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Showing posts with label slot machines. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Choosing the Best Gambling Game

Choosing the Best Gambling Game
With the introduction of the world wide web, gambling games have never been the same. It used to be that people went to the casinos to play craps, black jack, poker, slot machines and what have you inside the casino.
It used to be that people went to the bingo social hall to play bingo and be a part of the rowdy, noisy group hollering, shouting, and jumping up and down to announce their winning card. Bingo!!! Bingo!!!
It used to be that people who bet on horses or dogs went to the race tracks to place their wagers and stakes and to experience first hand the outcome of the race.
But with the ever increasing complexity of the technology we now have, gambling has already invaded even our homes.
The proliferation of online gaming systems has required people to be connected to the world wide web to play mostly casino games such as poker, craps, roulette, and slots. 
Bingo has been turned into an online game too.
In some states, offline betting has already invaded them. So there is no need to actually go to the race track to place a bet on your favorite horse.
These days it seems that you need not go out of the house anymore to get a dose of adrenaline pumping through your veins to experience the high of winning or the low of losing.
Choosing your game is mostly a personal decision and choice. Some people have natural affinity with horses or dogs, thus they tend to play race track betting games either on the racetrack, online or offline.
Some prefer the thrill of waiting for the next ball to be announced and be ready to jump up and shout throughout the place, "Bingo! I won! I won!"
Some prefer the anonymity of playing casino games in the privacy of their homes just so when they lose, no one is the wiser. Or if they win big, no one would also be in the know.
Others prefer to feel the cards at their fingertips and would rather stay in a casino nearby to play not only a card game, but the psychological game with the dealer and the other players at the table.
The choice therefore rests on the player. All gambling games have their unique risks. All have their highs and lows. The initial makes the decision to choose which game could be considered the best gambling game.
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Monday, February 7, 2011

1960s and 1970s in Las Vegas

1960s and 1970s in Las Vegas

The 1960's brought the debut of the slot machines.  Some of these machines would accept up to a $500 token.  The jackpots grew over time from $100 to $10 million today. 
 The Rat Pack was in town filming Ocean's Eleven.  The rat pack was chairing a summit meeting at the Sands Hotel.  The group included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter :Lawford, and Joey Bishop. 
 The building boom took a brief rest when the El Rancho burned down in 1960.  It wasn't until 1966 that another hotel was built.  The Aladdin was opened and was quite an exotic Arabian Night type of hotel.  Howard Hughes burst into town in the late 60's and went on a shopping spree of land and hotels costing more than $300 million.
 The Circus Circus opened in 1968 and Las Vegas had become a family destination as well.  With the circus acts over the casino floors, adults and children could partake in the shows.  Elvis Presley returned in 1969 to the International showroom and his fans had grown up enough to enjoy the show.
 In 1971, the Union Plaza, a 500 room hotel, opened at the head of Fremont Street.  Merv Griffin started taping his shows at Caesar's Palace.  He made the city a little more famous by bringing it into people's homes each night on the television.
 1973 saw Siegfried and Roy's first show open at the Tropicana.  They would turn women into tigers in their show “Folies Begere.”  They became world class illusionists in their own right.
 The 1970's also brought two major disasters to Las Vegas.  The first was a flash flood that hit the main strip and wound up costing more than $1 million in damage.  The second was that gambling was legalized in Atlantic City and this took a lot of tourists away from Las Vegas.  Dollar slot machines were brought out at the end of the decade.

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