Sportsbook.com halts wagering on TIME Person of the Year

Sportsbook.com, the world’s largest online sportsbook, has been forced to halt wagering on Time Magazine’s Person of the Year and Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year due to suspicious betting activity.

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Sat, December 3rd, 2005

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  • French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
  • 1905: The town of Las Vegas is founded when the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company holds a land auction at the site on May 15.
    1912: The Majestic - Las Vegas's very first theater - opens, featuring the best vaudeville acts and motion pictures of the time.
  • 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.
  • Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.