Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling by David G. Schwartz. Written with a slightly annoying comic edge, the core material so far seems pretty credible. i really like the concept that gambling's origins came from ancient of divination, where the ancients would roll dice/bones to predict the future, followed by maybe a friendly wager from a competing fortune-teller. Ashe.
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