Senate passes bill to eliminate casino votes

DES MOINES, Iowa The Iowa Senate has approved a bill to eliminate public votes on gambling every eight years. The measure, approved yesterday, goes to the…

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Fri, March 16th, 2007

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Casino gambling facts:

  • Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.
  • The major differences between regular poker and video poker is that you are playing against a machine rather than real people, and your goal is to achieve particular hands rather than beat opponents hands.
  • The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
  • The Great Wall of China was financed, in part, by a lottery. The Bible is replete with references to drawing lots. Lot casting was a favored means of communication between man and god.