UK ’super casino’ short-listers prepare for battle

Public hearings are to take place into the merits of eight shortlisted venues bidding to host the UK’s first Las Vegas-style super casino, it was announced today. Examinations-in-public (EiPs) will start from next week for eight areas hoping to la

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Tue, August 22nd, 2006

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Do you know that:

  • The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
  • Pathological gambling is recognized as a medical disorder by the American Psychiatric Association and has elements of addiction similar to alcohol and drug addiction.
  • Blackjack originated in French casinos around the 1700's where it was called "vingt-et-un" (twenty-and-one) and has been in United States since the 1800's.
  • 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.