Casino City Acquires Gambling Portal Webmasters Association

NEWTON, Massachusetts (PRESS RELEASE) — Casino City, the world’s largest provider of casino and gaming information, today announced its acquisition of the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association (http://www.gpwa.org), the largest webmaster forum of its kind on the Internet.

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Wed, July 19th, 2006

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Gambling casinos history:

  • 1994: On New Year's Day Frank Sinatra gives his last Las Vegas performance at the MGM Grand.
    1998: Opening of the Bellagio. With 3,026 rooms it is the largest hotel in the world, and also the most expensive - it cost $1.7 billion to build.
  • By the 18th and 19th centuries a dice game called Hazard had become popular in England and was played by the aristocracy in private gambling houses.
  • Gambling is Often Legalized to Promote Economic Development of Depressed Areas. That was an important motivation in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, New Jersey, and many of the other locales for casinos.
  • 1926: Las Vegas gets a regular air service. Western Air Express flies between Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. The airfield later becomes the site for the famous Sahara and Hilton hotels.
    1931: Gambling is legalized in Nevada on March 19. Construction begins on the long awaited Hoover Dam.