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Chinese culture and gambling are often talked of in the same breath. One of the earliest evidence of gambling is found in a Chinese record dating back to 2300 B.C. There are also proofs that betting on dice games and Chinese chess was prevalent in about 300 B.C. and studies claim that in the late 1800s anyone could gamble on anything. An instance is gambling on buying meat where a customer plays for the stake of getting as much as three times the quantity he can buy against the chance he may get nothing for the money he is paying.

There is a close link between Chinese culture and gambling and this association has been given credence by the fact that several gambling games originated in this Asian tradition. It has been often argued that card playing was an activity developed in China since both paper and money from paper have been Chinese discoveries. Another widely held belief that connects Chinese culture and gambling is that the practice of shuffling paper money, adopted by the people as early as 900 A.D., has given us the practice of shuffling cards.

Gambling games like keno and pai gow poker, which are immensely popular today, have a definite traditional Chinese origin. Keno is a kind of ancient lottery game based on the same principle on which modern day lotteries function. And today, after so many thousands of years, keno finds its popularity among the casino going crowd although, except in some essential features, the version now played differs from the original gambling game of Chinese culture. Another important gambling game that has come down through tradition of Chinese culture is the somewhat complicated dominoes game called pai gow. Simplified and combined with poker, the modern-day version called pai gow poker is derived from some features of the ancient game and is a common game of interest among gamblers in the American casinos.