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14 unusual facts about casino


2008 Camping World RV 400 presented by Coleman

Plans are to bring the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, a rock-and-roll themed casino overlooking Turn Two to be built on the property, and also add a second race to a future NASCAR Sprint Cup season no later than 2011 by taking one of the dates from one of the ISC-owned tracks.

Argosy Gaming Company

It began operations in September, 1991 with the opening of the Alton Belle Casino.

Cauberg

On the other side of the road, amidst an extension of Rotspark, is a branch of Holland Casino in a modern building with an imposing view of the town and the Geul valley.

Coyote Valley Reservation

It is also the location of the Coyote Valley Shodakai Casino.

Craig Barron

Matte World Digital was the first in the industry to apply radiosity rendering to film in Martin Scorsese’s Casino.

Fort Mojave Indian Reservation

If the deal is ratified, the Fort Mojave Reservation will be the first to have casinos in three states; the reservation operates the Avi Resort & Casino in Nevada and the Spirit Mountain Casino in Arizona.

Interail

In September 1997 Northern Rivers Railroad commenced operating cement and flyash trains from Grafton to Casino and Murwillumbah under sub-contract to FreightCorp.

Jerry's Nugget playing cards

Founded in 1964 by Jerry Lodge and Jerry Stamis, Jerry's Nugget Casino stands today as a significant piece of Las Vegas history.

John Grochowski

He published his first gambling book in 1996 entitled Gaming: Cruising the Casino with a Syndicated Gambling Columnist.

Santo Trafficante, Jr.

As a leading member of the syndicate, it was suspected that he also had behind-the-scenes interests in other syndicate-owned Cuban gambling casinos namely, the Hotel Habana Riviera, the Tropicana Club, the Sevilla-Biltmore, the Capri Hotel Casino, the Commodoro, the Deauville, and the Havana Hilton.

Standard 52-card deck

Casino blackjack decks may include markings intended for a machine to check the ranks of cards, or shifts in rank location to allow a manual check via inlaid mirror.

Treasury Building, Brisbane

Subsequently, more departments moved out and the Treasury Building, along with the Lands Administration Building were sold and now form the Treasury Casino.

Vaya

The sound of the album bridges the musical gap between In/Casino/Out and their following album, Relationship of Command.

Verona, New York

By 1997, this facility evolved into a resort called Turning Stone Resort & Casino.


Alessandro Mendini

As architect, he designed several buildings; for example the Alessi residence in Omegna, Italy; the theater complex "Teatrino della Bicchieraia" in the Tuscan city of Arezzo; the Forum Museum of Omegna, a memorial tower in Hiroshima, Japan; the Groninger Museum in The Netherlands and the Arosa Casino in Switzerland.

Angelo Parra

His first produced play, Casino, was presented at T. Schreiber Studio, and won a 1989 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Playwriting and an Arts International grant (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Information Agency, Rockefeller Foundation, and The Pew Charitable Trusts).

Anne Lenner

Her overseas work also included Monte Carlo where she had a show at the Casino and in Paris where she sang with Bert Firman.

Bracci-Cambini

Therefore several academic books and articles have been written about the family, including In famiglia: Storie di interessi e affetti nell’Italia moderna by Roberto Bizzocchi and Il Casino dei Nobili: Famiglie illustri, viaggiatori, mondanità a Pisa tra Sette e Ottecent by Alessandro Panajia with Giovanni Benvenuti.

Caesars Entertainment Corporation

Holiday Inn at the time had 1,600 hotels and interests in two casinos, a casino under construction in the marina district in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and a 40 percent ownership interest in River Boat Casino, a casino adjacent to the Holiday Inn hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.

Café de Paris

Café de Paris (Monaco), Monte Carlo restaurant which opened in 1985 adjacent to Casino Café de Paris and Hôtel de Paris, with interior designed as recreation of old Monaco circa 1900

Cannery Casino Resorts

In 2002, CCR took control of the Regent Casino in Summerlin and, after remodeling, rebranded it as Rampart Casino.

Casino Christian Community School

In 1993, a group of Christian parents had the idea to start up a local Christian school somewhere in the Casino/Richmond Valley area.

Casinò Lugano

Casinò Lugano (formerly known as Teatro Kursaal) is a casino and theatre designed by Italian architect Achille Sfondrini in 1804.

Casino Luxembourg

With a view to using the building for art exhibitions during Luxembourg City's year as European Cultural Capital in 1995, the Swiss artist Urs Raussmüller of Schaffhausen's Hallen für Neue Kunst was charged with adapting the casino into an exhibition space for a limited period by creating substantially more hanging space than could be provided by the walls in the various rooms.

Casino Magic

Casino Magic is a casino brand owned by Pinnacle Entertainment, from its acquisition of Casino Magic Corp..

Colorado River Indian Reservation

In 2005, the reservation began proposing a new hotel and casino near Blythe, citing the location along the river and Interstate 10, with the help of the governments of that city and the state of California.

Diamond Jo Casino – Worth

Soon after opening its doors in 2006, Diamond Jo Casino – Worth purchased Arrowhead Golf Course located just outside of Emmons, Minnesota.

Don McNeill's Breakfast Club

It was also heard from other Chicago venues: the Terrace Casino (at the Morrison Hotel), the College Inn Porterhouse (at the Sherman House) and "the Tiptop Room of the Allerton Hotel on Chicago's Magnificent Mile," as well as tour broadcasts from other locations in the U.S.

Éric Serra

Serra composed the music for the new Criss Angel/Cirque Du Soleil show 'Criss Angel: Believe' to open at the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, in October 2008.

Footsee

By late 1974, the Northern soul music and dance scene centered on the Wigan Casino club in Lancashire, England, was attracting increasing attention from mainstream media in the UK, at the same time as original American R&B recordings which met the musical criteria of its fans, and which were new to listeners, were becoming more difficult to find.

Fortune Lounge Group

Fortune Lounge was one of the first online casino groups to host its players at land-based sporting and lifestyle events around the world, taking in the Monaco Grand Prix, the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Las Vegas and the Bahamas.

François Ruhlmann

From 1911 he conducted at the theatre of the Casino of Aix-les-Bains.

Hollywood Casino Hotel and Raceway

Taxes on the casino's revenue contributed approximately $12 million USD to the City of Bangor's construction of the Cross Insurance Center, located across the street from the Casino.

Idiot Flesh

Anderson went on to work with Les Claypool, Cirque du Soleil, The Fuxedos, Casino Royale, Kehoe Nation, and Schloss.

Jay Acovone

Jay guest starred as a Casino owner with unconfirmed Mafia connections in a 2012 episode of The Mentalist entitled 'Pink Champagne on Ice', alongside fellow Stargate actor Christopher Judge.

John Connelly

John E. Connelly (1926–2009), Pittsburgh casino and riverboat owner

Joni Fuller

Aged 12, she performed solo at the Casino Barriere during the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Juan Carlos Mareco

He later joined Argentine latin jazz drummer Tito Alberti as a vocalist in Alberti's Jazz Casino Orchestra, touring throughout Latin America until 1957.

Las Ramblas Resort

The Las Ramblas Resort was a proposed hotel, resort, and casino project in Paradise, Nevada by George Clooney and Rande Gerber (husband of Cindy Crawford), and designed by Arquitectonica.

Louis Grech

These include Director of Bank of Valletta, Central Bank of Malta, Middle Sea, Medavia, Malta International Airport, Dragonara Casino, and various private companies.

Margarita Morozova

Having lost all of his money and most of the family’s property in wild projects and Monte Carlo casinos, he finally shoot himself, leaving his wife Margarita Ottovna (née Loewenstein) with two young girls and without any means.

Montenegrin mafia

On September 10, 2009 Montenegrin businessman Branislav Šaranović was shot to death outside of his apartment in Belgrade.Although mainly residing in Budva, Montenegro, Branislav owned a casino in Belgrade made close ties to Brano Mićunović and Milo Đukanović.

Moulin Rouge Hotel

Eiffel Tower appears vertically on the sign of the establishment, and also on the casino chips,

MV John Hamilton Gray

The vessel was overhauled at a shipyard in Les Méchins, Quebec, and departed for West Palm Beach, Florida, in November, no longer a ferry but a casino cruise ship.

Offshore bank

In the 1970s through the 1990s it was possible to own your own personal offshore bank; mobster Meyer Lansky had done this to launder his casino money.

Ottone Calderari

He completed the casino for the Lapertico family in Capra.

Pasquale Cajano

After Casino, Cajano went on with small roles in certain films, like Big Night, Sleepers, and The Impostors (another uncredited role).

Paul Helliwell

Helliwell continued to work as a lawyer in Miami and served as legal counsel to a Panamanian holding company that controlled a Bahamian gambling casino connected with Meyer Lansky.

Pearl White

A shrewd businesswoman, she invested in a successful Parisian nightclub, a Biarritz resort hotel/casino, and a profitable stable of thoroughbred race horses.

Piper, Kansas

ft. of retail and warehouse space on 88 acres (360,000 m2) of land drawing visitors all over the United States, Great Wolf Lodge, the Kansas Speedway, the Legends at Village West, Hollywood Casino, MLS record holding soccer team Sporting Kansas City using Sporting Park stadium, and the CommunityAmerica Ballpark which is the stadium of the Kansas City T-Bones.

Publishing and Broadcasting Limited

PBL is currently involved in two casino projects in Macau: the $260 million Crown Macau, scheduled for completion in 2006-07, and the $1.4 billion City of Dreams.

Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal

It is primarily served by GO Transit buses running along the Lakeshore East and Highway 407/York University corridors, with longer distance connections outside the Greater Toronto Area by Greyhound, Coach Canada, Megabus and Can-ar, and additional casino services.

Sex and Lies in Sin City

The film details the events surrounding the death of Las Vegas casino owner Ted Binion.

Steven P. Perskie

On March 29, 1994, he announced his resignation from the Casino Control Commission to become Vice President and General Counsel of Players International, an operator of riverboat casinos with no interests in New Jersey.

Suzy Creamcheese

A 1960s-1970s Las Vegas boutique named for the character is mentioned in the film Casino when Jennifer Santoro tells Ginger (Sharon Stone) about an article of clothing in the shop.

The Casino Murder Case

The Casino Murder Case (1935) starred Paul Lukas as Philo Vance and was a fairly faithful reproduction of the principal details of the novel.

Villa Borghese gardens

In the 1650s, Diego Velázquez painted several depictions of this Villa's garden casino festively illuminated at night.

Wonderland Greyhound Park

Casino gambling is currently against the law in Massachusetts and governor Deval Patrick's idea of introducing it to the state failed to make it through the legislature in 2007.

Yankton Sioux Tribe

The tribe owns and operates the Fort Randall Casino and Hotel in Pickstown, South Dakota, as well as Lucky Lounge and Four Directions Restaurant.