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  1. Arthur Conan Doyle (23,157 bytes)
    51: ...[Oscar Slater]], a [[Germany|German]] [[Jew]] and gambling-den operator convicted of bludgeoning an 82-year-...
  2. The Alan Parsons Project (17,608 bytes)
    30: ... "[[Games People Play (Alan Parsons Project song)|Games People Play]]," "Time" (Woolfson's first lead voc...
    98: ... "[[Games People Play (Alan Parsons Project song)|Games People Play]]."
    136: ... "[[Games People Play (Alan Parsons Project song)|Games People Play]]" (1981) #16 US
  3. Atlanta, Georgia (102,525 bytes)
    125: ...United States to have hosted the [[Summer Olympic Games]].
    157: ...is, Missouri|St. Louis]] and [[Los Angeles]]. The games themselves were marred by numerous organizational...
    383: ...won the [[NASL]] championship, playing their home games at the now demolished [[Atlanta Fulton County Sta...
    399: ...Atlanta, the primary location from where imported games and products arrive to [[United States]] and are ...
    494: ...on three counts of tax evasion in connection with gambling income he received while Mayor during trips he to...
  4. Burn card (1,404 bytes)
    3: ...ml What is a burn card and why is it dealt?], rec.gambling.poker FAQ</ref>
  5. Basketball (48,433 bytes)
    41: ... as being invented by North Americans. Other ball games, such as [[baseball]] and [[Canadian football]], ...
    47: ...]] and [[Yale University]] began sponsoring men's games. By 1910, frequent injuries on the men's courts ...
    49: ...[[Harlem Globetrotters]] played up to two hundred games a year on their national tours. [[Women's basket...
    51: College basketball was rocked by gambling scandals from 1948 to 1951, when dozens of player...
    71: ...age:Munich 1972.jpg|thumb|210px|right|XX. Olympic games Munich 1972 [[Krešimir Ćosić]] of Yugoslavia (...
  6. Blackjack (29,927 bytes)
    1: {{otheruses4|the gambling game|other uses|Black Jack (disambiguation)}}
    5: ...n the United States it was not very popular, so [[gambling]] houses tried offering various bonus payouts to ...
    370: ...e house advantage to near 0 with some single-deck games, and less than one percent in a multi-deck game.<...
    380: ...}} One technique, mainly applicable in multi-deck games, involves tracking groups of cards (aka slugs, cl...
    383: <ref>''The Gambling Times Guide to Blackjack''; Gambling Times Incorporated, Hollywood, CA; © 1984; Page ...
  7. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (23,641 bytes)
    45: ...e site of daily programming at the museum (trivia games, book discussions, etc.) and is decorated with pi...
    86: ... permanent banishment from the sport for having a gambling interest of any sort on a game in which a player ...
  8. Backgammon (32,094 bytes)
    14: ...bles]] family, one of the oldest classes of board games in the world.
    22: ...], is a more likely ancestor of modern day tables games. Excavations at the "[[Shahr-i Sokhta|Burnt City]...
    24: ... |last=Austin |first=Roland G. |title=Roman Board Games. II |journal=Greece & Rome |volume=4 |issue=11 |m...
    27: ...year=1952 |id=ISBN 0-87817-211-4 |chapter=6: Race-Games}}</ref>
    29: ...pages=277-308}}</ref> By the 17th century, tables games had spread to [[Sweden]]. A wooden board and chec...
  9. Bug (2,559 bytes)
    34: * ''[[Bug!]]'' and ''[[Bug Too!]]'' video games
  10. Casino (8,023 bytes)
    4: ...s a facility that accommodates certain types of [[gambling]] activities. Casinos are often placed near or co...
    9: ...buildings where pleasurable activities, including gambling and sports, took place. An example of this type o...
    14: ...s most conspicuous landmarks - was never used for gambling. Rather, it was a banquet hall for the [[Russian ...
    16: ...asa chiusa", literally "closed house"), while the gambling house is spelled ''casinò'' with an accent.
    18: ==Gambling in casinos==
  11. Card game (21,178 bytes)
    4: ...nown that they are often omitted in rules of card games, because the author assumes that "everyone" knows...
    9: ... games that use the standard deck, there are also games that use some modification of the standard deck, ...
    11: There are also some card games that require multiple standard decks. In this sce...
    16: * clockwise for games from North America, North and West Europe and Rus...
    17: ...st Europe, Asia, South America and also for Swiss games.
  12. Casino game (8,228 bytes)
    1: ...tainment purposes, some on machines that simulate gambling.
    4: ...l element, where the player makes decisions; such games are called "random with a tactical element." Whil...
    8: ...as a percentage of the player's original bet. (In games such as [[Blackjack]] or [[Spanish 21]], the fina...
    15: ... while most [[Pontoon (game)|Australian Pontoon]] games have house edges between 0.3% and 0.4%.
    17: ...ette house edge was a trivial exercise; for other games, this is not usually the case. Combinatorial anal...
  13. Channel Islands (20,111 bytes)
    85: Alderney has a large and growing internet gambling industry.
    107: ...have been enthusiastic supporters of the [[Island Games]]. Shooting is a popular sport - islanders have w...
  14. Craps (30,631 bytes)
    2: ...sbury, ''Suckers progress; an informal history of gambling in America from the colonies to Canfiled.'' New Y...
    161: The [[expected value]] of all [[gambling|bets]] is negative, such that the average player ...
    170: ...f loss per hour, and per the 4 day/5 hour per day gambling trip:
    228: No wagering system can consistently beat casino games of pure chance such as craps, but that does not s...
    236: ...eed, it is a mathematical impossibility), several gambling-related web sites have retold the 'parity hedge' ...
  15. Chuck-a-luck (3,279 bytes)
    1: ...'', also known as '''birdcage''', is an unequal [[gambling|game of chance]] played with three [[dice]]. It i...
    38: ...house edge]]) is greater than most other [[casino games]] and can be much greater.
    59: * [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dice-play/Games/ChuckALuck.htm Chuck-a-Luck page]
    61: [[Category:Dice games]]
  16. Choctaw (48,762 bytes)
    144: ===Gambling===
    148: ...nd partner Michael Scanlon [[Abramoff-Reed Indian Gambling Scandal]] inflated expenses and divided the profi...
    166: ... which includes Choctaw social dancing, stickball games, Choctaw princess contest and an inter-tribal pow...
    238: ...all was in 1729 by a Jesuit priest. The stickball games would involve as few as twenty or as many as 300 ...
  17. Hanukkah (48,026 bytes)
    192: ==Hanukkah games==
    216: ...ls and spin tops, so the Greeks thought they were gambling, not learning.
    221: ...gelt'' is often used in place of money in dreidel games.
  18. Dice (40,525 bytes)
    7: ...ly for [[craps]] or [[sic bo]], or for use in non-gambling [[tabletop game]]s.
    20: ...ce are thrown to provide [[random]] numbers for [[gambling]] and other [[game]]s, and thus are a type of [[h...
    23: ...provides the value of the throw. A typical [[dice games|dice game]] today is [[craps]], wherein two dice ...
    34: ...lebones, because ancient writers confused the two games. It is certain, however, that both were played in...
    39: ...rent values and were counted as with modern dice. Gambling with three or sometimes two dice was a very popul...
  19. Denver, Colorado (68,367 bytes)
    126: ...h an economy based on servicing local miners with gambling, saloons, livestock and goods trading. In the ear...
    131: ...fficials and the police to control the elections, gambling, and the bunko gangs.<ref>{{cite web | url=http:/...
    137: ... bids difficult. The movement against hosting the games was based largely on environmental issues and was...
  20. Detroit, Michigan (88,643 bytes)
    106: ...e, attend cultural events or take in professional games in Detroit."</ref>

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