Legalized bingo, raffles comes to Arkansas under new rules

Charles May doesn’t understand the attraction people have to playing bingo, but he said he’s more than happy to take their money when his Elks Lodge offers the games.

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Tue, July 31st, 2007

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Casino gambling facts:

  • Gambling is Often Legalized to Promote Economic Development of Depressed Areas. That was an important motivation in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, New Jersey, and many of the other locales for casinos.
  • People earning $10,000 per year gamble more than twice as much money as people earning $30-40,000 per year. People earning $10,000 per year gamble four times as much money as those making $80,000 or more per year.
  • French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
  • Poker is derived from the Persian game of "as nar" and was probably based on the dice game "tali", which was played by the Romans.