ABSTRACT
Chinese records of betting on dice and Chinese chess matches date back to around 300 BC; some studies indicate that in China and Hong Kong, in the late 1800s, everyone would gamble for everything (Galletti, 2002). “Basically all Chinese have the gambling gene,” says a source in the casino industry in Macao (Casino City, 2002). Even the act of buying meat from a street vendor became a gambling game, in which instead of simply paying for the meat, the client would gamble with the vendor, willing to risk getting nothing for the chance of possibly winning three times as much (Nepstad, 2000).
