Venetian $500,000 Freeroll Poker Tournament

“We are excited with the poker room and the reception it has gotten from the poker community,” stated Kathy Raymond, director of poker operations.

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Mon, June 12th, 2006

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Casino gambling facts:

  • One of the oldest casinos in Europe, at Baden Baden in Germany, was opened in 1748 by Edouard Benazet, who employed Parisian craftsmen to design the stylish rooms.
  • Although the Greeks had a profound understanding of mathematics they had no concept of probability, and assumed that the outcome of games of chance was due to the will of the gods.
  • The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
  • Blackjack originated in French casinos around the 1700's where it was called "vingt-et-un" (twenty-and-one) and has been in United States since the 1800's.