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The Bank of England has questions to answer over its role in the fall of HBOS

November 21, 2015 by Marilyn Leave a Comment

Companies don’t go bust because they fail to make a profit, runs the old City saw, but because they run out of cash. This was never more apt than in the fall of HBOS.

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Filed Under: Banking Tagged With: betting, blogger, casinos, gambling, gambling blog, online gambling

Jack sandwich

November 14, 2015 by Marilyn Leave a Comment

A card is selected, remembered and returned to the deck. You riffle the end of the deck with a snap and two cards magically turn face-up – the two black Jacks. Unfortunately neither of them is the selected card. The Jacks are replaced in the deck but left face-up and the deck is cut several times. Finally the cards are spread out to reveal that the two black Jacks have now trapped one card between them. It is, of course, the chosen card…

This uses the key card handling in a slightly different way. Before you perform the trick, you must take out the two black Jacks and place them face-up at the bottom of the face-down deck. When you bring out the deck, don’t reveal the presence of the face-up Jacks.

Begin by holding the deck face-down in the right hand and shuffle off some cards into the left hand as you ask a spectator to call out ‘Stop’ any time they like; the same selection procedure as used in the Card Crime trick.

Thumb off the top card of the left-hand packet and ask the spectator to look at and remember it before putting it back. Drop the right-hand packet of cards on top of the selection and square the deck. You can, if you wish, now shuffle off a few more cards from the top to the bottom of the deck. Just be careful not to disturb the cards in the middle of the deck, which is where your two face-up Jacks now lie.

Tell the spectator that you’ll snap your fingers and make the selected card turn face-up in the deck. Snap your fingers, but do it twice. Spread the deck between your hands to reveal that there are now two cards face-up in the middle of the deck – the two black Jacks (1). ‘Oops: sorry. Should have only done that once – is either of those the card you chose?’

They aren’t, so you offer to use the black Jacks to find their selection. Take all the cards which lie above the face-up jacks and put them to the bottom of the deck. Then spread the top few cards so that the Jacks can be seen. ‘The black Jacks will find your card: let me show you.’ Because of your handling earlier, the card immediately below the Jacks is the spectator’s selection.

Square up the cards in the left hand but, as you do, stick your left little finger under the third card from the top so that it keeps a break between the top three cards and the rest of the deck (2). The illo shows an exposed view from the side. From the spectator’s point of view, the break is totally invisible.

With your right hand, lift off the top three cards together. The right fingers are at the front of the packet and the thumb at the inner end (3). The left thumb then peels the top card of this packet back on to the deck and pushes it forward slightly so that it overhangs at the front. This is known as an ‘outjog’ (4). From the audience’s point of view you are just displaying the two faceup black Jacks, but in reality you have the spectator’s selection hidden under the right-hand Jack. Place this Jack under the deck so that it sticks out a little at the inner end. This is known as an ‘injog’ (5). Be careful that you don’t expose the face-down card hidden below it.

‘Two Jacks with another fifty cards between them and one of them’s yours. Watch the Jacks go into action.’ Square the Jacks up so that they’re flush with the deck and then give the deck a complete cut. Hand it to the spectator, inviting him to give the deck a second cut. Make sure he completes the cut, taking a block of cards from the top and placing them on the bottom.

Then ask him to give the deck one more cut, ‘for luck.’ That’s three cuts in total. To the audience, it’s the equivalent of mixing up the cards but, as explained in the previous trick, this cutting procedure doesn’t alter the sequence of cards. What the cuts have done is brought the two black Jacks together either side of the selected card.

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Victoria Coren Mitchell’s poker face breaks into a smile after £400,000 win

November 7, 2015 by Marilyn Leave a Comment

The writer, broadcaster and poker player Victoria Coren Mitchell has become the first person to win Europe’s biggest poker game twice, taking her lifetime’s winnings to £1.5 million. [Read more…]

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Children made addicts by easy online betting

October 17, 2015 by Marilyn Leave a Comment

Thousands of children are being turned into problem gamblers by the easy availability of online betting and slot machines, a report will warn this week.

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Peter Phillips gambles that China will agree to legalise horse racing

October 10, 2015 by Marilyn Leave a Comment

The Queen’s eldest grandchild is taking a gamble on whether Beijing will one day legalise betting on horse racing by becoming involved in an effort to push the sport into China.

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Casino banks might have checked these mad swings

September 19, 2015 by Marilyn Leave a Comment

IF CENTRAL bankers and politicians were puzzled by the speed and depth of the stock market gyrations last week, they could look in the mirror to find one of the causes.

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Bookies end up in winners’ circle

September 12, 2015 by Marilyn Leave a Comment

Bookies’ tips are best avoided, not least ones from an Irish prankster at 2.09 in the morning. So no surprise punters ignored July 24’s tweet from Paddy Power, declaring that “hot on the heels” of the Ladbrokes/Coral nuptials, “we can exclusively reveal that we have merged with Betfair. Our new name is Betty Power”.

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Bookies could lose £30m on AP McCoy

May 2, 2015 by Marilyn Leave a Comment

Bookmakers have said they could pay out tens of millions if AP McCoy delights punters by winning the Grand National on Shutthefrontdoor, bringing the curtain down on a stunning career.

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Betfair buys US horse-racing network for £47m

March 3, 2015 by Marilyn Leave a Comment

Betfair has upped its dividend by 50 per cent and announced a £200 million cash return to shareholders after reporting a 51 per cent rise in underlying earnings in the first half of the year.

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Food for thought

January 2, 2015 by Marilyn Leave a Comment

Bingo can count its blessings

The gambling industry, in particular bingo, has not been slow to complain about the woes it has suffered at the hands of the smoking ban, the Government and the recession – but, according to research from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), it may have been dealt a stronger hand in the downturn than almost any other part of the leisure sector. PwC reckons that revenues will fall by only 5 per cent this year as small-stakes betting on bingo, lotteries and fruit machines proves comparatively resilient, compared with areas such as restaurants and hotels and higher-stakes gaming in casinos. The firm does admit that, in the case of bingo, this is partly a function of the mauling it suffered from the smoking ban and the Gaming Act. In other words, with sales already 20 per cent down, bingo has less far to fall. [Read more…]

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