Singapore’s casino school grooms future dealers

By DPA Singapore, Dec 12 It does not exactly look like ‘Casino Royale’, tucked into a far corner of a hardly glamourous shopping centre far from Singapore’s glitzy Orchard Road.
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Tue, December 12th, 2006

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  • Gambling became legalized in Vegas in 1931 by Mayme V. Stocker and J.H. Morgan who was issued Clark County Gaming License No. 1.
  • The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
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