Fallout From Hurricanes: Harrah’s Trims Jobs
Las Vegas-based Harrah’s Entertainment laid off most of its 9,400-person Gulf Coast casino work force this week, three months after devastating hurricanes halted operations at five of the company’s casinos in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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Casino gambling information:
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
- The casino at Spa, a Belgian resort town noted for its mineral baths, was built by the Prince Bishop of the province of Liege in 1763.
- 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.
- In 1911, the state of California ruled that "draw" poker was a skill, and thus could not be banned under existing anti-gambling laws. However, "Stud" poker was still considered illegal at the time.
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