The government were confident that the letters in E.O were ‘figures’ within the terms of the 1739 Act, and therefore that it was illegal. But this was to be the last of the gamers’ attempts to evade the law. ‘E.O’ or ‘Evens and Odds’ was a cleverly modified version of roulet, using letters instead of numbers – E for evens, O for odds. After the 1744 act was passed, Nash was among those still making valiant efforts to get around the gaming laws, and in 1745 he began to promote a game at Bath which was newly invented. He was also something of a professional gambler himself. It’s thought that he took home a sizeable cut of the profits from Bath’s many gaming tables, in exchange for encouraging the great and the good to sit down at play during their stay in the city. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)īeau Nash, the venerated master of ceremonies at Bath, was one man for whom these gaming laws caused a significant financial headache. Beau Nash, the master of ceremonies at the spa town of Bath during the 18th century, who profited from keeping wealthy patrons at gaming tables in the city.
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