Where are you?
The total amount of money bet on a game is known as ????
What is the handle
What is blackjack, craps, roulette, baccarat, poker
What billionaire purchased casinos in the 1960’s, changing the way casinos were viewed by the public and the government?
Who is Howard Hughes
What are comps?
What is complimentary goods and services offered to casino patrons in order to attract their business
What casino powerhouse location surpasses Las Vegas?
What are the two basic categories of gambling?
What is social gambling and mercantile (or commercial) gambling
Which casino game offers the best chance of winning?
What is blackjack?
During the Great Depression, what state legalized gambling to increase tourism?
What is Nevada
Which CT casino is the 2nd largest in the United States?
What Foxwoods
What was the first casino resort on what would become the Las Vegas Strip?
What is El Rancho Vegas
What do casinos, with thousands of guests, rely on to track their patron play?
What are customer loyalty programs
How many spaces does a roulette wheel have?
What is 38 spaces (1-36, 0, and 00)
What year was the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act established?
1988
The gaming industry has continued scrutiny by who?
What is the (federal) government (Dept of Interior)
In 1976, New Jersey voters legalized casino gambling where?
The handle minus the money paid out on winning bets (what the casino keeps)
What is the win?
Slots account for what percentage of overall gambling profits?
What is 50%
Gambling dates back how many thousands of years?
What is 7000
The gaming industry is less dependent on casino revenue and more dependent on what?
What is Food and Beverage, retail, entertainment, rooms
Name the 2 casinos in Connecticut operated on tribal lands under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods
This type of betting was recently made legal in 2021 in Connecticut
What is sports betting
The creation of the modern casino in 1941 had what type of a theme for their names?
What is Western themed (El Rancho Vegas, Golden Nugget, Hotel Apache, Horseshoe, Frontier)