50 of the Craziest Gambling Facts You Didn’t Know
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Crazy Gambling Facts You Didnt KnowFrom the King of the Spread.com
1. The world record for an overall jackpot was set in December 1999 at $1.2
billion, the Spanish lottery is also the world's easiest - it spreads the prize pool
among thousands of winners, with a one in six chance of winning something.
2. In Poker, a pair of Aces and eights is called the dead man's hand because this is
the hand that Wild Bill Hickok was holding when shot dead.
3. Richard Nixon financed his first congressional run with poker winnings won in
the South Pacific during WWII..
4. Blackjack is the only game that affords players the opportunity to play with a
mathematical edge over the house.
5. Shrimp consumption in Las Vegas is more than 60,000 pounds a day -- higher
than the rest of the country combined!
6. Casino cheats are often referred to by casinos as 'crossroads'
7. Players who chase their losses are sometimes referred to as 'steamers' ,
'pigeons; or 'plungers'.
8. The largest slot machine payout is $39,713,982.25, won by a 25-year-old
software engineer from Los Angeles after putting in $100 in the Megabucks
slot machine at the Excalibur Hotel Casino on March 21, 2003.
9. Nearly 76% of men and 68% of women gambled over the past year. 75% of
teenagers gamble.
10.A 1910 law made it illegal to gamble in Las Vegas
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11.Over 100,000 people play poker at the Bellagio in Las Vegas each year
12.Gambling became legalized in Las Vegas in 1931- until then a 1910 law had
expressly made it illegal to gamble in Las Vegas
13.Boulder City, located a few miles southeast of Las Vegas, is the only town in
Nevada that prohibits gambling.
14.On 1 June, Joachim M. won the biggest online slot jackpot ever... $1,779,827
playing Major Millions slots
15.20% of the worlds 'high intensity' electronic gaming machines are located in
Australia.
16.The highest gross gaming revenue generated by the casinos and entertainment
complexes of a city in a year is US$7,673,134,286 (5,416,584,982) by Las
Vegas, Nevada, USA in 2000.
17.The odds of getting an Ace high Royal Flush in a 5 card (no wild) poker deal is
650,000 to 1.
18.The odds of getting four of a kind in a 5 card (no wild) poker deal is 4,000 to 1.
19.The odds of winning powerball in the US : 1 in 80,089,128
20.The odds of winning the British, Canadian, French or Spanish (Pimera) lotto's
21.Are the same : 1 in 13,983,816
22.The odds of winning the Spanish Pimera are 1 in 13,983,816.
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23.Australian adults, on average, spend more money each year on gambling
(losses not turnover) than on sporting activities or cultural and entertainment
activities.
24.40% of all Australians gamble at least once per week.
25.Seventeen of the 20 biggest hotels in the U.S. are in Las Vegas..
26.Vegas Vic, the neon cowboy that towers over Fremont Street, is the world's
largest mechanical neon sign.
27.Average number of pillowcases washed daily at MGM Grand 15,000
28.The Dunes, demolished in 1993, was the first resort to feature topless
showgirls in a show called Minsky's Follies.
29.Annual visitors to Las Vegas, in millions 36.7
30.Champion racehorse Secretariat was featured on the covers of "Time,"
"Newsweek," and "Sports Illustrated" in the same week in 1973.
31.A "fruit machine" is the British term for a slot machine, or "one-armed bandit."
32.The State of Nevada first legalized gambling in 1931. At that same time, the
Hoover Dam was being built and the federal government did not want its
workers (who earned 50 cents an hour) to be involved with such diversions, so
they built the town of Boulder City to house the dam workers. To this day,
Boulder City is the only city in Nevada where gambling is illegal.
33.The ancient Greeks awarded celery to winners of sports events, and it often
was carried by marathon runners
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34.Gamblers in ancient Greece made dice from the ankle-bones and shoulder
blades of sheep.
35.During the football season of 1905, at least 19 players died in college and high
school contests.
36.Roulette was invented by the great French mathematician and philosopher
Blaise Pascal. It was a by-product of his experiments with perpetual motion.
37.The marquees of the fifty largest casinos and hotels in Las Vegas use enough
electricity to run more than a thousand average U.S. homes.
38.In 1996, a Nevada panel designated the Las Vegas Strip a scenic byway, saying
the glitzy neon lights and erupting volcano, sinking pirate ship, pyramid, castle,
and other casino attractions are culturally enriching.
39.With the highly publicized fiery 1998 implosion of the 17-story, the 31-year-old
landmark Las Vegas Aladdin hotel and casino became the fifth casino to be
brought tumbling down since 1993. Previously imploded buildings along the
Vegas strip included the once-opulent Dunes, Sands, Landmark, and Haciendahotels. All were destroyed to make room for bigger, more-modern facilities
40.In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose
only job was to swallow the dice if there were a police raid.
41.A recent Gallup Poll Social Audit on gambling showed that 57 percent of
Americans have bought a lottery ticket in the last 12 months, making lotteries
by far the favorite choice of gamblers.
42.The Stratosphere Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, is 1,149 feet tall,
making it the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.
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43.The State of Nevada first legalized gambling in 1931. At that same time, the
Hoover Dam was being built and the federal government did not want its
workers (who earned 50 cents an hour) to be involved with such diversions, so
they built the town of Boulder City to house the dam workers. To this day,
Boulder City is the only city in Nevada where gambling is illegal
44.No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
45.Residents of Nevada bet an average of $846 a year in gambling casinos.
46.If you add together all of the numbers on a Roulette wheel (1 to 36) to result is
666, the mythical number most often associated with the Devil.
47.There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.
48.The world's first slot machine "The Liberty Bell" was invented by Charles Fey in
1899.
49.Did you know? 24% of all Americans admit to having gambled illegally
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