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Mobster Ties: Blessing and Curse for Gambling Conglomerate (Part I)

1963-1970s With assorted help from Mobsters starting in 1963, a small Chicago, Illinois-based pinball game maker, which had begun as Lion Manufacturing Co. in the 1920s, grew into the world’s largest slot machine developer, Bally…

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Quick Fact – Popular in Australia

1850s-Today Tuesday, April 25, Australians will be spotted throughout the local pubs playing Two-Up. Anzac Day, when military war veterans are honored, is the only time this game of chance is allowed legally. Two-Up is…

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Quick Fact - Slots Semantics

Today In the U.S. we call them slot machines and one-armed bandits, but in Australia, they’re pokies and in the United Kingdom, fruit machines. Other names? Photo from freeimages.com: by Tijmen van Dobbenburgh