Gambling Help Line Reports Record Use
MADISON — A group that counsels gambling addicts said its help line received a record number of calls in 2008. The Wisconsin Council on Problem Gambling said its 24-hour hot line received at least 12,000 calls last year — a 28 percent increase over the previous year.
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- The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
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- The word Casino originally meant a public hall for music and dancing. By the second half of the 19th century, the term essentially meant a collection of gaming or gambling rooms. The classic example of a casino, is the casino at Monte-Carlo, which was opened in 1861.
- French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal explored the mathematics of gambling, leading to the formulation of Pascal's theory of probability in 1654.
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