Wagers a sure thing for bar food, fun

Wagers is my favorite sports bar (and grill) in town. The beer is reasonable, the staff is nice and the crowd is laid back and friendly without being (too) redneck. And the food is tasty. It’s basically bar food, but it’s good bar food.

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Fri, October 21st, 2005

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Casino gambling information:

  • In Cuba, during the 1950's, the blackjack shoe was first introduced. The dealers in Cuba handled the cards really well and management thought that the dealers may be being a little too good to their friends. So, to curb their suspicions, management decided to use a "dealing box" which is currently known as a shoe.
  • 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.
  • The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
  • The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.