Topic: The History Of Gambling. - page 33. (Read 16799 times)

Very interesting thread. This shows to what extent it is useless to ban gambling, as it is  an activity that humans have done throughout their history, and the only thing prohibition does is that people continue to gamble but with less guarantees and in the hands of mafias. People have bet throughout history and will continue to do so. There is a choice between doing it with guarantees, as is the case today, or doing it with much more risk.

Hi Fivestar4everMVP, great post, not very usual on this forum I would say.

You have mentioned some facts and things which I was not aware of Gambling at all but If I look at my own understanding, it's all about mentality.
If I have a sense of greed, I will not be able to come back without losing all my initial amount despite making anything above on it.

I am sure, those who get x100 by mistake do cash out their profits.

Really interesting article, but I think that you should move this forum thread to the Gambling discussion forum.
The Gambling forum is more about casino/sportsbook website announcements.
Anyway, I remember that I've heard stories about ancient Romans gambling on dice games(or maybe it was the Vikings in the medieval age).
Gambling is as old as currencies, alcohol and prostitution.  
I really like the webpage design of the first online casino. It looks really nice, which is weird, because the website design in the mid 90s was usually horrible. Maybe somebody will launch a brand new online casino and use this classic design for the frontpage. I kinda got tired of online casinos having similar designs by using the same template.

I think if the casino offered that 100k jackpot as a gift card to buy food in a franchise of grocery stores then most probably gambling and casino business would not boom so easily as they have done until now.However offering a brand new car or a brand new house which can be sold for money and then the person to buy or invest what he wants I think in such scenario the gambling and casinos would boom just like they have done up until now.

The thing is that gambling is a minimum of 4000 years old so I believe the urge to gamble is buried deep inside our genes since early human history but that just my opinion though.

Gambling has a long history and it's been continuing from ages but the games in ancient times were different and they have developed their own style of gambling and have gold coins or some other metals in rewards.So nice article to show some light on these topics that which games they have played.Like the keno slips back in 200 bc were some sort of lottery and many more games and playing styles have changed a lot

Gambling History

I always have this question in my mind.

Would people still gamble or casinos business will boom if money is not involved as the jackpot but instead the prizes is things that we use in our daily life like food in form of gift cards or vouchers to pay our utility bills. Imagine casinos will offer a $100k worth of gift card that can be use on a particular grocery store that they support, use to buy gas, etc. There could be other prizes too like a brand new car or house. Would people still gamble if we are living in a world like that because we all know that the main reason of gambling addiction is money.

What i wanna learn is that How gambling become so addicting and what is behind this that the history when and where this started 

But thanks for sharing because you gave us some Idea and trivia so we dont need to google this 

but what is the very Historic are the Gladiator days when people needs to die for others to earn and win from their bets and famousness .

I mean if you consider it, sometimes basic decision-making can be a result of us just basically gambling. I mean, who knows, even some of their discoveries may just be a result of a simple gamble of yes or no, so yea, gambling has been an integral part of our lives imo. Just that we pushed and developed it more with tools and simple games which made it more entertaining and easy to understand in the long term. I reckon not everyone was people who concentrated on the development side of stuff and the like, so I reckon gambling started there as a form of entertainment (especially for the rich), which people just ultimately developed.

Gambling was the essential part for the players,who was interested in the betting.Gambling made the money making machine now,but you need to know how to handle the machine.If you not handle in correctly,it will cut your own hand.This will affect you for the real money,no one will escape from this.So you need to handle the machine first to earn money.Gambling was huge liked game by most of the players from crypto field.

I believe gambling would have begun millions of years ago as people will doubt people from doing something, just like someone says he will do something while other person think he can not do it as it can be difficult to do, this can lead to gambling in a way the person can try to do it, request the other person to give him something if he do it, the second person can think he can not do it and tell him he will give him something  but which is valuable like food. If done, that means they just gambled and he has to give him the food. Gambling start from what is not called money but valuable in my opinion.

Egyptians were probably gambling over slaves. Kinda crazy to think how long gambling has been around and what it looked like from the start up til now. People went from fighting in a pit and wagering on the winner, to throwing dice in a casino, picking numbers on a wheel, or playing a slot machine.

a dead man bringing with him a pair of dice in his tomb must really be a gambler all his life that he wants to gamble after death.
the old games still exist today and re-innovated for the technology which we now gathered in brick and mortar casinos  like the slot machines.

in the 1800, regulations are probably not yet decided which in spaghetti western movies, a town always has a casino and a brothel in one house. there must be something truth to what we see on those movies. i wonder how the history of gambling regulations started.

Interesting basic overview. Quite frankly, it is very likely that gambling is as old as life itself. If you consider animal behaviour, everything is about gambling and the stake is usually life itself or even the right to reproduce, feed or a territory. Many animals frequently have to "bet" on a decision in the sense that they choose to fight or flee, confront a rival or leave it to see another day, etc... For humans, no difference... life is a gamble.

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What i have in mind, soon as ancient people learn that they can trade things with their own value like barter, discovered gold and silver or other precious stones/stuffs, people start betting and learn gambling on their own way.

It's difficult to know things like this especially for a question of "when" for a timeline since its now a history, although the "where" like the origin of some form of gambling might be a little easier.

Hi Gamblers, in my quest to learn about how gambling started, I found a really helpful article, filled with information about the history of gambling, I learnt a lot from this article, so I decided to share the article here so you all can learn about the history of gambling too, I hope you all like it. , please note that article was copied word for word from source, Now, lets dive in....



According to the article, It is believed that gambling, wagering, betting, and gaming predate the invention of writing and have their origins in the late Paleolithic era (roughly 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 B.C.). Back when we lived in caves or huts and hunted and gathered. We also gambled! There is no way to know exactly how old gambling is, but it seems to have existed almost as long as humans have.

We present here a timeline of how and when gambling developed from actual evidence unearthed or later from written accounts. We end up where we are today.

3000 BC – A pair of dice was recovered from an Egyptian tomb dating back 5000 years.


2300 BC – In Ancient China, small wooden tiles were discovered that appear to have been used for a lottery. Evidence of keno ‘slips’ has also been found.
200 BC – Lotteries were used to fund state works, possibly even the Great Wall of China, and they still serve that purpose today. Did you know that lottery funds were used to build Harvard and Yale? --I didn't know this either .
500 BC - Sophocles mentions dice for the first time in Greek history, despite dice having been around for millennia already. It is clear that the Ancient Greeks and Romans loved gambling and even had gods and goddesses dedicated to gambling and fortune, as did many other cultures.
800 AD – the first playing cards appeared in China in the 9th century, although they bore no resemblance to cards used today, and how the game was played is lost to history.
1400s - Baccarat was first played during this time period and was first mentioned when it made its way from Italy to France. Since then, the rules have changed many times, and the game we know today originated in Cuba via Britain.
1600s – there are a number of games from this period that can be claimed as the forerunners of blackjack, although the French game vingt-et-un is the most obvious. Early French settlers brought blackjack to the US. In the 1930s, Nevada casinos offered a special promotion that gave the name ‘blackjack’ to the game. 10 to 1 odds were paid out if the player won with a black Jack of Clubs or Spades together with an Ace of Spades. The odds are long gone, but the name stuck.


1796 – Roulette made its debut in the gaming houses of Paris. Originally the wheel had two green zeros, the very one now referred to as the American Roulette wheel. Hugely popular by the 1900s, the famous Monte Carlo casino installed roulette tables with just one green zero, and it became known as the much more popular European Roulette wheel and was adopted all over the world, except the USA, which has stuck with the old version.
1829 –  poker had rather murky beginnings, growing organically and transforming here and there and everywhere over decades and possibly centuries. Poker wasn’t that particularly popular until the 1970s and the advent of poker tournaments. Poker’s popularity exploded with the birth of the internet and live televised streaming.
1891 –  As slot machines got more and more sophisticated and became the biggest draw card in brick and mortar casinos. What would a casino be without the flashing lights, the music, and alarm bells going off when a jackpot had been won?
1976 – The first video slot was developed, paving the way for the eruption of technological advancements in computer technology that would come into play in our daily lives and in the gambling industry.
The first video slot machine was developed in 1976 in Kearny Mesa, California, by the Las Vegas-based Fortune Coin Co. This machine used a modified 19-inch (48 cm).


1994 – Microgaming developed the first online casino software in 1994. However, the casino management tools and player tracking systems were not launched until 1995. The first online casino is launched circa 1995 -1996. The website was casino.co.za
The casino was exclusively for South African players and was simply called casino.co.za (the website has long since gone and been replaced by an online gambling portal). Players who wanted to wager real money had to phone the casino to get an account number and password, and deposits were taken via credit card over the phone.


2021 – Online Gambling has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry with thousands of online casinos available; casinos have been focusing on evolving in terms of graphics and games and becoming more mobile-friendly.

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