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. Although
illegal wagering on sporting events is
widespread, Nevada is the only state
in which a gambler can place a legal
bet on such contests.
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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.
"We have an epidemic on our hands," said Arnold Law enforcement officials say they fear that the more
Wexler, vice president of the New York-based National gambling is available, the greater will be the number of
Council on Compulsive Gambling. compulsive bettors and the risk of related thefts, family
In Nevada, gamblers say they have special problems in problems and suicides.
a state where gaming is the No. 1 industry. Bars, super- In a New Jersey courtroom earlier this year, a father of
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machines. Many jobs - are gaming -related. Even the for pilfering funds from two trucking companies to feed
ashtrays at the Gamblers Anonymous meeting bear the his gambling habit.
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quarters to play the slot machines, $2.50 what I would spend for a play and dinner."
toward lunch at a casino restaurant, two $5 There was still some time to kill before'the
coupons to lure them back within the month. 5 p.m. departure time. 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.
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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
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the She took one more
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"I. want to show this to my friends," he
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Delores Holler, 25, a bookeeper from Clark,
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On the ride home, Mrs. Gilrain didn't want
to talk. "This is not my lucky day. I just about
broke even," she said.
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