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The Most Famous Roulette Player

July 30th, 2010

A man by the name of Joseph Jagger is a roulette legend. While some roulette players are more successful than others few have been as successful as Joseph Jagger when it comes to playing roulette. Joseph Jagger within the span of a week won over five-million dollars at the famous Monte Carlo Casino.

Joseph Jagger employed six people to secretly keep taps of the outcomes of the roulette wheels at the Monte Carlo Casino. After years of data collection enough data had been gathered. After looking at the numbers Jagger saw that a specific wheel has an obvious bias towards a few numbers.

Jagger found the knowledge that would make him a millionaire, he found a biased wheel. One wheel at the Monte Carlo had a bias for numbers 7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19, 22, 28, and 29. These numbers won more often that they should. Jagger then did what was believed impossible. He went to the casino and took it for nearly everything it had.

Jagger held in his brain what every roulette player wished they had, a winning guarantee. In July 1975 Jagger placed a bet on the number seven. In just a small amount of time Jagger had made a huge sum of money.

Jagger kept at it for several days repeatedly betting on the number seven. He kept winning and winning. The damage was then multiplied, as many gamblers quickly started copying his bets. Soon there were several Jaggers all using the same trick to beat the casino.

The casinos needed to fool Jagger; it was the only way they could save themselves. They decided to swap all of the roulette tables without any of the gamblers knowing. They hoped that Jagger would not catch on and would lose all of the money back to them. It worked but the victory was short lived.

But Jagger was one step ahead of the casinos. Before the casinos knew that Jagger was about to make them look like a fool for the rest of history he discreetly scratched the malfunctioning wheel so that he could track it down. Once Jagger had a bad day or two he eyed the wheel and realized that the scratch was missing. He then found the correct table and began to win once more. The casinos then did a complete overhaul and moved the frets on all of the tables on a daily basis.

Jagger soon realized that he would no longer be able to gamble profitably. His prized table had been forever hidden from him. He knew that his run was done and he left the casino with the intentions of never returning. He took over five-million dollars from the Monte Carlo Casino. Jagger is now a roulette icon, a folk hero. Every roulette player dreams of some day replicating his success. Will it be you? Perhaps you shall one day discover a way to game online roulette.

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Gamblers Fallacy Does Not Help Roulette Systems

July 30th, 2010

Whether you are a new player or an old player, somebody who was been around since the Stone Age or somebody who’s first roulette spin was on the internet. There is something you need to know, this one thing single handedly defeats online roulette players.

The one thing that I’m talking about is known as The Gambler’s Fallacy. The Gambler’s Fallacy has been tricking players into making bad bets for centuries, possibly longer than that. If you take your money seriously you must be constantly vigilant against The Gambler’s Fallacy.

To give you a quick idea of what The Gambler’s Fallacy is imagine that the ball of a roulette wheel has landed on odds several times in a row. Somebody suffering from The Gambler’s Fallacy would then begin betting on evens thinking that the ball is now more likely to land on evens because it has landed on odd so many times already.

The notion that the table remembers what the last spin was is entirely incorrect. The table isn’t concerned with what the last result was, the odds are always consistent. The table does not remember a thing; the only thing that really matters is the math.

What makes The Gambler’s Fallacy so deadly is that if somebody who is not versed in mathematics looks at a simple version of the odds it would appear that there is no fallacy. The math would indicate that no such fallacy exists.

To show why The Gambler’s Fallacy is an easy trick to fall for I’ll lay out some math. After laying out the math I’ll show where most people go wrong in their assessment and then I will show the correct approach to the issue.

Imagine that there is no zero at an online roulette table. This would mean that there is a 50% chance of landing on black, now the odds of a ball landing on black twice in a row is smaller than 50%, and the odds of it landing on black three times in a row is even smaller. So on the surface it looks like the more times it lands on black the less likely it is to land on black again. However if you look deeper the odds of the ball landing on black three times and then red one time matches up with the odds of the ball landing on black four times.

There is no reason that The Gambler’s Fallacy should destroy your bankroll. However it will as soon as you let it. If you want to do well at online roulette you must take this threat seriously otherwise it could completely and utterly destroy you.

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Nuggets Top Blazers As Anthony Stars

July 27th, 2010

Carmello Anthony scored 41 points and the Denver Nuggets used a second half comeback to give the Portland Trailblazers a rare 97-94 loss at their Rose Garden Arena home venue on Thursday night. The Blazers held a 67-62 lead heading into the final quarter but for the second time in as many games had trouble putting their opponent away. Brandon Roy led Portland with 30 points, and Greg Oden was the high rebounder for the home team with 9 boards. Portland is now 1-1 on the young NBA season, while Denver improved to 2-0.

NBA pointspread players who took Denver as +8 road underdogs enjoyed their outright victory and the ensuing payday. The Nuggets have covered the number in both of their victories this season, while Portland evened their ATS mark at 1-1.

After the game, Anthony was happier about the victory than his personal offensive outburst:

“We came out here and stole the win. It wasn’t just an important win. It was a battle.”

Anthony made 7 of 9 shots from the floor and 9 of 10 free throws in the decisive fourth quarter run:

“My shots were going in. I was trying to attack. I got to the rim and the foul line.”

Portland’s Greg Oden was taking the loss hard, as he missed a couple of late game free throws that could have given the Blazers a lead:

“This is a tough one. I definitely stepped up there with confidence thinking I was going to hit both and it didn’t go that way. I put this loss on me. I need to step up and make those.”

Team leader Brandon Roy said that he’d give the Blazers’ big man a pep talk:

“The biggest thing is to let go. We all miss shots, you’ve got to forget about it.”

Roy also added that the choppy pace of the game with a lot of fouls called benefitted Denver playing in back-to-back games:

“I think it benefited them a bit more coming off a back-to-back. They were tired but anytime you slow the game down that much, it gives them a chance to recover.”

The Blazers will head to Texas for a rematch against the Houston Rockets on Halloween night. Portland beat the Rockets to open their NBA season. They’ll play at Oklahoma City on Sunday before returning home for a game at The Rose Garden against the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday. Denver will head back to ‘The Mile High City’ for a game against Memphis on Sunday before an east coast road trip with stops in Indiana and New Jersey early next week.

Ross Everett is a widely published widely published freelance sports writer and highly respected authority on soccer betting. His writing has appeared on a variety of sports sites including sportsbooks and sportsbook directory sites. He lives in Las Vegas with three Jack Russell Terriers and an emu. He is currently working on an autobiography of former energy secretary Donald Hodell.

Spain Falls To Switzerland In World Cup Group Play

July 27th, 2010

In the first major upset of the 2010 World Cup, Switzerland used a Gelson Fernandez goal in the 52nd minute to shock Spain 1-0. Spain entered the competition as one of the favorites to win the entire tournament, but was shut down by a feisty Switzerland defense. Spain controlled possession throughout and outshot their opponents 25-9, but only 5 of their shots were ‘on goal’. It was the 5th consecutive World Cup shutout for the Swiss team, who made it through the entire 2006 World Cup without conceding a goal before being eliminated on penalty kicks in the quarterfinals.

The Switzerland victory also produced a hefty soccer betting payday for their financial supporters. The Swiss were a +1100 underdog to take three points from their opening game. Spain had been installed as a -400 favorite, with the odds on the draw priced at +400. And has become the common refrain during this very low scoring World Cup, the single goal scored went well UNDER the posted total of 2′.

Switzerland employs a ‘bend but don’t break’ defensive style, which allowed Spain to control possession and play but yielded very few significant scoring chances. For the game, Spain held a 74% to 26% time of possession advantage and outshot Switzerland 25-9. More significantly, however, Spain managed only 5 shots on goal. Spain’s passing game was beautiful-they completed 574 passes, which is the most so far in the 2010 tournament.

After Gelson Fernandez scored on a rare Swiss counterattack, Spain wasn’t able to recover. After the game he seemed as shocked by his second goal in International play as anyone:

“To be fair, I’m not used to scoring goals, so I was a bit surprised. It was a bit of luck.”

Switzerland coach said that not playing Spain’s preferred style was the key to victory:

“These were three unexpected points. If you play an attacking game against Spain, you’ll lose and suffer one goal after the next.”

Spanish coach Vincente del Bosque was philosophic about the loss:

“Today wasn’t our day. We have two games ahead of us. We have to find a way to win them.”

Despite Spain’s #1 FIFA ranking and status as pre tournament favorites, they had a lot of history against them. Only two of the last eight reigning European champions have won their opening match in the World Cup, with the last being Germany in 1998.

None of this will help Honduras, who’ll have to face Spain in the second game of Group H play. Their undisciplined play combined with a formidable foe that needs to win will most likely produce a blowout result. Spain will have a more difficult time against a solid Chile side in their final Group H game. Switzerland will look to continue their defensive mastery of opponents on Saturday against Chile before they finish their group play schedule on June 25 against Honduras.

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Legal Film Downloading Is Very Popular

July 27th, 2010

If you have been looking for quite some time to find legal movie downloads from a large database of movies, you probably had little success. However, legal movie downloads do indeed exist, and finally the movie companies have started to get their act together and are getting into the movie download market.

It was quite understandable why many people use to find pirated movies. It was often just because of convenience rather than saving the costs of buying movies. Buying movie downloads online is not particularly expensive, and indeed you should be able to save quite a lot of money.

However, convenience is by far the biggest advantage of movie downloads, simply because you don’t have to go all the way to your video store just to find what you want. Also, if you order online and wait for delivery, you can be waiting quite a few days and then there can be problems with the mail, making experience even more frustrating. However, the convenience factor when it comes to movie downloads is an absolute godsend for many of us.

As you can probably imagine, downloading movies is a lot more convenient than going down to your local store, where you probably won’t even be able to find what you want anyway. Particularly if you have slightly unusual tastes, you will find that your local movie store often does not have what you are looking for.

Ideally, you want to have a fast connection. Almost any broadband connection will do. On the average broadband connection, you should be able to download a movie in couple of hours at most, often much faster. These downloads are large files so your computer needs a decent amount of hard drive space available for your movies.

Most of the fears of downloading movies are unfounded. You should be able to download high definition movies at the same or better quality than DVD. You should be able to see some samples first before you actually buy. Obviously, the higher quality the movie is, the higher the file size would be so you will want to take this into account.

There are many different formats available as well. Nonetheless, there are only a few formats available which actually work on most players. For example, if you were to download DivX movies, for which most of them are, you should be able to play the more on all sorts of different machines.

If you download DivX movies, you should be up to burn them to a conventional DVD and watch them on any basic DVD player. This is extremely useful of course, and something that most of us who download movies online will want to be able to do. Indeed, DivX is even supported on current mobile phones and portable entertainment systems, making it extremely versatile.

Movie downloads are probably the best and most versatile way to get movies these days. With legal movie downloads now available you can download with confidence.

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Celtics Dump Cavs From NBA Playoffs

July 27th, 2010

The Cleveland Cavaliers finished the NBA’s regular season with the league’s best record, and LeBron James won the Most Valuable Player award in the process. Despite this success, the Cavs will be watching the rest of the NBA playoffs on TV. Cleveland was eliminated by the Boston Celtics on Thursday night, losing game six by a final score of 94-85.

The Cavs had won two of the first three games before the Celtics rebounded to win the last three en route to the series victory. In game six, Boston was priced as a -1′ point NBA betting favorite and easily covered the pointspread. The 179 combined points scored went well UNDER the posted total of 194. Heading into Game 6, Cleveland had taken the money in 8 of the last 12 games held at Boston’s TD BankNorth Garden.

LeBron James didn’t go down without a fight, however, as he put up a ‘triple double’ consisting of 27 points, 19 rebounds and 10 assists. Mo Williams added 22 points, but the Cavs received little production from the rest of the roster. For the game, the Celtics’ bench outscored their Cleveland counterparts 24-13.

Kevin Garnett was the high scorer for the Celtics with 22 points and 12 rebounds, and afterward credited his team’s experience:

“Winning is gratifying. You’re playing the best team in basketball; the challenge is there; you don’t have to dress it up. One thing we don’t lack is confidence. We’re a veteran team and we understand when it’s time to lock in as a group. I think we did just that. I think the experience is taking over.”

LeBron, meanwhile, was in a state of disbelief:

“The fact that it’s over right now is definitely a surprise to me. A friend of mine told me, ‘I guess you’ve got to go through a lot of nightmares before you realize your dream.’ That’s what’s going on for me individually right now.”

There’s been much speculation about the future of the reigning MVP-LeBron is eligible to opt out of his contract this summer and there’s no shortage of teams that would love to have him. For now, he’s keeping his cards close to the vest:

“I want to win. That’s my only thing, my only concern. I’ve always prided myself — it’s all about winning for me and I think the Cavs are committed to doing that. But at the same time, I’ve given myself options to this point. Me and my team, we have a game plan that we’ll execute and we’ll see where we’re at.”

The Celtics will now face the Orlando Magic, who have rampaged through the first two rounds of the playoffs. Orlando’s conference semifinal sweep of the Atlanta Hawks was the most dominating 4 game series victory in NBA history, with an average per game margin of victory of 25.2 points.

Ross Everett is considered among the world’s top experts on several topics, including wombat racing, sports betting, and sword fighting. He is a consulting handicapper for Oddsbay and in charge of setting daily soccer betting odds . He lives in Las Vegas with several retired circus performers.

Find The Top Movie Download Sites

July 26th, 2010

Owning a computer means that if you do not feel like going out to the movies and spending a fortune, you do not have to, not when you can choose from tons of movie download sites to get your movie fix and in the privacy of your own home. Below are some notes on what you should look for.

Probably one of the best sites for downloading movies is one that gets rave reviews from both their members and those who reviews movie download sites. Most reviewers give sites a five star rating when they go beyond the call of duty for their clients. Rave reviews also come from their members. You want to find sites that give you the opportunity to choose from tons of movies, television shows, music and even video games.

Look to see if one of their features is to allow their members to download their favorite movies and music and then they can burn them for later use. Some sites may even supply their members with a program that will make CD and DVD covers for a professional look.

You should also see how powerful P2P software program that connects you with millions of members spread throughout the world which can give you billions of choices to choose from when you use both the site and the P2P program. Make sure that they supply you with manuals and tutorials to help you with all aspects of maneuvering within their site. Make sure the site is high tech as well as information on how to take advantage of the high tech programs they may offer. Always make sure that the downloads are of a high quality or DVD quality.

It is also good to have a sleek user interface and the software they provide make it easy for you to download a large amount of movies which also include movie titles that have yet to be released most anywhere else. You want the site to make it so you can not only download music, movies and games but you are also allowed to download different kinds of software. It is a good thing if they offer you a user manual that help you set up your account in just minutes and downloading what you want shortly thereafter. Some sites also offer lifetime customer offer that makes it hard to resist because it probably enables you to probably end up paying less than if you just paid a monthly fee.

If you have a good Internet connection you will want a site that will let you download a 2 hour movie in just a short amount of time. But a lot of it will depend upon the quality that you select. It also depends upon how many downloads that you try to do at the same time. So if you are want to download several movies it is probably a good idea if you download them overnight. Also if you are in the middle of a download look for sites that offer software that will let you pause it and come back to it later and continue downloading from where you left off.

Make sure that if you are a person that likes to download several movies at a time that the site allows you to do something like this. Some people do not like to do one movie at a time because it may take a lot longer than several at a time. Make sure that the programs they offer you for downloading are fast enough to do multiple downloads as well.

If you are looking for super speed try to find a site that offers their members a free accelerator You can achieve extremely high download speeds by simply downloading an accelerator. Another important thing to look for is if they have a good customer service. There is nothing like going to a site, have a problem and then find out their customer service is either bad or simply does not exist. Also make sure to see if they have any kind of money back guarantees.

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Movie Download Sites Have Many Forms

July 26th, 2010

When looking for movie download sites, it’s important to note that the majority of them are illegal. They are designed to offer movies for free when they should, in some way, be paid for. There are legal ones, however, and they are the ones that are much more highly recommended.

These sites come in two major forms, and one of those forms is streaming. Streaming videos are played directly on the websites themselves and are downloaded at the same time that they are watched. You sacrifice quality for time and storage space on your computer, however. Since the movie is being downloaded while you watch, it takes a powerful computer to use.These sites come in legal forms, though, which is convenient, but that’s because of advertisements.

And by many, I mean many. These pages are covered in advertisements and each one requires special attention by your computer, taking away processing power. Streaming videos require a lot of your computers attention as it is, so these ads only make it worse. It all adds to the fact that you’ll get a much lower quality video out of it, and so is generally not the form of movie downloading that most people use. The other tends to be more convenient for the idle person.

The other form of movie downloading is through torrents. A torrent is a file is an information file that enables your computer to connect to others around the world. While downloading, you are taking file information from all of these computers at once, resulting in a digital copy of the movie you have the torrent of. The process is slow, but the overall quality of the movie is significantly better because you’ll be watching a movie file on your computer, rather than downloading it while you watch.

To download these torrents, your computer will have to have a torrent “downloader”. The torrents themselves are found on websites, but the “downloader” is a program that interprets these files and downloads their contents. The programs require a lot of your computer’s processing power and are likely to load your computer with spyware, resulting in hindered overall computer performance.

Since these methods are illegal, it’s a very bad idea to use them, as the repercussions are dire.There are, however, some sites that are completely legal, because you have to pay for the content. These sites will require prior membership and offer a vast archive of content. More importantly, the content is likely to be very good quality, because they can afford to get the best of the best for movies.

How you obtain or watch these movies is the same as the illegal versions that are out there. You can find sites that stream movies or offer download-able movie files. Both forms are paid for either by advertising or by mandatory memberships that have dues. The price for these memberships are generally only a few dollars a year.

It’s no question that movie download sites are incredibly convenient, and the prospect of being free is enticing. Their convenience is worth the investment, but being free is not. Look at it this way: by paying a minute amount of money, you are able to view endless video content as long and often as you want. If you get caught downloading illegally, you’ll pay thousands in fines, so it’s infinitely more expensive.

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See The Instant Classic Film Fight Club

July 26th, 2010

If you haven’t seen Fight Club yet, well… Welcome to the twenty first century. How was it under that rock where you live? This movie was sort of a cultural event back in the late nineties. It wasn’t just a movie, it was The Thing everyone was talking about, and has since had every bit as much of an influence on the modern world cinema as Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas had had some years earlier. It’s certainly one of the must download movies of the decade.

The story follows an unnamed narrator portrayed by Ed Norton. There’s a lot of “Office Space” type humor as he disparages his corporate white collar job, but there’s an ugliness to it here, a darkness not present in Office Space. The movie is very deep and brooding and twisted, while at the same time sarcastic and nonchalant about the whole thing.

He meets two people who change his life, Tyler Durden, and a new woman played by Helena Bonham Carter. Durden, played by Brad Pitt, is an unusual character, completely unbound by societal rules. Think of Kramer from Seinfeld. Now imagine if Kramer wanted to lead a violent revolution. There you have Tyler Durden.

Tyler Durden is really the heart of the film in.. Many more ways than one. He and the narrator together found the Fight Club, which begins as simply a place where lonely white collar men can fight so as to reaffirm their manhood, but soon grows into something deeper, more frightening, and which has a much greater impact in the grand scheme of things.

From there, it grows into a cultural movement, and a dangerous one, at that. It’s fascinating seeing just how far it goes. It shows that there’s a lot of rage and anger out there. It doesn’t seem that far fetched that so many people would catch on to the ideas Durden puts forth, and while parts of the movie are outlandish, this part is not.

The way it ties everything up is fascinating and was, at the time, an incredible and unpredictable plot twist. Since, it’s become sort of cliche. This movie and the Sixth Sense both created their own style of “surprise endings”, and created trends that would eventually get a little tired but which, at the time, were exciting and interesting.

Ed Norton has since gone on to do a lot of… Well, some people call it Oscarbait. He does a lot of movies that are more, you know, “indie”, and he’s controversial, not all directors enjoy working with him. However, in Fight Club, he really gives the performance his all, creating a character who is both an everyman and a completely unique individual, and the perfect contrast to Tyler Durden. Pitt as Durden is every bit as capable, and turns in one of his best performances.

The movie is violent and surreal, and winds up making an interesting statement on what it really means to be a man in the modern world. Many viewers misunderstand what the movie is really about in that… Well, it doesn’t provide answers, as many fans think. It only provides the questions.

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Joe Vs. The Volcano Can Be Seen As A Film Download

July 25th, 2010

After the cancellation of Bosom Buddies, the show that gave him his start, Tom Hanks starred in his share of goofy comedies throughout the late eighties and early nineties. While Big and Turner and Hooch are both entirely watchable movies in their own right, Joe Vs. The Volcano is the one that stands as one of the all time must download movies.

So, what makes this one so much better than his other early nineties comedies? Well to start off with, those other comedies provided big laughs and a charming leading man, but Joe vs the Volcano provides something more. Not only is this movie funny, weird and unpredictable, it also contains the meaning of life. No joke.

We start off in a dismal state of affairs, with Joe experiencing an existential crisis, having no idea why he was put on earth. This is driven home by the excellent production design of Beetlejuice’s set designer Bo Welch. The factory where Joe works, sitting in the middle of a vast expanse of muddy terrain, is simply disgusting and soul crushing.

The hypochondriac Joe quits this job when he’s told by a doctor that he has a “Brain Cloud” which will kill him in five or six months. Into Joe’s life comes an industrialist who offers him the opportunity to “Live like a king and die like a man”.

Played wonderfully by Lloyd Bridges in his one scene, the industrialist needs Joe’s help. He mines on an island called Waponi Woo. Once every hundred years, so the people of the island believe, the volcano will demand a human sacrifice lest it explode and kill everyone. Joe comes to terms with his own mortality here and in doing so comes to terms with life itself.

This scenario gives Joe his life back. From here he becomes more daring, more appreciative of the human experience. Therein lies what makes this movie so special, it’s core philosophy: Stop worrying and enjoy life for what it is, because it’s really pretty great.

The look of the film is similarly wonderful. Bo Welch really sends it out of the park on this one. The film takes place in a sort of fantasy mirror universe of our own. Taking cues equally from Dali and Andy Warhol, the film looks like a living dream.

Spoiler Alert: The original draft of the script for this film had the industrialist and the doctor getting their comeuppance in the finale. Honestly, it’s better that they don’t. While they were scamming Joe, the fact is that they gave him his life back. Whether or not this is with intent, the doctor and the industrialist serve in the story as both the villain, and as Joe’s savior.

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