Monday, June 11, 2007

History of Casino

The first official casino dates back to 2300 BC and goes to the credit of the Chinese. Playing cards were invented in France in and the first deck of playing cards was introduced by Johann Gutenberg.
The 17th and 18th century saw the first step towards casino style gaming clubs in England, Italy and Central Europe. The games played then was Hazard, faro, Macao Trente et quarante and Trente et un. Roulette came up only towards the second half of the 18th century. The most popular casino games in the early days was Baccarat, Craps, Hazard and Chuck Slack.
Online casinos can be basically divided into three groups-web based online casino, download based online casino and live based casino. In web based casino gaming, the gambler can play the casino without downloading whereas in download based casino, the gambler will have to download software to play the wager. But the game play is faster than web based other than the initial difficulty of downloading and installation. Live based casino is the latest concept in online gaming. The gamblers can play in an interactive and live environment. The best online casino games usually offered are Baccarat, Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Slot Machines and Video Poker. Of these, the most famous games are Roulette and Video Poker. Apart from the smoke, drinks and noise, the experience of online gaming is in all other ways as exciting as the in-house casino gaming. And also, the online casinos give away cash as bonus. The gamblers are open to a wagon of information on online casinos and are free to choose their game and gaming house. Today, people from round the world play casinos either for free or for real cash.

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