888 Poker

888 Poker, or Pacific Poker, boasts one of the largest network of players on the planet, so if you are looking for an extensive site that offers plenty of tables, tournaments and has a decent bonus offer ($100 bonus on your first deposit, equal to a 25% bonus), then this is a poker site worth trying.

There is a decent poker school and a lively poker board where you can improve your skills and learn from the professionals.

888 Lucky Driver

Do you want to see probably the luckiest driver alive- this guy definitely has 888 in his licence plate! Watch the video from YouTube carefully. Halfway through the video someone drives through a red light in the far right lane.

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No discussion about the number 888 would be complete without mentioning 888 Casino, probably the largest online operation of its kind on the planet. This casino was launched back in May 1997 and is owned by 888 Holdings plc, a public limited company that is licensed and regulated by the Government of Gibraltar in the EU and whose share trade on the London stock exchange.

888 Holdings plc owns and operates Cassava Enterprises which in turn opeartes the online gaming operations of the group. Prior to floating, brothers Avi and Aaron Shaked had around 70% of the shares of the company, the other part being owned by brothers Shay and Ron Ben-Yitzhak.

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888 Casino develops and maintains it own gambling software which it offers for free download on its website HERE. Once you have the software on your pc, laptop or mac, you can test all their games out for free on the trial version which gives you a virtual bank roll to play with .

You can play blackjack, roulette, online slots, video pokers, baccarat, keno, and craps among others. there are 3 reel and 5 reel slot machines and some big progressive jackpots on offer.

If you want to take a bet, just switch to the real account in the same software package (its exactly the same software, just set for real money play). they offer a match bonus of 100% up to a maximum of $200. What this means, is that they will double your money up to a maximum of $200. If you deposit $200, you´ll play with $400.

888 888 88: Is this the luckiest phone number?

The luckiest phone number in China?

In 2003 a Chinese Airline paid $280,000 for the telephone nuber: 8888 8888 at a special auction in the south-western Chinese province of Sichuan.

Many people in China regard the number 8 to be lucky, because it is pronounced in a similar way to the Mandarin and Cantonese words for getting rich.

So an number containing the number 8 (eight times) is thought to be especially lucky.

The airline company is planning to use the number for a 24-hour customer service hot line.

The number is also easy to remember, of course

The local government generated a sum of 7.13 million yuan through the auction.

888 Licence Plate Sells for $30,000

In April 2006, a car license plate: APC 888 was auctioned off for 237,000 yuan ( approximately US$30,000) in Guangzhou, close to Hong Kong, in Southern China.

Rich owners of Mercedes, Jaguars and other luxury cars, made bids for the "lucky 8s" which were among 300 lucky numbers plates auctioned.

A lady won the auction after more than 20 rounds of bidding.

8 is an auspicious number in China, because it sounds like "Good Fortune". 888 is even more lucky and it was this that drove up the price of the bids.

Guangzhou has plans to auction 2,700 lucky numbers: all the revenue will be given to the city's fund to help victims of road accidents.

888 is a Lucky Number at the Beijing Olympics

Lucky number at Beijing Olympics

The 2008 Beijing Olympics will start at 8 o'clock in the evening on the 8th August, in keeping with 888 as an extremely lucky number (at 8 on the 8th of the 8th month).

888 has a similar pronounciation in Cantonese as the word for to make money.
Although the Olympic Games had been planned to start in late August because of Beijing's high summer temperatures, Beijing's mayor decided that the event would begin on the luckiest date possible - on 8/8/08.

6, 8and 9 are considered lucky numbers in Chinese, while 4, 7 and 1 are considered less so.

Telephone numbers, vehicle licence plates and addresses which contain these numbers (particularly 888) are very popular and often cost more.

4 in Chinese sounds like the word for death, which is why it is so unpopular. 7 can be translated as "gone" which also has negative connotations, and 1 can mean lonely, for obvious reasons.

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888 is a very lucky number. Revered by the Chinese as an especially auspicious total, it is in great demand for car numberplates, telephone numbers and even birthdays of children. To the right is the Chines character for "eight".

The reason why 888 is such a lucky number? Well, 8 is considered lucky because it sounds similar to the word for "prosperous" in Cantonese ("fa"). In Chinese, numbers are either "yin" (with more feminine qualities) or "yang" with more masculine qualities. Odd numbers are yang (1,3,5,7,9) and even numbers are yin (2,4,6,8).

The number 8 is the "most yin" of the yin numbers, and represents a change from low to high or poorer to richer.

Three digit numbers sound similar in Chinese to "business will easily prosper", so 888 is doubly lucky!