Sport on TV: Jackson ideal for Big Brother
For the armchair sports fan, it looked like a promising week for documentaries.
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- Today in Jackson Sun History
- Lay off the boring talk
- Supervisors face push on casino
- Stocktonian wins $297K on slots
- Briefs — Published Sept. 17, 2006
- Jackson County Gambling Bust
- Business of sport: The paper gambling on a new betting world
- AG again says Jackson Co. non-binding casino election OK
- Fight brews over Coast casino
Casino gambling facts:
- At a land-based casino, if your slot machine is malfunctioning, you won't get paid if you win the jackpot! All slot machines have this written on them but many players are not aware of this policy. The casinos have a device which lets them know if a slot machine is malfunctioning or if it's been tinkered with. Your best bet is to stop playing at it and try another.
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
- By the 18th and 19th centuries a dice game called Hazard had become popular in England and was played by the aristocracy in private gambling houses.
- In Paris, legislation prohibiting playing cards was passed in 1377, and in Italy, playing cards and dice were burned.
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