Sealand and Microgaming offer an imaginative new online gambling destination

The self-proclaimed “Principality of Sealand” has opened what it claims is the first ever national online casino, located in a remote North Sea wartime fort and powered by top industry turnkey provider Microgaming.

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Wed, August 1st, 2007

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Gambling casinos history:

  • In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
  • 1993: Steve Wynn buys the Dune Hotel, then implodes it to make way for the Bellagio. The new MGM Grand is completed, once again becoming the world's largest hotel. On December 31, Barbra Streisand stars in the inaugural concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
  • In 1857, Prince Charles III of Monaco decided to introduce gambling to his Mediterranean principality to boost its finances.
  • 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.