uticaOD.com - The Observer-Dispatch - Gambling economy a bad bet
Miss a day.Miss a lot. Gov. Eliot Spitzer unfortunately is following in the footsteps of his predecessor by betting on gambling as a savior of the state’s dilapidated economy.
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- Keating: Government is gambling with our economy
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- Rough economy fires up gamblers
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- Gaming Official: Casinos Can Help Economy
Gambling history facts:
- 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.
- 2000: MGM Grand Inc. stages the gaming industry's largest corporate buyout with its $6 million purchase of Mirage Resorts Inc.
2005: Las Vegas celebrates one illustrious century on May 15. - Blackjack originated in French casinos around the 1700's where it was called "vingt-et-un" (twenty-and-one) and has been in United States since the 1800's.
- 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.
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