Senate approves bill on bingo rules
LITTLE ROCK The Senate has approved a bill that sets up the rules for established charities in Arkansas to conduct charity bingo and raffle games. Senators voted 24-oh to approve the measure that would place a penny tax on bingo cards and a ten percent tax on the sale of other bingo equipment.
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Gambling history facts:
- The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.
- 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.
- Up to the 1960s, Nevada was plagued by teamster financing, hidden ownership, employment of individuals of questionable character and background, and the clear links to organized crime.
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
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