Expanded gambling a focus in debate
Gov. Ernie Fletcher and Democratic opponent Steve Beshear sparred yesterday about the need for casino gambling in Kentucky and the urgency of an ongoing special legislative session, during their first face-to-face debate of the gubernatorial campaign. Fletcher said expanding gambling in Kentucky would increase social ills, while Beshear said allowing casinos is necessary if Kentucky wants enough …
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Interesting 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.
- 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.
- In 1857, Prince Charles III of Monaco decided to introduce gambling to his Mediterranean principality to boost its finances.
- By the 18th and 19th centuries a dice game called Hazard had become popular in England and was played by the aristocracy in private gambling houses.
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