Offshore gaming sites not sure USA’s worth the risk
Americans continue to gamble in record numbers online, but executives of the offshore operations that take those bets are exercising caution. The trepidation of online-betting executives underscores growing concern that the U.S. government could target more offshore firms after essentially giving the industry a free pass for several years.
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Interesting gambling information:
- Indian tribes have used their position as sovereign entities to develop a number of gaming establishments. Indian casinos operate in 22 states. This number is expected to grow.
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
- The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
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