Table games side bets have been around for a while, starting with the house-banked poker variations also known as “carnival games”, and eventually expanding to the age-old casino staple, blackjack.

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It’s a well-known origin story: how the young and wealthy Francis of Assisi freely abandoned his noble patrimony to serve Christ’s Church as a poor, itinerant preacher. One of the world’s most beloved ...