Erie man busted in jackpot scam at casino
ERIE, Pa. An Erie man experienced both meanings of the word jackpot at the Presque Isle Downs-and-Casino. Police say 19-year-old Dwayne T. Jenkins hit a 14-hundred-45-dollar slot machine jackpot on Monday.
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Do you know that:
- 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.
- 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. - Pathological gambling is recognized as a medical disorder by the American Psychiatric Association and has elements of addiction similar to alcohol and drug addiction.
- In Paris, legislation prohibiting playing cards was passed in 1377, and in Italy, playing cards and dice were burned.
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