Voting for Bluff Magazine’s Annual Readers Choice Poker Awards in Full Swing

Bluff Magazine (www.bluffmagazine.com), America’s leading poker magazine, is taking online voting for the first ever Bluff Magazine’s Annual Readers Choice Awards. Categories for the 2006 Bluff Reader’s Choice Awards include: Most Entertain

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Wed, September 6th, 2006

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Interesting gambling facts:

  • 1941: The Strip gets its first luxury hotel. El Rancho Vegas sets the trend for many of the themed resorts that sprout along the Strip in later years.
    1942: The first wedding chapel, the Little Church of the West, opens on the Strip in the Last Frontier Hotel.
  • The most popular forms of illegal games are "numbers", which is essentially a lottery, and betting with bookies, typically sports betting.
  • 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.
  • The most significant forms of illegal gambling in the United States are numbers, betting with bookmakers or bookies, and sports pools or sports cards.