Sentencing trial underway in illegal video gambling case
ASHEVILLE A hearing to determine how long former Sheriff Bobby Medford will spend in prison on federal corruption charges is under way this morning in U.S. District Court in Asheville.
Related Gambling News:
- Former sheriff’s deputy jailed until trial in video poker scandal
- Key gambling figures face sentencing today
- Sentencing again delayed for brothers charged in church bingo robbery
- Judge: Medford jailed until trial
- Sheriff’s gambling trial is delayed
- Judge Denies Sentencing Delay For Former Buncombe Co. Sheriff
- Sentencing date set in $9 million video poker case
- Former Buncombe sheriff will stay in jail until trial
- 2005 WSOP Daily Video Updates
- Judge: Former Sheriff Allowed 2nd Attorney for Gambling Trial
- Verdict expected today in bingo trial
- Trial ordered in case alleging theft of poker machines
Interesting gambling information:
- Men and women tend to have different preferences in their gambling. Men are more likely to gamble in games such as blackjack and lotteries and women are more likely to engage in bingo and raffles.
- At land-based casinos, both the player and the boxman need to be on the lookout for crooked dice in the game of craps. Each number when added together with the number on the side opposite it, will add up to 7. For example, 6 is opposite to 1. When the dice are crooked, they do not add up to 7.
- The introduction of the single zero wheel (with better odds for the player) resulted in the demise of the double zero wheels in Europe and has become known as the "French Wheel" in roulette history.
- 1951: On September 4, Frank Sinatra makes his Vegas debut, performing in the Crystal Room at the Desert Inn.
1959: Wayne Newton performs in Vegas for the first time, despite the fact that he is still too young to enter a casino.
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