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History of Las Vegas
Prehistoric Southern Nevada was a virtual marsh of abundant water and eons passed, the marsh receded. Rivers disappeared beneath the surface. The once teeming wetlands evolved into a parched, arid…
Indian Gaming Casino Jobs
With Native American reservations in the United States viewed as sovereign nations, tribal leaders face the same responsibilities as any other government leaders to provide for their people and secure…
Gaming Guide
Gambling is a sport. A few people play as professionals, making a decent living at it. But for most, gambling is a form of recreation to be enjoyed. And like…
Game Descriptions: Roulette
Roulette, the oldest casino game still in existence, originated from other wheel games popular during the Middle Ages. It gained widespread popularity in Europe, especially in France during the late…
Game Descriptions: Poker
Poker can be traced to the early seventeenth century when a variation of the game was played by the Persians in the form of as-nas, a five-card game. French immigrants…
Game Descriptions: Pai gow
Pai gow is an intriguing gambling game that has been popular for years in Asia and recently has gained a following at casinos here in the United States. The game…
Game Descriptions: Keno
During the Han Dynasty of China two thousand years ago, a man named Cheung Leung invented a game in which players tried to match a set of characters with those…
Game Descriptions: Craps
Craps developed out of the old English game hazard, which came to America in the early eighteenth century. Hazard proved too tedious for American players, so the rules were altered,…
Game Descriptions: Blackjack
The card game of blackjack, also known as twenty-one, is commonly believed to have grown out of the popular French game vingt-et-un. Early nineteenth-century professional gamblers are credited with bringing…
Game Descriptions: Baccarat
Baccarat has a reputation as a "gentleman's" game and one for the high rollers. With dealers dressed in full tuxedos and tables often roped off or physically separated from other…
Christmas: Origin and History
ORIGIN OF THE WORD The word for Christmas in late Old English is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ, first found in 1038, and Cristes-messe, in 1131. In Dutch it…