The dark side of televised poker tournaments
Columnist Jeff Haney: Looking into the dark side of televised poker tournaments — grandstanders showing off for the cameras, bugging oldtimers Jeff Haney’s sports betting column appears Monday, Friday and …
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Gambling casinos history:
- Indian tribes have used their position as sovereign entities to develop a number of gaming establishments. Indian casinos operate in 22 states. This number is expected to grow.
- The Gold Rush brought a huge increase in the amount and types of gambling to California. San Francisco replaced New Orleans as the center for gambling in the United States.
- French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
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