Video slots a salvation for Ohio’s seven horse tracks, says racing commission

Thomas Zaino of the Ohio State Racing Commission authored a plan to bring video slot machines to Ohio’s horse racing tracks that has only one goal in mind. “It’s specifically designed to save Ohio’s $2 billion horse racing industry,” said…

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Fri, March 20th, 2009

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Gambling casinos history:

  • The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
  • Originally, the double-zero wheel started in Europe and the single-zero wheel started in America. But, Europeans liked the single-zero wheel better, and Americans liked the double-zero wheel better so they switched. Today, the American wheel and double-zero wheel are synonymous.
  • The Gold Rush brought a huge increase in the amount and types of gambling to California. San Francisco replaced New Orleans as the center for gambling in the United States.
  • Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.