STARTING 5 - A weekend planner for sports fans

RETURN OF NFL Preseason football proves very little. Yet, people gamble on it, and there are plenty of NFL junkies looking for their fix and fantasy freaks seeking information to make these games noteworthy, even if Curtis Martin and LaVar Arrington aren’t playing.

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Fri, August 11th, 2006

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Do you know that:

  • It was during the 1930's that slot machines began to become very popular across America, and in the late 40's Bugsy Siegel added machines to his Flamingo Hilton hotel in Las Vegas.
  • People earning $10,000 per year gamble more than twice as much money as people earning $30-40,000 per year. People earning $10,000 per year gamble four times as much money as those making $80,000 or more per year.
  • The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
  • The first airplane flight to Las Vegas was made in May, 1920, with Lieutenant Randall Henderson, editor of the Blythe, California Herald, and Jack Beckley.