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Until now not be explained exactly when gambling began to be known by man. According to Cohan (1964), gambling has existed since prehistoric times. Gambling is often even considered the same age as human civilization. In the Mahabharata story can be known that the Pandavas lost their kingdom and exiled to the forest for 13 years since losing the game of chance against the Kauravas. In the western world gambling behavior has been known since ancient Greece.

The gamblers are primitive shamans make predictions into the future by using stones, sticks or animal bones are thrown into the air and fell the ground. Usually the forecast at that time was the fate of someone in the future. At that fate is determined by the position of the fall of stones, sticks or bones when he landed on the ground. In subsequent developments landing position was considered as an interesting to stake.

Hewing Alice (in Stanford & Susan, 1996) in his book Something for Nothing: A History of Gambling noted that the ancient Egyptians loved to bet on a game like that played by the children in the present where they guess the number of fingers two people based on odd or even numbers. The ancient Romans loved the coin-tossing games and lotteries, which learned from China. Ancient Greeks also used the same thing. In addition, they also enjoyed a game of dice. At the time of the ancient Roman dice game became very popular. The king like Nero and Claudine considered a game of dice as an important part in the kingdom. But the dice game disappeared along with the collapse of the Roman empire, and was rediscovered many centuries later in an Arab fortress named Hazart, during the crusade.

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