Cato comments on America vs. WTO
The new online gambling pressure group Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative has reprised comments made earlier this year by Sallie James, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies urging the USA to resolve its differences with the WTO regarding online gambling
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Interesting gambling information:
- In 1911 US legislation prohibited stud poker but ruled that draw poker was a game of skill and therefore was not illegal.
- 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.
- 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 age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.
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