History
From the gaming houses of 17th century Venice to the first online casinos of the 1990s, this shelf keeps the long story of gambling in order.
23 entries. Latest shelved 7 Aug 2026.
- CL·B271
Barry Greenstein: The Robin Hood of Poker and His Donations
Barry Greenstein's career, spanning computer engineering at Symantec in the 1980s and a subsequent professional poker practice at the highest stakes, invites reexamination not for the conventional reasons of tournament results or cash-game legend, but for the philanthropic model he constructed around his winnings.
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- GD·P659
How to Win Your First Poker Freeroll
A freeroll is free money with rules. You're in a room with 300 people with nothing to lose and everything to prove. Here's how I made it to the final table.
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Cynthia Jay-Brennan: The Tragic Story Behind a $35M Slot Win
On January 26, 2000, Cynthia Jay, a 37-year-old cocktail waitress at Monte Carlo Casino in Las Vegas, hit the Megabucks progressive jackpot for $34,959,458. Six weeks later, a drunk driver struck the car she and her sister were riding in. Her sister died. Jay was left a paraplegic.
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- BJ·H473
The History of Card Counting: From Thorp to Today
Card counting has been solved since 1962. Everything since then is casinos adjusting rules to make it not worth the grind, and counters grinding anyway because there is nothing better to do between tournaments.
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- HS·A756
Atlantic City's Boardwalk Empire: From Resort to Gambling Mecca
Atlantic City wasn't always a casino town. The Boardwalk had Sinatra and salt water taffy before it had roulette wheels. Here's how that happened.
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Cynthia Jay-Brennan: The Tragic Story Behind a $35M Slot Win
In 2000, Cynthia Jay-Brennan won $34.9 million at a Las Vegas slot machine. Four years later, she was dead.
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Gambling in Ancient Rome: Dice Games, Emperors, and Bans
Romans gambled. They gambled with dice, knucklebones, animal-shaped tokens. The practice was so common that emperors banned it repeatedly. The data on Roman gambling is thin, but the legal record is clear: the problem was endemic, the solution impossible.
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Monte Carlo: How a Tiny Principality Became Europe's Casino Capital
Short version: in 1856 a broke European principality legalized gambling to save itself from bankruptcy, built a casino, and a French concessionaire turned it into a global brand. Long version follows.
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