Sen. Frisk Wants Quick Action On Web-Gambling Bill
A bill to ban Internet gambling faces opposition in the U.S. Senate, but backers still hope to win passage of it within a few weeks, a top aide to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said on Thursday. “We are trying to get something done before the August recess,'’ set to begin on August 4, said Eric Ueland, Frist’s chief of staff. The Senate bill is virtually identical to legislation
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Do you know that:
- Many casinos in Nevada were financed by mobsters. Most notable perhaps was Las Vegas' Flamingo which was opened in 1947 by Bugsy Siegel.
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
- The introduction of the single zero wheel (with better odds for the player) resulted in the demise of the double zero wheels in Europe and has become known as the "French Wheel" in roulette history.
- The age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.
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