Nearly $6,000 seized in gambling arrest
GAINESVILLE Agents with the Multi Agency Narcotics Squad seized over $5,800 in an undercover gambling investigation. Friday, agents arrested one man after executing a search warrant at a Gainesville business known as Tres Amigo Lavaderia, located at 224 Atlanta Highway.
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Interesting gambling information:
- 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.
- In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
- Pathological gambling is recognized as a medical disorder by the American Psychiatric Association and has elements of addiction similar to alcohol and drug addiction.
- French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
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