"Bicycle Playing Cards Bicycle Playing Cards is a brand of playing cards. Since 1885, the Bicycle brand has been manufactured by the United States Printing Company, which, in 1894, became the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC) of Cincinnati. ""Bicycle"" is a trademark of that company. The name Bicycle was chosen to reflect . Bicycle is a standard 52-card deck of red and black colored cards. Also known as the French deck, each card may have one of the four suits: spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts. The numbers on the cards range from 2 to 10, then proceed onward to"
"Big Game (poker) The Big Game is a high-stakes poker cash game played in the ""Bobby's Room"", a cardroom named after Bobby Baldwin, at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. In 2010, the game partially expanded to ""The Ivey Room"" at Aria Resort and Casino. The table features no-limit and pot-limit games with wagers up to $100,000 per hand. Limit games as high as $4,000/$8,000 are often played but $800/$1,600 is normal. The table features a variety of poker games played in rotation and changing every 8–10 hands. The games are selected from a list of the players' choices, including:"
"Casino (video game) Casino is a collection of card games for the Atari 2600 programmed by Bob Whitehead and published by Atari, Inc. in 1978. Supporting up to four players, the game is controlled by the paddle controllers. Displayed from an overhead perspective, there are three card games to choose from: blackjack, five-card stud poker, and poker solitaire. Except for poker solitaire, each game always has the computer as the dealer, and bets are made by rotating the wheel on the controller and then pressing the button. There are two different blackjack games: Game 1 allows for up to two"
"Big Ben (solitaire) Big Ben (or known in other solitaire brands as Clock) is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards mixed together. It is basically a large-scale, two-deck version of Grandfather's Clock and is probably named after Big Ben, the colloquially used nickname for the bell at the tower of the Palace of Westminster in London. Before the start of the game, the following cards are separated from the decks: 2♣, 3♥, 4♠, 5♦, 6♣, 7♥, 8♠, 9♦, 10♣, J♥, Q♠, K♦. These cards are used to form a circle arranged like numbers on a"
"Big two Big two (also known as deuces and various other names), is a card game of Chinese origin. It is similar to the games of president, crazy eights, cheat, winner, and other shedding games. The game is very popular in East Asia and South East Asia, especially throughout China, Indonesia, Macau, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore. It is played both casually and as a gambling game. It is usually played with two to four players, the entire deck being dealt out in either case (or sometimes with only 13 cards per player, if there are fewer than four"
"Usually players buy in for $200,000–300,000, but anyone with the minimum buy in of $20,000 is welcome to play. In addition to the occasional drop-in player, the following players have been known to play regularly in the Big Game over the years: Chip Reese was a regular until he died. Big Game (poker) The Big Game is a high-stakes poker cash game played in the ""Bobby's Room"", a cardroom named after Bobby Baldwin, at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. In 2010, the game partially expanded to ""The Ivey Room"" at Aria Resort and Casino. The table features no-limit and"
"California Grand Casino The California Grand Casino is a cardroom located in Pacheco, California. The original hotel and card room was a Pony Express stop in 1860. According to ""Card Player"" magazine, the California Grand Casino is the oldest continuously operating poker room in the world, with poker games since 1854. A new casino facility opened across the street in July 2009 with 19 gaming tables, a bar and a restaurant called The Grand Cafe. In 2013, the California Grand Casino was voted Best Casino in the San Francisco East Bay by the Bay Area News Group, which includes the"
"Big Six wheel The Big Six wheel, also known simply as The Big Six or Wheel of Fortune, is an unequal game of chance, played using a large vertical wheel that can be spun. Since 13 May 2002, it can be played legally in licensed casinos in the United Kingdom, under The Gaming Clubs (Bankers' Games) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (Statutory Instrument 2002/1130). The game is also known in casinos in the United States. The wheel is divided into a number of equal segments separated by spokes or pins. Each segment is associated with a number. The wheel is spun by"
"Games in One!"" collection for Microsoft Windows. It was also part of thee 2004 ""Atari Anthology"" for the Xbox and PlayStation 2. Casino (video game) Casino is a collection of card games for the Atari 2600 programmed by Bob Whitehead and published by Atari, Inc. in 1978. Supporting up to four players, the game is controlled by the paddle controllers. Displayed from an overhead perspective, there are three card games to choose from: blackjack, five-card stud poker, and poker solitaire. Except for poker solitaire, each game always has the computer as the dealer, and bets are made by rotating the"
"well some rule sets) also allows building on piles with less than three cards. Big Ben (solitaire) Big Ben (or known in other solitaire brands as Clock) is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards mixed together. It is basically a large-scale, two-deck version of Grandfather's Clock and is probably named after Big Ben, the colloquially used nickname for the bell at the tower of the Palace of Westminster in London. Before the start of the game, the following cards are separated from the decks: 2♣, 3♥, 4♠, 5♦, 6♣, 7♥, 8♠, 9♦, 10♣, J♥, Q♠,"
"are almost never encountered by the general public; their use is usually limited to ""high limit rooms"" where bet sizes are much greater than on the main floor. Casinos often use gaming plaques for these denominations: These plaques are about the size of a playing card, and must be marked with serial numbers. The greatest value placed on a plaque to date is $10 million, used at the London Club in Las Vegas. Televised poker tournaments and cash games sometimes use bundled paper bills for high denominations, though the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour use round"
"wagers. California Grand Casino The California Grand Casino is a cardroom located in Pacheco, California. The original hotel and card room was a Pony Express stop in 1860. According to ""Card Player"" magazine, the California Grand Casino is the oldest continuously operating poker room in the world, with poker games since 1854. A new casino facility opened across the street in July 2009 with 19 gaming tables, a bar and a restaurant called The Grand Cafe. In 2013, the California Grand Casino was voted Best Casino in the San Francisco East Bay by the Bay Area News Group, which includes"
"the name to the California Grand Casino, and in 2009 moved the casino into a new building. The California Grand Casino offers Texas hold 'em poker games, Omaha poker, and a weekly Hold Em tournament. The California Grand Casino also has Blackjack, Baccarat, Three Card Poker, and Pai Gow Poker games. In California, the casino does not bank the games, so these games are played with a rotating dealer position so every player has the chance to play the dealer hand and wager against the other players, but the casino dealer still does the actual dealing and settling of all"
"jewelry store was robbed by men in pig masks. On April 13, 2017, part of the roof caught fire. Many professional poker players prefer to play at the Bellagio poker room, calling it their home base (or more commonly ""The Office"") due to the high table limits, including the high-stakes Big Game located in ""Bobby's Room"", named after Bobby Baldwin. The stakes at the Big Game can range up to $4,000/$8,000, and are frequented by such poker pros as Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, and Jennifer Harman. It is reported that the pots during this game can far exceed $1 million."
"players). The objective of the game is to be the first to play of all of one's cards. It is sometimes confused with ""tien len"" (a.k.a. thirteen); the two games differ primarily in that big two involves poker hands, while ""tien len"" does not. This card game has many other names, including big deuce and top dog. In Mandarin Chinese it is , pinyin: dà lǎo èr; in Cantonese, , sho tai ti (among other transliterations, including ""chor dai di"", and rendered in jyutping tonal notation as ""co daai di""), or simply dai di. It is cap sa in Hokkien,"
"their higher cards earlier on the assumption that their opponent has almost won. KiosCapsa Big two Big two (also known as deuces and various other names), is a card game of Chinese origin. It is similar to the games of president, crazy eights, cheat, winner, and other shedding games. The game is very popular in East Asia and South East Asia, especially throughout China, Indonesia, Macau, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore. It is played both casually and as a gambling game. It is usually played with two to four players, the entire deck being dealt out in either case"
"a player's hand. In most USA casino poker games, plastic bridge (narrow) sized cards are used; this is for both ease of use and dealing, and the plastic cards last much longer than paper decks. Casino shuffling machines have traditionally been designed for ""bridge"" (narrow) size cards for these reasons. In other table games, such as 21 (blackjack), a modern casino may use hundreds or even thousands of decks per day, so paper cards are used for those, for economic reasons. ""Poker"" (wide) size paper decks are used for 21 and other similar games. Other sizes are also available, such"
"the largest online card room until 2006 when it left the US market due to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. PokerStars has since claimed the title. In 2014, partypoker plans on returning to the US market for real money players, but on March 1, 2017, it still does not accept US players except for the state of New Jersey. In 2015, partypoker partnered with Dusk Till Dawn and later hosted ""The partypoker Grand Prix"". In 2017, the casino hosted the partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Dusk Till Dawn festival. The £5,300 main event generated a prize pool of £6,017,395. Maria"
"The first challenger was Stu Ungar, a three-time World Series of Poker champion widely regarded as the greatest Texas hold'em and gin rummy player of all time. Stu was backed by Lyle Berman, another professional poker player and business executive who co-founded Grand Casinos. Karas first beat Stu for $500,000 playing heads-up Razz. Karas then played Ungar in 7-card stud, which cost Ungar an additional $700,000. The next player was Chip Reese, widely regarded as the greatest cash game player. Reese claims that Karas beat him for more money than anyone else he ever played. After 25 games, Reese was"
"games. This variety is seldom seen in casinos, but frequently seen as a carnival game, or at a charity ""Monte Carlo night"" fund-raiser. A similar game, the ""Big Nine"" wheel, has five numbers on each segment, and also three special symbols, appearing on three spaces each, which pay 10:1 odds. A legal game in a licensed casino in the United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand involves a wheel at least 1.5 metres in diameter divided into 52 segments, each marked with one of seven symbols (referred to as A to G). The table below sets out the frequency of the"
"Baccarat (card game) Baccarat or baccara (; ) is a card game played at casinos. It is a comparing card game played between two hands, the ""player"" and the ""banker"". Each baccarat coup (round of play) has three possible outcomes: ""player"" (player has the higher score), ""banker"", and ""tie"". There are three popular variants of the game: ""punto banco"" (or ""North American baccarat""), ""baccarat chemin de fer"" (or ""chemmy""), and ""baccarat banque"" (or ""à deux tableaux""). In ""punto banco"", each player's moves are forced by the cards the player is dealt. In ""baccarat chemin de fer"" and ""baccarat banque"", by"
"stars out of a possible 5. High Stakes Gambling High Stakes Gambling is a Game Boy casino video game that takes place during the Great Depression in the 1930s. An secret agent named Pete Rosetti, who is going undercover as an inteprid gambler, must turn the Mafia from filthy rich to dirt poor in a series of gambling games in order to arrest them. The initial rounds of the game involve blackjack, poker and slot machines; with the final confrontation being done on five-card draw poker. For a price, players can also buy special cheating tools in the hopes of"
"casinos; later the same casinos with faux renamings; in the US release, simply numbered boards with similar decorative backgrounds), a deck of 54 ""bills"" (cards) in various denominations of the United States dollar (from $10,000 to $90,000 in $10,000 increments), an additional ""First Player"" card (denoting who starts each round of play) and five sets of eight dice, each set colored differently (red, green, blue, black and white). The US release also included a dice pouch for storing the game dice. The game is played for four rounds. At the start of each round, each casino is randomly dealt a"
"up to $100,000, which are typically traded on online auction websites like eBay. Several casinos sell custom-made sets of chips and one or two decks of cards stamped with the name of the casino on them. Each set is contained in a small briefcase or box. The ancestors of the modern casino token were the counters used to keep score in the card games Ombre and Quadrille. In 1752, French Quadrille sets contained a number of different counters, known as ""jetons"", ""fiches"" and ""mils"". Unlike modern poker chips, they were colored differently only to determine player ownership for purposes of"
"Big Easy Casino The Big Easy Casino, formerly known as Mardi Gras Casino and Hollywood Greyhound Track, is a casino and greyhound racing facility located in Hallandale Beach, in the U.S. state of Florida. The casino features over 900 slot machines, virtual table games, free to enter poker tournaments, and nightly entertainment. What is now the Big Easy Casino opened as the Hollywood Kennel Club on December 1, 1934, three years after Florida legalized parimutuel betting. A grandstand was added in 1940. In 1974, the facility was reopened as Hollywood Greyhound Track. A November 2004 statewide referendum allowed Broward County"
"Cassino (card game) Cassino, also known as Casino, is an Italian fishing card game for two, three, four (possibly in two partnerships), or even theoretically five players. It is the only one to have penetrated the English-speaking world. First recorded in 1797, it seems to have been heavily elaborated in 19th-century American practice. It is mostly played by two with a standard deck of playing cards, the object of the game being to score 21 points by fishing up cards displayed on the table. It is very similar to and probably descended from the Italian game Scopa. The dealer deals"
"Écarté Écarté is an old French casino game that is still played today. It is a two-player card game, the word literally meaning ""discarded"". It is a trick-taking game, similar to whist, but with a special and eponymous discarding phase. It is closely related to Euchre, a card game played mainly in the United States. Écarté was popular in the 19th century, but is now rarely played. All cards from two to six are removed from a 52-card pack, to produce the Piquet pack of thirty-two cards, which rank from the lowest 7, 8, 9, 10, ace, knave, queen, to"
"which included widening the aisles and opening up Louie's Lounge to the entire casino floor. In 2017, the facility was closed for two months because of damage from Hurricane Irma. In 2018, Jeffrey Soffer, owner of the Fontainebleau Hotel, purchased the Mardi Gras Casino from Hartman & Tyner, and renamed it as the Big Easy Casino. The casino offers over 70,000 square feet of gaming space, including over 900 slot machines, virtual roulette and blackjack, as well as The Dog Pound, Mardi Gras’ smoker-friendly slot area; simulcast and greyhound racing. The Big Easy Poker Room, offers over 30 tables of"
"The Big Money Game The Big Money Game is a game show, broadcast on RTÉ One on Saturday nights during the summer months of June, July and August as a seasonal replacement for ""Winning Streak"". The successor to ""Fame and Fortune"" (1996–2006) and ""The Trump Card"" (2007), ""The Big Money Game"" was first broadcast on Saturday, 14 June 2008. As with ""Winning Streak"", production costs for the programme are paid by RTÉ and the prize money is funded by the Irish National Lottery. Entry to the game show is based on getting three ""lucky stars"" on associated National Lottery scratchcards"
"Your Eyes Only""; and ""GoldenEye"". In the 2006 movie adaptation of ""Casino Royale"", baccarat is replaced by Texas hold 'em poker, largely due to the poker boom at the time of filming. Baccarat (card game) Baccarat or baccara (; ) is a card game played at casinos. It is a comparing card game played between two hands, the ""player"" and the ""banker"". Each baccarat coup (round of play) has three possible outcomes: ""player"" (player has the higher score), ""banker"", and ""tie"". There are three popular variants of the game: ""punto banco"" (or ""North American baccarat""), ""baccarat chemin de fer"" (or"
"casinos detect card counting is a card counter's ""bet spread"" pattern, most card counters would also consider Uston a genius of disguise, and/or ""card counting camouflage"". After ""The Big Player"", Uston went on to write ""Million Dollar Blackjack"". This book includes details about professional gamblers' techniques for gaining an advantage at the game. Uston also authored a companion piece, ""Ken Uston on Blackjack"". In an interview published in ""Video Games"", Uston revealed he got hooked on the games ""Pong"" and then ""Breakout"". In 1979 ""Space Invaders"" became his video game of choice and, after his blackjack team made $350,000 in"
"Great Grand was introduced to the game. The Great Grand has its origins in Western-Norway, and it is widely spread in this area. The Great Grand is very similar to Grand Tichu, but instead of gaining or deducting 200 points, the team will gain or deduct 400 points. However, the Great Grand must be called before any of the cards are dealt. Variations on the Great Grand Tichu include the Blind Grand Tichu, which was developed independently by players in Minnesota and Iowa (USA) in 2013. A Blind Grand Tichu must be declared before an individual player looks at any"
"and the term with this definition is still recognized in the United Kingdom. Based on the association of card games and gambling, Pope Benedict XIV banned card games on October 17, 1750. Since the 19th century some decks have been specially printed for certain games. Old Maid, Phase 10, Rook, and Uno are examples of games that can be played with one or more 52-card decks but are usually played with custom decks. Cards play an important role in board games like Risk and Monopoly. Any specific card game imposes restrictions on the number of players. The most significant dividing"