Casino could strain safety

MAHONING TWP. - If Centaur Racing is successful in obtaining a slot-machine license from the state Gaming Control Board, it would build a facility expected to draw 14,000 people a day, officials say.

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  • By the 1370s, playing cards had reached Europe in a form that is recognizable today, with a pack consisting of 52 cards with suits of swords, polo-sticks, cups and coins.
  • 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.
  • 1967: Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Anne Beaulieu on May 1 in the chapel of the Aladdin Hotel.
    1970: Binion's Horseshoe casino hosts the first World Series of Poker.
    1971: Female card dealers begin working on the Strip for the first time.
  • Las Vegas in Nevada owes its success to the mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel who organized gaming and bookmaking operations for The Mob (the Mafia).