Live Poker Coming to Little Rock

“If you do have a business where you’re playing a game of chance where you’re winning something whether it be advancing up a scale to a point where you do win something, that’s gambling, “

Starting this Saturday, you can play live poker in Little Rock. You can even win money, and that has police concerned. via FOX16.com

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Fri, September 7th, 2007

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Casino gambling facts:

  • Gambling became legalized in Vegas in 1931 by Mayme V. Stocker and J.H. Morgan who was issued Clark County Gaming License No. 1.
  • Keno, the casino version of lotto, originated in China nearly 2000 years ago when Cheung Heung devised a lottery as a way of raising funds for his province's army.
  • In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
  • Many casinos in Nevada were financed by mobsters. Most notable perhaps was Las Vegas' Flamingo which was opened in 1947 by Bugsy Siegel.