January 12 - January 21
EVERYBODY IS A STAR: You sing in the shower. You sing in the car. Your friends say you sound pretty good.
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- January heats up revenues for NWI casinos
- Mississippi casino revenues rise in January
- La. casinos slump amid economic woes
- Indiana casinos see January rise
- Alaska authors’ correspondence cuts through professional isolation
- Casino revenues climb from January, but still down
- La. Casinos Win $196.9M in January
- Seniors’ bingo and January birthdays
- Casino revenues rebound a bit in January
- Detroit casinos reported $104.3 million in revenue for January
- January win declines for Nevada casinos
Gambling casinos history:
- At a land-based casino, if your slot machine is malfunctioning, you won't get paid if you win the jackpot! All slot machines have this written on them but many players are not aware of this policy. The casinos have a device which lets them know if a slot machine is malfunctioning or if it's been tinkered with. Your best bet is to stop playing at it and try another.
- The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
- The El Rancho Casino & Hotel in Las Vegas was known for a few firsts. It was the first casino/resort on the Strip opening in 1941 with 63 guestrooms. It was also the first to offer a buffet. The cost of the buffet was only $1.00! The El Rancho burned down in 1960 and fortunately no one was hurt.
- Las Vegas is a testament of the powerful ability of gambling to foster economic development. Because of gambling, Las Vegas has shown impressive job growth, developed into a major city with a low tax burden that many state and local governments look at with envy.
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