Abstract: A method of bet placement and wager distribution for use with double-hand gambling games; each round frontline players place wagers on their front hand final ranking into a frontline front hand pot and wagers on their back hand final ranking into a frontline back hand pot, and backline players place wagers on either the final ranking of a frontline player's front hand into a backline front hand pot or the final ranking of a frontline player's back hand into a backline back hand pot. A full game round is played, and then the relative rankings of the front and back hands are determined, identifying both highest ranked and second highest ranked hands among the frontline front hands, the frontline back hands, the backline front hands, and the backline back hands. The four pots are then apportioned between the controllers of the highest-ranked and second-highest hands corresponding to each pot, each apportionment according to a respective predetermined formula.

Abstract: An improved process for producing an acceleration in strength for glass batch materials after they have been compacted as in the form of briquettes. The method comprises forming an intimate mixture of glass-forming materials, admixing therein an alkali metal salt selected from the group consisting of sodium carbonate, potassium carbonate, and sodium sulfate adding between about 4 to about 10 weight percent water to hydrate said alkali metal salt and moisten said glass-forming materials, compacting said moistened materials to individual units, and subjecting the units after their formation to cooling air currents to maintain said freshly formed units at a temperature 90.degree. F., or below for 30 minutes or less.