Empire Online suing PartyGaming in Gibraltar

Empire Online said on Tuesday it had initiated legal proceedings in Gibraltar High Court against its former partner PartyGaming. Empire (EOL.L: Quote, Profile, Research), the brainchild of Israeli entrepreneur Noam Lanir, floated its shares in Jun

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Tue, December 6th, 2005

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  • The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
  • French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal explored the mathematics of gambling, leading to the formulation of Pascal's theory of probability in 1654.
  • The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
  • The first legal lottery in the twentieth century was the New Hampshire Sweepstakes which began on March 12, 1964. Currently 37 states and the District of Columbia operate lotteries.