Strike while the money’s still hot

IT’S that time at the betting shop. Over in Germany, they are slowly separating the wheat from the chaff. Some teams are already preparing to head home, their World Cup ambitions having ended in shambles.

Read the rest >>

Sat, June 17th, 2006

Related Sports Betting News:

Gambling casinos history:

  • 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.
  • Pathological gambling is recognized as a medical disorder by the American Psychiatric Association and has elements of addiction similar to alcohol and drug addiction.
  • Nevada is the oldest and largest legalized gaming center in the United States. Gaming was legalized in Nevada in 1931 in the middle of the Great Depression as a form of economic stimulant.
  • Riverboat casinos were first legalized in Iowa, then Illinois, followed closely by Missouri, Indiana, Louisiana, and Mississippi.