Lakes Entertainment Applies to NASDAQ to Be Relisted

Common Stock Should Be Relisted in Six to Eight Weeks Lakes Entertainment, the casino operator that also controls 62 percent of World Poker Tour Enterprise’s stock, submitted an application to NASDAQ to relist …

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Wed, December 28th, 2005

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Interesting gambling facts:

  • Dice games have existed in one form or another for over 2000 years and were originally played with dice fashioned from the knucklebones of sheep.
  • 1951: On September 4, Frank Sinatra makes his Vegas debut, performing in the Crystal Room at the Desert Inn.
    1959: Wayne Newton performs in Vegas for the first time, despite the fact that he is still too young to enter a casino.
  • 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 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.