Kansas City Casinos’ Revenue, Customers Increase

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — As reported by the Kansas City Business Journal: “The Kansas City area’s four casinos’ aggregate revenue rose 4 percent in August from the same month last year, according to statistics the Missouri Gaming Commission released Monday.

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Tue, September 12th, 2006

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  • French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal explored the mathematics of gambling, leading to the formulation of Pascal's theory of probability in 1654.
  • The casino at Spa, a Belgian resort town noted for its mineral baths, was built by the Prince Bishop of the province of Liege in 1763.
  • 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.
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