MAN STOLE £1M THEN BLEW IT ON BET SPREE
AN INTERNET gambling addict who stole more than £1million from his bosses before blowing it on betting sprees has been jailed for five years. Book-keeper Bryan Benjafield earned £16,000 a year but spent up to £17,000 a day on internet poker games, online casinos, races and sports of every kind.
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Casino gambling facts:
- 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.
- 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.
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
- The name blackjack came from an early bet (since discontinued) that paid 10 to 1 if the player got a jack of spades and an ace of spades, both black cards, as the first two cards.
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