Woman charged after bingo cash disappears
A Lindsay woman is facing four counts of theft after almost $14,000 in cash disappeared from a local non-profit organization. Kawartha Lakes Police was notified on Sept. 11 that the money was not deposited into the organization’s bank account after four bingo fundraisers.
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Casino gambling facts:
- Riverboat casinos were first legalized in Iowa, then Illinois, followed closely by Missouri, Indiana, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
- 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.
- The name blackjack came from an early bet (since discontinued) that paid 10 to 1 if the player got a jack of spades and an ace of spades, both black cards, as the first two cards.
- French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal explored the mathematics of gambling, leading to the formulation of Pascal's theory of probability in 1654.
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