All casinos (real or virtual) around the world have their share of fun anecdotes, facts and trivia. In this post, you will learn about some of the most popular ones as well as some interesting titbits about online betting.
1. There are 2,598,960 unique five-card hands combinations possible in a standard 52-card deck.
2. Gambling and slots have often been used for greater purposes than mere fun or entertainment. For instance, they have been used for many public projects, including the Great Wall of China. In fact, many believe that this historical monument couldn't even have seen the light of the day without the money that was generated from those who played the game of Chinese Lottery (aka Keno) in 200 BC.
3. Roulette is also widely known as the Devil's Game. This is because if you add all the numbers in the wheel, which go from 1 to 36, you get the number 666, the number of Lucifer.
4. David Beckham is widely known as one of the top 20 England players of all time. So, when his son Brooklyn Beckham was born, gamblers started placing bets on that he would follow in the footsteps of his father and join the England soccer team. The bets were accepted by a factor of 1000. However, with 15-yr-old Jr. Beckham showing no progress in soccer at all, the gamblers are bound to lose all their money.
5. England has the largest number of bets receiving points. What's interesting about the British, is that they like to place bets not just on sports or politics or slots, but rather the weather - one of the most popular bets placed in England is thus on the weather of the first day after the winter holidays.
6. If you think you have become addicted to gambling and want to make it difficult for yourself to indulge in the sport, then you can impose a ban on yourself.
There are many states in the US that allow you to ban yourself from the casinos. In doing so, you make it a crime for yourself to step inside a casino. Ohio, for example, has a "Voluntary Exclusion Program", that allows the gamblers to ban themselves for as many number years they want, including a lifetime ban.
7. Believe it or not, "penny slots" are one of the most profitable casino games in the industry. In fact, there are many casinos where penny slot machines outnumber all the other machines. For instance, Club Casino Hotel had 70% of its slot machines as penny slot machines in 2013. Nowadays, online slots games are among the most popular.
8. Richard Nixon was such an outstanding poker player that he funded his congressional election campaign with the poker winnings from the time he spent in the South Pacific during World War II.
9. Although casinos are illegal in Japan, they found a loophole in the system with Pachinko parlors.
A pachinko machine is similar to your typical slot machine and allows the players to earn small silver balls which can be traded for toys, alcohol, etc. but most importantly "special prize" tokens. These tokens can be redeemed for cash. So, you get cash for "tokens". Remind you of something?
