The name of a poker card game derived from the following words: the French «Poque», the German «Pochen» and the English «Brag».
An American, Alex Hamstry, in 1994, at the table of one of the casinos of Las Vegas (Mirage) made a Royal Flush.
The probability of a Royal Flush is 0.0002%.
A professional poker player, Paul Tsimbler, in 2009, was playing for about 74 hours and 20 minutes with 183 volunteer players, most of whom were also professionals.
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.
The history of the game of dice has several millennia.
The first slot machine, which was called Liberty Bell, was invented in 1897 by Charles Fey.
Roulette is often called "a Ferris wheel", because of the fact that the sum of all the numbers on the drum is 666.