This story’s only tangentially about gambling, but it’s interesting in a quirky sort of way. From the Malaysian Star: A Malaysian maid working in Hong Kong has reportedly won over HK$30mil RM12mil in a local lottery, China Press reported.The middle-aged woman is a helper at the mansion of Angela Leong, the fourth wife of casino […]
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gambling & cultureGreetings everyone. I”m at the University of Macau right now, thanks to the benevolence of a few people, and I’ve got web access, which means a quick update. It was a very long, no frills plane ride. In the past my trans-Pacific flights have been on planes with TVs built into the seat and video
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what's newYou can arrest participants and bust trainers, but apparently you can’t stop Hong Kong cricket-fighting, or betting on it. For the second time, police in Hong Kong have smashed a bug-fighting ring. From ChannelAsia.com: Hong Kong police smashed the second illegal insect-fighting gambling ring in a month when they arrested 43 people for betting on
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gambling & culture, haphazard worldIn the Bible, lots were often used to make tough decisions. Joshua apportioned the land of Canaan to the Israelite tribes by lot, for example. In the Roman Empire, some official positions were filled by lot. There is something completely democratic about selecting someone for a job using nothing more than what anthropoligists call sortilege,