Fletcher’s gambling focus yet to pay off
The all-anti-casino-all-the-time message from Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s re-election campaign has worked brilliantly in one respect: it has so far dominated the governor’s race. Fletcher’s first two campaign commercials and most of his speeches have been about gambling. And debates between the governor and Democratic challenger Steve Beshear have thus far been heavily shaded by the two candidates’ …
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Gambling casinos history:
- The age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.
- Although the Greeks had a profound understanding of mathematics they had no concept of probability, and assumed that the outcome of games of chance was due to the will of the gods.
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
- The major differences between regular poker and video poker is that you are playing against a machine rather than real people, and your goal is to achieve particular hands rather than beat opponents hands.
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