As casinos open, many S. Floridians look for a new career — as a poker dealer
Barbara Hausman knows how to turn the odds in her favor. The 48-year-old real estate agent played in the Ladies’ World Series of Poker last year, her first major tournament, and placed in the top 9 percent.Now, she’s raising the stakes, hoping to try
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Gambling history facts:
- Legal gambling operations in Washington reported $1.7 billion in net receipts in 2005: 61 percent was reported by tribal casinos, 10 percent came from the state lottery. 2 percent of responders in a February state survey said they placed bets online.
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
- French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
- 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.
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