Holder hoping to sell 13 casinos in package

For sale: Thirteen mostly rural Nevada casinos including Silver Club in Sparks, Sharkey’s in Gardnerville, El Capitan in Hawthorne and a Nevada slot route. Package includes about 2,700 slots, 40 table games, 668 hotel and motel rooms. Asking price: More than $200 million.

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Sat, April 28th, 2007

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Gambling history facts:

  • The major differences between regular poker and video poker is that you are playing against a machine rather than real people, and your goal is to achieve particular hands rather than beat opponents hands.
  • Legal gambling activities include state lotteries; parimutuel betting on horses, greyhounds, and jai-alai; sports book-making; card games; keno; bingo; slot machines; progressive slot machines; video poker machines; video keno machines; video blackjack machines; and video roulette machines.
  • Massachusetts decriminalized bingo in 1931 in an attempt to help churches and charitable organizations raise money. Bingo was legal in 11 states by the 1950s, usually only for charity purposes.
  • In 1911 US legislation prohibited stud poker but ruled that draw poker was a game of skill and therefore was not illegal.