Cripple Creek casino shuffle
The Colorado Gaming Commission gave its nod Thursday to the purchase of two Cripple Creek casinos by a Minneapolis-based company that already owns three gambling halls in the mountain town.
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- Cripple Creek backs off ban on casino smoking
- Wild Horse Casino closes in Cripple Creek
- Gambling towns up the ante
- Cripple Creek OKs expanded gambling
- Cripple Creek Won’t Force Casinos To Snuff Smoking
- 3 Cripple Creek Casinos Cited Over Smoking
- Return of smoking in Cripple Creek casino is generating heat
- Cripple Creek casino fined in smoking case
- Casino betting on a loophole
Gambling casinos info:
- Riverboat casinos were first legalized in Iowa, then Illinois, followed closely by Missouri, Indiana, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
- Men and women tend to have different preferences in their gambling. Men are more likely to gamble in games such as blackjack and lotteries and women are more likely to engage in bingo and raffles.
- The famous banker J.P. Morgan once walked out of a Monte Carlo casino because the stakes were too low? At the time, the maximum wager was 12,000 francs and Morgan wanted it increased to 20,000 francs. When the casino manager refused to increase the limit, Morgan left the casino saying "12,000 francs! I have no time to lose such ridiculous amounts."
- French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal explored the mathematics of gambling, leading to the formulation of Pascal's theory of probability in 1654.
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