Gambling Regulators To Make Layoffs

Kansas gambling regulators to lay off and reduce hours for 21 staffers because expanded gambling plans did not work out in the state.

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Tue, January 6th, 2009

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Casino gambling information:

  • The age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.
  • The first airplane flight to Las Vegas was made in May, 1920, with Lieutenant Randall Henderson, editor of the Blythe, California Herald, and Jack Beckley.
  • In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
  • The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.