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Old 03-03-2007, 09:49 PM
 
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Are there any casinos in Houston?
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Old 03-04-2007, 04:13 PM
 
Location: Houston
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It's not legal. I think you have to take boats off Galveston.
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Old 03-05-2007, 11:02 AM
 
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When I was down in Houston a couple months ago I saw a lot of billboards for casinos in Louisana. I'm not sure how close they are to the Texas border though.
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Old 03-05-2007, 03:57 PM
 
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When I was down in Houston a couple months ago I saw a lot of billboards for casinos in Louisana. I'm not sure how close they are to the Texas border though.
Casinos are not legal in Texas -- not even Indian casinos. The drive from downtown Houston to (Lake Charles) Louisana is about 2 1/2 hours, and there are only two casinos there. They also have some slot machines at Louisana Downs (horse track), which is about 20 minutes closer, plus another casino in Kinder (about 30 minutes NE of Lake Charles).
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Old 03-08-2007, 04:40 PM
 
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If you go a little further, (about a 7hr drive from Houston), Mississippi has a little casino town called Biloxi....I think there up and running again since the hurricane. It's no Vegas but there's about 5-6 casinos right off the coast.
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Old 03-10-2007, 01:01 PM
 
Location: Katy, TX
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Default Casinos in San Diego County

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Are there any casinos in Houston?

And to think there are around 6 Indian casinos where I live in San Diego North County. I better visit them at least once before I move to Katy.
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Old 03-13-2007, 05:32 PM
 
Location: Cali
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Texas ought to reconsider its position on casinos. A lot of Texas money is being gambled away in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
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Old 03-17-2007, 11:54 PM
 
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Thanks everyone. I move to Houston in early April and will stay overnight in Biloxi and get the gambling fever out of my system.
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Old 03-25-2007, 04:52 PM
 
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Default Casino's in Houston

No, and there should never be...

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U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice, July, 2004
This report, funded and published by the U.S. Department of Justice studied people who had been arrested in Las Vegas and Des Moines, Iowa. They found significant connections between gambling and crime. “More than 30 percent of pathological gamblers who had been arrested in Las Vegas and Des Moines reported having committed a robbery within the past year, nearly double the percentage for low-risk gamblers. Nearly one-third admitted that they had committed the robbery to pay for gambling or to pay gambling debts. In addition, about 13 percent said they had assaulted someone to get money.
“Compulsive or pathological gamblers were significantly more likely to have sold drugs than arrestees who fit the other gambling types.” U.S. Dept. of Justice


http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/203197.pdf (broken link)
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