Senate revives casino smoking ban, with 1-year delay
DENVER - The Senate approved yet another version of a bill to expand the statewide smoking ban to casinos on Monday, this time amending it to give the gambling houses a year to put it into effect.
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Do you know that:
- The first World Series of Poker was held in downtown Las Vegas at the Horseshoe Casino back in 1970. Then owner of the Horseshoe Jack Binion, hosted the very first one and has agreed to host upcoming World Series of Poker Tournament Circuit. Jack Binion said that is purely honorary and plans on doing other types deals and events in the future.
- During the 1950s, the Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce held a number of hearings on criminal influence in the casino industry. The committee was chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, and the committee is also known by his name.
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
- In 1911 US legislation prohibited stud poker but ruled that draw poker was a game of skill and therefore was not illegal.
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