Legislative Watch 2006: Touch Screen Gambling
(Cedar Rapids KCRG) — As Iowa lawmakers opened a new legislative session Monday, the Iowa Lottery put its touch play program on hold. Governor Vilsack says touch play machines are spreading too quickly. So, he wants time to study the machines before bars and restaurants install any more.
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- Gambling Syndicate Introduces Touch Screen Slot Machines
- Bally Technologies Gets Mohegan Sun Pact
- Owners sue state over removal of games from ferries
- Imagine Poker Touch: a Creative Twist on iPhone Texas Hold ‘Em
- The Odds Squad Pays People to Watch TV Online
- Sportsview: Stern Out of Touch on Betting
- NCAA plans to better watch gambling activity on games
- Legislative hearings on controversial bingo tax planned
- Watch US Internet Gambling Law Issues Unfold at CasinoGamblingWeb.com
- Judge upholds WA online gambling law
Interesting gambling facts:
- The first World Series of Poker was held in downtown Las Vegas at the Horseshoe Casino back in 1970. Then owner of the Horseshoe Jack Binion, hosted the very first one and has agreed to host upcoming World Series of Poker Tournament Circuit. Jack Binion said that is purely honorary and plans on doing other types deals and events in the future.
- Although baccara has its origins in medieval Italy, it soon spread to France, where it was called "chemin de fer" (meaning railway, due to the action of the card box or shoe passing around the table on "tracks").
- 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.
- Dog racing (a race among greyhounds who chase after a mechanical rabbit) operates in 17 states. Jai-alai (a game similar to handball) is legal in just three: Connecticut, Florida, and Rhode Island.
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