Gamblers out of luck in New Jersey
The chips were down literally Wednesday in Atlantic City when the gambling magnet’s dozen casinos closed after Gov. Jon Corzine and state legislators could not agree on how to plug a $4.5 billion budget gap. The result: an unprecedented shutdown of state services that began Saturday widened to include casinos, where state regulators are stationed to audit gambling’s round-the-clock financial
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Casino gambling information:
- In 1911 US legislation prohibited stud poker but ruled that draw poker was a game of skill and therefore was not illegal.
- Riverboat casinos were first legalized in Iowa, then Illinois, followed closely by Missouri, Indiana, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
- Legal gambling activities include state lotteries; parimutuel betting on horses, greyhounds, and jai-alai; sports book-making; card games; keno; bingo; slot machines; progressive slot machines; video poker machines; video keno machines; video blackjack machines; and video roulette machines.
- French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
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