The Weird And Wonderful World Of Casinos And Chance – PartTimePoker News

We know that if you sign up with one of our top casino providers, such as PlaySugarHouse Casino, then you are going to get a great deal when it comes to casino games (and also sports betting and poker too).

Quite often we will bring you news of new games, features or promotions which you can avail yourself at our partner casinos.

But there is also a block of knowledge about casinos that is somewhat less well known. These are these odd casino stories that will make you smile, shiver or just be slightly amazed and bewildered that you hadnt heard it previously.

So in this article, we are going to take you through some of our most bizarre, amusing and at times, genuinely weird stories about chance, casinos and casino gaming!

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Nevada is the home of Las Vegas, for many the home of casino gaming, but did you also know that the state was also home to a somewhat less glitzy and salubrious casino?

Back in 1932, the Nevada State Prison decided to open its own casino. Yes, that is bizarre as it sounds.

Not only that, but this also wasnt just a table in a back room. The casino boasted blackjack and craps, as well as its own sports book and a poker room.

The dealers were all convicted felons and any profits the casino made went back to the prisons inmate welfare fund.

The casino was never licensed, unsurprisingly, but it ran for an incredible 35 years until legislation by the state forced the casino to close in 1967.

You could argue that the worlds smallest casino is an online casino you can play on your phone, but what about a real world casino with a dealer, table, bar and even online slots?

We know that the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville Oklahoma, is the United States largest casino, but to play the worlds smallest casino, you need to head to a Birmingham. Not in Alabama, but in the middle of the United Kingdom.

There one of the citys largest casino operators runs a special casino service, from the back of a taxi. The service, as we stated above, has a human dealer, a table, a bar and even a terminal which customers can use to play slot games.

Whats the point of this? Well the taxi is used to ferry customers to the casino in the city and any profits that the casino makes from the taxi are donated to charity. It may well be a gimmick, but it is one that certainly caught the eye of casino fans in Englands second city.

Casinos are built on the concept of chance. Top casino gamers will instinctively know what their chances are when playing a certain type of game, or a particular situation arises in a games such as poker.

Now this next story is not casino-related but it is weird enough to show you just how chance works and how at times, it can lead to almost unbelievable situations.

Back in 1973, Anthony Hopkins, he of Hannibal Lecter fame and Thors father Odin from the Marvel Universei, agreed to appear in the film version of The Girl From Petrovka, a novel written by George Feifer.

After accepting the role, Hopkins decided to read the book to learn more about the story and the character he would portray. However, as he wandered around London, searching various bookstores, he could not lay hands on a single copy of the book.

Somewhat dejected, he decided to jump back on the train and head home. With his train not due for a short while, Hopkins entered the railway waiting room and noticed a book on a bench.

The book was The Girl from Petrovka.

Now that is weird enough, but then things got even weirder. Hopkins, picked up the book and flicked through it and noticed that there were copious notes on the story made next to the text.

Not only had Hopkins found the book he needed, he has actually found the authors own copy of the book, into which he had made notes about the story and characters, including the one Hopkins was set to play in the film.

Now if that doesnt want to make you head to the casino to see if chance is on your side, then I dont know what would!

Lottery games are very popular, we have our own Pennsylvania State Lottery on site but I doubt anything as weird has happened as what occurred in the Bulgarian National Lottery back in 2009.

In the Bulgarian lottery, six numbers are drawn for the main prize and on this particular date in that year, the numbers 4, 15, 23, 24, 35 and 42 were drawn from the machine.

Nobody had picked those six numbers, so the pot rolled over to the following week.

That next week, the machine picked the exact same six numbers, 4, 15, 23, 24, 35 and 42. This time, 18 people split the jackpot prize between them.

Oh, and the odds on that happening are somewhere around the 400 TRILLION to one mark.

Do you like anagrams? There are some great examples such as The Morse Code becoming Here Come Dots and Eleven Plus Two translating into Twelve Plus One.

But did you know that there are some very amusing Casino anagrams you can learn?

Heres some of our favorites:

Casino can be very strange, weird and wonderful places at times and the world of chance works in mysterious ways. Perhaps, that is what makes this realm so appealing to so many patrons all over the world!

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