Amey takes aim: Las Vegas offers more than just casinos
It wasnt long after Jenny and I had arrived in Las Vegas last week and Id had my usual I-didnt-bring-enough-money panic attack (which came about five minutes after wed been dumb enough to tell the cabbie at the airport we were from out of town) that I came up with the perfect solution for my financial future.
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Interesting gambling facts:
- The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
- 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.
- The casino at Spa, a Belgian resort town noted for its mineral baths, was built by the Prince Bishop of the province of Liege in 1763.
- Up to the 1960s, Nevada was plagued by teamster financing, hidden ownership, employment of individuals of questionable character and background, and the clear links to organized crime.
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