Friday February 29, 2008 - 11:54 EST
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Nevada Palace casino porter Rich Czapla stops cleaning up paper and cups around a slot machine to give an update on his wife’s health to the property’s longtime owner.
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- Louisiana casinos win $212.4 million in February
- $119 Million USD Jackpot, Next Friday, in Euromillions, the Richest European Lottery
- Isle Of Capri Casinos Will Report Third Quarter Results and Will Host Conference Call
- Casino revenues climb from January, but still down
- French Decree and UK Gambling Act: For or Against a Pan European Gambling Market?
- Helped by Super Bowl, casinos break records in February
- Kan. high court to rule Friday on gambling lawsuit
- KC-area casinos cool off in February
- Three casinos booming
- Casinos make $58.9 million in February
- STACKED falls to February 2006
- Casino revenue up in February
Do you know that:
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
- The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.
- In 1911, the state of California ruled that "draw" poker was a skill, and thus could not be banned under existing anti-gambling laws. However, "Stud" poker was still considered illegal at the time.
- 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.
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