EDITORIAL: Casino expansion
Mississippi’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina and general economic expansion elsewhere in the state has attracted yet more strong interest in casino development - from five Native American tribes, four from outside Mississippi, plus the Mississippi Band of Choctaws, plus other non-Indian investment interests.
Related Gambling News:
- Vee Quiva Casino starts expansion
- U.S. editorial excerpts -7-+
- Casino company shelves plans for expansion
- Casino expansion ahead of schedule
- Casino gets $8M expansion
- Casino expansion delayed by economy’s woes
- Casino designed with expansion in mind
- N.O. casino expansion planned
- Ameristar Casinos proposes $100 million expansion in Iowa
- Major Expansion of New Orleans Casino Planned
- Borgata Opens $200 Million Expansion Project
- Prosecutor Wants Washington To Limit Casino Expansion
Interesting gambling information:
- Bingo as we know it today is a form of lottery and is a direct descendant of Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia - the Italian National Lottery organized in 1530.
- 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.
- During the 1950s, the Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce held a number of hearings on criminal influence in the casino industry. The committee was chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, and the committee is also known by his name.
- French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal explored the mathematics of gambling, leading to the formulation of Pascal's theory of probability in 1654.
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