Casino Mysteries

Gambling is much more than just winning. It is also uncommon. What can happen when gambling?

• Monkeys can utilize money. Capuchins who were trained to trade silver discs for goodies started budgeting, purchasing more when the price decreased, and gambling. Rich monkeys eventually found out how to pay for sex.
• Cash gambling is prohibited in Japan. Instead, winning balls are traded for rewards or tokens. These products are subsequently traded for cash at a different location.
• Archie Karas took $50 to Las Vegas, gambled it up to $40 million over two years, and lost it all in three weeks.

It was allegedly devised by the Earl of Sandwich, who was so hooked to gambling that refused to leave the table for meals and requested a one-handed meal. Other players picked up on it and requested “the sandwich”.

• The term “Hell on Wheels” was used in the 1860s to depict the army of Union Pacific railroad employees that traveled west to build the First Transcontinental Railroad.
• Iranian tennis star Mansour Bahrami went to France, where he lost all his funds at a casino. He lost it all the first night.
• Because gambling is outlawed in South Carolina, beachgoers may hire boats to carry them into international seas (beyond the state’s authority).

This machine was created in 1891, however it was not the one we know today. Players would pay a nickel and pull a lever that would spin five ‘drums’ (reels) containing 50 card faces. The machine did not pay out on successful spins, but rather the bar that owned it. Prizes may be free beer for a pair or cigars for a royal flush.

• In baccarat and other games, the cards are stored in a “shoe”. Casino owners in Cuba felt their dealers were aiding gamblers in return for tips in the 1950s. The shoe, with more decks, reduced dealer cheating and raised the house’s profit.

Also known as “The Devil’s Game” The devil’s game is so named because all of the digits (0 to 36) on the wheel add up to 666, often known as the devil’s number or the “number of beast”.

• Egyptian tombs had dice cubes found 3,000 years ago. Gambling was already part of everyday life in Egypt and Mesopotamia at the time.