888.com Scoops the Pool at the Inaugural 2005 eGaming Awards
888.com stole the show at the eGaming Awards when they won the best online casino of the year and best overall online gaming operator of the year. Being the first year of the awards, there was a lot of competition to be the first casino to win su
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Gambling casinos history:
- The Great Wall of China was financed, in part, by a lottery. The Bible is replete with references to drawing lots. Lot casting was a favored means of communication between man and god.
- One of the oldest casinos in Europe, at Baden Baden in Germany, was opened in 1748 by Edouard Benazet, who employed Parisian craftsmen to design the stylish rooms.
- 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 name blackjack came from an early bet (since discontinued) that paid 10 to 1 if the player got a jack of spades and an ace of spades, both black cards, as the first two cards.
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