Downtown casinos get new management group

Dec. 24–Four downtown casinos have new management under a deal struck late last week. Tamares Group has retained the Navegante Group, a casino-development company, to manage its Plaza, Las Vegas Club, Gold Spike and Western hotels. Together, the hotels have about 2,000 employees and 1,600 rooms.

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Wed, December 28th, 2005

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  • The name blackjack came from an early bet (since discontinued) that paid 10 to 1 if the player got a jack of spades and an ace of spades, both black cards, as the first two cards.
  • Baccara (Italian) or baccarat (French) both translate to "zero" in English. The importance of this name is found in the tens and face cards, both sharing the zero value.
  • A nationwide survey by the U.S. Travel Industry Association found that 38% of all U.S. residents have been to Las Vegas in their lifetime. The average length of visitors' stay in Las Vegas was almost 4 days (3.7).
  • In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.