NH Senate Votes In Favor Of Poker Tax

The New Hampshire Senate has rejected allowing video lottery machines at the state’s four race tracks, but voted to tax Texas Hold ‘Em poker games. via WLBZ

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Fri, May 16th, 2008

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  • The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
  • The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.
  • 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.