Theres a point gambling with that previous times does not have any rules and law regarding in too much gambling as long as they can play as they want the casino is open to them also some of the entertainment to them by that they can just enoy playing without getting problem about the regulations, only few people know how to manage themselves and there's other always play gambling just to make them fun for the whole day and repeat again.
And we do not need to go that far to the past to know this was true, when La Vegas was founded everyone knew the Italian Mafia was behind it, so if you won money at their casinos even if you did not cheated and it was just because you had good luck you could be sure that not only you will not get paid but you could even receive a beating, and since the police was in it as well then there was nothing you could do about it, so we are lucky we live at a time in which if you happen to win there are many laws and regulations which protect you from such an abusive behavior.
Of course we are lucky!
We are lucky that we do not live in the times of the "wild west", when the one who shoots the gun faster was right.
But all these methods of stealing money from the winning player are rather the history of the development of not gambling, but the history of the development of law enforcement agencies and, accordingly, mafia gangs.
If we talk about the development of gambling, then of course playing online has become much safer due to the fact that you do not have to carry a bunch of cash dollars in your pocket and no one will rob you in a dark alley.
But, I repeat, the history of online games is still very young, no more than 30 years old. This is just the birth of the next generation. And yet all the events of this story are in everyones memory and they are still very reliable and did not have time to turn the legend and fiction about what will happen in 100 years, when all the participants in these events have already died.