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    Card Counting Sitting quietly with shades on and a cigarette in his mouth‚ the player at the green-carpeted table receives a 10 of spades. "Hit me." 1 The dealer draws an ace. "Well‚ that makes six a row‚ you sure are on a roll." As the player takes the cigarette out of his mouth to reply‚ he is sternly tapped on his shoulder. "Sir‚ I ’m going to have to ask you to leave." The card player knows there is no point in fighting‚ he gets up and leaves. He won ’t be seeing that casino anymore‚ for

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    Statistics is a major component of card counting. To be successful with card counting‚ one must use statistics to determine the probability of winning. This is proven true by the MIT blackjack team. The team counts cards at casinos and uses statistics to increase its odds of beating the house. Statistics correlates to card counting as proven by the MIT blackjack team. In order to understand the correlation‚ one must first understand statistics. Statistics is a branch of math focused on collecting

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    About Edward Thorp the casino gambler Edward Oakley Thorp is often regarded as the father of card counting and the wearable computer. He is also an academician‚ hedge fund manager‚ author and one of the world’s best known blackjack player. Thorp was born on 14‚ August 1932 in Chicago‚ Illinois. The math’s professor received his doctorate degree in mathematics from University of California‚ LA in 1958. He worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1959 and 1961 and taught mathematics

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    21 Communication Analysis

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    to Communications: G141 The movie 21 stars a young student Ben Campbell who wants to go to Harvard Med to become a doctor but he cannot afford the $300‚000 for tuition. He then is introduced to a card counting group who solve the means the Ben’s financial situation. Ben joins the secret team of card counters on weekend trips to Vegas where they use skills of nonverbal communication by using a system of codes‚ rules‚ hand signals and gestures. (DeVito‚ 2009).This movie provides good examples of

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    Card Game

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    the cards are dealt. The cards are dealt either 9 or 18 times depending on how long of a game you wish to play. The Game Consists of: These Card Counts These Card Counts 5 Sand Trap Cards 10 points 2 Hole in One Cards -3 points 5 In The Rough Cards 10 points 3 Eagle Cards -2 points 5 Water Hazard Cards 10 points 7 Birdie Cards -1 point 5 Out of Bound Cards 10 points 8 Par Cards 0 points 9 Double Bogey Cards 2 points 9 Bogey Cards 1 point There are two cards called

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    had 31.- a. required 32.- b. by 33.- a. crowding 34.- c. should 35.- b. don’t need 36.- b. process 37.- b. is this Part 6 38.- c. interested 39.- d. happen 40.- c. check out 41.- a. stay Part 7 42.- d. To issue a new bank card. 43.- a. transfering funds form severl accounts. 44.- c. Pacific asia 45.- c. on the coast 46.- c. passangers prefers high speed trains. 47.- d. problem 48.- c. anyone eighteen and above 49.- b. not longer than thousand words 50.- c. paya an

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    Credit Cards

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    Credit cards are one of the most popular forms of payment for consumer goods and services in the United States. To use a credit card legally‚ you must be eighteen or older‚ but many teenagers disregard this law and sign up for a credit card through the junk mail they get in their emails. Credit cards work in a very interesting way. You get a limit of how much you can spend each month‚ and you must pay off that money by a certain date. If you don’t pay off that money‚ you must pay a certain amount

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    Smart Cards

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    Smart card is one of the greatest achievements in the world of information technology. Similar in size to today ’s plastic payment card‚ the smart card has a microprocessor or memory chip embedded in it that‚ when coupled with a reader‚ has the processing power to serve many different applications. As an access-control device‚ smart cards can be used to access server remotely over the Internet and they can make personal and business data available only to the appropriate users. Smart cards provide

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    Credit Card

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    credit cards. If you are among the relatively few who do not own a credit card‚ the chances are good that you have a great deal of difficulty rent a car or reserving a hotel room. So‚ just what are these little plastic cards and how do they work? Let’s start by explaining the basics. What is a Credit Card? The dictionary defines a credit card as ’A card which can be used to obtain cash‚ goods or services up to a stipulated credit limit. The supplier is later paid by the credit card company

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    Holding the card against or waving it over an Octopus card reader from up to a few centimeters away without the user taking out the card. The reader will acknowledge payment by emitting a beep sound‚ and display the amount deducted and the remaining balance of the card in 0.3 seconds. In MTR  When riding the MTR system‚ the entry point of commuters is noted when a passenger enters‚ and the appropriate amount based on distance traveled will be deducted when the users show their card again at the

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