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Gambling in Connecticut

Index Gambling in Connecticut

Legal forms of gambling in the U.S. state of Connecticut include two Indian casinos (Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun), parimutuel wagering, charitable gaming, and the Connecticut Lottery. [1]

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Bingo (U.S.)

In the United States, Bingo is a game of chance in which each player matches numbers printed in different arrangements on 5×5 cards with the numbers the game host (caller) draws at random, marking the selected numbers with tiles.

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Blackjack

Blackjack, also known as twenty-one, is a comparing card game between usually several players and a dealer, where each player in turn competes against the dealer, but players do not play against each other.

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Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is a historic seaport city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Carnival game

A carnival game is a game of chance or skill that can be seen at a traveling carnival, charity fund raiser, amusement arcade and amusement park, or on a state and county fair midway.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Connecticut Lottery

The Connecticut Lottery Corporation, also called the CT Lottery, is the official lottery in Connecticut.

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East Windsor, Connecticut

East Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.

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Foxwoods Resort Casino

Foxwoods Resort Casino is a hotel and casino complex owned and operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation on their reservation located in Ledyard, Connecticut.

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Gambling

Gambling is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning money or material goods.

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Greyhound racing

Greyhound racing is an organized, competitive sport in which greyhound dogs are raced around a track.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Indian Gaming Regulatory Act

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (et seq.) is a 1988 United States federal law that establishes the jurisdictional framework that governs Indian gaming.

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Jai alai

Jai alai (Basque) is a sport involving a ball bounced off a walled space by accelerating it to high speeds with a hand-held device (cesta).

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Ledyard, Connecticut

Ledyard is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States, located along the Thames River.

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List of federally recognized tribes

There is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States of America.

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Mashantucket Pequot Tribe

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation is a federally recognized Native American nation in the state of Connecticut.

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Mega Millions

Mega Millions (which began as The Big Game in 1996 and renamed, temporarily, to The Big Game Mega Millions six years later) is an American multi-jurisdictional lottery game; it is offered in 44 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Milford, Connecticut

Milford is a city within Coastal Connecticut and New Haven County, Connecticut, between Bridgeport, Connecticut and New Haven, Connecticut.

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Mohegan Sun

Mohegan Sun is an American casino, with of gambling space.

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Mohegan Tribe

The Mohegan Tribe is a federally recognized tribe and sovereign tribal nation of Mohegan people (pronounced). Their reservation is the Mohegan Indian Reservation, located on the Thames River in Uncasville, Connecticut.

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Native American gaming

Native American gaming comprises casinos, bingo halls, and other gambling operations on Indian reservations or other tribal land in the United States.

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Off-track betting

Off-track betting (or OTB; in British English, off-course betting) refers to sanctioned gambling on horse racing outside a race track.

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Parimutuel betting

Parimutuel betting (from the Pari Mutuel or mutual betting) is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and the "house-take" or "vigorish" are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winning bets.

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Plainfield, Connecticut

Plainfield is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States.

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Powerball

Powerball is an American lottery game offered by 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

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Pull-tab

A pull-tab is a gambling ticket that is sold as a means to play a pull-tab game.

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Raffle

A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each ticket having the chance of winning a prize.

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Roulette

Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning little wheel.

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Scratchcard

A scratchcard (also called a scratch off, scratch ticket, scratcher, scratchie, scratch-it, scratch game, scratch-and-win, instant game or instant lottery in different places) is a small card, often made of thin paper-based card for competitions and plastic to conceal PINs, where one or more areas contain concealed information which can be revealed by scratching off an opaque covering.

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Slot machine

A slot machine (American English), known variously as a fruit machine (British English), puggy (Scottish English), the slots (Canadian and American English), poker machine/pokies (Australian English and New Zealand English), or simply slot (American English), is a casino gambling machine with three or more reels which spin when a button is pushed.

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Sportech

Sportech PLC is an online gambling and entertainment company headquartered in the United Kingdom.

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Table game

In casinos, the term table game is used to distinguish games such as blackjack, craps, roulette and baccarat that are played on a table and operated by one or more live dealers like a croupier or poker dealer, from games played on a mechanical device like a video slot machine.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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Uncasville, Connecticut

Uncasville is an area in the town of Montville, Connecticut, United States.

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Wolcott, Connecticut

Wolcott is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_in_Connecticut

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