July games released by Microgaming

The Isle of Man online gambling software provider Microgaming has released its tranche of new games for the month of July 2008, with French Roulette Gold as the flagship. This an up-to-the-minute Internet version of the traditional casino table game with a distinctly Gallic ambience.

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Tue, July 1st, 2008

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    1959: Wayne Newton performs in Vegas for the first time, despite the fact that he is still too young to enter a casino.
  • 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.
  • The famous banker J.P. Morgan once walked out of a Monte Carlo casino because the stakes were too low? At the time, the maximum wager was 12,000 francs and Morgan wanted it increased to 20,000 francs. When the casino manager refused to increase the limit, Morgan left the casino saying "12,000 francs! I have no time to lose such ridiculous amounts."
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