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a cathedral of math where everyone prays and the house never loses faith
means A building or establishment where people gamble at games of chance, often surrounded by drinks, lights, and the carefully engineered hope of winning.
from From Italian 'casino,' a diminutive of 'casa' (house), so literally 'little house' — a cousin of the Latin 'casa,' a humble cottage. It originally meant a small country villa or summerhouse, then drifted toward 'social clubhouse' where people gathered for music, dancing, and gambling, until the gambling swallowed the rest of the meaning whole.
- no clocks
- Designed windowless and timeless to dissolve your sense of leaving
- house edge
- Roulette quietly skims 5.26 percent on every American spin
- free drinks
- Comped alcohol exists to soften your relationship with arithmetic
- oxygen myth
- They don't pump it in; the carpets do the persuading
- word origin
- Italian for little house, now a very large one
monte carlo casino — opened 1863 in monaco, still operating, most famous european casino
las vegas strip — concentration of casinos in nevada since 1946, mgm grand and bellagio are largest
macau casinos — wynn and mgm properties, surpassed las vegas revenue by 2006
venetian macao — opened 2007, largest casino by floor space at 550,000 sq ft