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History of Halloween from History Channel

Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.

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Playing Tips - Deuces Wild and Joker’s Wild

In order to become a master video poker player, there are a few things you need to know. The first is how to read a payout schedule, so you know the difference between short, partial play and full-pay versions. And second, you need to know the strategies for all the kinds of video poker games.

First we will discuss Pay Schedules, and once we’ve established everything you need to know about that topic, we’ll move onto Strategies for two challenging games, Deuces Wild and Joker’s Wild. (Link)

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At the final table of this year's World Series of Poker, the media consensus was that there was only one pro at the table: Mike Matusow. We've since learned that this year's champ, Joseph Hachem, gave up a 13-year chiropractic career three years ago to play poker for a living. The other seven players at the final table won over a million dollars each. It's a safe bet that a few of them now consider themselves poker professionals. What does that mean?

Three Myths About Playing Poker Professionally

Myth #1: Either I'm a Pro or I'm Not

Consider the following players. Which ones are pros and which are amateurs?

Adam

Adam plays the tournament trail full-time. He's up thousands one month, and broke the next. He's always borrowing money from fellow poker players. He has no life outside the poker world and constantly thinks, "I wish I had some skills and experience that would allow me to get a normal job."

Betty

By day, Betty's an accountant making $50K a year. She plays poker in her spare time. Some years she earns $20K playing poker, other years she earns $100K. She rarely has a losing year. (Read More)

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The Widow

Jack decided to go skiing with his buddy, Bob. They loaded up
Jack's station wagon and headed north. After driving for a few
hours, they got caught in a terrible blizzard. They pulled into a
nearby farm house and asked the attractive lady of the house if
they could spend the night.

"I'm recently widowed," she explained, "and I'm afraid the
neighbors will talk if I let you stay in my house."

"Not to worry," Jack said, "we'll be happy to sleep in the barn."

Nine months later, Jack got a letter from the widow's attorney.
He called up his friend Bob and said, "Bob, do you remember that
good-looking widow at the farm we stayed at?"

"Yes, I do."

"Did you happen to get up in the middle of the night, go up to
the house and have sex with her?"

"Yes, I have to admit that I did."

"Did you happen to use my name instead of telling her your name?"

Bob's face turned red and he said, "Yeah, I'm afraid I did."

"Well, thanks! She just died and left me everything!"

Relationships:

First of all, a man does not call a relationship a relationship - he refers to it as "that time when me and Suzie was doing it on a semi-regular basis". When a elationship ends, a woman will cry and pour her heart out to her girlfriends, and she will write a poem titled "All Men Are Idiots". Then she will get on with her life.

A man has a little more trouble letting go. Six months after the break-up, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday night, he will call and say, "I just wanted to let you know you ruined my life, and I'll never forgive you, and I hate you, and you're a total floozy. But I want you to know there's always a chance for us". This is known as the "I Hate You/I Love You" drunken phone call, that 99% of all men have made at least once. There are community colleges that offer courses to help men get over this need; alas, these classes rarely prove effective.

Bathrooms:

A man has at most six items in his bathroom - a toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.

The average number of items in a typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

Going out:

When a man says he is ready to go out, it means he is ready to go out.

When a woman says she is ready to go out, it means she WILL be ready to go out, as soon as she finds her other earring, finishes putting on her make-up...


Cats:

Women love cats.

Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.

Shoes:

The average man has 4 pairs of footwear: running shoes, dress shoes, boots, and slippers.

The average woman has shoes 4 layers thick on the floor of her closet. Most of them hurt her feet.

Nicknames:

If Gloria, Suzanne, Deborah and Michelle get together for lunch, they will call each other Gloria, Suzanne, Deborah and Michelle.

But if Mike, Dave, Rob and Jack go out for a brewsky, they will affectionately refer to each other as Bullet-Head, Godzilla, Peanut Brain and Useless.

Shopping:

It's no coincidence that L.L. Bean, Sears, and Roebuck were all men. Men don't like to shop. If a man can't foist the job off on some woman, he will grit his teeth and plan the outing as he would a jungle expedition. He wants a map of the store showing where he has to go to get item X in color Y in the correct size, which he doesn't know. Even then it takes him half an hour to get there from the entrance. When he's finally ac- complished his mission, he'll discover that he forgot his checkbook.

Women shop to relax.

This guy has some great ideas! And the results turn out to be genuine thoughts of ordinary people. Ji Lee says, "I printed 50,000 of these speech bubble stickers. I place them on top of movie posters, ads and signs all over New York City. Passers are invited to fill them in. I go back and photograph the results." (Link)

Nigerian Islamic judges have ordered that a teenager from Niger have his hand cut off after he confessed to stealing a motorbike, court officials said on Monday. The implementation of Islamic law in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria -- and in particular the use of amputation -- has been criticised by Nigeria's federal government and human rights activists. (Link)

I just don't understand why some people in this modern world stick to the rules of ancient times. Its really not good to hear someone being cut off his hand for stealing a motorbike.

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Oh, boy! just look at that old radios. They look like iPod a lot. I think Apple got an idea from those radio designs. Those radios are the first portable transistor radio which was the Regency TR-1, released in 1954, in many catchy colours. Pretty cool indeed. (Link)

Getting into Heaven

Three men stand before St. Peter awaiting admission into Heaven. However, St. Peter has been informed that Heaven will only admit 33% of applicants today. The admissions standard: Who died the worst death? So, St. Peter takes each of the three men aside in
turn and asks them about how they died.

First man: "I'd been suspecting for a long time that my wife was cheating on me. I decided to come home early from work one afternoon and check to see if I could catch her in the act. When I got back to my apartment, I heard the water running. My wife
was in the shower. I looked everywhere for the guy, but couldn't find anyone or any trace that he had been there. The last place I looked was out on the balcony.

I found the bastard hanging from the edge, trying to get back in! So I started jumping up and down on his hands, and he yelled, but he didn't fall. So I ran inside and got a hammer, and crushed his fingers with it until he fell twenty-five floors screaming in agony. But the fall didn't kill the asshole. He
landed in some bushes! So I dragged the refrigerator from the kitchen (it weighed about a ton), pulled it to the balcony, and hurled it over the edge. It landed right on the guy and killed him. But then I felt so horrible about what I had done, I went
back into the bedroom and shot myself."

St. Peter nodded slowly as the man recounted the story. Then, telling the first man to wait, he took the second aside.

Second man: "I lived on the twenty-seventh floor of this apartment building. I had just purchased this book on morning exercises and was practicing them on my balcony, enjoying the sunshine, when I lost my balance and fell off the edge. Luckily, I only fell about two floors before grabbing another balcony and
holding on for dear life. I was trying to pull myself up when this guy came running onto what must have been his balcony and started jumping up and down on my hands. I screamed in pain, but he seemed really irate. When he finally stopped, I tried to pull
myself up again, but he came out with a hammer and smashed my fingers to a pulp! I fell, and I thought I was dead, but I landed in some bushes. I couldn't believe my second stroke of luck, but it didn't last. The last thing I saw was this enormous refrigerator falling from the building down on top of me and
crushing me."

St. Peter comforted the man, who seemed to have several broken bones. Then he told him to wait, and turned to the third man.

Third man: "Picture this. You're hiding, naked, in a
refrigerator..."

This guy arrives at the Pearly Gates. He has to wait to be admitted, while St. Pete leafs through his Big Book.

He's checking to see if the guy is worthy of entry or not. Saint Peter goes through the books several times, furrows his brow, and says to the guy, "You know, I can't see that you did lots of good in your life but, you never did anything bad either.

Tell you what, if you can tell me of one REALLY good deed that you did in your life, you're in."

The guy thinks for a moment and says, "Well, there was this one time when I was drivin' down the highway and I saw a Biker Gang assaulting this poor girl. I slowed down my car to see what was going on, and sure enough, that's what they were doing. There were about 50 of 'em torturing this chick.

Infuriated, I got out my car, grabbed a tire iron from my trunk and walked straight up to the leader of the gang. He was a huge guy with a studded leather jacket and a chain running from his nose to his ear. As I walked up to the leader, the Gang formed a circle all around me.

So I ripped the leader's chain off his face and smashed him over the head with the tire iron. Then I turned around and yelled to the rest of them, 'Leave this poor, innocent girl alone, you slime! You're all a bunch of sick, deranged animals! Go home before I teach you all a lesson in pain!"'

St. Peter, extremely impressed, says, "Really? Wow, when did all this happen?"

"Er.. about two minutes ago." (Link)

It is really a big deal if you buy a free internet phone software company for billions of dollars.

Making one of its riskiest bets yet, eBay (EBAY) said Monday that it will buy Internet voice service Skype. That could eventually pit eBay against phone companies and VoIP services such as Vonage.
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Buying Skype "is a lot more of a stretch than any of the other acquisitions they've done," says David Edwards, equity analyst at American Technology Research.

EBay will pay $2.6 billion for Skype, which can be used to make free, high-quality voice calls from one computer running Skype software to another, anywhere in the world. Customers need a PC with a microphone. For a fee, Skype users can call regular telephones and vice versa. (Link)

1. Be neat and error free.
Catch all typo's and grammar errors. Make sure to have someone proofread your resume, preferably someone attentive to details. Even the smallest error could land your resume in the electronic recycle bin.

2. State specific objectives.
Form a solid, clear objective that will help you carry a focused message throughout the resume. The objective summarizes your skills and emphasizes your strengths.

3. Why does the employer need you?
Focus on highlighting accomplishments that will arouse the interest of employers who read resumes asking themselves: "What can this candidate do for me?" Remember that the goal is to get the interview.

4. Make a good first impression.
On average, employers spend less than 30 seconds scanning each resume. Most employers are more concerned about career achievements than education. Place the most interesting and compelling facts about yourself at the beginning, such as a list of accomplishments in order of relevance.

5. Emphasize your skills.
Use a skill-based resume format that is organized around the main talents you have to offer. Prioritize everything. (Read More here)

David Daniel's simulation package allows you to explore Poker probabilities in any situation by setting up the position you wish to study and generating a large number of deals consistent with that position. It is available from the Poker Wiz site.

The Paragon Poker Pal from Buzzworkz keeps track of cards, bets, calls and raises during an online poker game and calculates winning probabilities and pot odds on the fly. It works automatically with over 100 different online Poker rooms and supports Texas Hold'em, Omaha (including hi/lo) and 7 Card Stud (including hi/lo). It will also calculate odds for card combinations you enter yourself.

Released in 2005, Poker Sherlock, from the makers of Poker Pal (above), keeps track of your opponents' playing habits as you play online. Using information stored in a central database, it presents a range of up to date statistics in chart form.

The Royal Flush Club's Poker Sidekick is a Texas Holdem Poker expert system that teaches how to win at Texas Holdem poker by monitoring your online play (at Poker Stars, Party Poker, etc.), and guiding you through how best to play each hand. Includes the relative strength of starting hands, statistical odds of hands, yours and opponents potential hands and probabilities, recommendations on how to bet and play to win the most. Full version or one year trial subscription available.

The Texas Holdem Calculator calculates winning odds, probabilities and optimal bets at pre-flop, flop, and river stages, and helps you to determine winning starting hands depending on the number of players in the pot. Available for Windows, Palm OS and Pocket PC PDAs.

Texas Calculatem is a program that watches you play poker online, reading the hands and position automatically, and offers instant odds and advice throughout the game. Works automatically with over 50 online poker rooms.

Mobile Texas Holdem is a Texas Holdem program for mobile phones. Limit and No Limit games are available against 9 AI opponents. You can download a free trial version of Mobile Texas Holdem.

With Holdem Poker Software you can practice playing Texas Holdem against computer opponents; you can control your opponents' playing styles by selecting from preset options or by writing strategy scripts.

The Edge Poker Software allows you to develop your Hold'Em strategy by tracking preflop poker stats and betting tendencies of your Hold'Em opponents.

The Check Your Bets site provides a facility for players to track their performance, recording and analysing details of time, place and results of each session they play.

Poker Droid is a free program for tracking your poker statistics: tournament positions, earnings, return on investment, hot abd cold streaks, and much more.

At the PokerGrader site you can upload your online poker hand histories (Party Poker, Empire Poker or Poker Stars formats supported) and obtain an automatically generated report analysing how well you have played.

With the DD Tournament Poker program you can play No Limit Texas Hold'em against computer opponents; it can also be used to manage the blinds, levels, buy-ins, rebuys, add-ons and payouts in a live tournament.

From the Turning River site you can download free software for calculating the odds of winning or splitting the pot in various Texas Holdem and Omaha situations.

You can download Maareyes Solomon's free Texas Holdem Video Poker tutor, in which you see the flop and choose which of five pairs of hole cards to play against the other four.

The computer program Ultimate Poker is available from Accidental Software

AI Software offers computer versions of Texas Hold'em, Seven card Stud, Five card Draw and Omaha Hi.

Vladlen Zeniukov's Poker computer program, which plays Draw Poker, Texas Holdem and Omaha, is available from his Card Parade web site.

With David Martin's Holdem Odds Calculator you set your hole cards, and if you wish the flop and turn, and the program displays the odds of improving the hand and the size of pot that justifies a call, bet or raise.

EV Tester is a small program in which you can enter your history of Texas Hold'em hands and find out whether you have been luckier or unluckier than average on a series of deals (purely in terms of the hole cards you were dealt).

The Poker2night Tournament Clock is a Poker Tournament Clock and Blinds Manager utility for PC specifically designed for Home Poker Players.

A further list of poker software can be found at Pokerlistings.com.

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It is possible to play Poker live with other players over the Internet using the IRC Poker Dealer. Further information about this service can be found on the IRC poker page of the rec.gambling.poker FAQ.

Paradise Poker is a well established online Poker room offering Texas Hold'em, Omaha High, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 Stud Hi/Lo and Hold'em Tournaments.

PartyPoker.com, launched in 2001 has been the world's fastest growing online poker site. It offers a variety of games and tournaments, and hosts the annual "PartyPoker.com Million" tournament.

Tiger Gaming provides on line Texas Holdem, 7-Card Stud and Guts games. Also Pan, Chinese Poker and Big Two.

Empire Poker offers a variety of live multi-player poker games. New players receive a 20% bonus on their first deposit. The Empire Poker School offers the opportunity for beginners and advanced players to improve their poker skills through online classes, newsletters and consultation with teachers.

Poker Champs, founded in 2004 by Gus Hansen, pays a percentage of the rake back to players, and operates a pyramid structure, by which players also benefit from the activities of other players they introuduce. Games offered include Texas Hold'em, Omaha and Seven Card Stud. There are daily free roll tournaments with money prizes.

Everest Poker is an on line poker room whose interface is available in 11 languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Everest Poker offers the widest selection of satellites to the WSOP, WPT, and EPT main events. With their international focus, they also run satellites to many of the local European tournaments. Since Everest is a growing room, there are fewer players and a better chance to win your buy-in to these events. The Everest Poker School, established in 2005, provides a tutorial and a training room for beginners.

Established in 1999, PokerRoom.com is now the world's third largest online poker room. No download is required and users of Macintosh and Linux computers are welcome.

Bodog offers Online Poker for free or for real money, including multitable, freeroll tournaments and qualifying tournaments for the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tournament.

Celeb Poker offers the opportunity to play online poker and chat with celebrities from around the world.

Royal Vegas Poker is an online poker room hosted by Lou Krieger, joint author of Poker for Dummies. It is also the platform at which the College Poker Championship is played.

At Hollywood Poker you can play on-line poker with Hollywood celebrities.

At poker.com you can play for fun or real money. Instant payouts using Neteller; $5000 guaranteed in daily freeroll tournaments

Caribbean Sun Poker offers Free Roll tournaments, a "Bad Beat Jackpot" and a "Royal Flush Jackpot".

The Poker Pulse site offers live statistics of the numbers of people playing in various on-line poker sites.

Pokerlistings.com provides reviews of numerous on line poker rooms.

The site Le Poker en Ligne offers a French language guide to on-line poker rooms.

Planet Poker offers an on-line game of Texas Hold'em at set stakes.

UltimateBet.com offers a range of on line poker games that can be played free or for money.

The USA Poker Portal site offers free online multiplayer poker and blackjack games for fun. These can be customised and branded to run as part of your own web site.

MJ's Party Poker Playing Guide offers information and help for players who use the Party Poker online poker room.

The World Poker League is an association online poker players. For a modest annual subscription, members play in a series of prize tournaments and are given rankings according to their degree of success. Sign up using promotional code 269 for a chance to win a free membership.

The Poker Works site provides online poker room reviews, a tournament calendar, and strategy articles. It features a blog kept by Linda R.Geenen, a professional dealer at the Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas.

The Online Poker Tourneys site provides a listing of regular tournaments at various online poker rooms, searchable by date and time, type of game and buy-in amount.

Net Poker, from NetIntellGames, allows you to play against a computer opponent or with a human opponent over the Internet, LAN, modem or direct connection.

The following sites also offer on-line poker games:

• Fair Poker
• Vegas Lounge Poker
• Check n Raise Poker
• Full Tilt Poker
• Absolute Poker
• Littlewoods BetDirect Poker
• PokerWorld Online Cardroom
• Club Dice Poker
• The Power Network, which includes Poker Island and The Poker Club
• Casual Poker
• Poker.com
• Club Games
• Noble Poker
• Imperial Poker
• Mega Comps Poker
• Pokerjoint.com for Texas Hold'em, Seven Card Stud and Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or better
• Alamo Poker
• Nabisco Games (Texas Holdem for points)
• ultimatebet.net - free poker games, not for money
• True Poker
• igotpoker.com
• PlayPoker-Now
• Play Holdem Texas
• Poker Games
• InterPoker
• Game Desire
• The InGame site (Italian)
• Yahoo! Games
• Play Real Poker Online (htchain.com)

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For people looking for a live Poker game in the UK, here is the UK Poker page which surveys the opportunities for playing casino-organised Poker.

The Poker Search site is a guide to Casino poker in the USA, which aims eventually to expand to give worldwide coverage.

The Chip Sharks site offers the facility for poker players looking for face to face games to contact other players and find games in their local area.

PokerEh.com provides information about Poker in Canada, including tournaments and a service for finding and hosting home games.

The Hands On Poker site lists information about local poker games in the USA and Canada, covering home poker games, brick and mortar poker establishment events, and online poker tournaments.

The Kick Ass Poker site, home of the Atlanta Poker Club, has news, strategy articles, poker information and information about local tournaments.

All In Poker Tournaments specialises in hosting poker tournaments for charities, corproations and private clubs in Georgia, USA. Their web site also provides news on poker in Georgia, and many other resources.

Pokerlistings.com provides a list of sites with information on face to face poker tournaments.

The Home Series of Poker site provides a free service by which the organisers of home poker tournaments can record by league and season and create player statistics and rankings.

The World Series of Poker 2005 site provides information about this tournament, as well as some historical information about WSOP and a tournament poker strategy guide. (Link)

Nick Kisberg's Cardschat provides several Poker forums as well as forums for discussion of card games in general.

The Bet The Pot Poker site has an active Forum for discussion of Poker topics

Tyler Cruz runs the PokerForums.org site, which provides forums for discussion of poker strategy and techniques, along with various other resources such as poker site reviews and a glossary.

The web site Pokerconduct.com is dedicated to exposing corruption and cheating in online poker rooms. It offers a news forum, chat rooms and a player help desk, offering free assistance to members with problems they may encounter at any poker site, including the withholding of funds.

Your Poker Hands - a site where you can submit your poker stories and anecdotes about interesting or unusual hands you have played.

The Poker Stories site provides a forum and live chat room for poker players. (Link)