Crackdown on electronic bingo begins

SACRAMENTO More than 20 years after the state first warned that electronic bingo games are illegal, Attorney General Jerry Brown has launched a crackdown to halt a proliferation of the machines.

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Sat, May 10th, 2008

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  • In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
  • 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.
  • In 1857, Prince Charles III of Monaco decided to introduce gambling to his Mediterranean principality to boost its finances.
  • Originally, the double-zero wheel started in Europe and the single-zero wheel started in America. But, Europeans liked the single-zero wheel better, and Americans liked the double-zero wheel better so they switched. Today, the American wheel and double-zero wheel are synonymous.