Interesting piece in the Philly Inquirer about a pay-to-learn-to-gamble service: As far as Roberta Pickett is concerned, it was $100 well spent. “When I left,” said the 53-year-old Myrtle Beach, S.C., resident, “I really felt I could play craps.” Pickett was referring to her recent dice-shooting lesson at Trump Taj Mahal with Assisted Casino Entertainment […]
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news about gamblingGood article in today’s Miami Herald about expanded casino gambling in Florida: The promise of new jobs from gambling has been key to state lawmakers' decision to allow the games to become more high-stakes and widespread. “This is like building the Hoover Dam during the Depression,'' Brunetti has said.Gambling opponents, however, say the industry isn't
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news about gamblingI’ve got a not-so-new and probably not very exciting report up over at gaming.unlv.edu. It contains an accurate count of the numbers of slot machines, table games, and card games (mostly poker) in Nevada since 1963: Nevada's Gaming Footprint, 1963-2009 (pdf) A breakdown of total licenses and numbers of games, tables, and slots from 1963
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