New city ordinance raises stakes on cardroom poker
A new Sacramento ordinance goes into effect Jan. 1 allowing local cardrooms to increase the wagering limit - the amount a player of Texas Hold ‘Em poker can go “all in” for - from $49 a hand to $1,000. It also …
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Interesting gambling facts:
- In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
- Pathological gambling is recognized as a medical disorder by the American Psychiatric Association and has elements of addiction similar to alcohol and drug addiction.
- The Gold Rush brought a huge increase in the amount and types of gambling to California. San Francisco replaced New Orleans as the center for gambling in the United States.
- 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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