You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

LITTLE KNOWN GAMBLING FACTS
 
�       Depend is a brand of under­gar­ments for those with incon­ti­nence, but
in 2014 they began tar­get­ing the casi­no crowd. The “Player’s
Advan­tage” line comes in a pack­age promi­nent­ly show­ing a roy­al
flush.
 
�            Although dice games pre­ced­ed the Romans, the Romans were the
first peo­ple to bet on dice. The Romans called dou­ble ‘ones’ –
‘snake’s eyes’ today — a ‘dog throw.’
 
�            Black­jack is the most wide­ly played casi­no game in the world. The
game is derived from a French game called Vingt-Et-Un. It became
known as black­jack in the US in 1899.
 
�            “Two-up” is a tra­di­tion­al Aus­tralian gam­bling game that involves
throw­ing two coins in the air and guess­ing heads or tails. It’s
tra­di­tion­al­ly played on ANZAC Day (April 25).
 
�            Parimutuel refers to bet­ting where­by all bets are put in a pool, and
after the house takes its cut, the pay­offs are cal­cu­lat­ed among the
share of the total pool. Horse rac­ing, dog rac­ing, and jai alai are
gen­er­al­ly parimutuel bets. 
 
�            In the US, each state gov­ern­ment deter­mines the legal­i­ty and scope
of gam­bling with­in its bor­ders. Only Hawaii and Utah ban all
gam­bling.
 
�            In the US, the term sports­book refers to a place where bets can be
placed on sports com­pe­ti­tions. “Book” refers to the paper sheets
gam­blers often use to fill out their bets.
 
�       Jai alai is a pop­u­lar Latin Amer­i­can sport with Basque ori­gins, where
bet­ting is quite com­mon. Flori­da has six fron­tons (jai alai venues)
where you can place bets.
 
�       The tac­tic of “card count­ing” is not ille­gal in the US or UK, but if a
casi­no knows or sus­pects some­one is doing it, they’ll be escort­ed
from the prop­er­ty and usu­al­ly black­list­ed.
 
�            A 2008 study revealed that Amer­i­can house­holds earn­ing less than
$13,000 a year spend 9% of their income on lot­tery tick­ets.
 
�            The roy­al flush (all one suit, ten through ace) is the best hand you
can get in pok­er, but the odds of get­ting one are 649,739 to 1.
 
�            A Cana­di­an gam­bler named Bri­an Zem­bic won a $100,000 bet in
1996 that he’d get breast implants and keep them for a year. As of
2022, he still has the boobs!
 
�       Neva­da still holds the top spot as the US state with the most casi­nos,
at 334. Okla­homa is num­ber two with 134 casi­nos.
 
�       Hawaii is list­ed on some web­sites as hav­ing two casi­nos. These two
casi­nos are on cruise ships and although they leave Hawaii, gam­bling
is only allowed in inter­na­tion­al waters.
 
�            The Maya of Cen­tral Amer­i­ca often made their pris­on­ers play the
dead­ly “ball­game.” While the par­tic­i­pants were play­ing for their lives,
the nobles watch­ing often placed bets.
 
�       Gam­bling is ille­gal in most of Chi­na. The gov­ern­ment does run two
lot­ter­ies — the wel­fare lot­tery and the sports lot­tery — and casi­nos are
still open in the once West­ern ruled cities of Hong Kong and Macau.
 
�            The French card game bac­carat was the favorite of the fic­tion­al
char­ac­ter James Bond in the nov­els and ear­ly films. Bac­carat was
replaced by Texas hold’em as Bond’s game in the 2006 film, Casi­no
Roy­al.