Bettendorf casino sues underage gamblers
Two Illinois women are being sued by Isle of Capri after the casino paid a $20,000 fine for admitting the underage pair into the Bettendorf casino. The gambling boat filed the lawsuit against Amanda Taner, 20, of Peoria, Ill., and Gina Taner, 18, of Pekin, Ill., in Scott County District Court.
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Casino gambling information:
- 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.
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
- The word Casino originally meant a public hall for music and dancing. By the second half of the 19th century, the term essentially meant a collection of gaming or gambling rooms. The classic example of a casino, is the casino at Monte-Carlo, which was opened in 1861.
- In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
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