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21 entries. Latest shelved 12 Oct 2026.
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Russ Hamilton and the Biggest Online Poker Cheating Scandal
Russ Hamilton was a founding player of the World Series of Poker. In 2001, he was caught running a bot ring and stealing accounts from PartyPoker. It was the biggest cheating scandal in online poker history.
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How Prohibition Fueled the Rise of Illegal Casinos in America
During Prohibition in the United States (1920-1933), alcohol was illegal. But people still wanted to drink. They bought from speakeasies. The same logic applied to gambling: it was illegal, people wanted it, illegal casinos thrived. The mechanism deserves examination.
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Atlantic City's Boardwalk Empire: From Resort to Gambling Mecca
Atlantic City isn't a gambling town that forgot it was a beach resort. It's a beach resort that went for the Hail Mary in 1978 and caught the ball in double coverage. Here's the tape.
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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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Howard Hughes' Bizarre Takeover of the Desert Inn and Vegas
On the night of November 27, 1966, Howard Hughes checked into the ninth floor of the Desert Inn and did not leave his room for four years. What followed rewrote the ownership of the Las Vegas Strip. The story is stranger than the telling.
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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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