Gambling – The People Who Started It All

Gambling is aought-after activity these days. It joins all age groups and keeps them interested. Gambling is a very enticing offer if one decides to do money. Occasionally, they get hooked to it. They should keep in mind that it is just a game that works purely on luck.

Gambling is any game where your money or any tangible item of value is at stake. It entirely depends on the skill of a person to manipulate the game.

There is no doubt that gambling can be a money-spinning option. It is precisely why it's been mighty successful and sill ruling the world.

People still do not have an idea about how or who started gambling. Blackjack, slot machines and poker are the most popular ways of gambling nowdays.

A list of people who had a contribution to this game of gambling is given below:

1. Liberty Bell was the very first slot machine invented by Charles Fey back in 1985. The idea of ​​a slot machine stuck him in 1985, when he was a mere car mechanic in San Francisco.

The first slot machine was created by him was fabricated out of three spinning wheels in three shapes: diamonds, hearts and spades and a 'cracked' Liberty Bell drawn at each reel.

In 1907, another maker wanted to reproduce machines similar to Charles Fey's. Henry Stephen Mills was successful and came out with the slot machine named Operator Bell.

Since then slot machines have been evolving and very popular even today.

2. Nobody either knows how a game of Blackjack started nor do they started it. None of them that time thought it is going to be famous and so did not bother to know the history of it.

However, blackjack was mastered in few years and people even had strategies to combat it.

In 1958, McDermott, Cantey, Baldwin and Maisel devised a strategy for the game of blackjack. The strategy caused so much commotion with the gamblers and the statisticians.

These four geniuses had a mere hand calculator to devise this strategy or the game of blackjack. They later went on to write a book called 'winning blackjack'. It is still the most preferred book all over the world.

All this paved way to the modern gambling world, we live in, in the name 'card counting techniques'.

These people have immensely contributed to gambling. Gambling, being a negative aspect in the society today, is still ruling the world thanks to these people. They have made gambling a truly great phenomenon.

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Source by Abhishek Agarwal