Gaming Industry

ALSO CALLED: Casinos, Gambling Activities, Gaming Industry, Gambling Facilities, Gambling Casinos DEFINITION: Companies that provide, own, operate, or engage in lawful gaming activities and facilities related to gaming and leisure.

There are many different types of gaming facilities, but one common denominator most share is an ongoing need for skilled personnel with experience in the hospitality industry. Although the unique excitement of gaming is often the strongest draw, most gaming facilities also rely on an array of comfortable, inviting hospitality amenities to attract and retain loyal guests. Often, casinos are co-located with luxurious hotels; others have a nightclub-like environment. Most popular casinos also offer their guests world-class dining facilities.

Types of Gambling

Casino games While almost any game can be played for money, and any game typically played for money can also be played just for fun, some games are generally offered in a casino setting.

Table games The term table game is used to distinguish games such as blackjack, craps, roulette and baccarat that are played on a table and operated by one or more live dealers like a croupier or poker dealer, as opposed to a games played on a mechanical device like a video slot machine. The term has significance in that some jurisdictions permit casinos to have only slots and no table games. In some states, this law has made casinos host electronic table games, such as roulette, blackjack, and poker.

Electronic gaming Pachinko ( ) is a type of game originating in Japan, and is used as both a form of recreational arcade game and much more frequently as a gambling device, filling a niche ingambling in Japan comparable to that of the slot machine in Western gambling. A pachinko machine resembles a vertical pinball machine, but has no flippers and uses a large number of small balls. Video poker is a casino game based on five-card draw poker. It is played on a computerized console similar in size to a slot machine.
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Slot machine (American English), informally fruit machine (British English), the slots (Canadian English), poker machine or "pokies" (slang) (Australian Englishand New Zealand English) or simply slot (American English) is a casino gambling machine with three or more reels which spin when a button is pushed. Slot machines are also known as one-armed bandits because they were originally operated by a lever on the side of the machine (the one arm) instead of a button on the front panel, and because of their ability to leave the gamer penniless (bandit). Many modern machines still have a legacy lever in addition to the button.

Internet Gambling The incidence of Internet gambling is increasing in Hawaii. In these Internet casinos are full-scale video versions of common games that are found in all casinos. The Internet sites are often based outside the United States where such gambling activity is legal. Although this activity may be legal there, participating in it from Hawaii is illegal and the Gambling Detail is currently working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the investigation of these types of cases.

Other gambling Bingo is a game of chance played with randomly drawn numbers which players match against numbers that have been pre-printed on 5x5 matrices. The matrices may be printed on paper, card stock or electronically represented and are referred to as cards. Many versions conclude the game when the first person achieves a specified pattern from the drawn numbers. The winner is usually required to call out the word "Bingo!", which alerts the other players and caller of a possible win. All wins are checked for accuracy before the win is officially confirmed at which time the prize is secured and a new game is begun. In this version of bingo, players compete against one another for the prize or jackpot. Keno is a lottery or bingo gambling game often played at modern casinos, and is also offered as a game in some state lotteries. A traditional live casino keno game uses a circular glass enclosure called a "bubble" containing 80 balls which determine the ball draw result. Each ball is imprinted with a number 1 through 80. During the ball draw, a blower pushes air into the bubble and mixes the balls. A "caller" presses a lever opening a tube, where the balls lift one at a time into a "V" shaped tube called the "rabbit ears". The caller and a "verifier" record each of 20 balls drawn, and the computerized keno system calculates all wagers based on the numbers drawn.

Non-casino gambling games Gambling games that take place outside of casinos include Bingo (as played in the US and UK),dead pool, lotteries, pull-tab games and scratchcards, and Mahjong. Other non-casino gambling games include: Card games, such as Liar's poker, Bridge, Basset, Lansquenet, Piquet, Put, Teen patti Carnival Games such as The Razzle or Hanky Pank Coin-tossing games such as Head and Tail, Two-up* Confidence tricks such as Three-card Monte or the Shell game Dice-based games, such as Backgammon, Liar's dice, Passe-dix, Hazard, Threes, Pig, orMexico

Bookmaking "Bookmaking" means advancing gambling activity by accepting bets from members of the public upon the outcomes of future contingent events.

Horse Racing The competitive racing of horses is one of humankind's most ancient sports, having its origins among the prehistoric nomadic tribesmen of Central Asia who first domesticated the horse about 4500 BC. For thousands of years, horse racing flourished as the sport of kings and the nobility. Modern racing, however, exists primarily because it is a major venue for legalized gambling. Horse racing is one of the most attended spectator sports in the world. This is partly due to its nature as a gambling event. Many people, when they hear about "horse racing" often think about one of the principal forms of horse racing.

Cockfighting

Cockfighting is a brutal game where two roosters fight with razor sharp blades or gaffs, tied to their legs. Cockfights are bloody and result in the death of one or both roosters.

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Submitted to: Maam Gerlie Tabios

January 16, 2012