‘07 NBA All-Star Game will be in Las Vegas
Casinos won’t take bets on ‘07 All-Star events by Associated Press LAS VEGAS — The 2007 NBA All-Star Game will be played in Las Vegas, making it the first city without an NBA team franchise to host the event, commissioner David Stern announced Friday. Stern called it “a merger between the basketball capital of…
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Gambling history facts:
- The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
- When playing blackjack, always split Aces and never split 4's, 5's or Tens. You would be surprised at how many players split Tens. Why risk getting a lower hand when you already have a twenty value? Also note that at most casinos, you are not allowed to re-split Aces.
- 1951: On September 4, Frank Sinatra makes his Vegas debut, performing in the Crystal Room at the Desert Inn.
1959: Wayne Newton performs in Vegas for the first time, despite the fact that he is still too young to enter a casino. - In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
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