More online gambling raids in South Africa
Eastern Cape province online gambling operators are facing arguably the toughest anti-online gambling blitz seen in South Africa from a remarkably zealous Eastern Cape Gambling and Betting Board (see previous InfoPowa reports)
Related Gambling News:
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- More media raids in Israel
- CYBER CAFES RAIDED FOR CONDUCTING ONLINE GAMBLING
- With raids everywhere, Chinese media take the pledge
- More Asian raids
- Malaysian gambling raids net 12
- South Carolina accuseds could opt for trial by jury
- Cybercafes raided for conducting online gambling
- Online Gambling in South Africa
- South Korea beefs up efforts against online gambling
- Online Gambling in Korea: Popular, But Illegal
- Still no online gambling legalisation in South Africa
Interesting gambling facts:
- Many casinos in Nevada were financed by mobsters. Most notable perhaps was Las Vegas' Flamingo which was opened in 1947 by Bugsy Siegel.
- By the 18th and 19th centuries a dice game called Hazard had become popular in England and was played by the aristocracy in private gambling houses.
- 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.
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
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