Seniors May Benefit from Pittsburgh Casino
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania As reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “With Allegheny County having the nation’s second-highest concentration of senior citizens, and with Pittsburgh poised to get one of the state’s 14 casino licenses, it’s only natural more seniors will begin playing the slots.
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Gambling history facts:
- Lotteries were brought to America in the 1800s by the thousands of Chinese immigrants who worked in the mines and on the railroads.
- In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
- Lotteries Have Been Prominent Throughout History. Ancient India, China, Greece, and Japan all had lotteries. The emperor Nero had lotteries for prizes at parties.
- 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.
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