eCOGRA Achieves 100 Online Casinos Target Months Ahead of Schedule
The online gambling standards and player protection body, eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance , today announced it achieved its target of accrediting 100 online casinos and poker rooms before December 2006.
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Gambling history facts:
- 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.
- In Paris, legislation prohibiting playing cards was passed in 1377, and in Italy, playing cards and dice were burned.
- It was during the 1930's that slot machines began to become very popular across America, and in the late 40's Bugsy Siegel added machines to his Flamingo Hilton hotel in Las Vegas.
- In 1978, New Jersey became the second state to legalize casino gambling in an attempt to revitalize the rundown resort area of Atlantic City. The legalization was restricted only to Atlantic City.
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