Judge among gambling arrests in Jonesboro
The Clayton County Sheriff’s Office has suspects in custody following a gambling raid at The Poker Palace on Tara Boulevard in Jonesboro. via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Interesting gambling information:
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
- By the 1370s, playing cards had reached Europe in a form that is recognizable today, with a pack consisting of 52 cards with suits of swords, polo-sticks, cups and coins.
- The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
- The Great Wall of China was financed, in part, by a lottery. The Bible is replete with references to drawing lots. Lot casting was a favored means of communication between man and god.
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