National Geographic - Casino Wars (2011) HDTV 720p x264-DiVERGE

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TheU.S. gaming industrys gross revenue in 2009 was close to $100 billiondollars. 5.5 billion dollars came from the Las Vegas Strip, followed byAtlantic City, with close to 4 billion dollars.
# Mobster Bugsy Siegel named his casino Flamingo after the long legs of his girlfriend.
# Close to 40 million people visit Las Vegas every year.
#Advantage play techniques such as card counting are not consideredcheating except in Nevada, where auxiliary devices have been outlaweddue to the unique ability of the states gambling industry to influencelegislation. In almost all jurisdictions, casinos are permitted to banfrom their premises customers they believe are using advantage play,regardless of whether they are in fact doing so and even though it isnot cheating.
# Every table on a casino floor has four to ten cameras watching it.
#The Las Vegas City Center reportedly cost over $8.5 billion. It is seton 67 acres on the Strip and consists of 4 hotels, a casino, residentialcondominiums and a retail and entertainment district. The project isthe largest privately financed development in US history.
# TheSurveillance Monitor room at the Aria Hotel and Casino is approximately5000 sq ft. There are 64 total monitors and 7 individual workstations.360-degree cameras ensure that close to 100% of the casino floor iscovered 24/7.
# Statistics compiled by the Nevada GamingCommission indicate that between 1999-2000, approximately 34 percent ofthose arrested for theft or cheating in casinos were the casinos ownstaff members.
# Facial recognition technology focuses on theeyes and translates the image of a face into a numerical code that isthen compared against other faces.
# The Aria Hotel and Casino employs approximately 10,000 people.
#Bringing Down the House and the movie 21 are both inspired by theexperiences of Jeff Ma, who was a student at M.I.T. in the mid-1990swhen he was recruited to join a secret blackjack card-counting team. Mais no longer allowed to play blackjack in most casinos in Las Vegas “though the casinos welcome him at other games.
# During the pasttwo decades, the casino workforce has increased by nearly 80 percent,from 198,657 employees in 1990 to 357,314 in 2008. In 2008, thecommercial casino industry had more direct employees than the U.S.automobile industry, software manufacturers, and wireless phonecarriers.
# Currently, the casinos keep any unclaimed winningsafter 60 days and pay normal gaming tax on it. Unclaimed winnings areestimated at between $20 million and $35 million.
# The Ariasgambling stations have updatable and changeable games controlled andmonitored by the Arias 3000-square-foot data center. The stations,which have hi-def screens that are each run by a Mac Mini, give thehouse stats on which games are the most popular, allowing the controlroom to change them accordingly.
# Non-obvious relationshipawareness (NORA) software allows casinos to determine quickly if apotentially colluding player and dealer have ever shared a phone numberor a room at the casino hotel, or lived at the same address. Thesoftware was created for the gaming industry, but the technology provedso effective that Homeland Security adapted it to sniff out connectionsbetween suspected terrorists. Now its used as business intelligence forbanks, insurance companies, and retailers.
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