Section E
Casino History
Where the classic games came from: the riverboats, salons and gaming halls that shaped roulette, blackjack and their forgotten cousins, told as history rather than strategy.
| articles | 3 |
|---|---|
| Reading time | 14 min |
| First filed | Oct 2026 |
| Updated | Oct 4, 2026 |
- 018What Is Faro? The Card Game Behind "Bucking the Tiger"For most of the 1800s, the busiest table in an American gambling hall was not poker but faro. How the game worked, where the tiger came from and why it vanished.5 min
- 015Vingt-et-Un: How a French Card Game Became BlackjackLong before anyone said "blackjack", players across Europe were chasing twenty-one without going bust. How vingt-et-un travelled, picked up a new name and met the mathematicians.4 min
- 014Who Invented Roulette? The Wheel's Story From Paris to Monte CarloBlaise Pascal usually gets the credit, but roulette had no single inventor. Here is how the little wheel came together in France, lost a zero in Germany and kept two in America.5 min
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