Interesting Facts About Gambling

[playborne]

hi all, I want to share some interesting facts about gambling with you and want you to do the same here are some :

Let’s start from the Las Vegas facts:
-Las Vegas was founded in 1905. The name means "the meadows" in Spanish.
- Las Vegas covers 84.272 square miles, 219.1 square kilometers.
-Gambling became legalized in Vegas in 1931.
-87% of the people who visited Las Vegas - gambled.
-Annual visitors to Las Vegas, is 36.7 millions

- No one knows when the first instance of gambling took place, but the first record of it taking place can be traced to China in 2300BC.

waiting for your responses P.S this is my first thread

[Rhyzz]

Lavo at the Palazzo is the best club in Vegas - Fact

[PlexRep]

I love useless trivia. (If anyone ever needs a ringer for a pub quiz team, give me a call)

Here are a few more fun facts about Vegas and Roulette.

• 17 of the 20 biggest hotels in the US are in Las Vegas
• The MGM Grand washes an estimated 15,000 pillowcases daily
• There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.
  
• Roulette was just a by-product of Blaise Pascals experiments with perpetual motion.
• If you add up all the numbers on a roulette wheel, you get 666, the so called 'number of the beast'

[playborne]

thnx for great facts, I've got some more

• The Italian word "baccarat" means "zero" in English.
  
• Origins of Keno is the oldest gambling game. While there is no written history of the exact origin of the game there are written records that date the game back to the Han Dynasty between 205 and 187 B.C. The records say that the game was introduced by Cheung leung as a means of raising money for the armies.
  
• Blackjack, or 21 as some people call it, continues to be the most popular table game in both online and offline casinos. It is also the game with the best odds.
  
• The game called craps usually has some of the best bets in the casino.

[pinkfloyd]

Horse racing began to become a professional sport during the reign (1702-14) of Queen Anne, when match racing gave way to races involving several horses on which the spectators wagered

[3mptyseat]

thread. i like

[FreeDomme]

I wonder about the total floor space of casinos and motels. Would it cover a small country? Say... Costa Rica?

[playborne]

I wonder about the total floor space of casinos and motels. Would it cover a small country? Say... Costa Rica?

nice perspective I've never thought of it, even Google has no answer of it I doubt