High Rollers: A History of Gambling

Nowadays we are completely used to online gambling with a wide variety of games ranging from slots to card games and from craps to horse racing. But gambling has been around for centuries and one thing that remained the same was the excitement when the dice were rolled or the cards were dealt.

It was only 20 years ago when gambling was mostly done in land based casinos. The Internet was just starting to flourish and the very first online casinos popped up. But before that people have always loved gambling in many different ways.

You can watch a great documentary called “High Rollers, a history of gambling” about the history of gambling in the United States. This 90 minute documentary was made in 1999 by Greg DeHart. He researched a great amount of old film and photo materials and interviewed numerous people that were involved in the American gambling world. He spoke with casino bosses, professional gamblers, slot manufactureres and many others.