Rife as Onion Domes, Moscow’s Casinos Face Closing
Could there be a better symbol for the new Moscow - seductive, indulgent, awash in got-quick riches - than the casino? There are more than 60 of them in the city now, neon palaces of capitalist glitter and risk …
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Interesting gambling facts:
- 1994: On New Year's Day Frank Sinatra gives his last Las Vegas performance at the MGM Grand.
1998: Opening of the Bellagio. With 3,026 rooms it is the largest hotel in the world, and also the most expensive - it cost $1.7 billion to build. - The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
- The famous banker J.P. Morgan once walked out of a Monte Carlo casino because the stakes were too low? At the time, the maximum wager was 12,000 francs and Morgan wanted it increased to 20,000 francs. When the casino manager refused to increase the limit, Morgan left the casino saying "12,000 francs! I have no time to lose such ridiculous amounts."
- Many casinos in Nevada were financed by mobsters. Most notable perhaps was Las Vegas' Flamingo which was opened in 1947 by Bugsy Siegel.
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