Prosecutors dropping charges against poker players arrested in gambling raid
BALTIMORE, 11:28 a.m. Nov. 10 (AP): Prosecutors said they will drop charges against 80 poker players arrested after what police called the biggest gambling raid in the city since Prohibition.
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Interesting gambling facts:
- In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
- 1941: The Strip gets its first luxury hotel. El Rancho Vegas sets the trend for many of the themed resorts that sprout along the Strip in later years.
1942: The first wedding chapel, the Little Church of the West, opens on the Strip in the Last Frontier Hotel. - By the 18th and 19th centuries a dice game called Hazard had become popular in England and was played by the aristocracy in private gambling houses.
- The most popular form of charitable gambling is bingo. In California, bingo is the only charitable game that is legal.
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