2005 Poker Prof Blog Awards

Once again December is here and since awards tend to be an annual tradition I feel an obligation to present my personal picks from the ever expanding world of poker blogs, this is just one of my ways of saying …

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Mon, December 5th, 2005

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Do you know that:

  • 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.
  • Gambling is Often Legalized to Promote Economic Development of Depressed Areas. That was an important motivation in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, New Jersey, and many of the other locales for casinos.
  • The most significant forms of illegal gambling in the United States are numbers, betting with bookmakers or bookies, and sports pools or sports cards.
  • Nevada is the oldest and largest legalized gaming center in the United States. Gaming was legalized in Nevada in 1931 in the middle of the Great Depression as a form of economic stimulant.