Patrick Havens on January 25th, 2008

Now I had talked earlier about my search for online gaming… and how I looked over some online casinos. Well I ran across a a few interesting ones. Plus a seriously specialized ones.
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Now I did find a number of other sites that you can gamble at including a number of Free Online [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 25th, 2008

The US Government has been cracking down on online gambling every way they can. Besides outlawing it under a number of seemingly puritanical laws, they recently forced credit card companies into refusing to accept US Citizens use at Gambling sites.
But some of those sites have just started specializing. As a US Citizen I can’t [...]

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Patrick Havens on November 20th, 2006

The U.S. Mint is hoping that Martin Van Buren and Millard Fillmore can do what Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea couldn’t - get Americans to use dollar coins.
The Mint on Monday revealed the design of the new U.S. $1 coin, which will be issued in a series that will eventually include the faces of each [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 25th, 2006

Meanings of Playing Cards
Who are the figures on the court cards in a standard deck of playing cards supposed to represent?
It is a simple question, but one with two different answers. If we’re speaking of English playing cards and their descendants (which would include American playing cards), the answer is “no one.” This [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 28th, 2006

April Fool’s joke sparks strip poker championship
DUBLIN (Reuters) - It started as an April Fool’s joke but an Irish bookmaker’s proposal to hold the world’s biggest strip poker contest will become reality next month.
Paddy Power floated the idea as a joke but it generated so much interest — and hundreds of requests to take part [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 13th, 2006

Woman’s 10-Cent Bet Pays $21,584 at Track
SWARTZ CREEK, Mich. (AP) — A woman placed a 10-cent bet at a Michigan horse track and won $21,584, a track official says. The Michigan woman, whose name was not released, made the bet Friday at Sports Creek Raceway in Swartz Creek, about 55 miles northwest of Detroit.
She placed [...]

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