Coconut Creek opposes Seminole plan to build 44-acre casino complex
The city of Coconut Creek has formally opposed the Seminole Tribe’s push to gain sovereignty over 44 acres surrounding its casino there — land being eyed for the state’s largest gambling-hotel complex.
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Gambling history facts:
- 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.
- By the 18th and 19th centuries a dice game called Hazard had become popular in England and was played by the aristocracy in private gambling houses.
- 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."
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