Trump, Icahn trade barbs in Atlantic City casino fight

Most Atlantic City smackdowns involve professional wrestlers, not billionaires with legal papers, but a steel-cage match is shaping up between Carl Icahn and Donald Trump over the bankrupt Trump Entertainment casinos. The two Queens natives, jus…

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Sat, December 19th, 2009

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  • Casino is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: a small country house, or a building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, gaming, or a game at cards.
  • Poker is derived from the Persian game of "as nar" and was probably based on the dice game "tali", which was played by the Romans.
  • In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
  • 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.