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Casino Games History

Gambling is truly one of the oldest distractions that were popular with people of different civilizations, classes and times. It is proved that gambling existed since the beginning of mankind. Three ancient gods Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades had to roll the dice to divide the Universe into three parts: sea, heaven, and hell.

Most archeological evidences state that gambling was known among the first men. The researchers revealed the dice of bones that dates back about 40,000 years. Moreover, some cave drawings also depict people throwing the dice and playing other games. In general, dice are believed to be the oldest playing tools which are used even now in traditional casino games.

The actual game with dice or craps was designed by Chinese in 2300 B.C. which later was brought to Greece. It is also known that gambling was illegal at those times, however people continued to play the dice. The ivory dice dating back around 1500 B.C. were revealed on the territory of Thebes. Dice were very popular in the Roman Empire where even children had to study to gamble throwing the small cubes.

Though, in the 14th century gambling was forbidden by King Henry VIII who found out that his soldiers used to waste time gambling.

Native Americans believed that gambling games were created by God that's why they did not consider gambling to be sin. They made dice with plum stones and marked them in black and white. Americans were among the first to roll dice to predict the future.

First official lottery was organized in 1793 in Washington. Back then, during the Revolutionary War lotteries became the perfect way to make the finance improvements and soon all the US states began to organize lotteries. In the 1830's there existed more than 420 state lotteries in the USA.

Card games were also popular in the New World and were often played at the riverboats. Some gambling venues were legal and some of them were illegal. Since then the players always tried to cheat at poker and blackjack game and when the con men were revealed they were punished. Nevertheless, more and more systems and ways to manipulate playing cards appeared.

It is possible to say that slot games derived from card games as the first slot machine was based on poker. In a few years after the introduction slot game became very popular and the players invented many theories and methods how to win at slots. Though, this game is almost unbeatable but it stays to be one of the most popular ones.

After the Civil War all state lotteries were forbidden and the following step was to prohibit other games. And since the 1890's all gambling activities were not allowed in the United States and most of them went underground. Yet, in 1931 Nevada legalized different forms of gambling and many new gambling venues emerged. It was the beginning of the incredible development of gambling industry all around the world. And today we can enjoy online blackjack, roulette, craps, slots and other popular games online!