Nevada sportsbooks, led by those in glitzy Las Vegas casinos, always win over time. Once in a blue moon, bettors collectively get the upper hand on a single event like the NFL Super Bowl. The Nevada Gaming Control Board has been tracking the local gambling industry’s Super Bowl results since 1991. From
Category: History
Gambling History: 1890s Newspaper Sought Data On Gambling And Suicide
Why and how often does gambling lead people to suicide? While digging through old U.S. newspaper archives on gambling, I discovered a 19th-century article with a bit of prescient speculation. The paper predicted that data would show a close association between gambling and suicide. “If we could but obtain accurate statistics, we