Casino company purchases land in Baton Rouge
Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. has bought a 35-acre tract in Baton Rouge that could provide a site for the city’s third riverboat casino. Through its $70 million purchase of Harrah’s Entertainment Inc.’s two riverboat licenses in Lake Charles, Pinnacle has one license available to move to another city.
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Gambling casinos info:
- In 1911 US legislation prohibited stud poker but ruled that draw poker was a game of skill and therefore was not illegal.
- 1967: Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Anne Beaulieu on May 1 in the chapel of the Aladdin Hotel.
1970: Binion's Horseshoe casino hosts the first World Series of Poker.
1971: Female card dealers begin working on the Strip for the first time. - Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
- Baccarat is the principal of casino card games in the United Kingdom and Europe. Blackjack is a fixture in all American casinos.
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