The Kansas City Star, Mo., Gambling and Tourism column
By Rick Alm, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 13–POLICING, GAMBLING AND POLITICS COLLIDE: Missouri Gaming Commission officials aren’t commenting while considering their response to a recommendation that the state’s politically appointed top cop be made a nonvoting member of the commission.
Related Gambling News:
- Kansas Senate Close to Gambling Proposal
- Kansas City Tribal Casino Wins Court Decision
- Kansas Casino Closing Rejected
- Monday March 26, 2007 - 14:37 EST
- Ameristar Fined for Jackpot Limits
- Gambling blog comes to KansasCity.com
- Informal Poll Shows Senators Might Support Casinos
- Casinos∙ take keeps rising (Kansas City Star)
- Kansas casinos OK’d
- Kansas City Casinos’ Revenue, Customers Increase
- Casino ban could end
- Kansas casinos get OK from Senate
Gambling history facts:
- Up to the 1960s, Nevada was plagued by teamster financing, hidden ownership, employment of individuals of questionable character and background, and the clear links to organized crime.
- Catholics were found to be more likely to gamble than Protestants and other religious groups. Catholics were also found to be less likely to disapprove of gambling than other religious groups.
- The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
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