Is teen gambling on the rise?

Some groups seem to think teen gambling is on the rise. Internet gambling and sports betting are an increasing part of teens’ lives throughout the country and the popularity of poker games, including Texas hold …

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Tue, December 6th, 2005

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  • In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
  • The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
  • The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
  • The first airplane flight to Las Vegas was made in May, 1920, with Lieutenant Randall Henderson, editor of the Blythe, California Herald, and Jack Beckley.