Senior Gambling Addiction Rates Soaring in America, Driven by Corporate Greed, Bad Govt. Policy

[Egalitarian Thug]

46. That's good and I'm happy for you as long as you're happy with it.

We've strayed pretty far off topic, but I don't think this thread's going to get much more play.

I'll tell you a big secret that none of the Native casinos I've been in have figured out yet (and this comes from AZ, SoCal, IL, & OR). it's not about the gambling. OK, sometimes it is about the gambling to a degree, but really it is about the show.

Gambling in various forms has been loosed into the wild here in the states for over 20 years, almost 40 years in Atlantic City, and none of them, even combined, brings in as much money as Las Vegas. Like I said, they're not even in the parking lot where they can see the park where this league plays.

Most people don't come here to gamble.

They come for the experience. They come for a 24/7 party with hookers and blow and a show.

They come to pretend that the guys in Thunder Down Under really are flirting with them.

They come here to be seen in the hottest night clubs with the most famous DJ's (apparently bands are currently uncool) in the world. They come to the only place on earth where they can see a 70 year old Barry Manilow belting it out through the layers of surgery and the youngest hottest performers before anyone has ever heard of them, on the same night.

They come to stand under the same sign that Frank, Dino, Sammy, Joey, and Peter stood under, drunk, in that picture so that they can have their own picture. They come to walk around the streets at 4AM carrying a margarita the size of a Honda with the temperature in the 80s. They come here to be what they can't be and to do what they can't do back in wherever. And none of the operations that imagine themselves to be competition can offer anything but slots with an atrocious payout lined up in a carpeted warehouse.

40 years on and Atlantic City is still a tiny, dingy group of famous names in the middle of a giant shit hole. They're in the heart of the greatest concentration of people and wealth in the nation and not one of them makes half of what their Vegas counterpart does (except for Trump, but that's because the illegitimate orangutan was stupid enough to fuck with Wynn and so now his hotel sits mostly vacant with no casino, no shows, and a restaurant that has been repeatedly shut down by the health department).