Casinos are fascinating, even if you haven’t gambled yet. The idea of winning huge sums of money by playing a few games is alluring. Casino gambling has showered some with immense wealth and given some interesting tales for others. Casinos are in fact places with a chaos of emotions, some too happy, some cry at their bad luck, some frustrated, and many others restless. The casino industry is a commercial business today, without more people lured towards winning a jackpot. Over the years, let us look at some of the most interesting casino gambling facts:
1. The world’s smallest casino was in the back of a cab in London. This mobile casino has a gaming table, dealer, bar, and TV. It is mostly used for promotional rides in the city.
2. The gambling addiction is so strong that there have been instances of players soiling themselves instead of taking a pee break. Many gamblers often resort to wearing adult diapers and playing for long hours. The whole point is to not lose their seat at the table or the slot machines.
3. The first slot machine was developed in an auto shop in San Francisco. Mechanic Charles Fey made the first slot machine to entertain customers waiting to get their cars repaired. The growing popularity of the machine prompted casinos to get them.
4. Casino Monte Carlo is famous for being a gambler’s paradise, but not its residents. In the mid-1800s, Princess Caroline proclaimed a law disallowing Monaco residents from gambling in Monte Carlo, intending to generate revenue only from foreigners. However, the residents do have their share of win, they do not have to pay the income tax. Monaco uses the money from the casinos to pay the taxes.
5. FedEx, one of the most popular shipping companies was saved from the brink of bankruptcy by gambling! In the year 1973, founder Frederick Smith took to gambling in Las Vegas with the last $5,000 of the company. It paid off winning him $27,000 which helped the company to continue its operations.
6. Roulette is also called “The Devil’s Game” because when you add up all the numbers on the wheel, the sum is 666.
7. Gambling addiction is very much real and to control the urge, one can ban themselves from casinos. Several states allow you to ban voluntarily ban yourself from the casino floor.
8. Contrary to the industry being dominated by males, the first casino license was granted to a woman in Las Vegas. Mayme Stocker was the first one to open a legal casino for the Northern Club in 1920.
9. In the 1950s, when the US Dept of Energy was detonating test nukes, the scary spectacle of mushroom clouds turned into a business opportunity for casinos. Casino bars were serving ‘atomic cocktails’ to cash on the mushroom clouds left by nuke bombs.
10. The world’s gambling capital is Macau. The casino revenue in this Chinese territory is five times more than in Vegas!
How many of these facts were you aware of? Do share it with your friends who love gambling.
