Hopes rise for Park City casino
It is still has a ways to go, but expanded gambling in Kansas cleared two major hurdles this week.
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- Treasurer joins fight to block Indian casino
- Race track casinos prepare for opening
- Two new casinos prepare to open
- Deck stacked against Philly casino foes
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- Sky City on track to grow profit by 10%
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Casino gambling information:
- Riverboat Gaming Has Captured 20% of the Casino Market Share. Mississippi now has more gambling square footage than Atlantic City.
- Many casinos in Nevada were financed by mobsters. Most notable perhaps was Las Vegas' Flamingo which was opened in 1947 by Bugsy Siegel.
- In 1911, the state of California ruled that "draw" poker was a skill, and thus could not be banned under existing anti-gambling laws. However, "Stud" poker was still considered illegal at the time.
- U.S. News and World Report did a comparison of crime rates in cities with gambling versus those that do not. The crime rates were significantly higher in the places that allowed gambling.
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