Feelin’ Lucky…

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   Bart7

   February 1, 2012 at 2:30 am

   The odds of a specified outcome are always the same on every throw of the dice. You could roll double-6 ten times in a row and the chances of the next roll being a
   double-6 will still be the same – 35 to 1.
   The odds for any outcome are the same for
   every roll. It is a common misconception by gamblers that this is not true. Odds work out over a period of time and over a number of random results. A casino that takes thousands of bets an hour knows this. The law of averages works over the long term.
   If you throw a die an infinite number of times the results will match the true odds but the lower the number of rolls the more the results can differ and a gambler can lose a lot of money waiting for the law of averages to work for them, with no chance of recouping it.

   http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dice-play/Odds.htm

   Vanity Fair (American magazine 1913–1936)
   Condé Montrose Nast began his empire by purchasing the men’s fashion magazine Dress
   in 1913. He renamed the magazine Dress and Vanity Fair and published four issues in
   1913. It continued to thrive into the twenties. However, it became a casualty of the
   Great Depression and declining advertising revenues, although its circulation, at
   90,000 copies, was at its peak. Condé Nast announced in December 1935 that Vanity
   Fair would be folded into Vogue (circulation 156,000) as of the March 1936 issue.
   {Revised and currently circulated The first issue was published in February 1983}
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(magazine)

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   Bart7

   February 1, 2012 at 2:33 am

   Touraj Daryaee (2006)— on the subject of the first written mention of early
   precursors of backgammon—writes:

   “The game of backgammon is first mentioned in Bhartrhari’s Vairagyasataka (p. 39),
   composed around the late sixth or early seventh century AD. The use of dice for the
   game is another indication of its Indic origin, since dice and gambling were a
   favorite pastime in ancient India. The rules of the game, however, first appeared in
   the Middle Persian text Wızarisnı Catrang ud Nihisnı New Ardaxsır (Explanation of
   Chess and Invention of Backgammon), composed in the sixth century during the rule of
   the Sasanian king Khosrow I (530–571). The text assigns its invention to the Persian
   sage Wuzurgmihr (Persian) Buzarjumihr/Bozorgmehr, who was the minister of King Khosrow I, as a challenge for the Indian sages.”
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgammon

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   Bart7

   February 5, 2012 at 10:31 am

   In the past, the question of what the best Backgammon opening moves were open to debate. Now computer simulations have determined that opening dice rolls of 31, 42, 53, 61 and 65 are, statistically speaking, the most viable and will give you the biggest edge…

   http://backgammonfever.com/best-opening-rolls.html

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