Opponents of casino secrecy mobilizing

COMMENTARY - This coming week, state gaming regulators are expected to choose who will win the state’s five standalone casino licenses. Many see this as a milestone in the state’s more than two-year attempt to get legalized gambling under way. But citizens groups which led a protest at the gambling regulators’ headquarters Monday in which 14 were arrested for disorderly conduct are being blas …

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Sat, December 16th, 2006

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Gambling casinos history:

  • 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 World Series of Poker was held in downtown Las Vegas at the Horseshoe Casino back in 1970. Then owner of the Horseshoe Jack Binion, hosted the very first one and has agreed to host upcoming World Series of Poker Tournament Circuit. Jack Binion said that is purely honorary and plans on doing other types deals and events in the future.
  • The word Casino originally meant a public hall for music and dancing. By the second half of the 19th century, the term essentially meant a collection of gaming or gambling rooms. The classic example of a casino, is the casino at Monte-Carlo, which was opened in 1861.
  • Baccarat is the principal of casino card games in the United Kingdom and Europe. Blackjack is a fixture in all American casinos.