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      Making A Long Shot Roulette Bet

      August 20, 2012 /

      Roulette is all about odds. The game involves placing money on options in the form of chips and receiving a payout on those options based on the probability of their occurence. For instance, choices that are less likely to happen will receive a double payout. Choices with lower odds receive much higher payouts because they’re less likely to happen.

      Many people play roulette for the long shot bet, meaning they put money on risky options in order to increase their money by a lot more. This can occur either when a person is playing online or in a no deposit required casino. A no deposit required casino is a casino that doesn’t force a person to load money into an account to play their games of chance. Games of Roulette can be found in any type of casino, and you have the option of betting on longshots, if you so choose.


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      Long Shots vs. Safer Bets

      A safer bet, such as betting on red or black, even or odd typically intrigues new gamblers. This is the case because there is more of a chance of winning. The Roulette wheel allows almost a 50/50 chance of the bouncing ball landing on one of these options.

      Long shots are intriguing because they provide the thrill of risk, while giving larger payouts. This option can be played in a no deposit required casino. Since the odds are greater, a person can multiply their money in greater proportions.

      Playing Long Shot Roulette with Insurance

      In order to decrease the odds of losing your money, it’s wise to use insurance. Insurance involves placing various bets across the board so that if one or some bets don’t work out, you’ll still win other money to cover it. This strategy keeps you in the game and allows you to place long shot bets without as much worry.

      The odds are the odds, so long-shot bets don’t give you a great chance either way. Insurance helps with this, so it’s a wise strategy to implement.

      The Rules Remain the Same

      The key to remember is that the rules remain the same whether you’re in an online casino, in Las Vegas or making bets at a no deposit required casino. The game remains the same, so you should play it the same way. This makes it important to understand strategies, because they work regardless of how or where you’re playing.

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      Video poker arrives to mix reception in Chicago area

      July 25, 2012 /

      The expansion of legal gambling continues across the United States. The state of Ohio approved four casinos, and there’s already evidence that the new casinos in Cleveland and Toledo are pulling customers away from casinos in Detroit, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Las Vegas has all sorts of problems as they no longer attract as many high rollers, but as more casinos open across the country that has to have an impact as well.

      In Illinois, the state will be rolling out the first legal video poker machines to offer payouts to customers. Now, not everyone in the state will be able to play in their immediate neighborhood, as many local areas including Chicago have their own laws restricting the games. But obviously the new poker games will just be a car ride away for most residents, so expect this to find a market as well. Of course for years poker fans could just look up an online poker guide to find the most popular poker sites and play in the comfort of their own home.

      In some ways, all of this just keeps making poker more popular as a game, and that’s good for the entire industry. More players means a bigger pie for everyone to share. But the companies and outlets sharing the pie might be growing faster than the number of new players.

      it will be fascinating to see how all of this plays out. With the feds saying they have no jurisdiction here, we could be another round of expanding interest in poker, one of the great all-time games of skill, and many companies can benefit from this.

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      Glaxo and corporate malfeasance

      July 3, 2012 /

      In a stunning settlement, GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to a $3 billion fine.

      In the largest settlement involving a pharmaceutical company, the British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its best-selling antidepressants for unapproved uses and failing to report safety data about a top diabetes drug, federal prosecutors announced Monday. The agreement also includes civil penalties for improper marketing of a half-dozen other drugs.

      The fine against GlaxoSmithKline over Paxil, Wellbutrin, Avandia and the other drugs makes this year a record for money recovered by the federal government under its so-called whistle-blower law, according to a group that tracks such numbers.

      In May, Abbott Laboratories settled for $1.6 billion over its marketing of the antipsychotic drug Depakote. And an agreement with Johnson & Johnson that could result in a fine of as much as $2 billion is said to be imminent over its off-label promotion of another antipsychotic drug, Risperdal.

      No individuals have been charged in any of the cases. Even so, the Justice Department contends the prosecutions are well worth the effort — reaping more than $15 in recoveries for every $1 it spends, by one estimate.

      But critics argue that even large fines are not enough to deter drug companies from unlawful behavior. Only when prosecutors single out individual executives for punishment, they say, will practices begin to change.

      “What we’re learning is that money doesn’t deter corporate malfeasance,” said Eliot Spitzer, who, as New York’s attorney general, sued GlaxoSmithKline in 2004 over similar accusations involving Paxil. “The only thing that will work in my view is C.E.O.’s and officials being forced to resign and individual culpability being enforced.”

      We’ll see if these fines deter future behavior. I can’t imagine that a fine of this size won’t have an impact in the industry.

      That said, the laws on disclosure of risks surrounding drugs need to be enforced and people hiding results need to be held accountable.

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      Murdoch not betting on Romney

      July 1, 2012 /

      The business community is lining up behind Mitt Romney, but Rupert Murdoch isn’t too optimistic based on his recent tweets.

      “Met Romney last week. Tough O Chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from team and hires some real pros. Doubtful,” he wrote.

      He added: “US election is referendum on Obama, all else pretty minor.”

      This is just the latest in a series of anti-Romney tweets. Last week, the News Corp CEO wrote that Romney “Seems to play everything safe, make no news except burn off Hispanics.”

      You can follow Murdoch on Twitter here.

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