Interactive Gaming aims to grow non-US customer base

Log in to remember this page. Email this Online sports betting and gaming operator Interactive Gaming Holdings Plc is raising £300,000 by the placement of 6 million ordinary shares at 5 pence each.

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Fri, September 22nd, 2006

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Gambling history facts:

  • French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal explored the mathematics of gambling, leading to the formulation of Pascal's theory of probability in 1654.
  • In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
  • The first airplane flight to Las Vegas was made in May, 1920, with Lieutenant Randall Henderson, editor of the Blythe, California Herald, and Jack Beckley.
  • 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.