Gambling in Atlantic City

This Sunday, I went to Atlantic city with a friend of mine. People say your visit to US is incomplete without a visit to Las Vegas. :) I do not think I will get time to go to Vegas. So instead decided to visit a poor cousin of it in New jersey. It is apparently organized by the same casino owners and has a similar structure.

It is really worth visiting one of the gambling den. Thousands of small machines and other stuff decorated nicely using a theme. I played (my friend paid for it:)) and we lost about 50% of the money. I think I can teach risk better in a class.

There are two types of people who visit a gambling den. In the first category, you find people who go for fun. Most of the visitors will fall in this category. They have a target amount to lose. If you win anything, it gets added to the total playing amount and hence most poeple end up losing that also.

In the second category, you find the compulsive gamblers. They come to win and I think lose everything. In another road, almost parallel to the sea beach (where all the casinos are located), I found many shops that give cash against gold. Atlantic city is a small city and the number of such shops is large compared to that. These shops are probably catering to the demands of these second category of gamblers.

Anyway, it is a nice experience. As long as somebody else pays for it.