Police continue gambling raids
Metropolitan police raided two suspected gambling houses this morning. Officers made arrests and seized suspected gambling equipment from a home near 34th Street and Central and another home in the 1400 block of Roache Street, Lt. Doug Scheffel said.
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Gambling history facts:
- Lotteries were brought to America in the 1800s by the thousands of Chinese immigrants who worked in the mines and on the railroads.
- Keno, the casino version of lotto, originated in China nearly 2000 years ago when Cheung Heung devised a lottery as a way of raising funds for his province's army.
- In 1911 US legislation prohibited stud poker but ruled that draw poker was a game of skill and therefore was not illegal.
- In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
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