In Las Vegas, poker movies and other forms of doubling down
With “Hangover” currently offering one version of Las Vegas on the bigscreen, there’s something surreal about experiencing the city through the prism of a different cinema lens: that of a film festival.
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Do you know that:
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
- Dice games have existed in one form or another for over 2000 years and were originally played with dice fashioned from the knucklebones of sheep.
- U.S. News and World Report did a comparison of crime rates in cities with gambling versus those that do not. The crime rates were significantly higher in the places that allowed gambling.
- People earning $10,000 per year gamble more than twice as much money as people earning $30-40,000 per year. People earning $10,000 per year gamble four times as much money as those making $80,000 or more per year.
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