Governor in dispute with 6 tribes over slot tallying
June 30 (UNION-TRIBUNE): Just weeks after extending an olive branch to the state’s most powerful Indian tribes, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to try to shut down six of their casinos including two of the largest in San Diego County in a dispute over how their slot machine numbers are tallied.
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Casino gambling facts:
- The most popular forms of illegal games are "numbers", which is essentially a lottery, and betting with bookies, typically sports betting.
- At land-based casinos, both the player and the boxman need to be on the lookout for crooked dice in the game of craps. Each number when added together with the number on the side opposite it, will add up to 7. For example, 6 is opposite to 1. When the dice are crooked, they do not add up to 7.
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
- In Paris, legislation prohibiting playing cards was passed in 1377, and in Italy, playing cards and dice were burned.
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