...1). Those clubs werealright but nothing compared to the casino being built down south in LasVegas. “Las Vegas was a small town until gangster Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegalchanged the city’s character forever by constructing it’s first lavishhotel-casino in 1945” (Gambling-Encarta). It was know as the Flamingo. The casino industry started and there was no looking back. Nevada’seconomy exploded and has made trillions to date. Gambling isn’t just rolling the dice and praying for a seven or eleven. There are many different types of legalized gambling. The most obviousbeing casino-style gambling. Someone could play roulette, card and dicegames, slot machines, and electronic games such as video poker and videoslots. Other forms of gambling include Horse racing-the wagering of moneyon the outcome of a horse race, Indian gambling-the gambling allowed onIndian owned land. “In 1988, Congress passed the Indian GamingRegulatory Act which reestablished the right of sovereign Indian tribes to runcasinos on their land without having to follow the gambling laws of the statethey occupy” (Kolasky 2). “One-third of the country’s 557 federallyrecognized tribes offer some form of gaming” (Berns 2). More forms of gambling include charitable gambling-serves as afund-raiser for nonprofit organizations, Riverboat gambling-the casino-stylegambling on a boat in the water, Sports betting-the wagering of money on theoutcome of sports games, Internet gambling-gambling over the Internet, andprobably the most used of all is lotteries-the buying of numbered tickets inwhich prizes given out to those whose numbers are drawn. The only forms ofgambling allowed in the state of Ohio are lotteries, horse racing, andcharitable gambling such as bingo (Drinkard 2) Along with the legal forms there are also illegal forms of gambling. It’s illegal when someone makes a bet, lets say on the ...
