Sportingbet’s Chairman Is Held by U.S. Authorities
Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) — Sportingbet Plc said Chairman Peter Dicks has been detained in the U.S., the second time in less than two months that a manager of a U.K. Internet sports-betting company has been held in the U.S.
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Gambling casinos history:
- Riverboat Gaming Has Captured 20% of the Casino Market Share. Mississippi now has more gambling square footage than Atlantic City.
- The first airplane flight to Las Vegas was made in May, 1920, with Lieutenant Randall Henderson, editor of the Blythe, California Herald, and Jack Beckley.
- The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
- Las Vegas in Nevada owes its success to the mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel who organized gaming and bookmaking operations for The Mob (the Mafia).
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