Across the Board
Just when you think you can take a break from betting on horses, Autotote Enterprises, which operates Connecticut Off-Track Betting, pulls you back in with a thoroughbred handicapping contest today at Sports Haven that is too good to resist.
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- Protesters arrested outside gambling board headquarters
- Gaming Board Blocks All-Night Casinos
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- Pennsylvania Board Adds New Staff
Do you know that:
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
- Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.
- In 1857, Prince Charles III of Monaco decided to introduce gambling to his Mediterranean principality to boost its finances.
- Charles Fey invented the first slot machine way back in 1895. He went on to perfect his initial innovation in 1907, when he teamed with Mills Novelty Company who manufactured the "Mills Liberty Bell".
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