Tennis Copes with Gambling as Popularity Rises
The top week’s news from around the world of online gambling brought to you by the Weekly Edition, an OCR Live! production. Gambling Scandals Cause ATP to Tighten Rules The Association of Tennis Professionals is determined to purge the sport from gambling and match fixing scandals as the Wimbledon Tennis Grand Slam sets off.
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Do you know that:
- The name blackjack came from an early bet (since discontinued) that paid 10 to 1 if the player got a jack of spades and an ace of spades, both black cards, as the first two cards.
- 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.
- 1994: On New Year's Day Frank Sinatra gives his last Las Vegas performance at the MGM Grand.
1998: Opening of the Bellagio. With 3,026 rooms it is the largest hotel in the world, and also the most expensive - it cost $1.7 billion to build. - At land-based casinos, both the player and the boxman need to be on the lookout for crooked dice in the game of craps. Each number when added together with the number on the side opposite it, will add up to 7. For example, 6 is opposite to 1. When the dice are crooked, they do not add up to 7.
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