This was the gaming year that was
Now that we’ve got 2006 safely behind us, we can take a moment to put it in perspective.
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Related Poker News:
- Bwin Q1 net up 11 pct year-on-year as net gaming revenues rise 17.5 pct UPDATE
- GameTech Top Performing Gaming Company in 2006
- Good year end for Gaming VC
- Local casino market reports 7.6% revenue increase
- Leisure & Gaming see results in line
- 888 Reports Online Gaming Revenues Up
- Publishing & Broadcasting Full-Year Profit Rises 26% on Gaming
- Macao casinos’ luck may be running out
- 888.com will really take off next year
- Az’s gaming tribes cough up $161.3M for state since Prop. 202
- N.S. Gaming Corp. releases contract for sale of province’s two casinos
- Aristocrat, Rocket Gaming Sign Deal
Interesting gambling information:
- Las Vegas in Nevada owes its success to the mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel who organized gaming and bookmaking operations for The Mob (the Mafia).
- During the 1950s, the Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce held a number of hearings on criminal influence in the casino industry. The committee was chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, and the committee is also known by his name.
- People earning $10,000 per year gamble more than twice as much money as people earning $30-40,000 per year. People earning $10,000 per year gamble four times as much money as those making $80,000 or more per year.
- The most popular form of charitable gambling is bingo. In California, bingo is the only charitable game that is legal.
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