Brussels’s Biggest Casino Robbed
The biggest casino in Brussels has been robbed in the early hours of Sunday, international media reported. Four masked men broke into the casino and forced the staff to open all cases and safes. According to initial data the stolen money amounts EUR 600,000. The artful thieves escaped with a taxi, which they had stolen […]
...read moreWorld’s Biggest Casino Opened in Macau, China
The Venetian Macao, a USD 2.4 B project by US-operator Las Vegas Sands Corporation, will open Tuesday in Macau and become the world’s biggest casino.
In addition, the casino will be also the second biggest building in the world with its 3,000 hotel suites, 350 shops, a 1,800-seat conference centre and a 15,000-seat entertainment centre. The […]
Denver casinos
You won’t find Wayne Newton or Cirque du Soleil in Colorado’s gambling towns, but you’ll get a nice mountain view, low stakes gambling, and, for the frugal gambler: nickel slot machines! In downtown Denver, The Ace Express bus leaves from 15th Street and Glenarm Place at the Denver Pavilions to Central City and Black Hawk, […]
...read moreRetired New Orleans Public Library Staffer Wins Big in Casino
A 30-year veteran of the New Orleans Public Library, who had moved to Opelousas, Louisiana, to stay with family after Hurricane Katrina left her homeless last month, won $1.6 million at a casino October 4 after spending only $4.25 in a Wheel of Fortune game.
Jacquelyn Sherman, who had worked at the East New Orleans Regional […]
History of the term casino
The term “Casino” originally meant a small villa, summerhouse or pavilion built for pleasure, usually located on the grounds of a larger Italian villa or palazzo. There are examples of such casinos at Villa Giulia and Villa Farnese. In modern Italian, this term designates a “casa chiusa”, literally “closed house”, while the gambling house is […]
...read moreGambling Tragedy - episode from Leo Tolstoy story “Two Hussars” (Part 2).
Ilyin had just finished playing and having lost his last kopek was lying face downwards on the sofa, pulling one hair after another from its torn horsehair cover, putting them in his mouth, biting them in two and spitting them out again.
Two tallow candles, one of which had burnt down to the paper in the […]
Gambling Tragedy - episode from Leo Tolstoy story “Two Hussars”.
The uhlan cornet, Ilyin, had not long been awake. The evening before he had sat down to cards at eight o’clock and had lost pretty steadily for fifteen hours on end - till eleven in the morning. He had lost a considerable sum but did not know exactly how much, because he had about three […]
...read moreHistory of Gambling in the United States
Examining the history of gambling in North America suggests important conclusions that are useful today in considering policies related to gambling.
The United States has had a long history of allowing some forms of legal gambling and a degree of tolerance of illegal gambling.
Societal tolerance and acceptance of legal gambling can change rapidly. Scandals and political […]
3x Zero - episode from Fedor Dostoyevsky book “The Gambler”
The distance to the casino was about half a verst, and our route led us through the Chestnut Avenue until we reached the square directly fronting the building. The General, I could see, was a trifle reassured by the fact that, though our progress was distinctly eccentric in its nature, it was, at least, correct […]
...read moreCrazy bets - episode from Fedor Dostoyevsky book “The Gambler”
Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one’s head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the […]
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