Question: What is a form of gambling in Texas?

Context articles: Texas Lottery
Hustling
Gambling in Taiwan
Vegas Vic
Life Assurance Act 1774
Odds
Pauper Party of Ontario
Frontier gambler
Gambling in Texas
IAS Limited

The Texas Lottery is the government-operated lottery available throughout Texas.
 It is operated by the Texas Lottery Commission, headquartered in downtown Austin.
Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling (or gambling for higher than current stakes) with the hustler, as a form of both a confidence trick and match fixing.
 It is most commonly associated with, and originated in, pool (and to an extent other billiards-family games), but also can be performed with regard to other sports and gambling activities.
 Hustlers may also engage in "<dfn id="">sharking</dfn> "—distracting, disheartening, enraging, or even threatening their opponents—to throw them off.
 Hustlers are thus often called "pool sharks" "(compare "card shark")".
 Professional and semi-pro hustlers sometimes work with a "<dfn id="">stakehorse</dfn> "—a person who provides the money for the hustler to bet with (and who may assist in the hustling)—in exchange for a substantial portion of all winnings.
 Another form of hustling (often engaged in by the same hustlers who use the skill-disguising technique) is challenging <dfn id=">"marks"</dfn> (swindle targets) to bet on trick shots that seem nearly impossible but at which the hustler is exceptionally skilled.
Gambling in Taiwan is prohibited by the Criminal Code of the Republic of China.
 State-run lotteries, like the Uniform Invoice lottery, are the only legal form of gambling on mainland Taiwan.
 The construction of casinos on some off-shore islands was legalised in 2009, though to date none have been built.
 Some gambling-style games (like cards and mahjong) are allowed on special days or under special restricted circumstances.
Vegas Vic is a Las Vegas, Nevada neon sign that resembles a cowboy that was erected on the exterior of The Pioneer Club in Las Vegas in 1951.
 The sign was a departure in graphic design from typeface based neon signs, to a friendly and welcoming human form of a cowboy.
 The sign's human-like abilities of talking and waving its arm constituted an immediate acceptance as the unofficial welcoming sign reproduced thousands of times over the years and all over the world.
 The trademark is currently owned by Pioneer Hotel, Inc. which owns and operates the Pioneer Hotel and Gambling Hall in Laughlin, Nevada.
 The sign can still be found at 25 E Fremont Street, where he has been since 1951 on the exterior of what used to be The Pioneer Club but is currently a souvenir shop.
 Pioneer Hotel, Inc. is the owner of the Pioneer Hotel and Gambling Hall along the Colorado River in Laughlin, Nevada that has a twin of the Vegas Vic image on another large sign referred to as River Rick.
The Life Assurance Act 1774 (14 Geo.
 3 c.48, also known as the Gambling Act 1774) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Great Britain, which received the Royal Assent on 20 April 1774.
 The Act prevented the abuse of the life insurance system to evade gambling laws.
 It was extended to Ireland by the Life Insurance (Ireland) Act 1866, and is still in force.
 Prior to the Act, it was legally possible for any person to take out life insurance on any other person, regardless of whether or not the beneficiary of the policy had any legitimate interest in the person whose life was insured.
 As such, the system of life insurance provided a legal loophole for a form of gambling: an insurance policy could be taken out on an unrelated third party, stipulating whether or not they would die before a set date, and relying on chance to determine if the "insurer" or "policy-holder" would profit by this event.
Odds are a numerical expression, usually expressed as a pair of numbers, used in both gambling and statistics.
 In statistics, the odds for or odds of some event reflect the likelihood that the event will take place, while odds against reflect the likelihood that it will not.
 In gambling, the odds are the ratio of payoff to stake, and do not necessarily reflect exactly the probabilities.
 Odds are expressed in several ways (see below), and sometimes the term is used incorrectly to mean simply the probability of an event.
 Conventionally, gambling odds are expressed in the form "X to Y", where X and Y are numbers, and it is implied that the odds are odds against the event on which the gambler is considering wagering.
 In both gambling and statistics, the 'odds' are a numerical expression of the likelihood of some possible event.
The Pauper Party of Ontario is a minor provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada.
 The party registered as a political party with Elections Ontario on September 14, 2011.
 It was founded and is led by perennial candidate John Turmel under the slogan stating "we want no cops in gambling, sex or drugs or rock and roll, we want no usury on loans, pay cash or time, no dole."
 Turmel has characterized the policies of the party as "Social Credit Libertarian".
 The party's platform is to legalize gambling, legalize marijuana and institute monetary reform and bartering in the form of the Local Exchange Trading System.
The heyday of gambling in the west lasted from 1850-1910.
 Gambling was the number one form of entertainment in the west and nearly everyone living there engaged in it at one time or another.
 Cowboys, miners, lumberjacks, businessmen, and lawmen all played games of chance for pleasure and profit.
 Whenever a new settlement or camp started one of the first buildings or tents erected would be a gambling hall.
 As the settlement grew, these halls would become larger and more elaborate in proportion.
 Gaming halls were typically the largest and most ornately decorated buildings in any town and often housed a bar, stage for entertainment, and hotel rooms for guests.
 These establishments were a driving force behind the local economy and many towns measured their prosperity by the number of gambling halls and professional gamblers they had.
 Towns that were friendly to gaming were typically known to sports as "wide-awake" or "wide-open" for their acceptance of gambling.
Legal forms of gambling in the U.S. state of Texas include the Texas Lottery; parimutuel wagering on horse and greyhound racing; charitable bingo, pull-tabs, and raffles; and three Indian casinos.
International All Sports Limited is an Australian-based gambling company, best known for its online gambling subsidiaries Canbet and IASBet, which it acquired in a merger in August 2004.
 Canbet is licensed and regulated by the UK Gambling Commission.
 IAS also runs Aus Tote, an Australian tote betting company and IAS Read Rating & OzeForm, both form analysis companies.