December 2008


my first day as the Easter Bunny

My first day as the Easter Bunny.

The set is moving. There are animatronics.
No one told me there’d be animatronics
A rabbit with a busted plaster ear eternally chases cabbages,
which are inexplicably spinning, spinning.
A tiny farmer, armed with a pitchfork
( a real pitchfork, mind you,
on a children’s set—madness. )
a farmer futilely tries to defend his garden.
One of his arms looks like it was broken and set wrong;
it sticks out at a weird angle.

There is fake green grass,
little white picket fences,
a shed with a big ornate garden chair for kids
to sit and pose with the Easter Bunny.
There are no kids yet.

One young guy is manning the fort.
As I approach, I think, ‘he doesn’t know my face,
I could still walk away’…walk away, it echoes
in some dim part of my mind that still has dignity.
But I know this is my destiny. Appointed by God,
or drilled into my psyche from childhood;
some forgotten moment when mommy
laughed and smiled at an unpremeditated antic.
A stumble, a surprised look….resulting in laughter.
A clown is born. And so here we are.

I tell the guy my name. We go to ’suit up’.
There are hidden places in malls, walls with keyholes,
that open into large empty spaces used to store stuff.
The suit is there.

I must admit it is beautiful.
Pristine, first snow of winter white.
Soft, lovely fur.
Except for one little brown spot on the belly.
The guy tells me ‘There was an ice cream incident. ”

I put on the suit.
It fits perfectly, of course.
All white, with a pink belly, the body of the suit alone
makes me feel like Sasquatch.

I picture me walking,
big arm swings in the woods, grainy image,
I look back over my shoulder, Wild Easter bunny ,
showing contempt for humankind.

The feet are enormous boats of white spongy material.
They go on right over my old boots.
(the same boots that stepped in the poop of Shaq
oneals dog, at another weird job. )
The bunny hands consist of thumbs and one big finger.
And then the head. It’s a really nice one.

Shiny, pink nose, big dopey red smiley mouth,
the expression perpetual surprise, amazed with happiness
that this child showed up, this old best friend.
When you put on the head for the first time,
you think ‘maybe this wasn’t such a good idea.’ .
The head is hot. Let’s start like that.
Go into your attic, rip some of that pink, fluffy stuff
off the walls, wrap it tightly around your head.
Now go outside on a hot summer day and cavort,
Dance around, wave, hop, gesture, shake your head.
Imagine there’s a government sniper watching you
through a scope with orders to shoot if you stop moving.
This is the Easter Bunny experience.
But I don’t want to give the impression it
wasn’t fun. I found it immensely so.
But then I’m weird.

Someone escorts me to the set, because, did I mention,
you can hardly see anything from inside the bunnyhead.
The whole outfit is like a man on the moon spacesuit,
on which the big, clear face bubble has been spray painted
almost completely over by mischievous aliens.
You can see straight ahead through two big eyeholes,
but there’s a sort of black fog over everything
because you’re looking through mesh.
There’s a surreal quality to it, children waving,
bunny smiling, as volcanic ash slowly falls from Mount
St. Helens.

Later. At the set.
Waving, dancing, holding onto the lapels
of your tiny Easter bunny vest, playing ‘peek a boo,
blowing kisses, more waving, lots of waving.
And some kids are happy and some are scared,
some stunned at the weirdness of it all.

When you sit in the bunny suit,
your hard little bunny tail will wedge itself uncomfortably up your butt.
So if you notice your Easter bunny adjusting his tail
before he sits, you know why.
There’s a little fan low to the ground, blowing sweet air up,
and if you angle it just right the breeze flows in the crack at your
neck, and cools you down.

Still later.
I realize it’s only kids here,
kids as customers, kids in charge.
So I start to push the envelope.
Making bunny gang signs at kids too old and
tough to sit on my lap.
Saluting security guards,
clapping when pretty girls walk by, making the curvy
hourglass figure with my hands,
imitating people on cell phones, one furry hand clapped to my big ear,
the other hand gesticulating wildly.
Peek-a-boo, that’s my specialty.
I love to play peek-a-boo with adults.
No one likes it,
they all walk away fast.

The job is fun, the kids are cute, the pictures are good
if we can get them to look at the camera.

The quintessential moment comes
when I am doing something stupid, dancing,
or just lolling my big fat head around, sweating profusely.
I stop, I see… a movie poster.
Viggo Mortensen is wielding a shiny sword,
his hair blows in wild wind.
He looks out proudly at a billion people who know his face, his name.
That is the highest height of being an actor.
And this, a faceless, sweaty clown in a bunny suit, is the lowest low.
But I am strangely happy.

As my shift ends, and I am escorted to the ’secret room’
to change out of my bunny suit,
some kid asks me
‘are you somebody famous under there? “
I put a finger over my bunny lips and disappear
behind the hidden door.

About the Author

Keith is a writer and actor in Los Angeles California. He is a rabid creator and should be put down or made famous. he makes short films. puppetts, and sometimes people nervous.
his latest short film can be seen at www.easterbunny.notlong.com

Dec 30 2008 08:23 pm | School of Humor | Comments Off

Ikaros Studios in Isle of Naxos, Chora

Ikaros Studios is a Apartment in Isle of Naxos, Chora, located in

Ikaros is a family hotel which offers accommodation all year.
It is situated in a quiet corner near the city of Naxos (800m)
and very close to the saint George beach (300m). Moreover,
it is easily accessible from the airport,
being only 1,5 km away from it.

This unique location enables
our guests to combine entertainment along with relaxation.
Ikaros has been designed to satisfy the needs
of its guests, you can take your coffee with a view of our
beautiful garden or take a refreshing swim in our pool.

All our studios have a spacious bathroom, telephone,satellite television, radio,
fully equipped kitchen, fridge, air-condition, safety box and a big balcony.

Ikaro’s personnel is always trying to make our guest’s stay as comfortable as possible.
They are there to answer any question and solve any problem that you’ll never have.
Our long-term experience in providing hotel services and in focusing
on every single aspect of our guest’s accommodation experiences,
defines the operational principles of Ikaros Studios.

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Dec 30 2008 04:53 pm | My Region and Travel Tips | Comments Off

`I’m Not A Christian, But I Play One On Sunday’

After more than three decades of church ministry, I have come to one unsettling conclusion. Actually, I’ve come to more than one conclusion, but this one is the most depressing.

That conclusion is simply this: all who say they are going to Heaven are not actually on the right path, going in the right direction. Most, of course, have the best intentions, but good intentions don’t make up for going in the wrong direction.

Our government insists advertisers adhere to what they call “truth in advertising.” I would like to insist on something I call “truth in testimony.” By that, I mean what people say about themselves should be the truth. If this could ever be enacted by Congress, some people will have to say, “I’m not a Christian, but I play one on Sunday.”

I’ve always thought of it this way, if you’re not a Christian on Saturday night, you’re not a Christian on Sunday morning, which may be the ultimate test. Christianity is not a time-sensitive lifestyle turned on Sunday morning and expiring by nightfall.

Christianity is not like St. Patrick’s Day, where for that one day everyone is Irish. Also, Christianity is not like a part-time job you take to make ends meet.

For example, take a guy who was in my office one day last month. I never saw him before and didn’t know him from Adam. He saw our church, he said, as he was driving by and thought he would stop in and visit. “You have a real nice church here, reverend,” he praised.

As soon as I saw him, I knew what he was after. His job was to see how much of my money and the church’s money he could put into his pocket. My job, of course, was to make his job impossible.

I’ve played this game before and, not bragging, I’ve become rather good at it. Not that I have not lost my share of games, for I have. But after losing hundreds of dollars to scoundrels, I’ve learned how to play the game.

The key to winning is never letting your guard down, and more importantly, never allow your opponent to suck you into his sympathy scam. One man actually brought with him a little girl he pawned off as his daughter.

Looking into her big brown eyes my hand automatically went to my wallet. I’m sorry to say I lost that one and later found out the little girl was not his daughter.

This man in my office, let’s call him “Ralph,” had a different scheme. He was trying to impress me with how good a Christian he really was. Although he may not have been a good Christian, he sure knew how to tell a good line. All along, he was trying to impress me that he really knew God.

I could tell Ralph knew God about as well as I knew the President of the United States. It was then an idea hit me.

While he talked to me, I was trying to figure out how I could convince him that he really didn’t know God. Sure, he knew a lot of things about God and could quote a bushel full of Bible verses as though that would impress me. Entrance into heaven is not contingent upon impressing some preacher.

I knew Ralph really did not know God personally. My problem was to persuade him of that fact.

It’s almost like someone who smokes cigarettes trying to convince someone who doesn’t smoke that they don’t smoke. The smoker does not smell the smoke but the non-smoker smells it right away. Similarly, I can readily tell when someone doesn’t know God personally.

As we were talking, an idea came to mind. Ralph was sitting across my desk from me and between us was my telephone. So I said to Ralph, “Do you know the President of the United States?”

Ralph looked at me a little perplexed with this question out of the blue and said, “Sure, I do. It’s George W. Bush.”

“Great,” I said pushing the telephone towards him, “use my telephone and call him for me.”

He laughed and pushed the telephone back.

Thrusting the phone back toward him I said, “You do know the President of the United States, don’t you?”

He laughed a nervous little chuckle. “The president of the United States is George W. Bush.” Then he shoved the phone back toward me.

“You know him?” I persisted. As he nodded in the affirmative, a worried look embraced his face. I could see he didn’t quite understand what I was getting at.

“Ralph,” I explained, “you may know who the President of the United States is and you may know a lot about him. But you don’t know George W. Bush enough to call him on the phone.”

People who say they know God only know things about God. People who say they know Jesus Christ only know things about him. If you don’t know God enough to reach Him when you need Him, you don’t know Him at all.

I like the Apostle Paul’s testimony. He said, “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;” (Philippians 3:10 KJV.)

A friend of mine has a favorite saying that he likes to quote; “Either Jesus is Lord of all or he is not Lord at all.” That about sums up the whole matter.

Dec 29 2008 05:49 pm | School of Humor | Comments Off

Osama and Saddam

Osama and Saddam

You know that if he could’ve done it before 911, Osama would’ve
come out of his cave and gone to the top of a mountain where
his cell phone reception was better and had a conversation with
Saddam that would’ve probably gone something like the following
(translated into English for your convenience):

Osama said, “Hello, Saddam?”

“Who’s this?” Saddam asked.

“Osama.”

“Omarosa?”

“No, Osama. Hold on while I try another spot… Can you hear me
now?”

“Osama! What can I do you for?”

“Saddam, my buddy, my friend. You know that we’ve never quite
seen eye-to-eye.”

“That’s because you’re almost eight feet tall, you freak.”

“That’s what I like about you, Saddam, your sense of humor.
And your desire to kill the infidels.”

“What are you trying to butter me up for? I’m really busy. The
American dogs are barking on my doorstep. I’ve got nerve gas,
nuclear materials, smallpox and anthrax to pack up before they
arrive and get it out of the country so they can’t find it.
There are banks to loot. I’ve got sons-in-law to behead. A
dictator’s work is never done.”

“I hate to ask you, but I’ve got a plan to attack the Great
Satan America, and I need a million dollars.”

“A million dollars? Is that all? Pocket change. I can get you
a couple of million and I’m sure there are others in the Middle
East that would kick in something.”

“Good. Good.”

“I can send you a truck full of cash a week from Thursday. By
the way, I’ve got a question for you. You’ve evaded the
Americans since you attacked the USS Cole. Do you have any
suggestions on how I can hide from them if they invade?”

“Have you considered living in a hole in the ground? It’s
worked pretty well for me.”

“I don’t know. I’ve been living in palaces for a while.
Living in a hole in the ground doesn’t sound like much fun.”

“What are you whining about? Try dragging a dialysis machine
around from cave to cave while evading the Americans, then you
should complain.”

About the Author

Rocky Ramsey publishes Movies, Money and More - Movie reviews,
entertainment, humor, money, contests, sweepstakes, freebies,
and more http://www.MoviesMoneyandMore.com

Dec 29 2008 10:23 am | School of Humor | Comments Off

Dog Poo

In Southern Germany in a town by the name of Bayreuth, the German police are in a quandary. The town’s dog poo is under attack. Park officials are desperate to resolve what could become an international incident. Unknown person or persons have been sticking little US flags into piles of doggie poo for over a year now.

Surprisingly the dog poo brigade has managed to target between 2,000 to 3,000 abandoned piles of excrement in Bayreuth public parks. Quite who actually counted them all and provided these statistics is debatable but the source is rumoured as coming from the Parks Administrator - Josef Oettl. And you wondered what your parkie did each day?

What was thought to have started as a protest against the Iraqi war has continued through the US election campaign and is still a regular occurrence today. Have the German’s not heard of poop a scoop? Surely all self respecting German citizens collect their doggie poo. Poop in the parks and pavements was surely just a British thing?

German police are now stepping up patrols in order to catch these offenders. However, the poo could hit the fan if they ever tried to bring them to court. It is unclear what they would actually charge them with as there is no law against using doggie poo in this way. In fact, you could fly any flag from any piece of turd you find lying around. It’s not illegal but it cannot be a pleasant task.

Surely this wouldn’t catch on over here in the UK - would it?

About the Author

From the Website at www.birminghamuk.com The Voice of the West Midlands

Dec 28 2008 02:33 pm | School of Humor | Comments Off

Getting down to basics with a web site.

What is a web site?
A web site is a associated collection of web pages on the world wide web, consisting of files that are organised into a hierarchy. Each file/document can consist of a combination of graphics, text, audio video and other dynamic or static material. A website is most commonly used as a communication medium between a business and client or business and business. They can usually be accessed by using a search engine or typing in the web site address or domain name into an internet browser.

56% of businesses surveyed identified that they had already recovered their investment in e-business, with 22% of businesses that have recovered their investment achieving a greater than 50 percent return on that investment.

In July 2003 some 49% of all small to medium enterprises indicated a potential to use e-commerce to sell their products.

What are the benefits?
A website is a dynamic and cost effective way to reach new and existing customers, on a local, national or global scale.

A carefully constructed website, like those developed by Able Net Design, can attract the right users and may thus establish the following benefits.

Other great facts
68% of all small to medium enterprises surveyed indicated that their expectations for all e-commerce have been met.

32% of all small businesses and 63% of medium businesses surveyed, use the internet for receiving payment.

45% of small and 64% of medium businesses surveyed use the internet to make purchases.

44% of small and 84% of medium businesses surveyed have a web site.

82% of small to medium enterprises surveyed who are connected to the internet search for information regularly.

93% of internet-connected small to medium enterprises surveyed use email as a form of communication.

81% of small and 98% of medium businesses surveyed are connected to the internet.

Source: 2003 Yellow Pages ® Business Index - Special Reports July 2003

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Able Net Design, located in Perth, Western Australia, Able Net Design provides web design and development solutions for both large and small clients, from complete website design to basic site maintenance.
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Dec 27 2008 12:22 pm | School of Humor | Comments Off

Marketing On The Cheap: Become a Joiner

Recently I wrote an article on the benefits of joining your local Chamber of Commerce as a way of getting exposure for your business. See “Marketing on the Cheap: Join The What?” at this source or at http://sbmag.org. The Chamber of Commerce is or should be the number one organization in your area promoting business. Your involvement will help them indirectly help your business while giving you direct exposure to a large and viable market.

Now let’s look at other organizations you, your business and, of course, your community can benefit from by your involvement, but not in that order.

Service Clubs: There are three major service clubs that come to mind, and I’m sure you are familiar with them to some degree already: Rotary International, Kiwanis International and Lions International.

However, don’t just run off and join the largest club in your area just because it’s the one that gets the most media coverage. As a matter of fact, you shouldn’t be joining a service club at all for the sole purposes of promoting your business. You should be joining because it is the right thing to do. The benefits, and there will be benefits, will come indirectly.

Each of the above mentioned organizations have a main charity or area of interest as a national or worldwide project. Lions International for example is recognized worldwide for their service to the blind and visually impaired. Kiwanis’ motto is “Serving the Children of the World”, and Rotary has had as a long-term goal of the worldwide eradication of polio. Of course, all these organizations are many years old and have branched out into a number of other humanitarian efforts as well. Beyond the national organization’s each local club usually has their own projects and objectives.

Fraternal Organizations: Now that you have joined the Chamber of Commerce and are looking at service clubs, you may also want to consider Fraternal Organizations. The first three that come to mind are: The Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, Moose International and Fraternal Order of Eagles. Like service clubs, all three of these organizations are national or international with local clubs. However, also like service clubs, there may me others or an independent fraternal organization in your area that is more suited for you and your interests.

Years ago I joined a new Rotary club that just started up in our community. They were, and still are, a great group of people. Their main efforts on the local front was dealing with youth orientated projects, helping to build ball parks, sponsoring scholarships and a few other very worthwhile causes, but no causes I was passionate about. A friend of mine was involved with a group of people that were trying to start a local organization to deal directly with funding anti-drug programs in local schools. My wife being a teacher in the local district, made that seem like a much better place for me to put my efforts. We went on and founded a new Lions Club in which I became a founding officer, a Past President, Lion of the Year and recipient of a national award form Lions International in recognition of my efforts in the fight against drugs. This only happened because I chose the right organization with which to get involved.

I’m not telling you this story just to blow my own horn. Okay, well maybe a little bit. My point is that if you do chose to be a joiner, make it count. Choose one that will give you opportunities of working on projects in which you have an interest.

Once you join a service club or a fraternal organization, get involved! Become active. Consider chairing a committee or becoming part of the leadership. However, don’t take on more then you can or want to do. If you make a commitment, make sure you follow through and do the very best job you can. Anything short of that could produce negative public relations for you.

One last thing about belonging to a service club or fraternal organization; your acceptance into one of these organizations is not invitation to unload or launch into a sales pitch at every meeting or at any meetings for that matter. Don’t make that mistake. However, there may be opportunities arise for direct marketing such as advertising at club-sponsored events, program guides, newsletters and others. We covered a number of these opportunities in “Marketing On The Cheap: Join The What?”, see link above.

No permission is needed to reproduce an unedited copy of this article as long the About The Author tag is left in tact and hot links included. We do request that we be informed of where it is posted so reciprocal links can be considered. Email floyd@sbmag.org

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Floyd Snyder is the founder and former owner of Executive Advertising, Camera Ready Art and Strictly Business Magazine. Currently he is the owner of Strictly Business Magazine at http://www.sbmag.org, http://www.FrameHouseGallery.com, http://www.educationresourcesnetwork.com/and http://www.TraderAide.com.

Dec 26 2008 08:19 pm | School of Humor | Comments Off

Poker Starting Hands - “AK Big Slick, Playing it right”

Starting Hands - “AK Big Slick, Playing it right”

Ace King … It’s monster hand and you plan to get as much money out of everyone as you can.

Big Slick is called Big Slick for a reason. Yes its a monster drawing hand but it is a drawing hand all the same.

IF you hit either an Ace or a King on the flop then you’ve got yourself top pair with the best kicker. You might get lucky as is connected to get the nuts straight, if its suited you have got the table crippled if you draw that flush. It’s worth noting A-K suited is 5th best starting hand but A-K off is 9th best.

But this is the thing - when you haven’t seen any cards what have you got really ? An Ace high … with a King kicker, just about any starting hand could beat it.

Top players know AK is a great drawing hand but they also know its can be a killer if it just doesn’t work out. In the hands of a new player it has 4king bustout written all over it, quite simply they fall in love with it.

Now here is the next problem with playing AK - OK it’s a drawing hand so your thinking - don’t play it too hard until you see the flop and then you can work out how your doing … Wrong.

Limping in with Big Slick is going to make you a big underdog - It is an easily beaten hand if you let lots of players see the flop, that ragged looking board could have given any of them trips, two pair, straights - allsorts. However AK doesnt fair so badly against a couple of player with other high cards.

You have to play big slick hard before the flop if your playing it. Get rid of all the players with low pairs, big draws and junk - With a big prefop raise you can be fairly sure the one (ideally) or two players left only have something high or decent pairs. Then you have the added advantage - you made the raise and you took control … again.

Dont make the mistake of trying to keep more people in to make a bigger pot for your “great hands” - thats how to make your own bad beats.

With most of the players in to see the flop your as good as giving your chips away - Play it aggressively, raise pre-flop and then hold yourself back when you see the flop.

But DO NOT go all-in before the flop - remember you’ve got an Ace high nothing more.

In this situation the only hands that are really going to cause you concern are AA and KK - but if someone had that they’d have come right back at your big raise with an all-in before the flop.

Chances are unless they hit trips with there good pair (see what they do) you can fire at them once you pair either the King or the Ace - infact you should fire out a good size bet even if you dont - remember you’ve already as good as shouted at them “my hands is a winner”.

Then see what they do - if they come back at you know they’ve got something, probably trips - then you need to slow down accept your beat and try to see the rest of the cards cheap.

The chances are they will lay down just about most things that dont hit.

Now this all works well if you were easily able to take control of the table ie. you had good position to get a big raise in after you had seen what everyone else did but remember preflop this is - on the button and the two blinds. The worst postion to be trying to play AK from and indeed any other big hands like AA KK QQ is when your under the gun - this is the first seat after the blinds.

Why ? well your first to act before the flop and first to act after the flop. This seat is tricky especially if you dont hit an Ace or a King on the flop. Again the temptation is to flat call and see what happens ideally hoping someone else cuts the field down for you - thats risky - dont do it. Not only are you risking players limp in, your letting other players get control.

They will sense weakness and have position over you so you could very easily end up facing an all-in decision after re-raising a bet and someone coming back at you over the top all-in with a half decent pair. Then its become a tough decision with that Ace high of yours - lay it down. No by raising even in early position you will take control and narrow the field and against one, maybe two players you have a good chance to avoid AK becoming that Big Slick.

Good Luck at the tables - Scrawnybob

Poker Articles, Poker Tips & Strategy for Online Poker and Texas Hold’em by Scrawnybob at http://www.4kingpoker.com

Dec 25 2008 12:42 pm | Gambling Wheel | Comments Off

G Clef


This is the most commonly seen clef that we see in every musical chart. There are also two other namely, C clef and F clef. It represents the group of notes that shows the pitch and usually seen at the beginning of the staff. This staff is the five horizontal lines where you can place the notes in the lines or spaces in between usually in the form of whole, half, quarter notes. Key signature is placed after the clef to ensure that notes are being played as sharp or flat tones. Then a series of musical symbols follow through and can be read into two main systems such as solemnization or alphabetical.

Solemnization for those who are not musically inclined sounds complicated but if you know the movie, ” The Sound of Music of Julie Andrews”, they popularized a song - “Do, re, mi” - that made it easy for people to remember the system. It starts with do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do. Usually sang from lower to higher note or vice versa. It can also be in alternates but are sung according to its corresponding key. Alphabetically, however, is in English letters. Begins with C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C that can be read easily for those who study how to play instrument or sing with using basic patterns in music class.

It is highly important for a musician to learn how to read notes in a staff. You can a gifted or talented music person but less knowledge is still less. Have a proper training and you may never know, it would be so much easier for you to play or compose a song once you start using a music chart.

Dec 25 2008 12:20 am | Music Tips + More | Comments Off

The Origin Of Baccarat: The History Of This Fun Card Game

The word Baccarat is derived from the Italian word “baccara”, meaning zero, and refers to the zero value given to all of the face cards and tens. In Europe, the game of Baccarat remains one of the most popular casino games. The game of Baccarat is enjoyed by all social levels and can be found played in locals cafes as well as the most prestigious of royalty events.

An early version of the game was played with a deck of Tarot cards dating back to the middle ages. While Baccarat originated in Italy around 1490 it became the game of choice for the French nobility by the early 1950’s. Baccarat evolved into the French game “Chemin De Fer”, which translates as “Street of Fire”. The French game introduced the words “Banco” - which means they are betting the total value of the bank’s funds and all other bets are withdrawn, “Cheval” - which means other players at the table may bet on either hand, as well as “Non” for standing and “Carte” which means the player would like one more card. Many American casinos have adopted the French terms used in the game to further the image of Baccarat as a glamorous game. European Baccarat is another variation but follows the same rules as the other versions of this game.

What is known as American Baccarat actually originated in England and spread to South America. The version of the game that is played today came from the Capri Casino in Havana, Cuba.

When Baccarat was introduced to Nevada in the late 1950’s, local casinos attempted to instill the glamour associated with the European game. In most casinos, Baccarat was played in a roped-off area and was closely monitored and sometimes even guarded

A number of casinos have installed a smaller version of the Baccarat game, called Mini-Baccarat and it is played on standard blackjack-sized gaming tables using the same rules. The table is staffed by one dealer who is responsible for handling the cards. The layout, however, conforms to the regular Baccarat table and each of the seven seat positions correspond to a number and betting box with spots for banker, player, and tie. Lacking the formality and large group of players, Mini-Baccarat is played fast and is an ideal place to get familiar with the game. While Mini-Baccarat may not be held in the same esteem as the parent game it still enjoys great popularity with the novice players.

To learn more about Baccarat gambling strategy and online gambling systems, please visit www.online-gambling-system.com/ and www.online-gambling-system.com/baccarat.html

Dec 23 2008 11:42 am | Gambling Wheel | Comments Off

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