BJP councillors do moral policing raid, demolish gambling den
Commissioner says that action of pulling down shack used as a liquor and gambling den was Âfraught with dangerous consequences AFTER a recent crackdown on a gambling den at the behest of the city mayor himself, it was the turn of two BJP councillors from ward no 3 in Sama area to vent their ire on a gambling-cum-liquor den being run outside the Sama crematorium. During the renovation
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Interesting gambling facts:
- The most significant forms of illegal gambling in the United States are numbers, betting with bookmakers or bookies, and sports pools or sports cards.
- Dice games have existed in one form or another for over 2000 years and were originally played with dice fashioned from the knucklebones of sheep.
- 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.
- 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.
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