Gambling on an addiction
Media Credit: MCT All In: Matthew Bowles-Roth, a recovering gambler, holds up the ace of spades from Mystic Lake Casino where he played blackjack extensively in Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 8, 2007.
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Interesting gambling facts:
- 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.
- Bingo as we know it today is a form of lottery and is a direct descendant of Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia - the Italian National Lottery organized in 1530.
- 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.
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
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