Tourism dept has no role in decision on casinos: Willy
Panaji, Sept 6: The Deputy Chief Minister and state president of Nationalist Congress Party, Dr Wilfred de Souza, has sought to steer clear of the government decision to grant licences to 10 floating casinos in the state.
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Interesting gambling information:
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
- 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.
- People earning $10,000 per year gamble more than twice as much money as people earning $30-40,000 per year. People earning $10,000 per year gamble four times as much money as those making $80,000 or more per year.
- 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.
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