Poker players fight online gambling ban

America’s 70 million poker players say they aren’t bluffing in their resistance to the latest congressional efforts to ban online casino gambling. To dramatize that determination, their leader, San Franciscan Michael Bolcerek — president of the…

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Tue, April 4th, 2006

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Interesting gambling information:

  • The most significant forms of illegal gambling in the United States are numbers, betting with bookmakers or bookies, and sports pools or sports cards.
  • Keno, the casino version of lotto, originated in China nearly 2000 years ago when Cheung Heung devised a lottery as a way of raising funds for his province's army.
  • The major differences between regular poker and video poker is that you are playing against a machine rather than real people, and your goal is to achieve particular hands rather than beat opponents hands.
  • The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.