Poker Supporters Lobby Capitol Hill
“If you legalize it, it just means more people will gamble, more become addicted. That’s been the case with every kind of gambling in every community, in every state”
Supporters of online poker fanned out on Capitol Hill Wednesday trying to convince lawmakers to rewrite a federal restriction on internet gambling. via WXIA-TV Atlanta
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Interesting gambling information:
- Poker is derived from the Persian game of "as nar" and was probably based on the dice game "tali", which was played by the Romans.
- Horse racing is the best known and widespread parimutuel betting event. Horse racing is the only form of partimutuel wagering legal in California.
- Las Vegas in Nevada owes its success to the mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel who organized gaming and bookmaking operations for The Mob (the Mafia).
- Dice games have existed in one form or another for over 2000 years and were originally played with dice fashioned from the knucklebones of sheep.
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