Progressive jackpot hit at Slotland

The Golden 8 progressive online slot at Slotland.com delivered a $163 476 jackpot this week to a player using the handle ‘Yukon,’ who has been gambling on the internet for only a year.
The surprised player told Slotland management that he had never expected such a large win, although like everyone else he had always been […]

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Wed, May 26th, 2010

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  • 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.
  • Dog racing (a race among greyhounds who chase after a mechanical rabbit) operates in 17 states. Jai-alai (a game similar to handball) is legal in just three: Connecticut, Florida, and Rhode Island.
  • Gambling became legalized in Vegas in 1931 by Mayme V. Stocker and J.H. Morgan who was issued Clark County Gaming License No. 1.
  • Charles Fey invented the first slot machine way back in 1895. He went on to perfect his initial innovation in 1907, when he teamed with Mills Novelty Company who manufactured the "Mills Liberty Bell".