Windsor carves niche in sports-betting world

WINDSOR, Ontario Sports-betting fans in many states no longer have to travel to Las Vegas to place their wagers. Starting today, gamblers in Detroit can do it just over the border in Canada.

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Fri, September 8th, 2006

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Interesting gambling information:

  • French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
  • The first legal lottery in the twentieth century was the New Hampshire Sweepstakes which began on March 12, 1964. Currently 37 states and the District of Columbia operate lotteries.
  • It was during the 1930's that slot machines began to become very popular across America, and in the late 40's Bugsy Siegel added machines to his Flamingo Hilton hotel in Las Vegas.
  • Massachusetts decriminalized bingo in 1931 in an attempt to help churches and charitable organizations raise money. Bingo was legal in 11 states by the 1950s, usually only for charity purposes.