Jack Evans: Internet gambling “hot spots” postponed

Ward 2 Councilman Jack Evans says plans for implementing Internet gambling hot spots in bars, restaurants and hotels across the District have been postponed. “I have met with representatives of the Chief Financial Officer and D.C. Lottery in light of yesterday’s hearing and am pleased that they are taking immediate action in response to concerns raised before the Committee,” Evans said in a …

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Thu, June 30th, 2011

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Interesting gambling information:

  • The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
  • The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
  • Gambling became legalized in Vegas in 1931 by Mayme V. Stocker and J.H. Morgan who was issued Clark County Gaming License No. 1.
  • French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.