20—The Daily Collegian Monday, July 30, 1984 A bus ride to the casino By KARIN LAUB Associated Press Writer of 900 buses that daily carry about 30,000 casino-bound passengers from New Jersey and nearby New York and Philadelphia. CLARK, N.J. —As the bus begins its They are the well-to-do, the poor, the unem journey, Phyllis Gilrain, an unemployed ma- ployed and especially during the week, pre chine operator, squeezes a pair of woolly dominantly elderly and female. For a $l6 trolls. She carries one in each pocket of her ticket, they get a ride to Atlantic City, $l5 in leather jacket for good luck. chips and coupons, about six hours to gamble A man with thinning long hair, denim vest and a ride back. and a tattoo of a flower on his arm, has taken On a recent Friday morning, the bus carry a back seat. A couple dozen elderly women ing Mrs. Gilrain and other would-be gambl talk quietly to each other as they settle in. ers rumbled onto the Garden State Parkway, Their destination is Atlantic City, 110 miles the main conduit to Atlantic City from the away. Their destiny is less certain. north. They are aboard one of 18 buses that leave this New York City suburb each day and one Las Vegas is home court for legal sports gambling By SCOTT KRAFT Associated Press Writer LAS VEGAS Like most other cities, Las Vegas has Little League baseball, Pop Warner football and co •ed softball. But it also has the Super Bowl, the World Series and every other major sporting event. Those contests aren't played here in the, middle of the desert but are followed on big screens in air-condi tioned casinos by players who have a lot more to win and lose than the players in uniforms. .Of all the forms of legal gambling in Las Vegas, none has grown as quickly as the sportsbook. 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College Ave., half block west of the Corner Room Keep Happy Valley beautiful.Dop't litter Mrs. Gilrain, 49, and her husband Bob, 50, also unemployed, discussed how they would "It was so wild here the week before the Super Bowl you would have thought we were having it here," said Sonny Reizner, sports book director at the Castaways Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. About $75 million was bet on that game alone in Las Vegas' 22 sports book operations. For the year ending last June, $5lB million was bet legally on sports in Nevada. Just seven years ago, that figure was $123 million. "It's just unbelievable what has happened here. There's no business or industry that has kept pace with sports betting," said Reizner, a top sports bookmaker in Vegas. Reizner has seen the industry transformed. He arrived here 13 years ago, when there was one large sportsbook and three small ones. All 22 sportsbooks today are large. That spend their winnings: their three grandchil dren ages 1 month- to 5 years would definitely get some of the money. Mrs. Gilrain, who took her first trip to Atlantic City three months ago, said she would try the slot machines first and then head for the blackjack table. Don, a lab technician who visits the casinos six to eight times a year and who asked that his last name not be printed, sat nearby, telling two friends which games have the best odds. He recommended blackjack. After two hours, the bus pulled up at the Golden Nugget Casino Hotel. The casino had been open about an hour, but already there was a long line at a booth where bus riders means a gambler can wager hun dreds of thousands of dollars daily. Betting on sports has lost much of the stigma it has had for the past two decades, he said. Television has helped. Wagers between friends and working associates, illegal every where but in Nevada, also have helped. the best bet in town Gambling said to be addictive By ROBERT WADE Associated Press Writer names of Harrah's, Gold Dust and other local casinos. "Everywh6re you go there are slot machines," said Al Fialdini, founder of Reno's Gamblers Anonymous. chap- ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. The symptoms include a ter. "It's impossible to get away from it." general restlessness that often swells into cold sweats, Compulsive gamblers wager an average of $20,000 head and stomach pains and even vomiting. every year and account for $34 billion in legal and illegal Only one short-term cure exists find a game, or bets made annually in this country, according to the create one, and bet some money on the outcome. Washington Center for Pathological Gambling in Rock- It doesn't matter whether the bet is placed in an alley,. ville, Md. at the corner delicatessen or in a plush casino. The cash Wexler once received a call on the council's hot line can be hard-earned, borrowed or misbegotten. from a sobbing young bank teller who said that a $20,000 To the sufferers, compulsive gamblers, the important weekend casino spree had left , him without a quarter to thing is to put some money down, and win, lose or draw pay the road toll home. the symptoms begin to disappear. The young man described stealing his bank's money to The rolls of Gamblers Anonymous have doubled in °gamble; he had planned to make a bundle and replace the recent years in some regions, mainly in the Northeast money after he had won. - where about a fourth of. the nation's population can reach "I suggested he go turn himself in. I told him to call me Atlantic City's casinos on one tank of gas. again. He never called back," said Wexler. 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One of her friends Glenn Lillie, a spokesman for the Tropica- found a roll of quarters in 'his pocket and gave na Casino Hotel, said bus patrons account for it to Ms. Holler and her sister, Evelyn. They about a third of the total casino business, dashed off to the tables. "obviously a key part of our market." They' made just enough to pay back the Several hours later, Don, 37, clutched a loan.On On-her way out of the casino, Evelyn heavy paper cup filled with $1 tokens. They found a coin on floor. . . the She took one more are what is left of a $lOO slot machine jackpot. pull on the handle of the slot machine without "I. want to show this to my friends," he luck. said. "But I'm not going to play anymore." 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