‘Suspicious’ wagering on Univ. of Toledo events probed

The Nevada State Gaming Control Board investigated “suspicious betting patterns” surrounding two University of Toledo intercollegiate athletic events in 2005, chief enforcement officer Jerry Markling said Friday. Markling also declined to tell USA TODAY which Toledo teams were involved in the games in question.

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Fri, April 6th, 2007

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    1912: The Majestic - Las Vegas's very first theater - opens, featuring the best vaudeville acts and motion pictures of the time.
  • The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
  • 1993: Steve Wynn buys the Dune Hotel, then implodes it to make way for the Bellagio. The new MGM Grand is completed, once again becoming the world's largest hotel. On December 31, Barbra Streisand stars in the inaugural concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
  • The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.