From the riverboats to the Strip to the live-streamed table, gambling has been finding new forms for centuries. Our history coverage traces how it got here.
Baccarat was probably invented in Italy in the 1400s. Some claim it comes from a variant of old card games played by the Italian nobility.
Bill Kaplan did not invent card counting. He did invent the hedge fund approach to casino gambling. Same thing, different market.
The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 is, by its face, a ban on online gambling. No licensed operator can offer pokies online to Australian residents. No sportsbook can operate from Australia.
when you're watching someone shove 500k with bottom pair on a river, provably fair RNG and ETH mainnet become less interesting than whether they have the guts to call.
From 2000 to 2013, a network of crooks stole forty million dollars from casinos using cards marked so carefully that pit supervisors never knew they were marked.
The UKGC now requires casinos to look at whether you can afford to lose what you are about to bet. This is not about preventing gambling. It is about keeping people from gambling themselves into poverty.