But that was not the full price they paid for legal and illegal gambling.
He built a business running hospitals and legal gambling in California.
But we trust the voters to make up their own minds about the legal gambling they want.
Voters approved it as the first form of legal gambling in 1981.
These results indicate that there has been a tidal change in the way Americans feel about legal gambling.
Rather, voters, for the first time ever, have accepted legal gambling as a normal part of their lives.
That number jumped to more than $500 billion last year, "and that's just legal gambling," he said.
Initially, Nevada was the only state to allow legal gambling.
But in 1978, with the advent of legal gambling, "things started to change," he said.
He claimed that his wealth came out of legal gambling.