Manufacturers keeping eyes fixed on Kansas
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Kansas is emerging as the next gaming battleground. Both houses of the state’s Legislature this week approved a bill authorizing the Kansas to license four stand-alone casinos and three slot machine-only casinos at racetracks.
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Interesting gambling facts:
- 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.
- Men and women tend to have different preferences in their gambling. Men are more likely to gamble in games such as blackjack and lotteries and women are more likely to engage in bingo and raffles.
- 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.
- Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.
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