Web gambling site rushes for Hub paydirt

An Internet gambling company looking to muscle in on legally hamstrung competitors has unleashed a marketing blitz on Boston, slapping up billboards beckoning bettors to bet on the Patriots, even as Congress…

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Thu, September 14th, 2006

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Casino gambling facts:

  • The age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.
  • In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
  • The Gold Rush brought a huge increase in the amount and types of gambling to California. San Francisco replaced New Orleans as the center for gambling in the United States.
  • 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.