Employee stole over £1m and blew it betting online

AN INTERNET gambling addict who stole more than £1 million from his employers before blowing it on betting sprees was jailed for five years yesterday.

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Tue, August 1st, 2006

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  • 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.
  • French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
  • 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.
  • The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.