BoDog plans ‘thank you to the troops’ charity event

Kudos to Calvin Ayre’s Bodog gambling group were due this week following an imaginative celebrity "Thank you to the troops" initiative for the 110,000 men and women of the U.S. military currently in Hawaii, many of whom are awaiting or returning from deployment in the Middle East.

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Mon, June 27th, 2005

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Casino gambling facts:

  • Catholics were found to be more likely to gamble than Protestants and other religious groups. Catholics were also found to be less likely to disapprove of gambling than other religious groups.
  • Poker is derived from the Persian game of "as nar" and was probably based on the dice game "tali", which was played by the Romans.
  • Las Vegas in Nevada owes its success to the mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel who organized gaming and bookmaking operations for The Mob (the Mafia).
  • The major differences between regular poker and video poker is that you are playing against a machine rather than real people, and your goal is to achieve particular hands rather than beat opponents hands.