Boys and Girls Club wants to move bingo to NCC

By PAT KINNEY, Courier Business Editor WATERLOO —- The Boys and Girls Club of Black Hawk County is considering moving its suspended bingo operations to the National Cattle Congress grounds.

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Tue, July 4th, 2006

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Interesting gambling information:

  • The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
  • The major differences between regular poker and video poker is that you are playing against a machine rather than real people, and your goal is to achieve particular hands rather than beat opponents hands.
  • During the 1950s, the Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce held a number of hearings on criminal influence in the casino industry. The committee was chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, and the committee is also known by his name.
  • Baccarat is the principal of casino card games in the United Kingdom and Europe. Blackjack is a fixture in all American casinos.