Is online gambling coming to mainland China?

Blog: Gambling. China. There are two words that will make any ordinary web entrepreneur salivate.The People’s Republic is considering…

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Thu, September 14th, 2006

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Interesting gambling facts:

  • Lotteries were brought to America in the 1800s by the thousands of Chinese immigrants who worked in the mines and on the railroads.
  • The most significant forms of illegal gambling in the United States are numbers, betting with bookmakers or bookies, and sports pools or sports cards.
  • Although baccara has its origins in medieval Italy, it soon spread to France, where it was called "chemin de fer" (meaning railway, due to the action of the card box or shoe passing around the table on "tracks").
  • In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.