Casinos feeling an economic pinch, too

factors may affect kansas Kansas won’t get an industry that is immune from economic slumps when its four new casinos open in two years. Casino companies, including those bidding to build resorts in Sumner County, reported declining revenue last week. Recession worries and soaring gas prices are partly to blame, they said. “We have been seen as recession-proof, but we are all learning as an …

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Sun, May 11th, 2008

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Casino gambling facts:

  • 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.
  • Lotteries, along with their close derivative bingo, are the most popular kinds of gambling. The popularity of lottery games is not limited to state-run lotteries. Indian tribes run lotteries and illegal lotteries still exist.
  • 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.
  • In Cuba, during the 1950's, the blackjack shoe was first introduced. The dealers in Cuba handled the cards really well and management thought that the dealers may be being a little too good to their friends. So, to curb their suspicions, management decided to use a "dealing box" which is currently known as a shoe.