| Hollywood
picked up this national interest in poker
and made a number of poker-themed movies that
were quite popular and boosted interest in
the game. Suddenly, poker was "in"
in Las Vegas and the rush was on by the big
Strip hotels to build fancy poker rooms to
attract the high rollers in search of a game.
In
the late 1980s and through the 1990s legalized
gambling exploded across America. The main
reasons were the passage of the Indian Casino
Gaming Act by Congress in 1987 and the approval
of statewide casino gaming in Mississippi.
And this led to the great gambling boom experienced
all through the 1990s which will probably
continue well into the new millennium.
This
proliferation of casinos led to increased
competition for the gambling dollar-attracting
many new gamblers who either weren't interested
or didn't want to take the time to learn traditional
games such as blackjack, craps, and roulette.
The casinos wanted to exploit this new market
by offering fun games that were easy to play.
Realizing that most gamblers knew at least
the basics of poker, but would probably be
too timid to sit in on a traditional poker
game, they designed and introduced the poker
variation games described in this.
These
variations were an immediate success. With
their built-in bonuses, they attracted the
less experienced players who love the excitement
of getting back three, four, five or more
times their basic bet. Corporate casino management
and stockholders loved these poker variation
games too, because they possess a higher house
edge and therefore yield a much higher profit
than the other table games. |
