Riverside christens Iowaâs newest casino

RIVERSIDE, Iowa Dan Kehls family rang the starting bell on Iowas riverboat gambling industry when his parents transformed a historic Mississippi excursion boat into the states first licensed floating casino back in the early 1990s.

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Sat, September 2nd, 2006

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  • The major differences between regular poker and video poker is that you are playing against a machine rather than real people, and your goal is to achieve particular hands rather than beat opponents hands.
  • 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.
  • Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
  • In 1911, the state of California ruled that "draw" poker was a skill, and thus could not be banned under existing anti-gambling laws. However, "Stud" poker was still considered illegal at the time.