Another Italian deal for Playtech
The London-listed online gambling software provider Playtech plc has announced its third Italian deal in as many weeks with an online poker agreement with Sisal SpA, an Italian land-based and online gaming company. Sisal is the third Italian licensee on Playtech’s Italian poker network after Snai and Gala-Coral’s Eurobet Italia
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Gambling history facts:
- 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.
- Although baccara has its origins in medieval Italy, it soon spread to France, where it was called "chemin de fer" (meaning railway, due to the action of the card box or shoe passing around the table on "tracks").
- In 1911 US legislation prohibited stud poker but ruled that draw poker was a game of skill and therefore was not illegal.
- 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.
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