House committee to consider slots at Indiana horse tracks
At least one proposal to authorize slot-like machines at Indiana’s two horse racing tracks will get a hearing before a House committee, Speaker Patrick Bauer said Thursday.
Comment
Related Poker News:
- New slots bode well for Indiana program
- Adams slots ban killed
- 10:16 a.m.: Slots could bring up to 1,000 jobs
- Casino gambling bill passes committee
- Panel okays up to 9 casinos
- House Judiciary Committee Approves Limits on Online Gambling
- Goodlatte Bill goes before House Judiciary Committee on Thursday
- Hoosiers OK budget, slots, higher cigarette tax
- Indiana Downs Opens Slots Facility
- Gambling survives committee against odds
- Leach bill accepted by House Financial Services committee
- US House Committee votes on web gambling ban
Casino gambling information:
- Catholics were found to be more likely to gamble than Protestants and other religious groups. Catholics were also found to be less likely to disapprove of gambling than other religious groups.
- The Gold Rush brought a huge increase in the amount and types of gambling to California. San Francisco replaced New Orleans as the center for gambling in the United States.
- Legal gambling activities include state lotteries; parimutuel betting on horses, greyhounds, and jai-alai; sports book-making; card games; keno; bingo; slot machines; progressive slot machines; video poker machines; video keno machines; video blackjack machines; and video roulette machines.
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
RSS feed
