Reports linking Lo Duca with online gambling raise concerns
Major League Baseball apparently was concerned enough about reports of Paul Lo Ducas possible involvement with online gambling and bookmakers, sources said, that it sent its security force through spring training this year with a beefed-up message: Be careful whom you gamble with.
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Casino gambling information:
- The age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
- Video Poker machines were introduced in the 1970s, when an oil embargo had a negative impact on Vegas revenues. The machines were popular enough to spark a recovery in casino business.
- In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
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