Gaming Guru Geek added to the Staff of GfG

A new geek has joined the geeks at Gizmos for Geeks. . His accomplishments include too many lost weekends due to gaming to count, building his own driving simulator setup for driving games, missing poker …

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Sat, December 3rd, 2005

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Interesting gambling information:

  • Indian tribes have used their position as sovereign entities to develop a number of gaming establishments. Indian casinos operate in 22 states. This number is expected to grow.
  • 1994: On New Year's Day Frank Sinatra gives his last Las Vegas performance at the MGM Grand.
    1998: Opening of the Bellagio. With 3,026 rooms it is the largest hotel in the world, and also the most expensive - it cost $1.7 billion to build.
  • French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
  • The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.