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The sweet CA-CHING sound of a winning slot machine, the “Cocktails?”
solicitation by scantily-clad cocktail waitresses, shouts of joy at a roulette
wheel. The pumped in oxygen, flashing lights, and high-fives with strangers at a
blackjack table – there’s nothing like the sights and sounds and pulse-pounding
excitement you feel with those first few steps walking into a casino.

My name is Steve Beauregard and I put this site together because other than the
occasional losing streak and undercooked steak, I love everything about
traveling to casinos.

I’m neither a travel writer, nor a casino expert, but rather, just an ordinary
tourist who caught the gambling bug early.

Welcome to Gamboool!

Ever since I was a kid in the 70’s, when my parents scurried us quickly past the
smoke-filled aisles of slots to our hotel room at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas,
I’ve been mesmerized by casinos.


Yes, there are annoying resort fees, and free parking on the Las Vegas Strip is
becoming more hard to find, but still…

Las Vegas casinos represent a whole other world – one full of magic – and a
visually and emotionally stunning escape where financial gain is possible, and a
good time is probable. A place where where my heart can soar with a dealer’s
bust card, or drop in disgust after a supposedly fast horse trots slower than my
lawnmower.

It’s a mystical land where fortunes can be made, and mortgage payments lost,
where not only can you eat to excess, you’re encouraged to do so, and where
beautiful women who would otherwise never give me the time of day approach me,
asking if they can bring me free alcohol.

Casino Boom

From Los Angeles to Las Vegas, to Louisiana and Connecticut, and all points
in-between, Americans are flocking to casinos in record numbers. According to
the American Gaming Association (AGA), approximately 25% of us in the United
States visited a casino at least once last year. (That’s roughly 75 million
people). To take care of those millions, casinos employ over 350,000 people.

The Las Vegas Strip remains the biggest gambling destination in the United
States

The 466 commercial casinos in the United States generated over $53 billion in
gaming revenues in 2021, according to the AGA. And that’s now even counting
revenue from the country’s 515 Native American casinos. (Most recent figures for
Tribal gaming are from 2020, and show a gaming revenue of just under $28
billion).

And the casino building boom continues.

After taking a siesta during the recession, the Vegas construction scene has
jumped alive, with billion-dollar plus major resorts having recently opened on
the Strip (Resorts World), and in downtown Las Vegas (Circa Hotel & Casino).

In recent years, new casino/hotels have opened in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio,
Biloxi, Mississippi, Maryland, Michigan, San Jose, California, Oklahoma, and
Louisiana.

We’ve also seen the grand opening of casinos in New York, Washington state,
Florida and Santa Rosa, California, as Native American tribes try to cash in on
the boom, and state and local municipalities look for a way to boost their
economy and increase tax revenues into government coffers.

Las Vegas, of course, is the runaway leader of casino gambling in the United
States with approximately major 90 casinos in the metropolitan area. The Las
Vegas Strip itself is home to 31 casinos.


STATES WITH MOST CASINO GAMBLING REVENUE

The top ten casino states in the United States (by most recently published
monthly revenue numbers) are as follows:

 1.  Nevada
 2.  New Jersey
 3.  Pennsylvania
 4.  New York
 5.  Louisiana
 6.  Indiana
 7.  Mississippi
 8.  Ohio
 9.  Maryland
 10. Missouri

(Figures come from the AGA, however please note these numbers are from
state-licensed commercial casinos and therefore these figures do not include
Indian casinos. Otherwise states like Connecticut, with Foxwoods and Mohegan
Sun, and Oklahoma, home to the WinStar – the largest casino in the United States
– would figure to be on this list).

Today’s multi-billion dollar casino industry is a far cry from casino’s humble
roots. Although gambling and games of chance have been around forever, (“I’ll
lay you 2-1 that Eve eats that apple.”), the first documented casino was called
the Ridotto.

World’s First Casinos

A wing of a palace in Venice, Italy, The Ridotto was owned and operated by the
local government and mostly catered to the area’s wealthy citizens. The Ridotto
opened up 1638, with an opening night celebration that included a performance by
Tony Bennett (rim shot).

The Ridotto was extremely popular, despite only having two games: a card game
and a bingo type of game. The Wheel of Fortune slot machines would come much
later.


FIRST CASINO IN THE UNITED STATES

What constitutes as the very first casino in the United States is not exactly
certain. After staying at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas a few years
back, I would have thought it was the oldest casino, based on the carpeting in
our room.

(Related: Las Vegas Strip free parking places)

Because poker type games were popular on the riverboats of the Mississippi, the
USA’s first casino likely could have been a dusty, dirty little card room on the
banks of the lower Mississippi River in the early 1800’s.

However many have speculated that the USA’s first casino was part of the first
known saloon in the United States – an old West joint near the Utah/Colorado
border called “Brown’s Saloon.”

Published reports put Brown’s Saloon as being established near the
Colorado/Utah/Wyoming border in 1822 in a fur-trapping camp called Brown’s Hole.
This was a then-busy area of commerce that saw its share of famous old West
outlaws, like Butch Cassidy.

It’d be ironic if Utah was the actual home to the country’s first casino,
considering the Beehive State is one of only two states to not have any form of
legalized gambling, (Hawaii is the other). Brown’s Saloon likely featured only
one game: Faro, which is a card came somewhat similar to poker.

Unlike gritty old Brown’s Saloon, today’s casino is a pleasure-filled,
technologically advanced, visually-pleasing marvel, complete with award-winning
restaurants, hip clubs, luxurious spas, entertaining shows, world-class shopping
and everything else you could ever need (and a lot of things you don’t).

And unlike some of the dark, smoky, cluttered, and soulless casino floors of the
past, today’s modern casinos are bright, open, comfortable, and most
importantly, fun!

Here at Gamboool.com, you’ll find information, photos and helpful tidbits about
the various casinos spread out over the country. We’ll cover everything from the
Fountains of Bellagio show times to buffet prices. We’ll also cover poker
players, general Las Vegas tips, other gambling towns, and other
gambling-related topics.

Your feedback, questions, and/or personal observations in visiting these casinos
or on the other topics is welcome. Thank you for reading!

(Photos courtesy of Glen Scarborough and Schnitzel_bank via Flickr).


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