Macau gambling king gets a throne in record auction
The king of Macau’s gambling industry, Stanley Ho, paid HK$13.76 million (885,196 pounds) for an imperial throne at an auction in Hong Kong that Christie’s said was the highest ever bid in that art category.
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Gambling casinos history:
- By the 18th and 19th centuries a dice game called Hazard had become popular in England and was played by the aristocracy in private gambling houses.
- Las Vegas is a testament of the powerful ability of gambling to foster economic development. Because of gambling, Las Vegas has shown impressive job growth, developed into a major city with a low tax burden that many state and local governments look at with envy.
- The major differences between regular poker and video poker is that you are playing against a machine rather than real people, and your goal is to achieve particular hands rather than beat opponents hands.
- The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
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