Bookie
Bookie or Bookmaker: A Turf Accountant. A professional bettor. One who analyzes, determines, or simply posts the betting odds in games, especially horse racing and team sports, receives and records wagers from a number of people on a regular basis, collects from losers, and pays off winners. Bookmaking started around 1780 at Richard Tattersall’s horse [...]
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Poker
A History of Poker
This page was contributed by David Parlett, games inventor, consultant and historian and author of many card game books including the Oxford History of Card Games.
Copyright © David Parlett, John McLeod, 2005. All rights reserved.
Introduction
Birth and Growth
Coming of Age
Ultimate Origins
Relatives and Ancestors
The Problem of As-nas
The Role of Brag
Conclusion
Introduction
Poker is a five-card vying [...]
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Casino
Online Casino Gambling – a history so far
By Graham Clifford
Published on 1 February 2007
It seems everywhere you look in Britain these days you see advertisements for online gambling. In Premiership football for example Middlesbrough are sponsored by 888.com, Tottenham Hotspurs by Mansion and West Ham united by Pinnacle Casino to name but a few.As an industry online [...]
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In the U.S., bingo was originally called “beano”. It was a country fair game where a dealer would select numbered discs from a cigar box and players would mark their cards with beans. They yelled “beano” if they won.
The game’s history can be traced back to 1530, to an Italian lottery called “Lo Giuoco del [...]
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THE SUGARMAN SAYS
“No matter how far off the pedestal a character falls, they’ve almost always got a second chance.”
Over the next three weeks the British public will almost certainly witness the phoenix like resurrection of a fallen son. After a mere 7 hours or so of prime time TV, we are starting to see the [...]
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