The maximum win in poker history is 9,152,416 dollars. The owner became Peter Eastgate, a Danish player, in 2008.
In Europe, playing cards came in 1300, and for the first time they were invented in China in 1120 AD.
After 15 minutes of a continuous game, there is a deck of cards change in a casino.
There are 2,598,960 of various poker combinations that can be made out of a poker deck.
... How lucky I am. I’ve been hearing that for a lot of years.
The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.
I have no boss to tell me what to do. I play whenever I want. That’s the freedom I didn’t have before.
There is a monument to Fyodor Dostoevsky in a picturesque park, located in a German city Kurhaus, as he was there and made a major contribution to prosperity of one of the city’s casinos.
The word "casino" comes from the Italian word “Casa”, which means “house”. The first casinos were called “Little Houses” and they were located along the Mediterranean coast.
The most popular form of a modern gambling is a lottery. According to statistics, more than half the world's population buys lottery tickets regularly.
In one of Hong Kong casinos, the management issues a certificate that the money was won in the gambling establishment, in order the player doesn’t have any problems with the tax authorities.
Make money where money is!
I felt rich having stopped worrying about the balance of my checkbook.
The wealth really changed my life only once when I got an opportunity to do charity.
