Account mythology that Mercury was surrounded by a halo light that he had won nothing less than the Moon in a game of tables (ancestor of backgammon). According to legend, the fast Mercury bet you one-seventh of its birth to the poor Selene.

In 1850 the C A Babylonian empire forbade any lottery outside the temple or the palace. Thus, the code of Hammurabi turned the drawings in fiscal reserves, custom that continues to this day. Nearly forty centuries later, not lack lottery in virtually any country.

For Thales, the essence of the cosmos was water: Heraclitus of Ephesus, fire. For Pythagoras and his followers, the universe was governed by the numbers. But the chance, along with the need, become the basis of the philosophy of wise Democritus.

Other philosophers also dealt in detail on this topic: Plato assured with sarcasm quo Egyptians believed to play an invention of a demon-zeuden distinguished-but callaba his own opinion about it. For Aristotle, the gamblers were "avariento and thieves", a view that, while used to disqualify a large part of the Greek people, decidedly prone to emotions of chance.

In the play "The site of Troy", by Sophocles, refers to the dice of Palamedes, ancestors, perhaps, the ball ivory roulette.

The poets have almost always liked the game. One of the few quo was criticized as Ovid. But until Alfonso X, but that poet king, when the prosecution asked that the game was settled for issuing the "Order of Tafurerfas"; word that comes from TAFUR, then tahúr.

When Richard the Lionheart and Felipe I left for the Crusaders, believed desirable issue a detailed regulation on how much money could gamble, according to the military rank each of whom.

Charlemagne had been more firm: vigorously suppressed the fans to the game, although the Roman consuls, centuries earlier, had a more modern: they pay taxes to the regents betting.

It is said that Pascal invented the roulette. Driven by his mathematical genius, led unknowingly into one of the most prosperous industries of today. In October 1658, Pascal released book history of roulette, based on the methods of Roberval, a French scholar who had preceded it in that direction.

The modern age scores among illustrious players of the specialty Madame Pompadour, in which time, and perhaps because of its influence, roulette was introduced in France. According to the benemérito dictionary of the language do the Royal Spanish Academy, the word "martingale" comes from French martingale (and it's Provencal martegalo, Martigues, a city of Provence). The meaning most commonly used is the third: trick, artifice to win.
But winning is always much harder to leave quo until the green jacket on the cloth. When it starts to hit, you can get into believing that everything is a matter of doubling the bet to oust the house. But the gusts of more than ten repeated chances are frequent.

The secret is to retire early. And in these cases, one never knows when it's "time".

To cope with the casino with some chances, we should hold a bench in their pockets as unlimited as that of one's own home, which is difficult in state casinos, as within the thicket of bureaucratic agencies, banking also has the Mint. The record, at some point, it was Monte Carlo, with 26 consecutive black (should enter this data into conditionally, because who knows that miracles will be doing some carver's hand as I type these lines). Precisely, the maker of the fate of gamblers seem to be the carver, which stands at owner of estates and fortunes to throw to the plate of the roulette ball capricious.

For that reason, one of the most common is to continue Cabal table table in the course of which seem to favour some luck. But roulette also has its contraindications for the superstitious. With only know that their numbers 36, added, giving no less than 666, a figure that the biblical mythology symbolizes the devil, some of them have stopped playing forever.

In 1861, France was the most fertile land in the tiny principality of Monaco, leaving the Grimaldi family only a boulder on the Mediterranean, looking to Italy. The princess mother, Carolina, then suggested his son Charles III to go in search of a character of dubious Prosapia called Francois Blanc. The background to this subject were the foundation of a luxury casino in Luxembourg and another in the city of Baden-Baden (Germany). The roulette, which had to encumbrado Blanc, at that time began to create some bad name, because some characters, after losing fortunes, they decided to follow the path of suicide. On its establishment in Monaco, Blanc made the empowerment casino coincide with the ban on arms sales in the district. Anyway, the unfortunate killing tirándose chose from the crag.

Francois had a son, Camille followed in his footsteps: one of the phrases that it attaches to the legend tahúr couple is "noir or rouge, toutjours C'est le blanc qui gagne" (black or red, white always wins), in allusion his own surname. Another anecdotes describes it by saying, with poker face, "and will return, it borrowed money," when an Englishman named Deville Wells oust Monte Carlo in a single night.

This dotted with cuts, some true and others most likely pseudonymisation (who knows), can not forget Dostoievsky and his passion for roulette. His life was divided between the white and green cloth of the leaves; played and wrote in his country and beyond. According to the novelist sat professorship to such an extent that was imitated by many who thought that to write with his master, first had to have several bad nights in a casino.
In the U.S., the government decided to organize a lottery official in 1875, and the few who survived the time tickets, signed fist and lyrics by George Washington, are now prized collector's items.

Currently, a country of Northern gambling is not limited to Las Vegas slot machines or casinos in major cities, until hartazgo advertised in the super Hollywood. Until the pending change of lights of a traffic light can be qualified with a "raspadita" expended by a machine in exchange for a coin. Et future is nothing less than an era of lotteries supertecnificadas, violently competitive, inviolable, foolproof, computerized, including transnational: May 9, 1992 took place the first global lottery draw, in which Argentina pledged their participation.

King Charles I of Spain on August 24, 1529, ordering from Toledo to Hearings and justice Indies: "Prohibit imposing major penalties, the big games and excessive, and that none play with dice, nor has in his (...) and that nobody can play cards or other game over 10 pesos on a calendar day, 24 hours ".

In 1596, Philip III decreed in Madrid: "tablajes together in public many people idle, restless living habits and depraved ... in the interest of cheap and playing cards, and now points to his head because these boards, games and disorder, often be at the home of governors, corregidores, mayors older ... do ... send punish and punish crimes committed in houses and games boards people wasted. "

On September 7, 1594, the third of Felipe pointed out from his palace in San Lorenzo, the "bad game" was still widespread in the highest social classes, and that "some ministers Togo, should give a better example their actions, and to correct and punish abuses, committed and consent, taking into their homes tablajes public, with all kinds of people, where day and night are lost and venture honras and farms. "

This was seen in Spain the situation on the continent dominated the game, favored by the distance, disobedience and neglect. Things could not be clearer: in 1610, the son of Philip II forbade to high Spanish authorities in americas that "have tablajes game, albeit under the pretext of taking handouts to hospitals, and other works of mercy."