Casinos, slots get early OK in Kansas
TOPEKA | Suddenly, the perennial also-ran issue in the Kansas statehouse is picking up steam. A plan to allow a Wyandotte County casino and slot machines at the Woodlands racetrack won hard-fought first-round approval in the Kansas House early Saturday.
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Gambling casinos info:
- Keno, the casino version of lotto, originated in China nearly 2000 years ago when Cheung Heung devised a lottery as a way of raising funds for his province's army.
- Many casinos in Nevada were financed by mobsters. Most notable perhaps was Las Vegas' Flamingo which was opened in 1947 by Bugsy Siegel.
- Dog racing (a race among greyhounds who chase after a mechanical rabbit) operates in 17 states. Jai-alai (a game similar to handball) is legal in just three: Connecticut, Florida, and Rhode Island.
- 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.
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