Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal Offers Online Poker Registration

“To get in, you have to be there at least an hour and a half in advance”

The Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort has become the first casino in the country to let players sign up for popular poker tournaments online. via KOLO-TV Reno

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Wed, September 26th, 2007

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  • 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.
  • People earning $10,000 per year gamble more than twice as much money as people earning $30-40,000 per year. People earning $10,000 per year gamble four times as much money as those making $80,000 or more per year.
  • Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
  • French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.