Non-track casino talk stirs buzz
Before the political hot potato of casino gambling in Kentucky has even been decided, Lexington is tossing around one of its own. Comments by Keeneland President Nick Nicholson on Wednesday indicated that a track-controlled casino would not be at Keeneland, but somewhere else in Fayette County. That has raised hopes, and hackles, about where such a site would be found. According to Fayette …
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Gambling history facts:
- Casino gambling, including Indian gaming, is legal in 27 states and most of the casinos have been built in the last 5 years according to "America's Gambling Fever", U. S. News and World Report, 15 Jan 1996
- Legal gambling activities include state lotteries; parimutuel betting on horses, greyhounds, and jai-alai; sports book-making; card games; keno; bingo; slot machines; progressive slot machines; video poker machines; video keno machines; video blackjack machines; and video roulette machines.
- 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.
- The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
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