Good catch, although, to be honest, the word "onus" disturbs me.

Sounds dirty, like bbeck's mouth.

Yay! I got one!

I saved the page as a PDF if you want a copy.

This one's so good, Cirby, you deserve a second attaboy...or, attagirl..."Cirby" is so non-gender-specific. Sorry.

Boy.

First initial, last name, been using it online for about fifteen years.

Changing your betting position post-ante is a crime, even in the Big Easy.

ace, whazzat mean? I am not wise in the ways of online p*ker theory and practice.

post-ante betting (unless I'm screwing up the terminology) isn't just a p*ker deal. It's changing your bet illegally, like when r*ulette cheaters put a fat chip under their stack of lower-denomination chips when they see that they've won.

I may be screwing up the term. There's a word for that; I'm just not sure, right now, if it's "post-ante," or if that just means making a legal bet mid-contest or someting

Maybe I meant past-post? Actually, I think that is the right term.

past post sounds like a racing deal, but I am no expert there either. I grok the fat chip example though.

it's bad. very bad. like changing your position on FEMA bad.

Uh, "post-ante." Is that sort of like "after the pre-civil war period"? After-before! Another precocious concept from the innocent (almost childlike) mind of Ace?

It applies to a lot of betting, including roulette.

I think in The Sting, where the cheating was on horse-racing, they specifically refer to it as a past-post con.

Of course, the con itself was a con.

post-ante it means "after the beginning," doesn't it?

As in, you would have a different position on, say, drunk driving laws after being caught drunk driving ("post-ante") than you would have before knowing you'd be nailed for that violation ("ex ante").

Dave is correct.
No betting after post time, when the race is supposed to go off. In reality, you bet right up to the time that the gates open and the horses are off.
An example- at our county fair in the first week of August, I got to the track just as they were loading the horses in the gate. I ran to the counter, and got a $5 exacta box down, then tried to bet $20 to win/place on the same two horses that I had boxed in the exacta (as well as one other bet). The guy said "Sorry, I can't. They're off." I turned and ran back to catch the race, and sure enough they were running. Naturally, I won. I say 'naturally' because although I did get my exacta win, which earned me $400, I would've won several thousand with the other bets that I couldn't get in on time...past post time.

Sometimes my analogies are overly complex, ill-informed, and/or half-baked.

I don't understand what you're trying to say.

Ace, you bolded the wrong part in my opinion:

Victims whose immediate needs are not met by voluntary relief organizations, such as the Red Cross and the Salvation Army, can register with FEMA.

This is something that many are forgetting in the wake of this tragedy. NO GOVERNMENT, including our own, is expected to be the primary responder to natural disasters; if that was true (or better stated: feasible) we would have done it and there'd be no use for the Salvation Army and the Red Cross (which very well might be a socialist's dream)

Government agencies, by definition are bureaucratic. They cannot be subjective in their decisions on aid which is critical in emergencies. Governments aid agencies know how to dispurse money.

By "register with FEMA," they mean "call in or come to one of our aid centers and we'll help you get grants and/or loans."

After the hurricanes hit Florida last year, I got a big stack of envelopes from FEMA, with lots of options for post-disaster aid. I didn't get any aid, though (wasn't really eligible, since not much happened to me).

Interesting article regarding the mechanism for funding levee improvements locally.

I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't do this for a living.

With the going rate for a disaster "plan" being a cool half mil, we all are definately in the wrong line of business.

I sense a market opportunity here. In anticipation of overwhelming response and gobbs of CrazyPlanMoney™ flowing our way I've sketched out the AceEvac™ plan.

a) Locate buses
b) Fill them
c) Get the hell out of dodge

Tony,

You forgot:

b1) stop at the liquor store for 'provisions'

Back when I was young and beautiful, out of town baseball games were distributed by telegraph. They were then "created" in the local radio station, often with the ticker audible in the background.
The station telegrapher would write down the plays as they came in and hand the notes to the announser. for broadcast. Unscrupulous telegraphers would sit in the bar and make side bets such as "I'll bet you a quarter he fans", or "betcha he gets on. " The play had already happened, of coprse. I believe Reagan mentioned this one time.

Most roulette tables use non-value chips, that is, since there are so many different bets possible on roulette, the procedure is to give the players an entire stack of chips so they can spread them around AND the dealers will be able to tell just whose corner or street bet won or lost.

Let's say you walk up to a roulette table and toss down a hundred-dollar bill. You are given a stack of 20 plain chips, each one worth $5, but your chips will be a different color than everybody else's chips. If you only play with $20, then each chip is only worth a dollar. There is a rack near the wheel that shows the dealers how much each player's chips are worth....your color chip is placed beside a "regular" chip that denotes how much each of youe chips is worth. So the dealer can tell at a glance - "Dark red chips are playing for $5, light greens are only a dollar".

I mean, if 7 or 8 or 10 people are playing and several folks make bets on the same number(s), how could you tell who bet $5, and who bet $15 and who bet $50? Hence the different colored plain chips, just for roulette.

But you must cash out your chips before you leave the table and get "regular" chips.

The point of all this is just to say that past-posting is MUCH more common on blackjack or baccarrat than it is on roulette....

I think they call that past-post betting or the past-post con or something like that.

I believe the technical term for this is "The 'Ol Switcheroo."