House bill would allow gambling machines at dog tracks
A favorite hot button issue - gambling - is back on the table in the Alabama Legislature. Bills introduced in the Alabama Legislature Thursday would legalize video bingo games for high stakes at greyhound racetracks in Birmingham and Mobile.
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Do you know that:
- 1994: On New Year's Day Frank Sinatra gives his last Las Vegas performance at the MGM Grand.
1998: Opening of the Bellagio. With 3,026 rooms it is the largest hotel in the world, and also the most expensive - it cost $1.7 billion to build. - The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
- Catholics were found to be more likely to gamble than Protestants and other religious groups. Catholics were also found to be less likely to disapprove of gambling than other religious groups.
- At land-based casinos, both the player and the boxman need to be on the lookout for crooked dice in the game of craps. Each number when added together with the number on the side opposite it, will add up to 7. For example, 6 is opposite to 1. When the dice are crooked, they do not add up to 7.
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