I myself had largely fogotten about "FunBonds", which are an amazing thing the TGC people had us program. Basically, you are betting on rising number of hands played per day at the gold casino. Now, my programmers can look at the TGC database from time to time when maintaining it or adding to it, and I can tell you that simply there has never been a time, long term, when playership has not slowly risen. (As you would expect.) Thus, quite simply on average funbonds LOSE money for the casino, ie, it is (I assume?) a marketing ploy to slowly give away a little gold, as a promotion to players. If you continually buy funbonds there is no question that you will, on average, make money (and indeed it's very rare that any individual bond loses). By timing the wekeends or whatever you can certainly make even more. I notice the price of the bonds today is 4.3605 grams. I would simply buy any day the price is low. Looking at the table of the last 15 days payout, you can judge for yourself what is "low", my guess would be dont buy when the price is over about 6500 and buy without hesitation when the price is under say 4000 they seem to have issued 125 bonds, and there are usually at least 50 available, so its perfectly liquid. http://www.thegoldcasino.com/im/2000/funbonds.gif http://www.thegoldcasino.com/cgi-bin/funbonds.cgi i think if you were careful, there is no question at all that you couldn't increase by say 10-20%, every bond-cycle (ten days). unfortunately, I see they have set the ownership limit to 10 bonds per player, and you must play hands occasionally, but its still cool amazing stuff! jp ----------------------------------------------------------- "Great ventures create great mottos." --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
