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China's biggest online gambling ring on trial in Kunming

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China's largest online gambling trial began yesterday at Kunming Intermediate People's Court, with 20 suspects facing charges for involvement in a gambling ring involving more than 8.6 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) in total wagers and more than 200 million yuan in profits – all illegal.

According to a Kunming Daily report the case centers around two Hong Kong brothers Tan Zhiwei (谭志伟) and Tan Zhiman (谭志满), who allegedly established casinos in Myanmar in 1999, laying the foundation for an online betting network.

The brothers allegedly built up an empire with more than 3,000 employees plus servers in the cities of Guangzhou and Dongguan in Guangdong province. One of the brothers' gambling sites attracted 5,198 registered users between August 2006 and March 2007, according to state prosecutors.

The twenty defendants are charged with the crimes of operating casinos and disrupting social order. It is China's largest online gambling case in terms of the amount of money involved, the amount of people involved and the amount of area covered. It is also noteworthy for being the most technologically advanced online gambling ring broken up to date.

One defendant is a former bank official at the Ruili branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) who allegedly opened hundreds of bank accounts for the gambling operation. Clients of the illegal operation were able to place bets in Myanmar, via phone calls or online, according to the report.

Myanmar casino mobile phone photograph: news.cnnb.com.cn

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The Games Gamblers Play: Casino Gambling 101

The Games Gamblers Play: Casino Gambling 101

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There are a lot of casino gambling games which can get you hooked in no time. First of all, you have the classic slot machine. A slot machine is a coin-operated casino gambling machine with three or more reels that rotate when a lever on the side of the machine is pulled. It includes a currency detector that validates the coin or money inserted to play. The machine typically pays off based on patterns of symbols visible on the front of the machine when it stops.

Sadly, casino gambling games often offer the player the illusion of control in which the player is given choices, but these choices do not eliminate the player's long-term disadvantage. This disadvantage is caused by the casino not paying the full amount that would be expected for the odds wagered. For example, if one game was played by betting what number a roll of a die would give, instead of paying 6 times the amount bet for winning, the casino only pays 5 times the amount bet.

This system is often found in famous casino gambling games like Poker, Craps, Roulette or Blackjack.

Poker is a very popular casino gambling card game. The players, with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, after which the pot is awarded to the remaining player or players with the best combination of cards.

Like Poker, Blackjack is also a very popular casino gambling card game. Much of its popularity is due to the mix of chance with elements of skill and decision making, and a practice called card counting. It is a skill in which players can turn the odds of the game in their favor by making betting and strategy decisions based on the cards that have been dealt. Players suspected of card counting are usually banned and blacklisted by casinos.

Craps is a famous casino gambling game using dice. Players wager money against the casino on the outcome of one roll, or of a series of rolls of two dice. The rules vary slightly from one casino to another, but the expected value of most bets is only slightly negative. All bets have a negative expectation, except the "free odds" bet with an expectation of 0, that the player is allowed to make after a point is established on a flat bet. Unlike in Blackjack, there is no possible winning strategy over any given period of time.

Roulette is a signature casino gambling game play-casino.newwebcasino.com. A croupier turns a round roulette wheel which has 37 or 38 separately numbered pockets in which a ball must land. The main pockets are numbered from 1 to 36 and change between red and black, with number 1 being red. In addition there is a pocket numbered 0 of green color. In most roulette wheels in the United States but not in Europe, there is a second zero compartment marked 00, also colored green. If a player bets on a single number and wins, the payout is 35 to 1. The bet itself is returned, so in total it is multiplied by 36.

Be very wary though, these casino gambling games are highly addictive (as they are intended to be). A lot of lives have been ruined by casino gambling and although it might be fun, please do try to regulate yourself.

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