Good news from Spain
The liberalisation of the Spanish gambling market continues to develop, with online gambling licensing and regulation taking centre stage in the Castilla y Leon region this week.
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Gambling casinos history:
- Bingo as we know it today is a form of lottery and is a direct descendant of Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia - the Italian National Lottery organized in 1530.
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
- During the 1950s, the Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce held a number of hearings on criminal influence in the casino industry. The committee was chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, and the committee is also known by his name.
- Las Vegas is a testament of the powerful ability of gambling to foster economic development. Because of gambling, Las Vegas has shown impressive job growth, developed into a major city with a low tax burden that many state and local governments look at with envy.
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