Articles About Romans

Winning The Lottery Hasn’t Always Been As Lucky As Today

Nich Moore August 28, 2020 15:54:59

It crops up so often it’s surprising the PR people at Lotto Agent aren’t suing for defamation. The portrayal of winning the lottery should be wall-to-wall smiles and massive cheques. Popular culture, however, never shows the best lottery to play nor the happiest results. They leave that to the news. Instead, on TV and at the cinema, we are treated to an endless parade of lotteries leading to doom. This would be, of course, massively unfair, if it weren’t for our lottery history.

We Seek A Deity Of Gambling To Be Our God Of Winning

Nich Moore May 14, 2020 16:37:07

Gamblers are, as a rule, quite spiritual people. Which of us when placing a bet on sports in the UK at Bet365 doesn’t say a silent prayer of hope? However there isn’t much consensus over which of the numerous gods available is the best. There is no real god of winning, per se. So we undertake a quest to find, from among the pantheon, a suitable candidate. There are, of course, plenty of gods of gambling and good fortune, but do any of these characters measure up?

Could You Be Spurred Into A Bet On Cockfighting?

Nich Moore March 2, 2017 09:56:20

In some parts of the world a bet on cockfighting is no stranger than one on the Super Bowl, and indeed this blood-sport has seen a resurgence even where the law sides against it, so as much of the world runs about like a headless chicken and Donald Trump attempts to pacify the United States […]

Lebanese Poker Players Provide Poor Pastry But Finger The Future

Nich Moore March 22, 2016 07:15:23

Sensible regulation of gambling, be it online or at brick-&-mortar establishments, is the manifestly obvious future of the industry. Whilst prohibition still exists in many places around the world from China to the Middle East, Lebanese poker players have always had the Casino du Liban and its continued existence signposts the rational and obvious compromise […]

New Restrictive Regulations From Rome

Nich Moore February 20, 2015 04:56:29

The Romans loved gambling and the modern day Italians do too but where did this desire on the part of governments to regulate it come from? “Alright,” says revolutionary leader ‘Reg’ in the gloriously wonderful Monty Python film ‘Life of Brian’ as he sits before the rest of his brethren, “but apart from the sanitation, […]

The Development Of Sport and Sports Betting

Nich Moore July 11, 2014 17:13:40

We chart the course of sports development and look at how gambling on sport progressed in parallel with it throughout history. Whilst gambling on games per se stems from the religious predictions of the future made by tribal witch doctors and the like (people wagered on what the old boy would say the gods were […]

Was Global Gambling A Gift From The Gods?

Nich Moore June 26, 2014 16:29:09

From talking with the deities to one of the most popular entertainments on the planet gambling has come a long way. Gambling has been around for as long as we have. The experts tell us this probably stemmed out of the religious habit of letting chance demonstrate the will of the gods. Apparently if you’re […]