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...Browning, losing big at an Atlantic City casino two nights before winning big on the mound. Come on, Tom, between Marge Schott and Pete Rose, haven't the Reds given America enough negative publicity without you taking a turn at the blackjack table...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Sabres And Sinners | 4/19/1994 | See Source »

...reduce risk in the market, but they also provide exciting betting opportunities for billion-dollar gamblers who are too big for Vegas. The potential payoffs are so huge that if the word gets out to the crowd at the track and the casinos, they'll give up horses and blackjack for oil straddles and currency swaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Derivatives: How the Big Game Began | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

Inside the Luxor is a fake river and barges, plus several huge "participatory adventure" areas, an ersatz archaeological ride, as well as a two-story Sega virtual-reality video-game arcade. The joint has acres of casino space -- but the slots and blackjack tables are, astoundingly, quite separate from and mostly concealed by the Disneyesque fun and games. The bells and whistles are more prominent and accessible than the casino itself, and are not merely a cute, quick way to divert people as they proceed into the fleecing pen. The MGM Grand has gone further: it spent hundreds of millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas, U.S.A. | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...floors are in a kind of murmuring trance, each middle-aged housewife or young lawyer at the slots or the poker tables mentally grappling with a nonstop flow of insane hunches and wishful superstitions, continuously driven to unworthy leaps of faith that result in unwarranted bursts of self-esteem (Blackjack!) or self- loathing (Craps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas, U.S.A. | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

MONTREAL. The gambling pandemic has reached new heights in the second-largest French-speaking city in the world. The Casino de Montreal -- the city's first and only gambling house -- opened last week; it boasts five floors of baccarat, roulette and blackjack, plus 1,200 slot machines. Located on the site of the French pavilion on the Expo 67 grounds, the casino expects to handle 6,000 visitors a day. The aim is to attract low-rolling tourists and conventioneers, although one of the one-armed bandits accepts only mauve- colored tokens worth $375 each. Open daily from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traveler's Advisory- | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

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