Wynn Las Vegas Golf Club to host big-money event

Steve Wynn is widely known as one of the world’s great casino operators, though his reputation as a golf course designer is more of a secret. But Wynn played a large role in the design of Shadow Creek Golf Club in North Las Vegas, now rated 20th o

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Thu, September 21st, 2006

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Do you know that:

  • Gambling is Often Legalized to Promote Economic Development of Depressed Areas. That was an important motivation in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, New Jersey, and many of the other locales for casinos.
  • Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.
  • 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.
  • Up to the 1960s, Nevada was plagued by teamster financing, hidden ownership, employment of individuals of questionable character and background, and the clear links to organized crime.