Women’s Night Out offers humor, poker

The 10th annual YWCA Women’s Night Out will feature a humorist, a silent auction, food, drinks and, for the first time, a Texas Hold ‘Em tournament.

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Sun, July 20th, 2008

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Casino gambling information:

  • Lotteries were brought to America in the 1800s by the thousands of Chinese immigrants who worked in the mines and on the railroads.
  • 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.
  • Blackjack originated in French casinos around the 1700's where it was called "vingt-et-un" (twenty-and-one) and has been in United States since the 1800's.
  • Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.