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  2. Game of chance - Wikipedia

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    While a game of chance may have some skill element to it, chance generally plays a greater role in determining its outcome. A game of skill may also may have elements of chance, but skill plays a greater role in determining its outcome. Gambling is known in nearly all human societies, even though many have passed laws restricting it.

  3. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.

  4. Faro (banking game) - Wikipedia

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    Faro (/ ˈ f ɛər oʊ / FAIR-oh), Pharaoh, Pharao, or Farobank is a late 17th-century French gambling game using cards.It is descended from Basset, and belongs to the Lansquenet and Monte Bank family of games due to the use of a banker and several players.

  5. Dominant Factor Test - Wikipedia

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    Poker is the one and only [card] game where a skilled player may hold bad cards for hours and still win the money." [12] This case was reversed on appeal to the Pennsylvania Superior Court, where it was held that poker is a game of chance and illegal under Pennsylvania law. Com. v. Dent, 922 A.2d 190 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2010).

  6. Poker probability - Wikipedia

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    Probability and gambling have been ideas since long before the invention of poker. The development of probability theory in the late 1400s was attributed to gambling; when playing a game with high stakes, players wanted to know what the chance of winning would be.

  7. The Mathematics of Games and Gambling - Wikipedia

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    The Mathematics of Games and Gambling is a book on probability theory and its application to games of chance. It was written by Edward Packel, and published in 1981 by the Mathematical Association of America as volume 28 of their New Mathematical Library series, with a second edition in 2006.