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

50.You will win more money betting on Sports with the King of the Spread than

any other form of gambling. Win with the King

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