Senators push for legal casino in Coastal Bend
A casino may be on its way to the Coastal Bend. State Senators Rodney Ellis of Houston and John Carona of Dallas are pushing a bill that would let Texans decide whether to legalize casino gambling. The bill would also determine where 12 casinos would be built and the Corpus Christi area could be one of those sites.
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Casino gambling information:
- Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.
- Although baccara has its origins in medieval Italy, it soon spread to France, where it was called "chemin de fer" (meaning railway, due to the action of the card box or shoe passing around the table on "tracks").
- French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal explored the mathematics of gambling, leading to the formulation of Pascal's theory of probability in 1654.
- It was during the 1930's that slot machines began to become very popular across America, and in the late 40's Bugsy Siegel added machines to his Flamingo Hilton hotel in Las Vegas.
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