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How to make BG a more popular gambling game?

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mu...@compuplus.net

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Dec 22, 2014, 7:38:04 PM12/22/14
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Don't limit raising of the stakes to simply doubling.

When one side turns the cube to 16, allow the other
dude to say "I see your 16 and raise it a 100". And
then, of course, his opponent can say "I see your 100
and double it"... :)

I bet this would give BG such a reputation that we
may even start seeing bad ass cowboys switch from
playing poker to BG in western movies, with loaded
dice of course, and blast each other with twin six
shooters across the board... :)

MK

Bradley K. Sherman

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Dec 22, 2014, 7:45:59 PM12/22/14
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<mu...@compuplus.net> wrote:
>Don't limit raising of the stakes to simply doubling.
>
>When one side turns the cube to 16, allow the other
>dude to say "I see your 16 and raise it a 100". And
>then, of course, his opponent can say "I see your 100
>and double it"... :)

In money play that is allowed, though it goes through
the normal progression, 16,32,64, .... In the 70's
in Northern California there were even names for the
first three "reraises": double, beaver, raccoon, aardvark .

--bks

Paul

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Dec 23, 2014, 4:04:29 AM12/23/14
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I've heard the word "otter" for what you call "aardvark".

Paul

mu...@compuplus.net

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Dec 23, 2014, 6:09:45 AM12/23/14
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I know and they are still used but you are still talking
about raising the pot (not cultivating:) in limited and
preset intervals of doubling.

What I am talking about is being able to say "I see your
beaver" (never while playing against females, of course:)
"and I raise you fifty raccoons", (and without restrictions
on seeing anybody's raccoons), the opponent being able to
raise a herd of aardwarks, otters, etc... :))

MK

michae...@gmail.com

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Dec 23, 2014, 6:27:31 AM12/23/14
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I always agreed with you that this new invention called doubling cube, should better be called gambling cube ;-)
It's a game within a game....

Bradley K. Sherman

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Dec 23, 2014, 10:14:31 AM12/23/14
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<michae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>I always agreed with you that this new invention called doubling cube,
>should better be called gambling cube ;-)
>It's a game within a game....
> ...

Gambling and genetics are the fount of probability theory.
When I was younger I used the doubling cube in Tennis and
Chess. In chess if you accepted and held the doubling cube,
a draw was a win.

--bks

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