No Casinos to Be Smoke Free

Atlantic City’s mayor signed a tough new smoking law Wednesday. Yet none of the ten casinos plan to go smoke-free.

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Wed, April 30th, 2008

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  • 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.
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