Skill games crackdown long overdue
To hear the hue and cry over illegal casinos, you’d think somebody was banning Ohio State football games. On Friday, Muskingum County Sheriff Bob Stephenson and Prosecutor Michael Haddox began a long-overdue crackdown on the dozens of gambling parlors that have opened in the past 10 months.
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Casino gambling information:
- 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.
- Casino gambling, including Indian gaming, is legal in 27 states and most of the casinos have been built in the last 5 years according to "America's Gambling Fever", U. S. News and World Report, 15 Jan 1996
- 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.
- Dice games have existed in one form or another for over 2000 years and were originally played with dice fashioned from the knucklebones of sheep.
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