Casinos think outside the slots
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. | The city’s gambling halls are betting $10 billion on a plan to separate visitors from more of their money by remaking this seedy seaside resort into a hipper, hotter destination with top entertainers, glitzy rooms and swank restaurants run by famous chefs. Atlantic City’s 11 casinos are in a frenzy of expansion and construction to compete with Las Vegas and to fight off …
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Gambling history facts:
- The introduction of the single zero wheel (with better odds for the player) resulted in the demise of the double zero wheels in Europe and has become known as the "French Wheel" in roulette history.
- 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.
- The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
- Legal gambling activities include state lotteries; parimutuel betting on horses, greyhounds, and jai-alai; sports book-making; card games; keno; bingo; slot machines; progressive slot machines; video poker machines; video keno machines; video blackjack machines; and video roulette machines.
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