Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Russian novelist who wrote several classics, including The Gambler, had an inordinate attraction to the roulette tables of casinos along the Rhine. In one trip to Baden-Baden, which started on July 4, 1867, he ran up a starting bankroll of 100 francs into 4,000. But, never one to quit while he was ahead, he kept playing.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that he lost it all back, and then some. Learn the complete Dostoevsky story in Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling.
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