Gambling History

La crisis financiera y económica, con sus secuelas de desempleo, precariedad y aumento de las desigualdades, está siendo aprovechada como caldo de cultivo propicio para el florecimiento y la expansión de las casas de juegos de azar y apuestas deportivas, hasta el punto de convertir el Reino de España en una timba. Los juegos de azar representan el 2,3 por 100 del PIB, más de 23.000 millones de euros al año según el último informe del Ministerio de Hacienda (ejercicio de 2017). El subsector no ha dejado de crecer en el último lustro.

Australians will gamble on anything, from two flies crawling up a wall to less important things like federal elections. Thanks to the internet, mobile phones and gambling-tax loving federal and state governments, Australians can indulge their love of a punt no matter what they're doing. Aussies can be at the birth of a child, performing open heart surgery or handling heavy machinery and still put a bet on.

Spinster Librarian Piety Plunkett is happy alone with her books, until her sister Polly transforms her with a bras octopus beautifying machine. With her new look, the librarian catches the lusty attentions of London’s most notorious rogue. Blake Blackmore enjoys the favors of beautiful women from the brothels of London to high society’s most fashionable debutantes but only the spinster librarian consumes his mind night and day. Piety insists she will not wed but devote her life to her position as head librarian, but Blake will stop at nothing to win her. He takes matters into his own ...