From the lists above, mammoth, parka / er, sable, shaman, tokamak, and vigorish would be what I mean . talk ) 18 : 50, 28 September 2010 ( UTC)
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It's difficult enough to guess which side will win a football game based upon a point spread, but this 11 to 10 gimmick known as the vigorish makes the entire proposition a mathematical impossibility.
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By our reckoning ( and we freely admits that many of these calculations are rough guesses ), Morrow E . Pure has been bludgeoned into paying nearly $ 200, 000 in vigorish to the political rackets.
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To make matters worse for the bettor, the parlay requirement compounds the overround-the actual vigorish is a minimum of 160 % but can climb to well over " 300 % " ( if six selections are made ).
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The concept is also sometimes referred to as the overround, although this is technically different, being the percentage the event book is above 100 %, whereas the vigorish is the bookmaker's percentage profit on the total stakes made on the event.
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The house edge or vigorish is defined as the casino profit expressed as the percentage of the player's original bet . ( In games such as blackjack or Spanish 21, the final bet may be several times the original bet, if the player double and splits .)
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While it is possible through skillful play to minimize the house advantage, it is extremely rare that a player has sufficient skill to completely eliminate his inherent long-term disadvantage ( the "'house edge "'( HE ) or house vigorish ) in a casino game.
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If the Jets win by either 2 or 4, the advantage player collects on one winning bet and the other " push . " And if the Jets win or lose by any other total, the two bets cancel out, leaving the advantage player to pay only the vigorish on the bets.
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The game featured a built-in vigorish whereby a winning player only collected 64 times his original bet; considering that every outcome in the game gave only roughly a 1 percent chance of winning for any given bet, this meant that the house at Il Ridotto enjoyed nearly a 10 percent vigorish on the game.
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The game featured a built-in vigorish whereby a winning player only collected 64 times his original bet; considering that every outcome in the game gave only roughly a 1 percent chance of winning for any given bet, this meant that the house at Il Ridotto enjoyed nearly a 10 percent vigorish on the game.
