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From Land based casinos to online gambling casinos:

Land based casinos are fascinating places and great fun especially the city of Las Vegas is full of them. It’s the gambling capital of the world, full of extravagant over the top hotels and casinos and the town is full of some of the craziest people you will ever meet. It’s quite surreal at night driving down the strip. The wealth, glamour, randomness and sheer scale of everything is rather baffling to tourists. For me I found it difficult to understand how this place in the middle of the Nevada desert became one of the most famous cities on earth. So I did a bit of research on the history of the city….
A rail road was constructed through the area owned by a Montana Senator called William Clark in 1904. This rail road began the expansion of the area into a town full of Saloons and small shops.
Soon the town was growing at a phenomenal rate and the legalized gambling attracted hundreds of visitors. Casino began to crop up the first major one being named the El Rancho ranch. Several others casinos were built throughout the 1940’s, 50’s and 60s including the famous Tropicana casino and hotel. The expansion just keep on growing and the city was unaffected by the depression. Towards the end of the 1970’s gambling in Atlanta was legalized, forcing Vegas casino chiefs to think of new ways to attract tourists. Their plan was simple, to build bigger, bolder and better casinos. This was when the construction of the, mega hotel complexes began.
This growth has continued until today, and as I write several new casinos are being constructed in Vegas.
However in the last few years the growth of online casinos has hit the profits of Vegas casinos as people are beginning to play at home online. Websites offer special promotions, live dealers and a huge range of casino games. Exact date online gambling began is unknown but most would say it began around 1995. Much like the expansion of Las Vegas the online gambling industry has seen rapid growth.
UK online casinos are some of the best in the world and are used by thousands of user’s every day, however there are no land based super casinos on the scale of Vegas or Maucu in China.

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