Moore’s Christians Only Theocracy
Blogroll Archives Moore’s Christians Only Theocracy Category: Posted on: December 14, 2006 9:34 AM, by Ed Brayton Good ol’ Roy Moore is back at it again and he’s playing poker.
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Related Poker News:
- Salvation Army leads opposition to casino
- Jewish volunteers sub to allow Christians a day off
- Tell gambling friends, ‘Thanks, but no thanks’
Interesting gambling facts:
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
- 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 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.
- 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.
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