Staff photo by Kyle R. Morris During what can be described as the most intense two minutes in almost all sporting
The most exciting two minutes in sports, declared Larry Gaffney as he peered up at the television monitors at Trackside, an Off-Track Betting establishment inside the Inferno Casual Dining and Lounge on Gardner Street in South Beloit.
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Gambling casinos history:
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
- The Gold Rush brought a huge increase in the amount and types of gambling to California. San Francisco replaced New Orleans as the center for gambling in the United States.
- 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.
- Gambling became legalized in Vegas in 1931 by Mayme V. Stocker and J.H. Morgan who was issued Clark County Gaming License No. 1.
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