Baccarat (pronounced "bac-car-ah") has long held the
attention of gamblers and an early version was played with cards
from a Tarot deck back in the Middle Ages.
The most fashionable men of 18th and 19th century England rolled
dice in a game called Hazard in luxurious private gambling houses.
There is no clear or direct early ancestor of the game. It is
likely that poker derived itself from elements of many different
games. The consensus is that poker's birth is a very old one.
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The origins of Bingo can be traced back to the year 1530 in
which a State run lottery game "Lo Giuco de Lotto"
was originated. The game is still held every Saturday in Italy.
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Blackjack was probably spawned from other French games such
as "Chemin De Fer" and "French Ferme" and
originated in French casinos around 1700 where it was called
"Vingt-Et-Un" ("Twenty-One")
Keno originated about 200 years B.C. in China out of an ancient
poem known as "The Thousand Character Classic ". Rather
than numbers 1 through 80, the first eighty characters of "The
Thousand Character Classic" were used in the body of the
keno ticket.
The name itself, "Roulette" is a French word meaning
"Small Wheel" which signifies that the game, as we
know it today, originated somewhere within the French culture.
In 1626 in Venice (Italy, Europe) a public gambling house was
legalized for the first time. Soon the high Venetian society
met in so called little houses or "casini" to indulge
in everything from business dealings, politics, gambling and
more carnival pleasures. "Casino" became synonymous
with vice and perdition.
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