Freeport casino ship undergoing repairs
FREEPORT The gambling ship has sailed, but itll be back. The Texas Star Casino boat, usually docked at 307 Sailfish Drive in Bridge Harbor, is in Bridge City for repairs needed after it was hit by a barge in February.
Related Gambling News:
- Texas Star Casino seized
- Gambling ship up for bids
- Illegal gambling alleged at Freeport stores
- Behind the issue Casinos and road repairs
- Gambling Ship Gets OK To Operate
- New gambling ship in town
- New gambling ship may open this week
- Gambling ship down on its luck
- Govt. slammed over gambling ship raid
- Gambling ship may set sail in May
- Sterling works to fix gambling ship
- Gambling cruise ship coming to Port Canaveral this month
Casino gambling facts:
- 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 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
- The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
- U.S. News and World Report did a comparison of crime rates in cities with gambling versus those that do not. The crime rates were significantly higher in the places that allowed gambling.
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