Councilman: Blot out video bingo
Councilman Darrell Ourso is asking fellow Metro Council members to consider banning video bingo machines in the parish. Ourso said he sees little difference between video bingo and video poker, which was rejected by East Baton Rouge Parish voters in 1996.
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Gambling casinos history:
- In 1911 US legislation prohibited stud poker but ruled that draw poker was a game of skill and therefore was not illegal.
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
- The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
- In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
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