Patrick To Unveil Casino Plan
Gov. Deval Patrick will unveil Thursday his long awaited bill on casino gambling. NewsCenter 5’s Gail Huff reported that Patrick’s bill would legalize casino gambling in the Bay State. Three resort-style casinos, costing at least $1 billion each, would be licensed and built in the west, southeast, and in Boston.
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Casino gambling facts:
- 1973: The MGM Grand opens on the Strip, becoming the world's largest hotel.
1989: One of Vegas's most extravag-ant hotels opens. Steve Wynn's Mirage resort features a man-made volcano and over 3,000 rooms. Siegfried and Roy sign a $57 million, five-year contract to provide entertainment at the hotel. - The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
- In 1911 US legislation prohibited stud poker but ruled that draw poker was a game of skill and therefore was not illegal.
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