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    Sam's Town Gambling Hall, Kansas City was a riverboat casino in Kansas City, Missouri, docked at I-435 and MO-210. It was owned and operated by Boyd Gaming...
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    Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, commonly shortened to Sam's Town, is a casino brand owned by Boyd Gaming, named after its founder, Sam Boyd (1910–1993)...
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  • Mississippi, since 1994 Sam's Town Gambling Hall, Kansas City – operated in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1995 to 1998 Sam's Town Gold River – operated in...
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  • and made a comeback in early 2012. Scott was under the tuition of boxing Hall of Fame trainer Jesse Reid until 2014 when the pair split because Scott believed...
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    Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, Las Vegas, also known as Sam's Town Las Vegas, is a hotel and locals casino in Sunrise Manor, Nevada, located east...
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    fight took place on January 7, 2006 at Madison Square Garden in New York City against Carlos Baldomir. For Judah, the fight was viewed as a tuneup bout...
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    increasingly insatiable gambling habit, his grasping for a business empire, and his promotion of Kansas City as a wide-open town with every kind of vice...
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  • Boyd Gaming (category Gambling companies established in 1941)
    Arena Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, Las Vegas Suncoast Hotel and Casino Amelia Belle Casino — Amelia, Louisiana Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City —...
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    known for their many gambling halls and saloons as they were for their rich mineral deposits. Cattle towns in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska became...
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    The economy of the Kansas City metropolitan area is anchored by Kansas City, Missouri, which is the largest city in the state[citation needed] and the...
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    Wild Bill Hickok (category Poker Hall of Fame inductees)
    While in Springfield, Hickok and a local gambler named Davis Tutt had several disagreements over unpaid gambling debts and their common affection for the...
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    Shreveport, Louisiana (category Cities in Shreveport – Bossier City metropolitan area)
    are Amazon, Regions Financial Corporation, JPMorgan Chase, Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, AT&T Mobility, United Parcel Service, Walmart, SWEPCO, General...
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  • illegal gambling and loansharking December 2 – Julie Morrell, Eastman Gang member Timothy "Big Tim" Sullivan, longtime political boss of Tammany Hall, is...
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    Wild Wild West Gambling Hall & Hotel near the Las Vegas Strip for the construction of a new ballpark, ending negotiations with the city of Oakland. On...
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  • illegal gambling operations. In 2019, Iannelli, a longtime Pittsburgh bookmaker, was arrested along with his son and others. On July 26, 2016, a gambling investigation...
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    a Fox Sports 1 broadcast card, which took place at the Shrine Exposition Hall in Los Angeles, California. He won the fight by a seventh-round knockout...
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  • their hard earned money. Saloons and gambling dens sprung up quickly after the founding. In 1859, the Apollo Hall theater opened followed over the years...
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    trails from Texas through Kansas. It quickly became populated with saloons, brothels, and other vice dens offering gambling, liquor, and prostitutes....
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    Satchel Paige (category Kansas City Athletics players)
    failure at his home in Kansas City on June 8, 1982. He is buried on Paige Island in the Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery in Kansas City. In 2010, sportswriter...
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    and many towns measured their prosperity by the number of gambling halls and professional gamblers they had. Towns that were friendly to gambling were typically...
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    Doc Holliday (category American gamblers)
    being fined for gambling in Dallas, he left the state. Holliday headed to Denver, Colorado, following the stage routes and gambling at towns and army outposts...
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  • Capitol Center L'Auberge Baton Rouge L'Auberge du Lac Resort Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, Shreveport Chateau Bourbon Grand Palace Hotel, New Orleans...
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    "Dodge casino opens doors". Garden City Telegram. p. 1. Retrieved August 12, 2014 – via Newspapers.com. "With a bang — Kansas Crossing Casino and Hotel opens...
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    newspapers, and an ice-cream parlor, alongside 110 saloons, 14 gambling halls, and numerous dance halls and brothels. All of these businesses were situated among...
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    tenth anniversary of their second album, Sam's Town, by playing two nights at the Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, which the album was named after. For...
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    of the town of Cicero, where he was able to corrupt city manager Joseph Z. Klenha. The gang set up dozens of brothels, speakeasies, gambling dens, and...
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  • illegal gambling and bootlegging November 29 – Vernon C. Miller, associate of New York mobster Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and participant in the Kansas City Massacre...
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    closed to such traffic while a train was crossing). Construction for the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway, later acquired by the "Frisco," began...
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    Cab Calloway (category Singers from New York City)
    White: The Night They Beat Up Cab Calloway and Gave Kansas City a Black Eye". Stage & Scream in Kansas City. Retrieved February 29, 2020. "Cab Calloway Arrested...
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    The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. The capital is Jefferson City. Humans have inhabited present-day Missouri...
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