Nurse’s murdered husband gambled hard, won big, casino witness says
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (C ourt TV) - Melanie McGuire’s husband was a middle-class suburbanite struggling to buy his first home, but at the card tables of one Atlantic City casino, he gambled and won like a high roller, an employee of the casino testified Monday at the nurse’s murder trial.
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Interesting gambling information:
- The famous banker J.P. Morgan once walked out of a Monte Carlo casino because the stakes were too low? At the time, the maximum wager was 12,000 francs and Morgan wanted it increased to 20,000 francs. When the casino manager refused to increase the limit, Morgan left the casino saying "12,000 francs! I have no time to lose such ridiculous amounts."
- People earning $10,000 per year gamble more than twice as much money as people earning $30-40,000 per year. People earning $10,000 per year gamble four times as much money as those making $80,000 or more per year.
- 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.
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
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