Blanco opposes concessions to make casinos more competitive with Miss.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who has long said she opposes any expansion of gambling in Louisiana, said this week that she is against lowering gambling taxes, putting water-based casinos on land or allowing larger casinos.
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Interesting gambling information:
- The brand new resort, Wynn Las Vegas recently opened on the Las Vegas Strip. At a cost of approximately $2.7 billion, the Wynn Las Vegas features 2,700 guestrooms and suites, casino (table games, over 1900 slots/video poker machines, poker room with race and sports book), several restaurants, a night club, golf, a shopping esplanade and a show called Le Reve.
- The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
- The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
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