Gambling is a common activity that many people engage in for fun or profit. While some gamblers may have success and win big, others may fall into the trap of degenerate gambling. This type of gambling involves chasing losses, taking bigger risks, and experiencing negative consequences that can spiral out...

Though Shane Warne may not be a widely known name in the United States, he is a legendary cricket player and is well known around in many countries. Since retirement from cricket, he has taken to poker and has enjoyed a decent amount of success, with over $152,000 in live earnings. This...

When you sit down at a casino table, there is always a chance, but big losses are not too frequent if you are smart enough. Well, it was too hard to resist for the gamblers who missed all the temptation. If they took an ego trip or were searching for...

If you're going to cheat in a card game... make sure you don't do it in Sammy "The Bull" Gravano's club. Sammy is an former American gangster who has been the Gambino crime family's underboss. Gravano played a significant role in helping the prosecution sentence John Gotti, the leader of the...

One of the new casino projects being built on the Strip is Resorts World Las Vegas. To come in second place among the tallest buildings in this casino area, it will stand 57 floors high. The West Tower has a 100,000 square-foot facade that is lit up as a focal...

Roulette as we know it today seems to have first appeared in Paris in 1796. It was enshrined in Monte Carlo in the nineteenth century and celebrated in story and song as the preferred high-stakes game of the rich and royal. It was a target for those with systems attempting...

The creation of the progressive jackpot on slot machines can be largely credited to some of the biggest wins in gaming history. A number of slot machines can be associated with this jackpot system, and with every spin that yields no wins, a portion of the money from the spin...

Multi accounting is a type of poker cheating that is rather widespread nowadays, but back in 2006, this was one of the first major multi accounting scams that drew the attention of the poker community. In this poker video, we cover how Josh Field, also known as JJProdigy, scammed the...

Why gamblers pretending to be millionaires are fraudsters, why you shouldn't buy anyone's sports predictions, and why Mazi VS doesn't truly make his money from sports betting. Author explain why casinos and sports books eliminate anyone who has an advantage on the books and why it's extremely difficult for handicappers to...

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow is one of poker's most controversial figures. Some find his outbursts, antics, and frequent talking at the tables amusing, while others find it incredibly bothersome. But, whether you like him or despise him, Matusow is one-of-a-kind. Mike has established quite a poker career over the years, becoming fairly...

Alan Woods, a huge winner with a massive bankroll, bets millions the way the rest of us gamble dollars. In 1987, he made his first million dollars by shorting the Hong Kong stock exchange. He lost it the next year by shorting the Japanese market. In 1994, he won $8...

Poker and sports betting are two of the most popular forms of gambling in the world. While some people prefer one over the other, there are also many who enjoy both. In this article, we will explore the world of poker players who are also sports bettors. Several notable poker players...

Interview and photograph of Daniel, a compulsive gambler in New York City, by Soft White Underbelly. Compulsive gambling, often known as gambling disorder, is the uncontrolled need to continue gambling despite the negative consequences. Gambling involves putting something valuable at risk in the expectation of gaining something even more valuable. Interviewer:...

Wiktor Malinowski is a high stakes cash game poker player known in the poker world as "Limitless". He has won millions of dollars playing live poker and online poker, and is considered to be one of the greatest online poker players ever. This is a poker documentary about Limitless and...

5. Jonathon Heywood, from the UK, took home nothing less than £13,213,838 million on October 6, 2015. The Jackpot was won on Mega Moolah Progressive slot machine, at Betway Casino. 4. Mega Moolah 17 August 2020 Swedish anonymous player at Lucky Casino €14,679,069 3. Mega Moolah 30 January 2019 Canadian anonymous player...

Adam Kucharski examines the long and complex relationship of betting and science, explaining how gambling affected everything from probability to game theory, chaos theory to artificial intelligence, spanning mathematics, psychology, economics, and physics. Adam Kucharski is a Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he studies infectious...