B.C. casino workers see gambling problems: survey

B.C. casino workers say they regularly see problem gambling up close, including people who wear diapers into casinos so they don’t have to leave the machines to use the washroom.

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Wed, May 2nd, 2007

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Casino gambling information:

  • The most significant forms of illegal gambling in the United States are numbers, betting with bookmakers or bookies, and sports pools or sports cards.
  • 1951: On September 4, Frank Sinatra makes his Vegas debut, performing in the Crystal Room at the Desert Inn.
    1959: Wayne Newton performs in Vegas for the first time, despite the fact that he is still too young to enter a casino.
  • 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.
  • The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.