Good story on how revenue from the Commerce Casino (probably the top poker spot in LA) has made the town of Commerce one of the wealthiest in proportion to its residents:
When Georgina and Tony Escalera moved back to Commerce 10 years ago, they knew one thing: It's a place of plenty when it comes to city-provided perks.
Their three children attended preschool for free. The family pays nothing for trash service. While they added a second story to their home, the city sent them $22,000 in home-improvement rebate checks.
It's good to see some coverage of the upside of legalized poker. California is a fascinating study in gambling because most legalized (non-Indian) gambling there is poker. I'd like to read some comparisons between the effects of legalized card rooms in California versus legalized wider gambling in other areas. California is apparently be able to sustainably support its over 200 legal cardrooms, in contrast with other areas where just a small number of casinos with banks of low-payout slot machines and table games seem to cause more widespread social problems. Link (via Calblog)
California's card rooms have been around a long time before there was indian gaming. As a result, California may have the best poker play in the world -- better than Vegas.
However, the indian casinos are cutting into the poker rooms and there's some political wrangling between the two. I post stuff once in a while on my blog about this. If anyone wants me to pull the supporting info from the archives, I can.
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Posted by: Luis Anderson on October 11, 2005 01:44 AM
Have you seen this before? It's a number guessing game: http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/guessthenumber.html. I guessed 67747, and it got it right! Pretty neat.
Posted by: Merideth Carleton on November 14, 2005 05:53 PM
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