S&P Lowers Outlook on Ameristar Casinos
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services on Thursday lowered its outlook for Ameristar Casinos Inc., a day after it agreed to buy a Resorts International Holdings LLC unit that owns and operates Resorts East Chicago for $675 million in cash.
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Casino gambling facts:
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
- Dice games have existed in one form or another for over 2000 years and were originally played with dice fashioned from the knucklebones of sheep.
- The first legal lottery in the twentieth century was the New Hampshire Sweepstakes which began on March 12, 1964. Currently 37 states and the District of Columbia operate lotteries.
- The most significant forms of illegal gambling in the United States are numbers, betting with bookmakers or bookies, and sports pools or sports cards.
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