNA of a past person and subjects it to the same developmental condition, as well as correcting the development based on some known outcomes, it is possible to create a model of a past person which is very close to the original," the researchers wrote.

"DNA samples of most people who lived in past 1 to 2 centuries could be extracted via global archeology. After the moment of death, the simulated person is moved into some form of the afterlife, perhaps similar to his religious expectations, where he meets his relatives."

Delving further into sci-fi territory, another resurrection method would use time-travel technology.

"If there will at some point be technology that allows travel to the past, then our future descendants will be able to directly save people dying in the past by collecting their brains at the moment of death and replacing them with replicas," the paper states.

How? Sending tiny robots back in time.

"A nanorobot could be sent several billion years before now, where it could secretly replicate and sow nanotech within all living being[s] without affecting the course of history. At the moment of death, such nanorobots could be activated to collect data about the brain and preserve it somewhere until its future resurrection; thus, there would be no need for forward time travel."

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The paper goes on to outline some more resurrection methods, including ones that involve parallel worlds, aliens, and clones, along with a good, old-fashioned possibility: God exists and one day he resurrects us.

In short, it's all extremely speculative.

But the aim of the paper was to catalogue known potential ways humans might be able to cheat death. For Turchin, that's not some far-off project: In addition to studying global risks and transhumanism, the Russian researcher heads the Immortality Roadmap, which, similar to the 2018 paper, outlines various ways in which we might someday achieve immortality.

Although it may take centuries before humans come close to "digital immortality," Turchin believes that life-extension technology could allow some modern people to survive long enough to see it happen.

Want a shot at being among them? Beyond the obvious, like staying healthy, the Immortality Roadmap suggests you start collecting extensive data on yourself: diaries, video recordings, DNA information, EEGs, complex creative objects all of which could someday be used to digitally "reconstruct" your identity.

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Choosing Between Slots and Roulette – What’s the Best Casino Game? – BestUSCasinos.org

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Walk into almost any casino on the planet, and youre sure to see roulette tables and slot machines.

Its no surprise how often I get asked, Youre the expert, slots or roulette?

I will reply 99.9% of the time with a simple, It depends. And it does depend on several factors.

Lets break down the variables and see if you can answer for yourself.

If you are a novice casino gambler preparing for a trip, youre probably hearing a lot of chatter about how you need to take it easy and stick to the large banks of slot machines.

Then there will be the other half of the semi-pro pundits that direct you to the roulette tables. Its definitely the easiest of the table games to pick up quickly.

Roulette has a bevy of different bets you can make on any given spin. Regardless, the outcome is 100% left to chance.

The skill involved in playing real money roulette is no different than youll invoke on a slot machine. The most significant difference is that youll be making a decision while playing roulette.

For a beginner casino gambler, a roulette table may seem intimidating. After all, there are a seemingly endless amount of bets you can make.

Slot machines are relatively simple to understand. A potato could roll into Caesars Palace and understand how to play a slot machine.

You just insert money, select your pay lines, and spin the reels. It wont get any easier than that. However, roulette can easily be picked up in a few rounds by most players.

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Online casinos will typically have a free version of the game you can play on their websites to learn the ropes.

Furthermore, spend a few minutes watching the play at a casino. The watching is free. Its the playing that could cost you.

Usually, you can find a friendly face at the roulette table to show you the ropes.

Despite roulettes simplicity, slots come in as the easiest of all casino games to take a seat and pass the hours. If youre looking to spend your time destressing from the outside worlds troubles or adverse to learning new things, stick to the slots.

Theres nothing you can do to improve your payout odds on a slot machine that wont land you in jail. You spin the reel via pressing a button or pulling a lever, and the results happen.

Most of the time, the payout percentage on a slot machine in a Las Vegas casino will be between 85-94%. Yet, you may see devices as low as 80% or as high as 98%. This RTP (Return to Player) is set before the slot machines ever hit the casino floor.

Slot machines have random number generators to ensure that any given spin results are as unpredictable as possible. There is no way for you to influence these results, short of cheating.

The only real power a player has on the slots is how many pay lines to bet and denomination. It should be evident that activating maximum pay lines will provide the highest RTP.

Unfortunately, playing max bet and max lines has apparent drawbacks. While you will have a theoretical chance of winning more money with this aggressive approach, youre also opening yourself up to much more significant losses at a more rapid rate.

If youre going to play slots for real money, I recommend playing max lines 100% of the time.

Roulette gives gamblers a much better opportunity at affecting their odds. Only by understanding how the game works and employing a conservative system, you might be able to decrease the house odds below 1.5%.

My best advice for roulette is to stick to even money bets. Remember that even money implies (mostly) equal probability. So, while 500,000 out of 1,000,000 red should come up, it doesnt guarantee that 170 out of 200 cant be black.

This has led many gamblers to go broke remarkably fast. I see this truth as the most fatal flaw of so-called betting systems.

In the end, youll get better-sustained odds by playing smart roulette.

Roulette is generally offered in three different forms. Youll fair best playing American, European, or French roulette depending on where youre doing your casino gaming.

By far, the American and European variations are the most popular. The differences between the two are subtle but may make a significant impact on your bottom line.

For that reason, its essential to understand what variation youre playing. Online casinos have introduced many more roulette variations and could offer three or more types of roulette.

Knowing the rules for each takes time, but better time than money.

Most casinos are going to offer American or European. If you can stick to one of those, youll pick up the game much quicker.

Perhaps you quickly lose interest in repetitive games. You may not love roulette. The variety comes in the outcome.

Roulette provides an avenue for you to mix it up with other players as you collectively try to outsmart the house. I certainly wouldnt advise adding variety to the game in the form of wildly unpredictable bets.

This kind of loose betting will drain your bankroll as rapidly as anything in the casino.

Slot machines offer a unique variety. The advancement of technology, specifically high-resolution video screens, has brought a new era of slot machines.

Video slot machines can range in theme to outer space to the old west and anything in between. While the gameplay is somewhat monotonous, there are added bonus levels to these games that, when activated, offer not only a massive shot of adrenaline but increased winnings potential.

Slots machine banks in any casino worth their salt will provide a plethora of different slot machines, all with varying levels of bells and whistles.

In the world of slots, there really is something for everyone.

Lets be real, most people trekking to the casinos are looking to strike it rich. They cant be bothered by things like math or reality.

These people are going to the casino for one reason, the slots jackpots. You can keep the measly $400 you won over four days at the roulette table.

Jackpot slots are a massive draw at casinos around the world. The reasons should be abundantly clear. Who couldnt use a years salary or more in one fortunate spin?

Some of the more enormous jackpots can be in the millions. You are never going to see that kind of money being tossed around at a roulette table.

Lets imagine you set your sights on one of the insanely massive progressive jackpots for slotsfor example, the Megabucks slots jackpot offered by IGT.

Today, the jackpot sits at over $15.1 million. That is life-changing money. Hitting such an enormous payday would likely change the financial situation for generations of a family.

For only $3, gamblers can fire their shot at over 750 of these machines in 125 different Nevada casinos. Sounds great until you look at the sobering numbers.

Your chances of hitting the Megabucks are roughly 50,000,000 to 1. In other words, it probably isnt going to happen.

Dont lose hope yet. Many gamblers play with full knowledge that they arent going to have Lady Luck on their side.

The entertainment of spending hours daydreaming about allocating their winnings is well worth the $3 investment.

If you are in it for the imagination factor, I am not here to stomp on your dreams. Go wild, and I wish you all the luck youll need.

However, if you are looking to make a few dollars to spend on gifts for friends to commemorate your trip to Sin City or just want to spend as much time as possible on the casino floor, I recommend playing roulette and doing so wisely.

Slots or roulette?

Its a question with no right answer. I enjoy the slow burn of an hour-long session at the roulette table. Im able to sometimes extend my bankroll for days because the house advantage is so low.

Occasionally, Im even able to take home some of the casinos moneypossibly the best feeling in Las Vegas.

On the other hand, my mother-in-law has no interest in putting forth much thought in the casino. She would much rather sit at a slot machine and imagine how shell spoil her grandkids when she hits a massive jackpot.

Whether you prefer slots or roulette will significantly depend on your unique personality. Dont let anyone tell you that one is right and the other is wrong.

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A Brief Look Through the History of Roulette – Euro Weekly News

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As of 2020, roulette is theoretically over 365 years old, but it could be even older than that in reality. The ancient casino games origin is not totally understood or established, but in this article we will follow the most popular and widely accepted beginning of roulette, and its progress through the many centuries.

There could be older origins, but the most convincing theory is that French scientist Blaise Pascal (yes, the same person after which the unit of internal pressure is named) accidentally invented a crude form of the casino game in 1655, while he was trying to build a machine of perpetual motion.

Other than the Pascal theory, there are also suggestions that the idea in its crudest form might have originated at separate times in separate cultures which are thousands of years older. While Greek and Roman soldiers might have been only playing a betting game on their shields and chariot wheels, ancient Chinese civilizations may very well have been playing a more standardized and advanced variant of roulette that closely resembles the modern-day casino game. Either way, none of these theories have more credence or proof than the Pascal theory.

It was not until the mid-1790s that roulette managed to gain enough popularity in Europe. Once it did gain popularity as one of the more interesting casino games, it became so popular that we can find mention of roulette in European literature of the time.

It wasnt until the year 1842 that the roulette wheel received a major rehaul. Before the new wheels came into being and managed to become even more popular than their predecessors, all roulette wheels in Europe had two zeros on them.

In 1842, Francois and Louis Blanc changed the history of casino games forever by making a single, game changing modification to the old roulette wheel. They simply removed the double zero from old wheels and that was pretty much all it took for European roulette to become more popular across the continent than even before.

They brought the new wheels and the game of roulette to Humbug from France, then to all of Germany and later on, pretty much the whole of Europe. The fact that these new wheels decreased the house edge in roulette down to 2.7%, as compared to 5.26% with the old wheels, only fuelled the popularity of roulette amidst European gamblers even more.

It was, of course, the French settlers that brought roulette to Louisiana first, but American roulette wheels are not the same ones that we see in European casinos. Two differences in the American gambling communitys attitude should be noted here as these explain the reasons why American roulette wheels are different.

As a result of these attitudes, American roulette players continue to use the ancient double zero roulette wheel, which is now known only as the American roulette wheel. It should be noted that this is why roulette is not as popular in America as it is in Europe.

The introduction of online roulette came in roughly around the beginning of the 21st Century, which was quite a few years after the first online casino was launched in 1996. Online roulette changed everything and for the better. While there were some initial issues with fair play, that has been sorted out now. If you have never played roulette online, or you are looking to learn the rules that govern the game, get to know all the rules on this site.

Players can not only play any version of the game that they want today, but they can practically play anywhere they want to. Smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops and even some smart TVs are now capable of streaming live casino roulette games, or letting the player try their luck in a virtual version of American/European roulette. Wherever you might be located, if its legal to gamble online in your country, we suggest playing European roulette for a significantly higher chance of winning.

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Weekend Outlook: Join me at the weather roulette table – SooToday

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Forecasting the weather involves a lot of science, a little intuition, and, honestly, a touch of luck. This weekend may require more luck than usual. I'd typically look to weather events upstream of the overall flow pattern over central North America and figure out how things will evolve when they hit the Sault region. However, the features that will(might) hit the Sault region this weekend have yet to develop - making it more challenging.

I suspect that a cold front crosses the region early Saturday morning, then a warm front arrives in the evening, followed by a cold front Sunday morning and then possibly a Texas Low on Tuesday. Any or all of these features could change intensity and timing(or not develop at all!) to make a mess of the forecast. The best weather forecast this weekend might be the view from the kitchen window. If you are the gambling type, you could move all your chips onto my prediction below and spin the weather roulette wheel.

Friday morning brings a 30-40% chance of an isolated shower, and then cloudy skies linger for the middle of the day before partially clearing later in the afternoon. Temperatures climb back into the low 20s on a southerly breeze.

Scattered thunderstorms should move through the region early Saturday morning with cloudy skies for the rest of the day.Daytime highs should reach 20C with a weak southerly wind. Scattered showers and storms move in sometime around sunset and linger overnight.

Sunday will bring a mix of sun and cloud with temperatures close to the 18C mark.Periods of light rain are likely in the afternoon. Watch for a change in the weather pattern for next week as colder air returns to the region.

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The Fall of Roulette Wheel Bias – John Huxley and Advantage Play – BestUSCasinos.org

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Roulette isnt the first game that people envision when they think of beating the casino. Instead, blackjack (card counting), video poker (skill), and poker (also skill) come to mind.

Nevertheless, gamblers used to beat roulette through a technique called wheel bias. The latter enables gamblers to more-accurately predict where the ball lands and bet accordingly.

Wheel bias was once a valid way to beat the house. However, its no longer practical thanks to the work of John Huxley.

Who is John Huxley and how did he render advantage play useless? Ill discuss more on wheel bias, how it works, and why Huxleys invention has made it all but obsolete.

Roulette games used to run on basic wooden wheels. Manufacturers did their best to make these wheels looked polished and elegant.

However, they didnt take many precautions to make the wheels last. As a result, the wheels experienced wear and tear fairly quickly.

The fretsdividers in between the pocketswere often the first parts to break down. Theyd gradually become looser and allow the ball to drop into the corresponding pockets more easily.

The wheel shaft was another part that could become worn down. When a shaft is loose, it causes the wheel to tilt and favor certain pockets.

Usually, these imperfections are impossible to spot with the naked eye. But one can detect wheel bias by observing and recording results.

The vast majority of gamblers back then didnt realize that roulette games could show bias. However, a few wise players figured this out over time.

Joseph Jager gets credit for being the first gambler to uncover wheel bias. The English engineer travelled to Monte Carlo and made what amounts to several million dollars by finding defective wheels.

Ever since Jagger, several other players have become rich and famous by beating roulette. They all benefited from certain conditions that allowed them to win serious profits.

Even when armed with knowledge of wheel bias, people need to put lots of work into beating the game. Here are a few individuals who put this work in and won fortunes as a result.

Born in Germany in 1931, Richard Jarecki spent the early part of his life running from Nazis. His Jewish family moved from Germany to the United States to escape persecution.

Jarecki attended Duke University, got married, and moved back to Germany. Here, he continued studying in the medical field en route to becoming a doctor.

While pursuing a medical degree, Jarecki also found time to gamble at European casinos. Throughout the 1960s, Jarecki and his wife began recording results on roulette wheels.

After recording tens of thousands of spins and analyzing the results, Richard Jareckis and his wife discovered some biased wheels. They then proceeded to earn big profits from casinos.

They particularly targeted Sanremo Casino in Italy. Sanremo management would eventually ban Jarecki and describe him as a menace to casinos.

They networked with other European casinos to get the word out on Richard Jarecki. But by this time, he had already won $1.2 million, which amounts to $9 million when adjusted for inflation.

Bill Walters is known first and foremost as a great professional sports bettor. Before he became a betting legend, though, he was a wheel bias master.

Walters worked with other gamblers who were collectively known as the Computer Team. In 1986, they started recording roulette results in Atlantic City.

Billy Walters and his team discovered a biased wheel at the Atlantic Club Casino. They put down a $2 million deposit and began playing for high stakes on that specific wheel.

Based on previous research, they knew that the wheel favored 7, 10, 20, 27, and 36. The Computer Team spent the next 38 hours betting on these numbers and winning $3.8 million.

By this point, the Atlantic Club decided to ban the gamblers. However, Walters had already earned enough money to increase his sports gambling bankroll and later become a betting guru.

Gonzalo Garcia Pelayo is a Spanish music producer. While hes attained some fame through his music career, Pelayo is more notable for what hes done in gambling.

The Spaniard gambled quite a bit in the 1990s as a hobby. He especially liked playing roulette for real money at Casino Gran Madrid.

While playing at Casino Gran Madrid, he began speculating that some wheels werent completely impartial. So, he recruited his family members to help him record spins.

The family proceeded to win a fortune from Casino Gran Madrid before being banned. Afterward, they took their act on the road and hit other casinos throughout Europe.

All of these casinos gradually identified and banned the Pelayos from their properties. However, Gonzalo and family won 1.5 million before being essentially blacklisted from European casinos.

Not much information is available on John Huxleys life. What is known, though, is that he started a gaming supply company in 1979.

Located in Stoke-on-Trent, TSC Huxley started by supplying card tables, card shufflers, and more to local casinos.

Huxley was the brains behind this operation when it opened. Apparently, he lives a rather private life due to the lack of available info on him.

But his company continues to be one of the most-notable in terms of gaming supply. They not only serve UK casinos, but also many other gambling establishments worldwide.

In the 1980s, British casinos realized that they were getting decimated by certain roulette players. They looked into the matter and learned that gamblers were using wheel bias against them.

Many of the same casinos would move wheels around at night and/or ban suspected advantage gamblers. These moves proved mildly successful.

However, wheel bias experts still continued to make money. They often identified small marks or other imperfections in a wheel so they could recognize it later.

This way, they didnt need to worry if wheels switched places at night.

Casinos began to realize that they needed a more-permanent method of dealing with their problem. Some gambling establishments went to TSC Huxley in search of sturdier roulette wheels. The company granted their wishes by releasing the Starburst wheel.

Unlike the common all-wooden wheels at the time, Starburst wheels feature metal frets and pockets. These two changes reduce wear and tear on wheels and minimized bias.

TSC Huxleys designs have only gotten better since then. This company continues upgrading roulette wheels to make them last longer and be more resistant to bias.

Gonzalo Garcia Pelayo is the last person to become famous by beating roulette. If anybody has successfully used wheel bias since Pelayo did in the 1990s, then theyve done so discreetly.

Huxleys Starburst wheel marked the beginning of the end for roulette advantage players. Wheels are now much less likely to wear down thanks to the metal pockets and frets.

Im sure that somebody, somewhere effectively used wheel bias since Pelayo. If they did, though, then they either werent as successful or kept a low profile when doing so.

If you had a time machine, you could easily go back and beat roulette. Up until the 1980s and 90s, wheels were much more susceptible to bias.

However, this situation began changing when British casinos commissioned TCS John Huxley to design better roulette wheels.

The company came up with the Starburst wheel, which doesnt break down as easily as wooden wheels. Starburst and other variations are now common at many roulette tables worldwide.

Given the prevalence of Starburst wheels, youre unlikely to beat roulette today. Your only chance to win involves finding the rare casinos that still offer all-wooden wheels.

Of course, you could also try using a roulette computer. These wearable devices help you determine where the ball will land based on the balls and wheels velocity.

The big problem, though, is that roulette computers are outlawed in every gaming jurisdiction and you could get busted by the casinos for cheating.

Realistically, roulette is no longer beatable by legal means. The number of wheels that are susceptible to bias have been reduced drastically.

You could always wear a mini computer under your clothes to clock the wheels and balls velocity. Some companies even sell these computers online.

However, every jurisdiction has outlawed such devices. This means that you need to break the law to win with a computer.

Your only legal route for winning long-term roulette profits is to find an old wooden wheel. Unfortunately, such wheels are extremely rare these days.

You still have a decent chance to win with European roulette (2.70% house edge) or French roulette (1.35%). All you need is a little luck on your side. But the days of you being able to win millions of dollars with wheel bias appear to be gone.

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Almost all gamblers believe that there is a system of signs that may show the way to the prize. They try to outsmart the casino by monitoring the games and making calculations whether their bet will be successful or not. If the player wants to win, he or she makes a prediction about the lucky number in roulette, slot machine, or dice game. Many players believe that there exists a lucky slot machine, roulette wheel, poker table or specific ritual that helps to win. In this article, we will discuss the problem of calculations and rituals aimed at predicting game outcomes in casinos.

Casinos cannot allow the players to take all the money they bet. Otherwise, they will not be able to pay their employees and cover the bills. It makes them introduce a house edge, which is an advantage that the casino takes of you in a long-term run. The house edge is established by the casino, making its complete bankruptcy impossible. Every time you win a prize, the establishment receives a certain percent back. The house edge is also relevant when it comes to digital casinos. Its size usually differs throughout various digital gambling platforms.

Surely, the existence of the house edge does not mean that you cannot win money while gambling at digital platforms. If you choose a casino properly, no house edge will spoil your experience. It is difficult to predict the amounts of money taken from you with the house edge, but you should definitely read relevant reviews about the chosen casino and its house edge practices. It will prepare you for either pleasant or unpleasant surprises. If you have certain expectations on the house edge, you will play much more conveniently.

Physical casinos apply mathematical calculations in order to ensure that the winnings will be distributed randomly. For example, slot machines have an inbuilt computer programmed to make random combinations. The casino achieves such a result due to the Random Number Generator, which provides the results of each bet. The program chooses the symbols and presents them on the screen. The casinos use the computer to generate random numbers, both winning and losing. In this way, they guarantee that one player will not take all the money, and everyone will get equal chances of winning.

Many experienced gamblers believe in different rituals that will help them to place a successful bet or choose a winning slot machine. They try to predict the future by relying on the signs that, according to their calculations, matter much. For example, the players who want to win in blackjack search for the dealers who fail several times in a row. Online players can choose a specific combination of symbols that they consider as winning. The most devoted enthusiasts even try to conduct mathematical calculations while observing the game.

Those who managed to win with the help of such an approach or probably with a mere luck may face the problem of withdrawing money or paying big fees. It is hard to choose a good online casino, but Fukurocasinos.com will help you by providing the best reviews of online gambling platforms that apply Venus Point Casino ( ) payment system. You will find useful information about the online casinos that use Venus Point, which as an important indicator of a casinos credibility. The reviews give you a chance to withdraw more money after you win in online games.

Those who prefer slot machines choose the one which provides frequent wins. It may seem that winning in such attractions completely depends on luck, but some payers have a different opinion. They spend time while other users play and observe the behavior of the device. People believe that if the machine lets the player win, then it is a lucky one. Some players developed a different approach. They think that if the machine is greedy for long time, it will soon give the user a desired jackpot. Such an approach is especially popular among some users of online casinos.

Each player has a different opinion based on his or her experience. In reality, their manipulations do not influence the way of the game. Nobody can make an accurate prediction because people dont know when they will have a lucky moment in life. Players think that fate gives them signs of future success, but casinos show that only a random mathematical principle measures losses and winnings. A program installed on the slot machine can either offer ten prizes in a row or do not allow the player to win money for dozens of minutes.

All our gambling predictions are often ruined by the rules of casinos. While making predictions on prizes, mind the house edge that works for physical and online casinos. When you are betting, the computer generates the numbers or symbols which are winning or losing, Everything depends on a random principle instead of specific winning schedules. If you are lucky, you have to be secure about the withdrawal of the prize, which means that you have to read reviews of online casinos that use Venus Point. Just remember that luck and rational betting strategies mean much more than predictions in gambling!

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As recently as twenty-five years ago, the concept of the iGaming was a relatively novel one. The thought that you could play casino games like roulette, blackjack, poker and even slots from the comfort of your own home was genuinely mold-breaking and extraordinary.But fast forward to 2020 and the online casino is now intrinsically woven into the fabric of many nations and cultures and it seems like its here to stay.

Of all the countries in the world, its arguably the UK that has embraced the online casino more closely than any other. The figures speak for themselves. According to the Gambling Commission, the body that has overseen the UK industry since 2007, between April 2018 and March 2019 the total gaming revenue was 14.4 billion ($17.5 billion). Of this 5.3 billion ($6.5 billion) was generated by the remote sector, the largest part of which consists of online casinos.

In terms of numbers, around 340 casinos are licensed in the UK. And if you add many more that operate under licenses from different gambling authorities including in Malta and the Channel Island of Jersey, the figure rises to well over 500.

The secrets of the UKs success

When it comes to exactly what has made online casinos so very popular in the UK, several factors have played a part. The first is that the British have a long tradition of being fans of gambling in all its forms. For example, the first horseraces took place as long ago as the 17th century under the rule of Charles II. Today, horseracing is a huge multi-million-pound industry in the UK with showpiece races like the Grand National and the Cheltenham Gold Cup attracting millions of pounds worth of bets from people drawn from all works of life.

Around a century after the first horserace, the first casinos started to appear, mainly as exclusive gentlemens clubs. But, into the 20th century, casinos became a form of entertainment open to all and today youll find the there are many in the major cities that are enjoyed by a wide range of people.

So, with a natural propensity for enjoying sports and games of chance, as well as having a strong casino culture, its no wonder that the online equivalent has proved to be so very popular.

The operators of the online casinos have also had a major role to play in their huge popularity. They have consistently used the very latest technology to offer new games and playing experiences, as well as making very generous welcome bonus offers to attract new players.

Tech leads to success

A good example of the sort of technological innovation that has been used in the UK is the so-called live casino. Instead of playing against a computer program, live roulette and blackjack action is streamed to the players PC or mobile device. The action of the roulette wheel or the dealing of the cards is then digitized to allow the games to be played online. By capturing some of the excitement of a real casino experience, including the chance to chat with live dealers, with the convenience of online play it has proved to be a winning combination.

Another major contributing factor that has elevated the success of UK online casinos to the level they have reached today has been the rise of mobile gaming. In line with the general trend towards mobile internet use, now more people play at online casinos through this medium than through PCs and laptops.

Turning to the US, its a country that undeniably has an equally strong culture of gambling as the UK and many States boast casinos, with Nevada and New Jersey leading the way. There is no question that online gambling is on the rise in the US, particularly in New Jersey, where online casinos are the preferred choice for many due to the convenience and quality of games on offer.

But whether online casinos ever become quite as successful in the US as they are in the UK is open to debate. There are points to be made on both sides of the argument and the most obvious one to suggest a bright future is that Americans like technology. For evidence of this, you only have to look at the excitement that the arrival of a new iPhone or long-awaited video game generates.

The fact that a large proportion of the population, away from the big cities, may live a considerable distance from a bricks and mortar casino also means that the ability to visit one remotely could prove to be a very good alternative. This will become especially true if the live online casino starts to take off in the big way that it has in the UK.

Going mobile

As already discussed, smartphone usage has also been key to the increasing popularity of online casinos in the UK and this could also prove to be critical in the US. With 5G now upon us, connection speeds will only get faster, and with an estimated 81% of all Americans owning smartphones a vast majority have potential access to online casinos.

On the other side of the debate, the online casino industry is at a very different stage of its development compared with the UK. There are far fewer operators to choose from and the marketing behind them is far less overt than in the UK. Over there, they are frequently advertised on TV and they are also heavily involved in sports sponsorship too. For example, the majority of soccer teams in the top two divisions of the league have online gambling companies as their shirt sponsors. Theres no denying that this level of exposure must surely have an effect.

So, looking ahead, theres a great prize in store for any online casino operators who can make it big in the US. If the UK model could be emulated, it would mean that a generous proportion of the $80 billion + that is raised by gambling revenue each year would be heading in their direction. And, with a figure like this to consider, there really is everything to play for.

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DraftKings built their reputation on sports first as daily fantasy, then as a sportsbook. With the growth of DraftKings Casino, it only seems logical to have some sports-themed online table games as well.

Since launching its online casino in New Jersey in late 2018, DraftKings Sportsbook has expanded its product to other states and gone public. Online casino revenue has fueled a huge chunk of the companys growth, despite the coronavirus-induced stoppage of major sports.

And a lot of the DraftKings-branded casino games are exclusive to the site, which means only DraftKings will have a football blackjack game.

With most of the major sports in action in September, including some that usually arent, it seems fitting that a sportsbook like DraftKings should have a selection of sports-themed games.

And by that, we mean the games are based on traditional casino play but with a sports twist.

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Cross-selling gives DraftKings online casino an edge now that sports are back in play. But, are the sports-themed games as unique as they claim?

To answer that question, NJ Gambling Sites decided to give some of those games a test run. And since the NFL is back, well start with a few touchdowns.

Click on a game image below to jump to the details and gameplay.

Touchdown Blackjack combines blackjack and football, with NFL franchises as the teams involved. Start on your 20-yard-line and drive down the field with wins, helped by doubling down and splits. Yardage is added somewhat randomly from hands.

Without downs, players dont have to punt. Yardage will only be lost if the dealer hits blackjack.

The game runs on standard blackjack rules, with an eight-deck shuffle, 3:2 payout on blackjack with 2:1 on insurance. Players can bet $1 to $5,000 on the cash version, and there is a demo version to try out first.

After scoring the touchdown, players can kick extra points and restart another drive. This creates a unique spin on blackjack and, yes, will likely help distract players from the money being lost. So watch your cash flow.

This is a similarly formatted game to blackjack but on a 00 roulette board. Players can make multiple bets to move down the field.

Touchdown Roulette does have first down yardage markers. Higher payoff bets such as single numbers yield bigger gains. Players can bet between 10 cents and $5,000. Bets can be undone before the ball starts to roll.

There are graphics to show progress with a score, down and distance, and time.

Roulette is not as straightforward in terms of gameplay as blackjack as possession will change to the opposition.

Hey, were at the NHL Stanley Cup Finalsso might as well do some hockey.

This game has the same format as the touchdown blackjack, with eight-deck shuffles, 3:2 blackjack playoff, and 2:1 insurance. Like most casinos, dealer hits on 16, hard or soft, and stays on 17.

Players are allotted one hand per deal. The sports games do not allow multi-hand play, at least in the demo.

The user interface on the DraftKings casino games are easy to operate. With a touch, bets can be doubled, changed, or renewed for the next hand. During play, its easy to hit, stand, double down, or split pairs.

Unlike Touchdown Blackjack, the main focus of hockey blackjack is the players balance. With the cash game, the amount focuses on the account balance.

Hows this for a unique opener? Basketball Roulette on DraftKings Casino greets you with a welcome voiced by longtime NBA broadcaster Dick Stockton (or a very good facsimile).

There are excellent graphics and exciting sounds with the bright layout around a halfcourt with a bucket and three-point line. Each turn starts with a basketball shot, which begins the spinning wheel.

The board is a standard 00 roulette grid. Players can bet 10 cents and up on each square or possibility. Select a chip denomination to get started.

The easiest way to make new selections after each turn is to click or tap the board. That clears all previous bets and allows for new wagers.

Selecting an option again will multiply the amount bet. Computer players can click on the arrows in the top-right corner for full-screen play.

The traditional green felt of a blackjack table has been replaced once again. Basketball Blackjack features a parquet-style hardwood.

The players spot occupies the center court tipoff circle, while the dealer occupies inside the three-point arc. Very nice touches.

Like the other branded DraftKings blackjack games, this has shuffled eight decks, one hand per turn, and blackjack pays 3:2 with insurance paying 2:1. The dealer must hit on 16 and stand on 17.

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